Senior DoD Staff Writing SME

You will help train and evaluate AI systems that produce Department of Defense staff writing. The work uses your experience with federal reporting, senior-leadership updates, and documentation standards.

You will create realistic source materials and strong example responses, then assess whether AI-generated reports are accurate, well structured, compliant, and suited to their intended audience.

• Write prompts, source materials, and model answers for DoD staff-writing tasks.
• Create Weekly Activity Reports, Situation Reports, executive summaries, performance reports, and related documents.
• Develop grading guidance and rubrics for reviewing AI-generated reports against DoD standards.
• Design and review tests for summarization and reporting tasks.
• Improve prompts, responses, and evaluation criteria through feedback and model-performance review.
• Represent weekly, monthly, and ad hoc reporting formats used in federal organizations.

This is a remote contractor opportunity for professionals based in the United States. It is listed as part-time work, with no fixed weekly schedule provided.

• Pay: $40 to $80 per hour.
• Location: Remote; open to candidates in the United States.
• Work type: Contractor and part-time.
• Experience: At least three years working for the U.S. Department of Defense as a uniformed service member, DoD civilian employee, or supporting contractor.
• Required: Direct experience preparing recurring reports or executive updates for senior leadership.
• Required: Familiarity with WARs, SITREPs, executive summaries, performance reports, or comparable DoD documents.
• Required: Strong written and verbal communication, analytical judgment, attention to detail, and working knowledge of federal compliance, DoD terminology, and reporting workflows.
• Required: Experience with PowerPoint briefings, memos, Excel summaries, and related back-office documentation.
• Helpful: Experience across multiple military roles, units, services, or DoD organizations.
• Helpful: Prior AI training experience is not required.

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AI training is the human work behind systems that generate and understand text, images, audio, and other content. Experienced professionals are paid to create examples, review outputs, and explain what accurate, useful work should look like in a specific field.