Expert Contributor - Educational Services (Task-Based)

About the role

Snorkel AI is a data development company spun out of the Stanford AI Lab, focused on improving the truthfulness and reasoning abilities of advanced AI systems. This ongoing project-based opportunity will allow you to help shape the next generation of AI models by designing challenging tasks, stress-testing AI agents, and providing expert feedback that steers model behavior toward ideal solutions. No prior AI experience is required.

We are looking for Educational Services experts with the ability to design and solve challenging, real-world reasoning tasks that test the limits of advanced AI systems. Contributors will create high-quality educational services problems, develop rigorous solutions, and help identify where models fail in instructional and subject-matter reasoning. The work is designed around real-world instructional difficulty, pedagogical precision, and reproducible evaluation.

Responsibilities

• Design and solve challenging, real-world reasoning tasks that test the limits of advanced AI systems.
• Create high-quality educational services problems and develop rigorous solutions.
• Identify where AI models fail in instructional and subject-matter reasoning.
• Provide expert feedback to steer model behavior toward ideal solutions.

Requirements

• Deep fluency in Educational Services work, with the ability to create realistic, multi-step problems drawn from live teaching, curriculum, or administrative work and produce precise, fully worked solutions.
• Strong review instincts — able to identify subtle errors in content, worked solutions, alignment to objectives, or accessibility, suggest more rigorous approaches, and evaluate competing solution paths across multiple turns of a conversation.
• Several years of hands-on experience in the Educational Services sector as an instructor, coordinator, or administrator.
• Background in one or more of: postsecondary teaching, instructional coordination, education administration, training and development, educational, guidance, and career counseling and advising, or library and media collections work.

Qualifications

• Familiarity with rubric and assessment design, learning objectives and standards alignment, curriculum mapping, accreditation or program review, or writing study guides with fully worked solution sets (bonus).

Schedule

Remote 1099 contractor position with flexible, independent work and no hours commitment.

Cannot reside in California.

Pay

Snorkel pays per accepted task rather than an hourly rate. Accepted task payments for this modality are up to $250 per completed task. You will always earn at least $15 per hour for work performed but have the opportunity to earn more based on productivity and quality.