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Philosophy Expert

AfterQuery Contract Posted 2 months ago US, UK, EU, CA, AU, NZ

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<p>Philosophers to build the argument analysis and ethical reasoning 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 philosophers as contractors to author and grade the argument analysis and ethical reasoning scenarios those evaluations run on.</p>
<p><strong>What you'll actually do</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Author philosophical scenarios that test real reasoning, from argument reconstruction to applied ethical dilemmas.</li>
<li>Write reference answers with the argumentative structure made explicit, premises, inferences, and objections laid bare.</li>
<li>Grade model output for validity, soundness, and fair treatment of the strongest opposing view.</li>
<li>Flag reasoning that sounds profound but equivocates, begs the question, or collapses under a counterexample.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Who this is for</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Philosophers with an advanced degree and at least two years of teaching, research, or published work.</li>
<li>Specialists in any area, ethics, epistemology, logic, philosophy of mind, political philosophy, and beyond.</li>
<li>People who can steelman a position they reject and explain precisely where an argument fails.</li>
<li>Writers whose prose makes hard distinctions clear rather than dressing easy ones up.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Contract and pay</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>$50 to $100/hr</strong>, paid weekly via Stripe. Your rate is set from your experience, not negotiated down after you start.</li>
<li>Fully 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/philosophy-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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