Religion Specialist

Agency; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Agency is seeking a thoughtful analyst to work with language models on religious, historical, and cultural contexts. You will assess model accuracy, neutrality, and logical consistency, and document failure modes.

You will provide structured feedback to improve prompts, evaluation frameworks, and reasoning quality, and identify where models oversimplify beliefs or misinterpret sacred texts. Collaboration and careful communication are essential.

Qualifications

• Familiarity with world religions, theology, religious history, or philosophy of religion.
• Knowledge of sacred texts, doctrinal differences, or comparative religion.
• Ability to articulate reasoning steps explicitly (metacognitive communication).
• Access to a secure computer and high-speed internet.

Responsibilities

• Engage language models with religious or historical scenarios, analytical questions, and cultural context tasks.
• Evaluate model accuracy, neutrality, and logical consistency.
• Capture reproducible error traces and document failure modes.
• Provide structured feedback to improve prompts, evaluation frameworks, and reasoning quality.
• Identify instances where models oversimplify beliefs or misinterpret sacred texts.

Skills

Religious studies knowledge

Sacred texts knowledge

Explicit reasoning communication

Education

Religious studies, theology, history, anthropology or related humanities

Job description

Responsibilities

• Engage language models with religious or historical scenarios, analytical questions, and cultural context tasks
• Evaluate model accuracy, neutrality, and logical consistency
• Capture reproducible error traces and document failure modes
• Provide structured feedback to improve prompts, evaluation frameworks, and reasoning quality
• Identify instances where models oversimplify beliefs or misinterpret sacred texts

Requirements

• Familiarity with world religions, theology, religious history, or philosophy of religion
• Knowledge of sacred texts, doctrinal differences, or comparative religion
• Ability to provide clear, metacognitive communication by explicitly articulating reasoning steps
• Access to a secure computer and high-speed internet

Preferred Qualifications

• Degree in religious studies, theology, history, anthropology, or a related humanities field
• Experience in teaching or academic research related to cultural studies

About the Company

This project focuses on training large-scale language models to improve religious literacy, support education, and provide accurate cultural and historical context through high-quality training data.