About the Role
We’re looking for detail-oriented Spreadsheet Quality Analysts to help build high-quality evaluation data for next-generation spreadsheet AI agents.
This position is ideal for someone who has strong Excel skills, loves structured work, and takes pride in precision. You’ll be part of a small, fast-moving team helping define how AI learns to reason through real-world spreadsheet problems.
Note: This is a contract role with hours aligning to 10am-5pm PST.
Responsibilities
Review and validate spreadsheet tasks for clarity, determinism, and correctness
Modify input spreadsheets and task statements to enforce consistent outcomes
Apply a structured 5-step validation process (clarity, function screening, answer validation, correctness, annotation)
Annotate reasoning for edits and flag low-quality or ambiguous tasks
Meet weekly quality benchmarks and iterate based on reviewer feedback
Qualifications
Strong Excel proficiency (INDEX/MATCH, IF, SUMIF, VLOOKUP, etc)
Excellent written communication and precision
Experience with structured data tasks or QA/checklist workflows
Detail-oriented, consistent output under quality guidelines
Bonus
Experience in demanding, analytical environments (e.g., top consulting, finance, or accounting firms)
Prior data annotation experience (Scale AI, Surge AI, Toloka, etc.)
Experience working in a startup environment
The Details
Location: Remote!
Compensation: $15-20 per hour + bonuses based on high quality task completion. Total expected compensation of $25-30 per hour
Hours: 10am-5pm PST. Additional hours may be requested if needed
What makes us interesting
Small, elite team of ex-founders, researchers from top AI Labs, top CS grads, and engineers from top companies
True ownership You will not be blocked by bureaucracy, shipping meaningful work within weeks rather than months
Serious momentum We're well-funded by top investors, moving fast, and focused on execution
What we do
Ship consumer products powered by cutting-edge AI research, and
Build infrastructure that facilitates research and product, and
Innovate cutting-edge research that will open up new consumer product forms
Top Skills
What We Do
Fundamental Research Labs is building digital humans—machines with the capacity to learn, care, and grow alongside us.
We're an applied research company building autonomous, collaborative, and socially intelligent agents. Our small team includes computational neuroscientists, AI researchers, engineers, and builders from MIT EECS, Stanford NLP Group, Google X, Citadel, and beyond.
Our research prototypes began with multi-agent experiments in games like Minecraft and Roblox, where over a million people have interacted with our agents. Today, we're bringing those agents out of the sandbox and into the real world—starting with your computer.
