About the Role
Outlier is the world's leading expert platform, connecting an elite network of contributors to train AI for OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft — ensuring the AI shaping medicine is built by the people who understand it best.
900K+
Outlier Experts
$600M+
Paid Out
52
Countries
Responsibilites
Design a problem: Draw on your professional or academic expertise to design genuinely difficult, realistic problems for models to complete.
Develop solutions to the problem: Write a correct, verified solution yourself, along with an automated checker script that can grade an AI's output as right or wrong.
Challenge leading models against your problem: Test your task against frontier AI models (e.g., Claude, GPT) to confirm they struggle with or fail it, since the goal is to find problems that genuinely stump top models.
Refine and finalize: Iterate on the problem, solution, and checker based on model performance to improve difficulty, clarity, and reliability.
Common Tasks
Write a prompt
Write simple prompts that will act as a starting point for AI models
Edit
Preview
Correct AI-models chain of thought
Review, analyze, and rank AI-models chains of thought for correctness and approach
Step 1 Response
Step 2 Response
Improve
Approve
Step 3 Response
Ideal Qualification
Formally trained musician or theorist — degree in music theory/composition/history, or years of classical training
Able to do SATB four-part harmony & voice-leading, Roman-numeral analysis, or audio-to-notation transcription (MusicXML/Sibelius/Finale)
Not a fit: hobbyists or pure performers
Currently accepting applicants from:
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Compensation
Work flexibly from anywhere, anytime - no minimum hours
Application Process
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This is a 1099 contract opportunity on the Outlier.ai platform. Because this is a freelance opportunity, we do not offer internships, sponsorship, or employment. You must be authorized to work in your country of residence. If you are an international student, you may be able to sign up for Outlier if you are on a visa. You should contact your tax and/or immigration advisor with specific questions regarding your circumstances.
