ESL Teacher Expert
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<p>ESL teachers to build the language learning scenarios frontier AI labs use to test model judgment.</p>
<p>AfterQuery builds the expert evaluation data that frontier AI labs use to measure and improve their models. We're hiring ESL teachers as contractors to author and grade the language learning scenarios those evaluations run on.</p>
<p><strong>What you'll actually do</strong></p>
<ul><li>Author realistic ESL teaching scenarios across proficiency levels, from beginner literacy to academic English</li><li>Write reference answers with the pedagogical reasoning behind each instructional decision</li><li>Grade model output for accuracy, level appropriateness, and pedagogical soundness</li><li>Flag explanations that read correct but would confuse a language learner</li></ul>
<p><strong>Who this is for</strong></p>
<ul><li>TEFL, TESOL, or CELTA certified teachers, or state licensed ESL teachers</li><li>Working teachers with at least 2 years of classroom or online ESL experience</li><li>Teachers with depth in lesson planning, error correction, and proficiency assessment</li><li>Clear writers who can document the reasoning behind an instructional decision</li></ul>
<p><strong>Contract and pay</strong></p>
<ul><li><strong>$35 to $70/hr</strong>, paid weekly via Stripe. Your rate is set from your experience, not negotiated down after you start.</li><li>Remote, fully async. No fixed hours.</li><li>Minimum 10 hours per week, no maximum. Scale up or down week to week.</li><li>No screen recording, no keystroke monitoring, no idle timers.</li><li>Independent contractor. Ongoing project work rather than single task batches.</li></ul>
<p><strong>How our hiring process works</strong></p>
<ul><li><strong>Apply</strong> at /apply/esl-teacher-expert. About five minutes. Resume plus a few structured questions.</li><li><strong>Resume review.</strong> Every application gets read against a published rubric and gets a decision.</li><li><strong>Written assessment.</strong> You may be asked to take a written assessment for further placement.</li><li><strong>Onboarding.</strong> Sign the contractor agreement, connect Stripe, and get platform access.</li><li><strong>Project match.</strong> You're matched to live work in your specialty, usually within a week of onboarding.</li></ul>
<p><strong>About AfterQuery</strong></p>
<p>AfterQuery is an expert data lab. We build the evaluation and training data that frontier AI labs use to measure what their models can and can't do in real professional work. Our contributors are practicing professionals, not annotators, and the work is credited, reviewed, and paid at professional rates.</p>
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