AI Instructor – AI for architects

YPAI; United States; Remote; USD 36,000 - 136,000; Full time

Job summary

YPAI Learn trains working professionals to use AI in their own job, in live classes. Your classes take architects from a client brief and a zoning code to a checklist the design must meet, and from a hand sketch to concept images, and teach them to check every rule against the code text and every number against the drawings.

You teach in English, remotely, from a ready class kit, and you are paid for each class you teach.

Qualifications

• Fluent spoken English, language of instruction.
• Experience teaching architecture or mentoring design teams.
• Ability to explain zoning and building code concepts clearly.

Responsibilities

• Teach live online classes to architects using the class kit.
• Demonstrate how to use AI to explore setbacks, height limits, and parking rules.
• Guide learners in turning sketches into concept images while staying within code and dimension guidelines.
• Support students whose work drifts from the brief or misapplies municipal rules.

Skills

Architecture background

Fluent English

Teaching experience

Tools

AI image tool

Job description

Teach live online classes for architects on using AI in daily practice, from reading a client brief and the zoning rules to concept images a client can react to. You teach in English from a ready class kit, remotely, and you are paid for each class you teach.

What the work is for

YPAI Learn trains working professionals to use AI in their own job, in live classes. Your classes take architects from a client brief and a zoning code to a checklist the design must meet, and from a hand sketch to concept images, and teach them to check every rule against the code text and every number against the drawings.

The work

• Teach the live class "Turn a client brief and zoning rules into a design checklist", 90 minutes, from the class kit.
• Teach the live class "Render a hand sketch into concept images for a client meeting", 90 minutes, from the class kit.
• Show live how to ask an AI assistant about setbacks, height limits and parking rules, then find the clause behind each answer in the code itself before it goes on the checklist.
• Walk learners through turning a sketch or a simple massing model into concept images, and what such an image must not suggest about dimensions, materials or cost.
• Help learners whose images drift away from the sketch, or whose checklist mixes in rules from the wrong municipality, during the class.

What to expect

• You teach in English, live and online, to architects and design staff in many countries. The application also asks which other languages you could teach in.
• Each class kit holds a minute-by-minute plan, slides, speaker notes, a demo on a sample house project and a backup recording of that demo.
• You teach remotely from your own computer, with a stable connection, a camera, a microphone and an AI image tool you can demo from.
• Before you teach a class for the first time, you pass its instructor test.
• Before a teaching assignment starts, you sign an instructor agreement. It covers pay, confidentiality and how class material may be used.
• Each invitation states the class times and the price learners pay, and you see both before you accept.

What you bring

• A project where AI helped you with a brief, a planning or permit application or concept images, that you can walk through and explain.
• Experience teaching architecture, mentoring junior architects, running studio crits or leading workshops in your office.
• Patience with architects who still sketch by hand and have never written a prompt.

You need

• You work or have worked as an architect and use AI in that work, from briefs and code research to concept images.
• Practice experience with zoning rules and building codes, and with presenting design options to clients.
• Fluent spoken English, the language the classes are taught in.
• 18 years or older.

Good to know

• If your practice or employer must approve work outside it, get that approval before you accept a teaching assignment.
• The number of classes you teach depends on demand for them, and each invitation says how much of your time it needs.
• It costs nothing to apply, and no YPAI Learn course has to be bought or taken first.

Pay

$26-$99/hr. Rate shown is for the United States. This role is open in 4 countries, with local rates; pick your country on YPAI.

YPAI pays every two weeks for approved work via PayPal, Wise or bank transfer. Work is by invitation after your profile is reviewed.