E-commerce Simulation Expert

$40 - $50/hourpay

Required Skills

E-commerce Operations
Product Catalog Structuring
AI / LLM Prompting & Evaluation
Scenario Design
User Simulation
Analytical Thinking
QA Mindset
Consumer Behavior Understanding

Job Description

Job Title: E-commerce Simulation Expert


Job Type: Contractor


Location: Remote


Job Summary:

Join our customer's team as an E-commerce Simulation Expert and help shape the next generation of AI-powered shopping experiences. In this expert-level AI trainer position, you’ll leverage your deep e-commerce knowledge to create high-fidelity virtual retail environments and train advanced language models. Your work will directly impact how AI understands, simulates, and responds to nuanced consumer shopping behaviors.


Key Responsibilities:

  1. Design and build synthetic, digital stores with realistic product assortments, pricing, and category structures.
  2. Generate, structure, and maintain comprehensive product catalogs, ensuring data quality, logical consistency, and real-world complexity.
  3. Develop diverse, authentic shopping scenarios and user prompts, simulating varied consumer intents, preferences, and challenging edge cases.
  4. Create evaluation rubrics and conduct rigorous QA to assess AI-generated responses for accuracy, relevance, and reasoning.
  5. Continuously analyze model performance, identify failure patterns, and refine data and scenarios for iterative improvement.
  6. Collaborate with AI and data science teams to translate e-commerce expertise into actionable training datasets and insights.
  7. Document processes, share findings, and help drive best practices in simulation-based AI training.



Required Skills and Qualifications:

  1. Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience in e-commerce operations, merchandising, or catalog management.
  2. Proven expertise in product catalog structuring, data normalization, and content creation for online stores.
  3. Experience with AI/LLM prompting, evaluation, or training is highly valued.
  4. Strong analytical thinking and a rigorous QA mindset; detail-oriented approach to scenario and data generation.
  5. Demonstrated understanding of consumer behavior and online shopping journeys.
  6. Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex concepts effectively.
  7. Ability to work independently and deliver high-quality, scalable datasets for AI model training.



Preferred Qualifications:

  1. Past experience training AI models or working in simulation/data design roles.
  2. Knowledge of emerging trends in e-commerce, retail analytics, or digital merchandising.
  3. Familiarity with LLM evaluation frameworks and iterative data improvement methodologies.



Additional Info:

This expert position offers the unique opportunity to apply your e-commerce expertise in the cutting-edge domain of AI training. You’ll play a critical role in bridging real-world retail knowledge with innovative AI solutions, working fully remotely with a passionate and multidisciplinary customer’s team.

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.

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