Real Estate AI Research Contributor

Overview

This role involves creating realistic Excel modelling tasks to evaluate how well frontier AI models perform on real estate analyst work. You will use your own prior experience in real estate investment, development, or lending to build assessment tasks and associated grading criteria.

Responsibilities

• Write realistic Excel tasks based on your own real work, including:
  • Extending existing models
  • Fixing broken models
  • Building models from a brief
• Complete each task yourself to ensure there is a clear, correct answer.
• Create yes-or-no grading criteria that are precise enough for a grader to score any submitted attempt.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in real estate private equity, development, REITs or real estate lending, covering at least one asset class:
  • office
  • residential/multifamily
  • industrial/logistics
  • retail
  • hospitality
  • data centres
• Deep, hands-on Excel experience, including:
  • acquisition and development models
  • promote waterfalls
  • circular references
  • goal seek
  • financial functions
• Strong written English communication skills.
• Attention to detail, and willingness to learn AI concepts and evaluations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using AI tools on your own work, including identifying and correcting the types of errors they produce.

Compensation & Benefits

• Start Date: Immediate
• Duration: Approximately 4–6 weeks
• Payment: task-based.
  • Experts who complete their first task within the required timeline will be qualified to complete multiple tasks for the remainder of the project.
• Payments: weekly following task completion.
• Contract type: independent contractor.

Location

• Fully remote role, completed on your own schedule.

Additional Task & Onboarding Details

• Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance.
• Work will not involve access to confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, or institution.
• During onboarding, you will:
  • Attend a walkthrough session (30-minute group walkthrough call)
  • Create one original task from your own work
  • Submit:
    • the brief
    • the actual input workbook(s) needed to complete the task
  • Uploading input files is compulsory
  • Write the brief yourself
  • Use human-built input workbooks only
  • Use real data that has been sanitised, or public data with the source named
  • No AI usage is allowed
• After task submission, the task will be run against current frontier AI models.
  • If models produce incorrect results, you will write a detailed yes-or-no rubric.
  • A reviewer will then sign off on the task with you.
• Completing onboarding does not guarantee a job offer; selection remains subject to written approval of the task proposal.