Anthropology QA Lead - Remote

About the role

This is an hourly, remote contractor role as an Anthropology Quality Assurance Lead overseeing quality, consistency, and trainer performance across anthropology-focused AI training projects.

Responsibilities

• Review AI-generated anthropology content and trainer/QA work, evaluating output quality against project guidelines and providing precise written feedback.

• Evaluate work for anthropological accuracy, cultural context, theory application, ethnographic sensitivity, methodological rigor, ethical awareness, bias sensitivity, terminology quality, clarity, formatting, instruction-following, and adherence to project-specific rubrics.

• Assess work for recurring quality issues, communicate updates to trainers and QAs, support onboarding, maintain documentation, and help activate contributors who are not working consistently.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology, Sociology, Area Studies, Museum Studies, or a closely related field.

• Strong grasp of the English language to follow project guidelines, communicate with teams, and provide clear written feedback.

• 3+ years of experience in anthropology research, teaching, ethnography, archaeology, museum/heritage work, cultural analysis, academic writing, fieldwork, or related workflows.

• Strong understanding of anthropological theory, cultural relativism, ethnographic methods, kinship, ritual, language/culture relationships, material culture, human evolution, archaeology, ethics, and representation.

• Ability to evaluate anthropology content against detailed rubrics and identify issues such as cultural stereotyping, ethnocentrism, unsupported generalizations, outdated terminology, methodological errors, weak contextualization, or ethically problematic framing.

• Familiarity with areas such as ethnography, participant observation, archaeological methods, human origins, kinship systems, religion/ritual, migration, colonialism, Indigenous studies, museum ethics, or linguistic anthropology is preferred.

• Experience leading or supporting remote teams of researchers, educators, reviewers, fieldworkers, annotators, or QAs is strongly preferred.

• Comfortable working in fast-moving remote environments using tools such as Discord, Google Sheets, Google Docs, trackers, dashboards, and project management systems.

• Highly detail-oriented and organized, with the ability to maintain style guides, FAQs, trackers, onboarding materials, calibration tasks, and documentation.

• Experience with AI training, data annotation, LLM evaluation, social science QA, academic review, cultural sensitivity review, or rubric-based review is a strong plus.

Qualifications

• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, to provide feedback and communicate with teams.

• Structured communication and the ability to manage quality workflows across remote expert teams.

Skills

• Strong anthropology expertise.

• Excellent attention to detail.

• Structured communication.

• The ability to manage quality workflows across remote expert teams.

Benefits

• Opportunity to work with a fast-growing AI Data Services company delivering training data for many of the world’s largest AI companies and foundation-model labs.

• Direct impact on improving the world’s premier AI models by ensuring anthropology training data is accurate, culturally sensitive, ethically aware, research-informed, and aligned with client expectations.

Pay

Hourly rate commensurate with experience.

Schedule

Remote work schedule to be determined based on project needs and team availability.