Literature Expert

Pay: $75/hour

Literary scholars to build the close reading and interpretation 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 literary scholars as contractors to author and grade the close reading and interpretation scenarios those evaluations run on.

What you'll actually do

• Author literary scenarios that test real reading, from passage analysis to questions of form, voice, and tradition.
• Write reference readings with the textual evidence behind each claim, what the language does and how.
• Grade model output for textual fidelity, interpretive depth, and awareness of craft.
• Flag readings that sound sophisticated but ignore what the text actually says, the misses only a trained reader would catch.

Who this is for

• Literary scholars with an advanced degree in literature, English, comparative literature, or a closely related field.
• Teachers, researchers, editors, and published critics with at least two years of professional literary work.
• Readers who can ground an interpretation in the words on the page and know when one cannot be.
• Writers whose own prose demonstrates the craft they evaluate.

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.