Elementary School Teacher Expert

AfterQuery; New Zealand; Remote; NZD 85,000 - 158,000; Full time

Job summary

AfterQuery is hiring primary education teachers as contractors to author and grade elementary classroom scenarios used to test frontier AI model judgments. You will draft scenarios from planning through assessment and provide reference answers with developmental reasoning.

Work is fully remote and asynchronous with a minimum of 10 hours per week. Rates range from $35 to $65 per hour, paid weekly via Stripe, based on experience.

Qualifications

• Required Qualifications: Teaching license or certification with a primary education endorsement
• 2+ years of teaching at the primary level
• Depth in early literacy and numeracy instruction
• Clear written English for documenting pedagogical reasoning
• Able to commit at least 10 hours per week

Responsibilities

• Author realistic primary classroom scenarios from planning through assessment
• Write reference answers with the developmental reasoning behind each choice
• Grade model output for age appropriateness and instructional accuracy
• Flag activities that look engaging but teach nothing

Skills

Depth in early literacy and numeracy

Clear written English for documenting

Mentor teacher or team lead experience

Education

Teaching license or certification with a primary education endorsement

2+ years of teaching at the primary level

Depth in early literacy and numeracy instruction

Clear written English for documenting pedagogical reasoning

Able to commit at least 10 hours per week

Job description

Primary education teachers to build the elementary classroom scenarios frontier AI labs use to test model judgment. AfterQuery builds the expert evaluation data that frontier AI labs use to measure and improve their models. We're hiring primary education teachers as contractors to author and grade the elementary classroom scenarios those evaluations run on. What you'll actually do Author realistic primary classroom scenarios from planning through assessmentWrite reference answers with the developmental reasoning behind each choiceGrade model output for age appropriateness and instructional accuracyFlag activities that look engaging but teach nothing Who this is for Teaching license or certification with a primary education endorsement2+ years of teaching at the primary levelDepth in early literacy and numeracy instructionYou can write pedagogical reasoning clearly enough for another teacher to follow it Contract and pay $35 to $65/hr, paid weekly via Stripe. Your rate is set from your experience, not negotiated down after you start.Fully remote, fully async. No fixed hours.Minimum 10 hours per week, no maximum. Scale up or down week to week.No screen recording, no keystroke monitoring, no idle timers.Independent contractor. Ongoing project work rather than single task batches.

About AfterQuery 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.

Responsibilities

• Author realistic primary classroom scenarios from planning through assessment
• Write reference answers with the developmental reasoning behind each choice
• Grade model output for age appropriateness and instructional accuracy
• Flag activities that look engaging but teach nothing

Required Qualifications

• Teaching license or certification with a primary education endorsement
• 2+ years of teaching at the primary level
• Depth in early literacy and numeracy instruction
• Clear written English for documenting pedagogical reasoning
• Able to commit at least 10 hours per week

Preferred Qualifications

• Training in structured literacy or the science of reading
• Experience teaching multiple primary grades
• Mentor teacher or team lead experience

Why apply

• $35 to $65/hr, paid hourly via Stripe
• 100% remote and fully async with no playground duty
• Shape how frontier models reason about early learning
• Ongoing project work with hours you set each week