Elementary School Teacher Expert (Remote Contractor)

About the role

AfterQuery is an expert data lab that builds evaluation and training data for frontier AI labs. It is hiring primary education teachers as independent contractors to author and grade elementary classroom scenarios used to test and improve AI models. The work is fully remote and fully asynchronous, with no fixed hours.

Key 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 profile

• Teaching license or certification with a primary education endorsement
• 2+ years of teaching at the primary level
• Depth in early literacy and numeracy instruction
• Able to commit at least 10 hours per week; no maximum
• Written English clear enough for another teacher to follow the pedagogical reasoning

Preferred qualifications

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

What we offer

• Pay of $35 to $65 per hour, paid weekly via Stripe, based on experience
• 100% remote, fully async work with no playground duty
• Ongoing project work, matched to your specialty within a week of onboarding
• No screen recording, keystroke monitoring or idle timers

To apply, submit a resume and answer a few structured questions; applications are reviewed against a published rubric, and you may be asked to take a written assessment.