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Crossing Hurdles

Verified Job SourceRecruitment agency

Connecting ambitious talent with high-growth companies worldwide.

Staffing and Recruiting
201–500 people

About

Crossing Hurdles connects skilled professionals with opportunities across leading AI training platforms and high-growth companies. As global demand for human input in AI development continues to grow, many platforms rely on large networks of capable contributors across technical, analytical, and knowledge-based domains. Crossing Hurdles helps professionals discover and access these opportunities by bringing together information, talent networks, and application pathways related to AI model training, evaluation, and emerging AI-enabled work. Through our growing community of candidates and professionals, we help individuals explore opportunities with global AI platforms that are building and improving next-generation AI systems. These opportunities often span areas such as technical analysis, research, reasoning tasks, and other knowledge-driven work that supports the development of modern AI models. Alongside the AI ecosystem, Crossing Hurdles also works with high-growth companies to support talent discovery across key business functions. We collaborate with founders, leadership teams, and hiring managers to help them connect with capable professionals for full-time roles across both on-site and remote teams. Over the past few quarters, we have partnered with companies including Angel One, Ixigo, Cars24, Veera, ABP Network, Battery Smart, Zavya, and Twin Engineers, supporting hiring initiatives across multiple sectors. Key areas of focus • Opportunities across AI training and evaluation platforms • Technology & Product roles • Growth, Marketing & Sales • Customer Success & Support • Finance & Business Operations By bringing together talent networks, industry insights, and emerging opportunities across AI and high-growth companies, Crossing Hurdles aims to help capable professionals discover meaningful work while supporting organizations in reaching the talent they need to grow.

Open positions

AI Productivity Consultant

Remote · ["Canada"]

Position: AI Agent Productivity Specialist Type: Contract Compensation: $30 - $90/hour Location: Remote Commitment: 10-40 hrs/week Role Responsibilities Design, test, and refine automated workflows integrating AI agents with workplace tools. Identify and propose AI-driven automation strategies for operational efficiency. Develop and document best practices for AI use in professional tasks. Conduct research using AI agents and present actionable insights. Analyze business operations to improve productivity with AI solutions. Collaborate with project participants to enable seamless automa…

Full-Stack Engineer | $42/hr Remote

Remote · ["Canada"]

Position: Full-Stack Engineer (JSON Schema Developer) Type: Contract Compensation: $40 - $42/hour Location: Remote Commitment: 10-40 hrs/week Role Responsibilities Review and analyze complex PDF documents to identify relevant data fields for extraction. Design and implement deeply nested JSON schemas from scratch, adhering to data modeling best practices. Define field types, naming conventions, and hierarchical structures to accurately model nested and repeated information. Embed granular validation logic to ensure data integrity, including sum checks and null-testing. Collaborate with…

Private Equity Analyst | Remote

Remote · ["Canada"]

Position: Private Equity Analyst Type: Contract Compensation: $100 - $144/hour Location: Remote Commitment: 10-40 hrs/week Role Responsibilities Conduct comprehensive due diligence and analyze confidential information memoranda (CIMs/SIMs) and supporting deal documentation to evaluate investment opportunities. Draft, review, and refine Investment Committee (IC) memos and Board Decks to support decision-making processes for high-impact deals. Navigate complex public filings, financial statements, and dense transaction documents to ensure thorough investment evaluation. Collaborate closel…

AI Productivity Specialist

Remote · ["Canada"]

Position: Role Title: AI Productivity Specialist Type: Contract Location: Remote Commitment: 10-40 hrs/week Role Responsibilities Develop and document innovative, AI-driven processes to improve productivity for complex workflows. Identify opportunities to automate repetitive tasks across digital workplace tools. Analyze and interpret data to inform system improvements and workflow enhancements. Design workflow diagrams and instructional materials to communicate automation strategies. Test, validate, and refine AI-powered solutions, providing real-world input on effectiveness. Collaborate…

M&A Attorney

Remote · ["Canada"]

Position: M&A Attorney Type: Contract Compensation: $90 - $130/hour Location: Remote Commitment: 10-40 hrs/week Role Responsibilities Perform simulated contract negotiations and redlining exercises. Review and assess AI responses to contract scenarios, providing expert feedback to improve model performance and output precision. Create objective evaluation frameworks and grading criteria to assess AI performance on contract tasks with rigor and consistency. Collaborate with product and research teams to refine data, guidelines, and best practices for AI-driven contract review solutions.…

Quantitative Analyst (Quant Analyst) | Remote

Remote · ["Canada"]

Quantitative Finance Evaluator Drive the rigor behind next-generation quantitative reasoning. In this role, you will assess and compare model-generated outputs on advanced finance problems derivatives pricing, risk frameworks, and market modeling providing the structured feedback that shapes how automated reasoning systems perform in quantitative domains. $150/hr | 10 20 hrs/week | Remote Key Responsibilities Evaluate paired model outputs on quantitative finance prompts, determining which demonstrates superior methodological soundness, numerical accuracy, and logical rigor Articulate clea…

Product Manager | $80/hr Remote

Remote · ["Canada"]

Position: Product Manager Type: Contractor Compensation: $40 - $80/hour Location: Remote Commitment: 10-40 hrs/week Role Responsibilities Define and execute the product roadmap in collaboration with stakeholders and development teams. Gather and prioritize customer requirements to ensure alignment with business objectives. Own the end-to-end lifecycle of product features from ideation through launch and iteration. Facilitate agile product development processes using tools such as Jira and Linear. Lead cross-functional meetings and communicate vision, progress, and priorities with clarit…

Technical Problem Solver / Puzzle Solver | $65/hr Remote

Remote · ["Canada"]

Position: Technical Problem Solver / Puzzle Solver Type: Contract Compensation: $45 - $65/hour Location: Remote Commitment: 10-40 hrs/week Role Responsibilities Design and implement checkers for competitive programming problems with multiple valid outputs, ensuring accuracy and robustness. Evaluate and validate participant submissions against complex problem statements sourced from platforms like Codeforces. Collaborate with the customer's team to fine-tune problem requirements and clarify ambiguous scenarios. Develop clear, maintainable code in C++ to assess diverse outputs and edge ca…

Senior Credit Analyst | Remote

Remote · ["Canada"]

Credit Research & Analysis Expert A leading foundational model lab is sourcing seasoned credit professionals to contribute domain expertise to a high-impact research initiative. This contract engagement offers flexible scheduling, competitive compensation, and the opportunity to work alongside researchers shaping next-generation language model capabilities in finance. $100 $130/hr | 10+ hrs/week | Remote Key Responsibilities Apply institutional-grade credit analysis including financial modeling, covenant review, and liquidity assessment to evaluate and annotate complex credit scenarios fo…

Compliance Manager | Remote

Remote · ["Canada"]

Position: Privacy Annotation Specialist Type: Contract Compensation: $105 - $140/hour Location: Remote Commitment: 10-40 hrs/week Role Responsibilities Review and annotate sensitive legal documents to identify Personal Identifiable Information (PII) and confidential content. Utilize expertise in contract review and eDiscovery to ensure high-quality and accurate data labeling. Validate and confirm outputs of OCR processes to ensure data integrity in legal investigation workflows. Collaborate with compliance and legal technology teams to meet information governance and privacy standards.…

Privacy Annotation Specialist | Remote

Remote · ["Canada"]

Position: Privacy Annotation Specialist Type: Contract Compensation: $105 - $140/hour Location: Remote Commitment: 10-40 hrs/week Role Responsibilities Review and annotate sensitive legal documents to identify Personal Identifiable Information (PII) and confidential content. Utilize expertise in contract review and eDiscovery to ensure high-quality and accurate data labeling. Validate and confirm outputs of OCR processes to ensure data integrity in legal investigation workflows. Collaborate with compliance and legal technology teams to meet information governance and privacy standards.…

Data Quality Analyst | Remote

Remote · ["Canada"]

Position: Document Reviewer Type: Contract Compensation: $63 - $119/hour Location: Remote Commitment: 10-40 hrs/week Role Responsibilities Review large volumes of structured and unstructured data for accuracy and completeness. Identify and flag data quality issues and potential risks involving Personal Identifiable Information (PII). Annotate, classify, and redact sensitive information to maintain privacy and compliance standards. Follow strict guidelines and workflow processes for data categorization and validation. Perform quality assurance checks to verify data integrity and validate…

Music Transcriber | Remote

Remote · ["Canada"]

Senior Music Transcriber MIDI & Notation Work Snapshot Type: Contract Commitment: Part-time, flexible hours Pay: $55 $110/hr What You'll Be Doing Transcribe full mixes and provided stems into accurate multi-track MIDI, capturing pitch, onset, duration, velocity, and polyphony across all instruments Follow a consistent MIDI specification including quantization, tempo mapping, drum mapping, and pitch bends Identify and document underlying harmony, key signatures, modulations, and voice leading as symbolic ground truth Deliver clean, instrument-separated MIDI tracks aligned precisely to so…

Music Producer | $65/hr Remote

Remote · ["Canada"]

Music Expert Evaluation & Annotation (Generative Music) Work Snapshot Type: Contract Commitment: Part-time, flexible hours Pay: $30 $65/hour What You'll Be Doing Evaluate pairs of model-generated tracks against the same prompt, scoring each on faithfulness, instruction-following, audio fidelity, vocal quality, and musicality with written rationale Write precise, schema-consistent music captions covering genre, instrumentation, structure with timings, key, tempo, feel, and production era Perform word-level lyric alignment (karaoke-style), correcting transcripts for dropped or looped word…

Oncology Specialist | Remote

Remote · ["Canada"]

Role Overview A high-impact contract opportunity for Hematology/Oncology physicians to contribute clinical expertise to frontier model development designing scenarios, evaluating outputs, and setting the quality standard for evidence-based reasoning in cancer and hematologic care. What You Will Be Doing Design clinically realistic prompts and scenarios spanning staging, treatment selection, regimen sequencing, toxicity management, end-of-life decision-making, and guideline interpretation Author "golden" reference responses at attending-level clinical quality Evaluate and grade model output…

Cancer Care Specialist | Remote

Remote · ["Canada"]

Role Overview A high-impact contract opportunity for Hematology/Oncology physicians to contribute clinical expertise to frontier model development designing scenarios, evaluating outputs, and setting the quality standard for evidence-based reasoning in cancer and hematologic care. What You Will Be Doing Design clinically realistic prompts and scenarios spanning staging, treatment selection, regimen sequencing, toxicity management, end-of-life decision-making, and guideline interpretation Author "golden" reference responses at attending-level clinical quality Evaluate and grade model output…

Hematology & Oncology Physician | Remote

Remote · ["Canada"]

Role Overview A high-impact contract opportunity for Hematology/Oncology physicians to contribute clinical expertise to frontier model development designing scenarios, evaluating outputs, and setting the quality standard for evidence-based reasoning in cancer and hematologic care. What You Will Be Doing Design clinically realistic prompts and scenarios spanning staging, treatment selection, regimen sequencing, toxicity management, end-of-life decision-making, and guideline interpretation Author "golden" reference responses at attending-level clinical quality Evaluate and grade model output…

Strategic Operations Consultant | Remote

Remote · ["Canada"]

Management & Strategy Consultant Drive the frontier of intelligent system development by applying elite consulting methodology to complex, real-world business scenarios. This contract role calls on practitioners with top-tier advisory backgrounds to design, evaluate, and refine the decision-making challenges that shape next-generation automation. $100/hr | 10+ hrs/week | Remote Key Responsibilities Design and evaluate multi-stakeholder business scenarios spanning market entry, competitive positioning, and operational strategy to benchmark and improve automated reasoning systems Develop ri…

Game Developer | Remote

Remote · ["Canada"]

Position: Game Developer (Java / libGDX) Type: Contract Compensation: $20 - $120/hour Location: Remote Commitment: 10-40 hrs/week Role Responsibilities Develop, maintain, and optimize simple 2D game features using Java and libGDX frameworks. Collaborate closely with AI specialists to design engaging game interactions and collect high-quality training data. Implement basic game mechanics including sprite management, game loops, and input handling. Troubleshoot and debug code to ensure optimal performance and reliability of game modules. Participate in code reviews and contribute to the i…

Physics Research Scientist | Remote

Remote · ["Canada"]

Physics Research Consultant Remote | Contract | $70 $180/hr | ~15 hrs/week Quick Snapshot Evaluate and validate complex physics problems, proofs, and derivations to strengthen reasoning capabilities in frontier models Work spans a broad range of physics subfields at graduate and postdoctoral rigor Project-based batches with flexible, self-directed scheduling complete tasks within 24 hours of assignment $70 $180/hr, paid weekly via Stripe or Wise as an independent contractor Ideal for active researchers or academics seeking high-value, intellectually substantive contract work Variable task v…