Culinary Specialist
$40 - $55/hourpay
Required Skills
Cooking
Nutrition
Cuisine
Food Production
Job Description
Job Title: Culinary Specialist
Job Type: Contract
Location: Remote
Job Summary:
Join our customer's team as a Culinary Specialist and leverage your advanced kitchen expertise to shape the future of AI-driven culinary solutions. This remote role is designed for professionals who excel in food preparation, recipe execution, and maintaining high standards in dynamic, high-volume restaurant settings.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with AI training teams to provide hands-on culinary insights, ensuring data accuracy and relevance for training models.
- Prepare diverse dishes with a focus on consistency, quality, and adherence to nutritional guidelines.
- Document culinary processes, standardized recipes, and preparation techniques in clear, detailed written formats.
- Evaluate and provide feedback on generated recipes and food production workflows to improve AI output.
- Maintain a keen eye for detail while executing recipes in fast-paced environments, mirroring real restaurant conditions.
- Communicate findings, challenges, and recommendations through strong verbal and written reports.
- Ensure food safety, hygiene, and compliance standards are always met during culinary tasks.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
- Proven hands-on experience in professional kitchens, preferably within high-volume or fast-paced establishments.
- Strong foundation in cooking methods, ingredient sourcing, and food production processes.
- Expertise in nutrition, with the ability to balance taste and health requirements in menu development.
- Experience in executing a wide variety of global cuisines and culinary styles.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with a passion for clear documentation and feedback.
- Demonstrated ability to maintain consistency and quality in high-pressure environments.
- Proficiency in using digital tools and remote collaboration platforms.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience contributing to AI or data-driven culinary projects.
- Culinary certification or advanced degree in nutrition, food science, or a related field.
- Previous involvement in restaurant operations, menu engineering, or quality assurance roles.
About micro1
micro1 is a data engine that helps AI labs train foundational models and enterprises build AI agents. We provide frontier evaluations and reinforcement learning environments used to improve LLM capabilities, as well as contextual evaluations used to monitor and improve AI agents in enterprise settings. Our data engine includes an AI recruiter agent that sources and vets domain experts, a data platform that enables rapid production of high-quality training data, and a pipeline performance system that ensures both quality and velocity.
Our goal is to have 1 billion people doing meaningful work by contributing their expertise to the development of frontier AI models. We’ve raised $40M+ in funding, and our AI recruiter has powered more than 1 million AI-led interviews as our global network of experts expands to form the human intelligence layer for AGI.