Freelance Linguistics Consultant - AI Tutor - job 5 of 7

At Mindrift, innovation meets opportunity. We believe in using the power of collective intelligence to ethically shape the future of AI.

Our goal? Advance the field of artificial intelligence through collaborative Generative AI projects with domain experts. The Mindrift platform allows experts to dive into a variety of tasks ranging from creating training prompts for AI models to refining AI responses for better relevance.

You’ll have the unique opportunity to contribute to AI development anywhere, at anytime. Flexible, community-focused, and innovative—without the need for developer skills.

About the Role

Generative AI models are rapidly improving. Our goals is to make them capable of addressing specialized questions and achieving complex reasoning skills. 

You’ll join the project as an AI Tutor in Linguistics where you’ll have the opportunity to develop complex question-answer pairs and create scoring criteria (rubrics) to evaluate and grade the quality of responses. Your work will involve:

1. Generating prompts that challenge the AI and are likely to produce incorrect responses.
2. Defining comprehensive scoring criteria for evaluating the correctness of the AI's answers.
3. Correcting the AI's responses based on domain-specific knowledge.

• You have a Master’s degree or PhD in Linguistics. 
• You have professional experience in the following subdomains within Linguistics: General Linguistics, Theoretical Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics, Second Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics, Computational Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Anthropological Linguistics, Comparative Linguistics, Forensic Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Dialectology, Phonetics and Phonology, Pragmatics, Lexicography, Language Documentation, Language Typology, Cognitive Linguistics, Language Evolution, Language Policy and Planning, Sign Linguistics.
• Your level of English is advanced (C1) or above.
• You are ready to learn new methods, able to switch between tasks and topics quickly and sometimes work with challenging, complex guidelines.
• Our freelance role is fully remote so, you just need a laptop, internet connection, time available and enthusiasm to take on a challenge.

Why you should apply for this freelance role:

• Take part in a part-time, remote, freelance project that works with your schedule and commitments.
• Be part of an exciting AI project.
• Enrich your portfolio with new experience.
• Make a tangible impact on the quality of AI.