Philosophy Expert
We're hiring philosophers as contractors to author and grade the argument analysis and ethical reasoning scenarios those evaluations run on.
Hiring companyAfterQuery Experts
About the role
No screen recording, no keystroke monitoring, no idle timers.
Independent contractor. Ongoing project work rather than single task batches.
Why Apply
- Work stays in your specialty, judged on rigor rather than output volume.
- Set your own hours and scale up or down week to week.
- Weekly pay via Stripe at a rate set from your experience.
- Your judgment shapes how the next generation of AI handles hard questions.
Responsibilities
- Author philosophical scenarios that test real reasoning, from argument reconstruction to applied ethical dilemmas.
- Write reference answers with the argumentative structure made explicit, premises, inferences, and objections laid bare.
- Grade model output for validity, soundness, and fair treatment of the strongest opposing view.
- Flag reasoning that sounds profound but equivocates, begs the question, or collapses under a counterexample.
- Author philosophical scenarios that test argument analysis and ethical reasoning.
- Write reference answers with the argumentative structure made explicit.
- Grade model output for validity, soundness, and fair treatment of objections.
- Flag reasoning that sounds profound but equivocates or begs the question.
Required skills
- Depth in an area such as ethics, epistemology, logic, or philosophy of mind.
Preferred skills
- PhD and peer reviewed publications.
- Formal logic or decision theory training.
- Applied ethics experience such as bioethics or AI ethics.
Experience and education
- Philosophers with an advanced degree and at least two years of teaching, research, or published work.
- Specialists in any area, ethics, epistemology, logic, philosophy of mind, political philosophy, and beyond.
- People who can steelman a position they reject and explain precisely where an argument fails.
- Writers whose prose makes hard distinctions clear rather than dressing easy ones up.
- Advanced degree in philosophy or a closely related field.
- 2+ years of teaching, research, or published philosophical work.
Language requirements
- Clear written English for constructing and evaluating arguments.
Assessment requirements
Apply at /apply/philosophy-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
Fully remote, fully async. No fixed hours.
Minimum 10 hours per week, no maximum. Scale up or down week to week.
Able to commit at least 10 hours per week.
Time Commitment: 10 hours/week.
Start Date: ASAP.
End Date: Ongoing.
Eligibility
Work arrangement: Fully remote
Compensation details
- $50 - $100/hr.
- $50 to $100/hr, paid weekly via Stripe. Your rate is set from your experience, not negotiated down after you start.
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