The work
You will conduct or assess structured interviews and elicitation sessions for AI training. Your analysis will help evaluate how information is gathered, interpreted, and judged for reliability.
You will document clear reasoning so technical and non-specialist reviewers can understand each assessment.
- Conduct or assess structured elicitation and interview sessions.
- Build rapport and encourage open communication without pressure or coercion.
- Interpret tone, pacing, hesitation, gestures, and other behavioral cues.
- Adapt questioning strategies based on the interaction.
- Assess response consistency, reliability, possible evasiveness, and confidence.
- Identify and annotate emotional and motivational factors.
- Score or annotate sessions against a detailed rubric.
- Maintain objectivity and consistency across cases.
What it pays and takes
This is a remote contractor role for candidates in the United States. English fluency and strong written reasoning are required.
- Pay: $30 to $80 per hour.
- Schedule: At least approximately 15 hours per week.
- Location: Remote; open to candidates in the United States.
- Experience: Three to five or more years in professional interviewing, intelligence elicitation, investigative questioning, skilled negotiation, or a related field.
- Training: A recognized interviewing method such as the PEACE model, cognitive interviewing, or a comparable framework.
- Skills: Strong real-time interpretation of tone, pacing, hesitation, gestures, and other behavioral cues.
- Writing: Ability to explain analytical judgments in precise, defensible English rather than relying on intuition alone.
- Helpful experience: Military HUMINT, law-enforcement interviewing, forensic interviewing, intelligence collection, professional negotiation, data annotation, AI model evaluation, or assessment reporting.
- Experience with diverse populations or through interpreters is valuable.
- Previous AI experience is not required when you bring strong expertise in interviewing or intelligence collection.
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 examples, ratings, and carefully reviewed interactions. People with specialist experience are needed to judge complex behavior, explain their reasoning, and help make model evaluations more reliable.