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Creative Technologist - Audio Design UX Remote

135/hr

Remote

contract

Posted September 12, 2026

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Listing checked September 15, 2026 · pay as published by AfterQuery

Key details

Pay: $135/hr
Location: Remote
Job type: contract
Posted: September 12, 2026

Overview

AfterQuery is assembling a research cohort of senior creative technologists who work across audio, design, and UX to test how frontier AI models handle hard expert problems. Expect research and evaluation work rather than production builds: you decide what a correct or excellent answer looks like in your specialty, then grade model output against that bar. The team targets people with 6 to 10 years of hands-on practice and at least a bachelor's degree, with a master's counting in your favor. Work happens remote and asynchronous, so the schedule bends around whatever else you have running. Pay sits at $135 per hour for this listing, inside a $100 to $170 band tied to experience.

What You'll Do6

Write realistic technical scenarios and problem sets drawn from your track in audio, design, or UX.
Produce expert reference answers that show the reasoning behind a good solution, not just the outcome.
Build grading rubrics that separate strong work from answers that sound right but fall apart on inspection.
Score AI-generated responses on correctness, depth of reasoning, and domain judgment.
Explain each evaluation in written notes that other researchers can read and reuse.
Call out polished answers that still miss core domain fundamentals.

Requirements6

6 to 10 years of active work in audio, design, or UX, with current hands-on practice rather than academic-adjacent study.
Bachelor's degree at minimum; a master's degree strengthens the application.
Strong technical writing, since the job centers on written explanations and structured feedback.
Comfort running your own schedule across remote, asynchronous work.
Bonus credit for published research, open-source contributions, or recognized output in your domain.
Bonus credit for experience reviewing, grading, or editing other people's technical work.

Who Should Apply

The role suits a working audio engineer, designer, or UX practitioner with 6 to 10 years behind them who can put expert judgment into writing. Reviewers, editors, or published contributors who already grade other people's work will find the rubric-building side familiar.

Salary Insight

This listing pays $135 per hour, and AfterQuery frames the wider band at $100 to $170 depending on experience. Senior specialists with 6 to 10 years of practice and a publication or open-source record tend to land toward the upper half of that spread.

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$135/hr

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$70/hour

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Required skills

Audio EngineeringSound DesignUX DesignInteraction DesignMultimodal DesignLinguisticsTechnical WritingPeer ReviewRubric DesignAI EvaluationDesign ResearchUsability Testing

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