Philosophy Quality Assurance Lead (QAL)

About this role

In this hourly, remote contractor role, you will work as a Philosophy Quality Assurance Lead (QAL) to oversee quality, consistency, and trainer performance across philosophy-focused AI training projects. You will review AI-generated philosophy content and trainer/QA work, evaluate output quality against project guidelines, provide precise written feedback, and ensure that all contributors follow the expected quality standards.

Philosophy, Ethics, Epistemology

Responsibilities

• Quality monitoring: Spot-check philosophy items, identify quality issues, provide ongoing feedback through DMs, and escalate recurring or critical issues.
• Philosophy review: Evaluate AI-generated philosophy explanations, argument analyses, ethical reasoning, summaries of philosophers, logic problems, and conceptual comparisons for accuracy and rigor.
• Trainer and QA communication: Update trainers and QAs on Discord about new item guidelines, project changes, workflow updates, quality expectations, and philosophy-specific review standards.
• Question handling: Respond to trainer/QA questions clearly and promptly, especially around argument validity, conceptual distinctions, philosophical traditions, interpretation, and ethics.
• Trainer/QA activation management: DM contributors who are inactive or not working, encourage activation, track follow-ups, and flag availability issues when needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD degree in Philosophy, Ethics, Logic, Political Theory, Humanities, Religious Studies, Classics, Cognitive Science, or a closely related field.
• Strong grasp of the English language to follow project guidelines, communicate with teams, and provide clear written feedback.
• 3+ years of experience in philosophy research, teaching, writing, editing, academic review, ethics review, logic instruction, or related humanities workflows.
• Strong understanding of philosophical methods, logic, argument analysis, ethics, epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, political philosophy, history of philosophy, and conceptual clarification.
• Ability to evaluate philosophy content against detailed rubrics and identify issues such as strawman arguments, invalid inference, conceptual confusion, oversimplification, or unsupported claims.