AI Economics Tutor

xAI • Palo Alto, CA

12d • $45 - $100 • Remote

About The Position

As an AI Tutor - Economics, you will be instrumental in enhancing the capabilities of our cutting-edge technologies by providing high-quality input and labels using specialized software. Your role involves collaborating closely with our technical team to support the training of new AI tasks, ensuring the implementation of innovative initiatives. You'll contribute to refining annotation tools and selecting complex problems from advanced economics domains, with a focus on macroeconomic forecasting, microeconomic incentives, and behavioral experiments. This position demands a dynamic approach to learning and adapting in a fast-paced environment, where your ability to interpret and execute tasks based on evolving instructions is crucial. As an AI Tutor, you will play an essential role in advancing xAI's mission by supporting the training and refinement of xAI’s AI models. AI Tutors teach our AI models about how people interact and react, as well as how people approach issues and discussions in economics. To accomplish this, AI Tutors will actively participate in gathering or providing data, such as text, voice, and video data, sometimes providing annotations, recording audio, or participating in video sessions. We seek individuals who are comfortable and eager to engage in these activities as a fundamental part of the role, ensuring a strong alignment with xAI’s goals and objectives to innovate. An AI Tutor will provide services that include labeling and annotating data in text, voice, and video formats to support AI model training. At times, this may involve recording audio or video sessions, and tutors are expected to be comfortable with these tasks as they are fundamental to the role. Such data is a job requirement to advance xAI’s mission, and AI Tutors acknowledge that all work is done for hire and owned by xAI.

Requirements

• Must possess a PhD in Economics or related field
• Proficiency in reading and writing, both in informal and professional English.
• Outstanding communication, interpersonal, analytical, and organizational capabilities.
• Solid reading comprehension skills combined with the capacity to exercise autonomous judgment even when presented with limited data/material.
• Strong passion for and commitment to technological advancements and innovation in economics.

Nice To Haves

• Possesses experience with at least one publication in a reputable economics journal or outlet.
• Teaching experience as a professor.

Responsibilities

• Use proprietary software applications to provide input/labels on defined projects.
• Support and ensure the delivery of high-quality curated data.
• Play a pivotal role in supporting and contributing to the training of new tasks, working closely with the technical staff to ensure the successful development and implementation of cutting-edge initiatives/technologies.
• Interact with the technical staff to help improve the design of efficient annotation tools.
• Choose problems from economics fields that align with your expertise, focusing on areas like macroeconomics, microeconomics, and behavioral economics.
• Regularly interpret, analyze, and execute tasks based on given instructions.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees