Court Interpreter Expert
We're hiring certified court interpreters as contractors to author and grade the legal interpretation scenarios those evaluations run on.
Hiring companyAfterQuery Experts
About the role
Clear writers who can document the reasoning behind an interpretation decision.
No screen recording, no keystroke monitoring, no idle timers.
Why Apply
- $60 to $100/hr, paid weekly via Stripe.
- 100% remote and fully async.
- Shape how frontier models handle courtroom interpretation.
- Ongoing project work with hours you set each week.
Responsibilities
- Author realistic courtroom and legal interpretation scenarios, from arraignments to depositions to attorney client meetings.
- Write reference interpretations with the terminology and register decisions behind each rendering.
- Grade model output for accuracy, completeness, and legal register in both languages.
- Flag renderings that read fluent but change the legal meaning.
- Author realistic courtroom and legal interpretation scenarios.
- Write reference interpretations with the reasoning behind each terminology choice.
- Grade model output for accuracy, register, and legal meaning.
Preferred skills
- Federal court certification or NAJIT membership.
- Experience across depositions, arraignments, and trial interpreting.
- Sight translation and legal document translation experience.
Experience and education
- State or federally certified court interpreters, or holders of an equivalent credential.
- Working interpreters with at least 2 years in legal settings.
- State or federal court interpreter certification, or an equivalent credential.
- 2+ years of interpreting in legal settings such as courtrooms, depositions, or attorney client meetings.
Language requirements
- Interpreters with full professional command of legal terminology in both working languages.
- Full professional command of legal terminology in both working languages.
- Clear written English for documenting interpretation decisions.
Assessment requirements
- Apply at /apply/court-interpreter-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.
Schedule details
Time Commitment: 10 hours/week.
Start Date: ASAP.
End Date: Ongoing.
Fully remote, fully async. No fixed hours.
Minimum 10 hours per week, no maximum. Scale up or down week to week.
Independent contractor. Ongoing project work rather than single task batches.
Able to commit at least 10 hours per week.
Eligibility
Work arrangement: Fully remote
Compensation details
- $60 - $100/hr.
- $60 to $100/hr, paid weekly via Stripe. Your rate is set from your experience, not negotiated down after you start.
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