Sociology Quality Assurance Lead

The work

As a Sociology Quality Assurance Lead, you will oversee quality across sociology-focused AI training projects. You will review AI-generated explanations, research summaries, social policy discussions, and trainer or QA submissions, then give clear written feedback.

You will help keep work accurate, nuanced, ethically aware, and consistent with project rubrics. You will also support contributor onboarding, project documentation, workflow updates, and recurring quality issue management.

• Review sociology content and trainer or QA work for accuracy, nuance, and rubric adherence.
• Check the use of sociological theory, research methods, social context, and ethical reasoning.
• Identify stereotyping, weak causal claims, unsupported generalizations, and other quality problems.
• Give precise written feedback and help maintain consistent standards across contributors.
• Support onboarding materials, FAQs, trackers, calibration tasks, quality notes, and project documentation.
• Communicate workflow updates and answer questions through remote collaboration tools.
• Help activate contributors and escalate recurring or critical issues when needed.

What it pays and takes

This is a part-time, remote contractor role for candidates based in the United States. The work requires strong English communication and a solid background in sociology or a closely related social science field.

• Pay: $65 per hour.
• Time: 20+ hours per week.
• Location: United States.
• Language: English.
• Education: A degree in Sociology, Social Sciences, Social Research, Demography, Criminology, Gender Studies, Ethnic Studies, Public Policy, Anthropology, or a closely related field.
• Experience: At least 3 years in sociology research, teaching, social policy analysis, review, or related work.
• Knowledge: Sociological theory, institutions, inequality, culture, deviance, organizations, social change, demography, and research methods.
• Relevant experience: AI training, data annotation, large language model evaluation, social science QA, academic review, or rubric-based review.
• Tools: Familiarity with Discord, Google Sheets, and Google Docs.

How it works

Apply on OpenTrain with your resume, then complete the application on the hiring site.

About AI training work

AI training is the human work behind systems that learn from reviewed examples, including checking model responses for accuracy, fairness, and usefulness. Subject-matter experts are paid for applying careful judgment that general-purpose reviewers may not have.