History Expert

Pay: $75/hour

Historians to build the source analysis and historical reasoning 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 historians as contractors to author and grade the source analysis and historical reasoning scenarios those evaluations run on.

What you'll actually do

• Author historical scenarios that test real method, from source criticism to competing causal explanations.
• Write reference answers with the evidentiary reasoning behind each interpretation, what the sources support and what they cannot.
• Grade model output for factual accuracy, context, and historiographical awareness.
• Flag narratives that read confident but flatten evidence, invent causation, or project the present onto the past.

Who this is for

• Historians with an advanced degree and at least two years of teaching, research, archival, or published work.
• Specialists in any period or region, with real primary source experience behind the specialty.
• Scholars who can weigh conflicting sources and say plainly what the evidence does and does not establish.
• Writers whose prose carries argument, not just chronology.

Contract and pay

• $50 to $100/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.