Industrial Plant Reliability & Maintenance Expert (AI Evaluation) is open at Clera (remote). The posting gives a salary of $90 an hour. Posted on Nov 13, 2026, and still on Clera’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
About the project
Clera is recruiting three experienced industrial plant reliability and maintenance experts for a contract project with a Leading Frontier Lab. You will review a simulated industrial plant benchmark used for AI evaluation and help assess whether its environment, synthetic sensor data, and fault and maintenance scenarios reflect real plant conditions.
What you will do
- Review the simulated industrial plant benchmark from the perspective of an experienced plant practitioner.
- Give structured feedback on the realism of the simulated plant environment and synthetic sensor-data generation.
- Review proposed fault and maintenance scenarios for diagnosability, realistic costs, and defensible ground truth.
What we are looking for
- Considerable hands-on process-plant experience. Around 10 or more years of experience is preferred, but we are flexible for candidates who can demonstrate substantial practical expertise.
- Hands-on experience with rotating equipment and associated plant equipment, including centrifugal pumps, motors, suction strainers, and coolers.
- Fluency in condition monitoring, including vibration analysis and bearing and cavitation fault signatures.
- Comfort working with historian data, piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs), and maintenance documentation.
- A strong grasp of maintenance economics, including work orders, spares, and shutdown tradeoffs.
Contract details
- Openings: 3.
- Time commitment: approximately 5 hours per week per person.
- Initial duration: 3 months.
- Location: remote, with US- and Europe-based experts preferred; location is flexible.
- Compensation: approximately US$90 per hour.
The employer’s own description, as published on Clera’s careers page.
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