Retail AI Model Evaluation Expert

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About AI Model Evaluation Work

AI training is the human side of building artificial intelligence. Specialists write examples, evaluate model responses, and provide structured feedback so AI systems become more accurate, useful, and aligned with professional standards.

In this role, your retail judgment will help evaluate generative AI outputs. Your assessments can influence how models handle merchandising, category management, buying, planning, and retail operations scenarios.

• Remote, flexible contract work in a fast-growing AI industry
• Part-time schedule requiring 20 or more hours per week
• Opportunity to apply professional retail expertise to cutting-edge AI systems

The Role

As a Retail AI Model Evaluation Expert, you will support an AI training project focused on practical retail judgment. You will advise research and engineering teams, create domain-relevant evaluation content, and assess whether AI-generated work reflects correct reasoning and credible business decisions.

This is an intermediate-level contractor role for candidates based in the United States who can work in English. Compensation is $60 to $80 per hour.

• Employment type: Contractor, part time
• Location: United States
• Language: English
• Schedule: 20+ hours per week
• Pay: $60-$80 per hour

What You’ll Do

You will turn practical retail experience into challenging tasks, accurate solutions, scoring guidance, and actionable feedback. Your work will help teams distinguish strong AI reasoning from answers that are incomplete, incorrect, or commercially unrealistic.

• Guide research and engineering teams on retail reasoning and business decisions.
• Design challenging, domain-relevant retail tasks.
• Write accurate solutions grounded in professional retail practice.
• Evaluate AI model outputs for correctness, judgment, and reasoning quality.
• Apply structured rubrics and scoring criteria consistently.
• Provide clear written feedback to improve model performance and training data quality.
• Develop and refine retail-specific evaluation guidelines.
• Collaborate with other specialists to support consistency and accuracy.

Requirements

You should bring substantial professional experience in retail and be able to explain the reasoning behind real business decisions. Hands-on familiarity with evaluating LLM or AI model outputs is required, along with the communication skills needed to document clear, defensible judgments.

• At least 8 years of professional experience in retail merchandising, category management, retail operations, buying, or planning.
• Demonstrated career progression and practical experience making and explaining retail decisions.
• Hands-on experience evaluating LLM or AI model outputs.
• Experience applying structured rubrics or scoring criteria.
• Ability to design realistic retail tasks and write well-reasoned solutions.
• Ability to clearly explain judgments about correctness and business reasoning.
• Strong written and verbal communication, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills.

Helpful Professional Background

Experience with a major marketplace, mass retailer, department store, athletic brand, warehouse retailer, home improvement retailer, or equivalent organization is relevant. Experience creating domain-specific evaluation guidelines or explaining assessment decisions can help you produce credible tasks, solutions, and evaluations.

• Retail merchandising or category management experience
• Buying or merchandise planning experience
• Retail operations experience
• Experience developing evaluation guidelines
• Experience explaining assessment decisions to other specialists

Why Work With OpenTrain

AI training gives experienced professionals a way to bring their knowledge directly into the development of modern AI systems. OpenTrain helps you build a durable profile around that work, show credible experience, and find projects that match your skills.

For retail specialists, this is an opportunity to apply years of commercial judgment to challenging AI evaluation work while developing experience in a rapidly growing technical field.

• Build a portfolio of AI training and evaluation experience.
• Use your existing retail expertise in a new area of technology.
• Discover projects aligned with your professional background.
• Manage your AI training career through one free OpenTrain profile.

How to Apply

Create or update your free OpenTrain profile with your retail experience, career progression, and AI evaluation background. Apply through OpenTrain in minutes and provide enough detail for the project team to understand your relevant expertise.

• Confirm that you are based in the United States.
• Highlight at least 8 years of relevant retail experience.
• Describe your experience evaluating LLM or AI model outputs.
• Show how you have used rubrics, scoring criteria, or evaluation guidelines.