About this role
Role Overview
Apply professional elicitation and investigative interviewing expertise to help train next-generation AI systems through high-quality, real-world analysis and feedback. This remote contract role centers on interpreting subtle verbal and behavioral signals, assessing response reliability, and documenting defensible reasoning for both technical and non-specialist audiences. Prior AI experience is not required.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct or evaluate structured elicitation and interview sessions to obtain accurate, relevant information from varied subjects.
- Build rapport that supports open communication without pressure or coercion.
- Interpret tone, pacing, hesitation, gestures, and other verbal or nonverbal cues in real time, adjusting questioning approaches as appropriate.
- Evaluate the consistency, reliability, and possible evasiveness of responses, including confidence assessments for each interaction.
- Identify and annotate emotional and motivational factors that influence participant responses.
- Document analytical reasoning clearly and traceably to support review and learning.
- Score or annotate sessions against detailed rubrics while maintaining objectivity and consistency across cases.
Qualifications
- 3 to 5+ years of professional experience in interviewing, intelligence elicitation, or investigative questioning, such as military HUMINT, law-enforcement interviewing, or skilled negotiation.
- Training in recognized interviewing approaches, including the PEACE model, cognitive interviewing, or comparable frameworks.
- Strong elicitation strategy, real-time cue-reading, reliability-assessment, investigative-questioning, and attention-to-detail skills.
- Ability to explain analytical judgments clearly in writing, rather than relying solely on intuition.
- Exceptional written English communication, with clarity, precision, and defensible analysis.
- Experience engaging diverse populations or working through interpreters is preferred.
- Familiarity with data annotation, AI model evaluation, or after-action or assessment-report writing is preferred.
Work Terms
- Independent contractor engagement.
- Remote, with US-based candidates preferred.
- Minimum commitment of approximately 15 hours per week.
- Work supports a specialized customer project.
Compensation
$25 to $65 per hour.