Elementary School Teacher Expert

Primary education teachers to build the elementary classroom 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 primary education teachers as contractors to author and grade the elementary classroom scenarios those evaluations run on. What you'll actually do Author realistic primary classroom scenarios from planning through assessmentWrite reference answers with the developmental reasoning behind each choiceGrade model output for age appropriateness and instructional accuracyFlag activities that look engaging but teach nothing Who this is for Teaching license or certification with a primary education endorsement2+ years of teaching at the primary levelDepth in early literacy and numeracy instructionYou can write pedagogical reasoning clearly enough for another teacher to follow it Contract and pay $35 to $65/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. How our hiring process works Apply at /apply/elementary-school-teacher-expert. About five minutes. Resume plus a few structured questions.Resume review. Every application gets read against a published rubric and gets a decision.Written assessment. You may be asked to take a written assessment for further placement.Onboarding. Sign the contractor agreement, connect Stripe, and get platform access.Project match. You're matched to live work in your specialty, usually within a week of onboarding. About AfterQuery AfterQuery is an expert data lab. We build the evaluation and training data that frontier AI labs use to measure what their models can and can't do in real professional work. Our contributors are practicing professionals, not annotators, and the work is credited, reviewed, and paid at professional rates.

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 qualifications

• Teaching license or certification with a primary education endorsement
• 2+ years of teaching at the primary level
• Depth in early literacy and numeracy instruction
• Clear written English for documenting pedagogical reasoning
• Able to commit at least 10 hours per week

Preferred qualifications

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

Why apply

• $35 to $65/hr, paid hourly via Stripe
• 100% remote and fully async with no playground duty
• Shape how frontier models reason about early learning
• Ongoing project work with hours you set each week

Where you can work

This role is 100% remote: you can work from any country except Andorra, Afghanistan, Angola, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Barbados, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Bolivia, Brazil, Belarus, Belize, DR Congo, Central African Republic, Congo (Republic), Chile, Cameroon, China, Colombia, Cuba, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Eritrea, Fiji, Micronesia, Gabon, Grenada, Georgia, Ghana, Gibraltar, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Honduras, Haiti, Iraq, Iran, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, Kiribati, Comoros, St. Kitts and Nevis, North Korea, South Korea, Kazakhstan, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Lesotho, Libya, Monaco, Montenegro, Marshall Islands, Mali, Myanmar, Macau, Mauritania, Maldives, Malawi, Niger, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Nepal, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Palestine, Palau, Paraguay, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Solomon Islands, Seychelles, Sudan, Sierra Leone, San Marino, Somalia, Suriname, South Sudan, São Tomé and Príncipe, Syria, Eswatini, Chad, Togo, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan, Tonga, Tuvalu, Ukraine, Uganda, Uruguay, Vatican City, St. Vincent and Grenadines, Venezuela, Vanuatu, Samoa, Yemen, Zambia and Zimbabwe.