Linguistics Expert

About the role

<p>Linguists to build the language analysis scenarios frontier AI labs use to test model judgment on syntax, semantics, and phonology.</p>

<p>AfterQuery builds the expert evaluation data that frontier AI labs use to measure and improve their models. We're hiring linguists as contractors to author and grade the language analysis scenarios those evaluations run on. Models are made of language, and linguists are unusually well placed to find where their command of it breaks.</p>

<p><strong>What you'll actually do</strong></p>

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<li>Author linguistic scenarios that test real analysis, from syntactic ambiguity to semantic entailment to phonological pattern.</li>

<li>Write reference analyses with the argumentation behind each judgment, the data, the generalization, the exceptions.</li>

<li>Grade model output for analytical accuracy and honest handling of the data.</li>

<li>Flag analyses that read plausible but misparse the sentence or mislabel the phenomenon.</li>

Why apply

• Work stays in your specialty, judged on rigor rather than output volume
• Set your own hours and scale up or down week to week
• Weekly pay via Stripe at a rate set from your experience
• Your judgment shapes how the next generation of AI handles language itself

Responsibilities

• Author linguistic scenarios that test analysis across syntax, semantics, and phonology
• Write reference analyses with the argumentation behind each judgment
• Grade model output for analytical accuracy and data handling
• Flag analyses that read plausible but misparse the data or mislabel the phenomenon

Required qualifications

• Advanced degree in linguistics or a closely related field
• 2+ years of research, teaching, or applied linguistics work
• Depth in a subfield such as syntax, semantics, phonology, or sociolinguistics
• Clear written English for documenting linguistic analysis
• Able to commit at least 10 hours per week

Preferred qualifications

• PhD and peer reviewed publications
• Computational linguistics or corpus methods experience
• Fieldwork or documentation of understudied languages