AI Tutor - Hausa

Details

SpaceXAI is seeking an AI Tutor specialized in multilingual audio capabilities to help train and refine Grok for voice interactions, speech recognition, and auditory experiences across languages, accents, and cultural contexts. The role focuses on curating and annotating high-quality audio data to improve global accessibility, natural spoken interactions, multilingual speech processing, and the handling of audio nuances.

Responsibilities

• Use proprietary software to provide labels, annotations, recordings, and inputs for projects involving multilingual audio clips, voice recordings, speech samples, and auditory elements.
• Translate and localize text strings, including UI copy, prompts, responses, and other written content, from English into Hausa while ensuring linguistic accuracy, natural phrasing, and cultural appropriateness.
• Support the delivery of high-quality curated audio data representing clear, natural spoken output and accurate linguistic and prosodic details such as intonation, rhythm, and accent.
• Collaborate with technical staff on tasks that improve AI handling of speech modulation, accent variation, noise in real-world recordings, and multilingual audio processing.
• Work with technical staff to improve annotation tools and audio workflows.

Requirements

• Native proficiency in Hausa, with exposure to diverse accents, dialects, or regional variations.
• English proficiency at a minimum B2 level, with clear, natural vocal delivery and pronunciation suitable for audio recording.
• Strong auditory perception for identifying speech, accent, pronunciation, intonation, and audio-quality nuances.
• Experience handling multilingual audio content, evaluating speech accuracy and cultural vocal expressions, and interpreting spoken content in context.
• Ability to transcribe audio accurately across accents and varying audio quality.
• Ability to translate and localize text between English and Hausa while preserving meaning, tone, and cultural nuance.
• Comfort providing high-quality voice recordings and feedback on audio samples in multiple languages.
• Strong comprehension, independent judgment, communication, interpersonal, analytical, detail-oriented, and organizational skills.
• Commitment to developing AI with sophisticated multilingual audio capabilities.

Preferred Skills And Experience

• Exceptional attention to linguistic nuance, auditory detail, and data quality.
• Deep understanding of high-quality and useful audio data.
• Advanced transcription and annotation practices, including disfluencies, accents, and prosodic features such as intonation, stress, rhythm, and emotion.
• Background in linguistics, phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, speech sciences, cognitive science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with speech or audio datasets, annotation workflows, AI training data, voice-model training, or understanding how data quality affects model performance.
• Experience with translation or localization workflows for software UI, product copy, or conversational AI text.
• Professional voice experience, including voice acting, voice recording, podcasting with a measurable audience, or similar audio production.
• Demonstrated ability to make consistent and defensible annotation decisions in ambiguous audio scenarios.
• A portfolio of voice samples, annotated transcripts, or audio-related work is strongly preferred for advanced candidates.
• Candidates with professional experience in voice, linguistics, speech data, or speech evaluation and research are especially encouraged to apply.

Work Arrangement And Expectations

• Tutor roles may be full-time, part-time, or contractor positions depending on role needs and candidate fit.
• Contractor hours vary based on project scope and availability. Most projects may require at least 10 hours per week on average, although this is not a fixed commitment. Contractors can set their own hours and determine the time needed to complete deliverables.
• Roles may be performed remotely from any location worldwide, subject to legal eligibility, time-zone compatibility, and role-specific needs.
• US-based candidates cannot be hired in Wyoming or Illinois at this time.
• The company is unable to provide visa sponsorship.
• Personal devices must be a Chromebook, a Mac running macOS 11.0 or later, or a computer running Windows 10 or later.

Compensation And Benefits

• US-based candidates: $35–$45 per hour, depending on relevant experience, skills, education, geographic location, and qualifications.
• Compensation information for international candidates will be provided during the recruitment process.
• Benefits vary by employment type, location, and jurisdiction. Eligible US-based positions may include health insurance, a 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave.