Literature Specialist – Freelance AI Trainer Project

remote work; United States; Remote; USD 34,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Meridial is seeking literature specialists to train and evaluate large language models. The role involves providing expert literary analysis, documenting failure modes, and giving structured feedback to improve model reasoning and prompts.

This is a freelance, remote contract position focused on advancing AI understanding of world literature, with applicants worldwide and pay in USD based on experience. Strong writing and critical thinking are essential, and you will provide reproducible error

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge of classical and modern literature.
• Experience in critical analysis or comparative literature.
• Ability to articulate reasoning and show work in analysis tasks.
• Experience in teaching or editorial work.

Responsibilities

• Engage the model with literary passages and interpretation tasks.
• Verify factual accuracy, coherence, and depth of literary analysis.
• Evaluate the validity of analyses and capture reproducible error traces.
• Provide structured feedback to improve prompts, evaluation criteria, and reasoning.
• Document failure modes and contribute to model reasoning improvements.
• Communicate reasoning steps clearly to support transparent evaluation.

Skills

Literary analysis

Critical thinking

Communication

Teaching experience

Tools

Research databases

Job description

About the role

Meridial is seeking literature specialists to help train and evaluate large language models. The role involves providing expert literary analysis, documenting failure modes, and giving structured feedback to improve model reasoning and prompts. This is a freelance, remote contract position focused on advancing AI understanding of world literature.

What you'll do

• Engage the model with literary passages and interpretation tasks
• Verify factual accuracy, coherence, and depth of literary analysis
• Evaluate the validity of analyses and capture reproducible error traces
• Provide structured feedback to improve prompts, evaluation criteria, and reasoning
• Document failure modes and contribute to model reasoning improvements
• Communicate reasoning steps clearly to support transparent evaluation

What they're looking for

• Strong familiarity with classical literature, modern and contemporary fiction, poetry, drama, and literary theory
• Experience in critical analysis, comparative literature, or related humanities fields
• Ability to articulate reasoning and show work in analysis tasks
• Experience in teaching, academic research, editorial work, or extensive reading/writing
• Comfort working as a contractor and providing a secure computer and internet setup

For applicants in Nigeria

• The listing does not state a specific timezone requirement; confirm during interview.
• Pay range is listed in USD and based on experience and location; exact rate determined after evaluation
• Contractor rather than employee arrangement is specified
• The text does not specify eligibility restrictions by country; worldwide applicants are implied