AI Tutor - Chinese (AI)

Location: Remote worldwide, subject to legal eligibility, time-zone compatibility, and role-specific needs. US-based candidates cannot be hired in Wyoming or Illinois. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Salary: $35–$45 per hour for US-based candidates; international compensation is provided during recruitment.

Company

Develops AI systems designed to understand the universe and support humanity's pursuit of knowledge.

What you will do

• Label, annotate, record, and provide inputs for multilingual audio clips, voice recordings, speech samples, and other auditory data.
• Curate high-quality audio data that reflects natural speech, accents, intonation, rhythm, and other prosodic details.
• Evaluate speech accuracy, pronunciation, cultural vocal expressions, and contextual interpretation across languages.
• Collaborate with technical staff to improve speech modulation, accent variation, noise handling, and multilingual audio processing.
• Help improve annotation tools and audio workflows.

Requirements

• Native Chinese proficiency with exposure to diverse accents, dialects, or regional variations.
• English proficiency at B2 level or higher, with clear and natural vocal delivery suitable for recording.
• Strong auditory perception and the ability to identify nuances in speech, pronunciation, intonation, accents, and audio quality.
• Experience transcribing audio accurately across accents and varying recording quality.
• Ability to make independent, consistent judgments on ambiguous, noisy, or accented audio material.
• For work from a personal device, use a Chromebook, macOS 11.0 or later, or Windows 10 or later.

Nice to have

• Background in linguistics, phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, speech sciences, or cognitive science.
• Experience with speech or audio datasets, annotation workflows, AI training data, or voice models.
• Professional voice experience, such as voice acting, voice recording, podcasting, or audio production.
• Advanced transcription and annotation experience covering disfluencies, accents, intonation, stress, rhythm, and emotion.
• Portfolio containing voice samples, annotated transcripts, or related audio work.

Culture & Benefits

• Small, highly motivated team focused on engineering excellence and curiosity.
• Flat organizational structure with hands-on contribution and leadership based on initiative and delivery.
• Full-time, part-time, and contractor arrangements may be available depending on role needs and candidate fit.
• Contractors can set their own hours; project workloads vary, with many projects requiring approximately 10 hours per week.
• Eligible US-based positions may include health insurance, a 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave.