AI Tutor - Tamil

Details

xAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. The team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. The organization values hands-on contributors, strong prioritization, and clear communication.

As an AI Tutor specialized in multilingual audio capabilities, you will help train and refine Grok to excel in voice interactions, speech recognition, and auditory experiences across diverse languages, accents, and cultural contexts. Your work focuses on curating and annotating high-quality audio data to enhance Grok's global accessibility and improve spoken interactions.

Responsibilities

• Use proprietary software to provide labels, annotations, recordings, and inputs on projects involving multilingual audio clips, voice recordings, speech samples, and auditory elements in various languages.
• Support delivery of high-quality curated audio data that ensures clear, natural spoken output and accurate representation of linguistic and prosodic details (intonation, rhythm, accent) and professional audio standards.
• Collaborate with technical staff to develop tasks that improve the AI's handling of speech modulation, accent variation, noise in real-world recordings, and multilingual audio processing.
• Work with technical staff to improve annotation tools for efficient audio workflows.

Requirements (Basic Qualifications)

• Native proficiency in Tamil with exposure to diverse accents, dialects, or regional variations.
• Proficiency in English (minimum B2) with clear, natural vocal delivery suitable for audio recording.
• Strong auditory perception to identify nuances in speech, accents, pronunciation, intonation, and audio quality.
• Demonstrated ability to handle multilingual audio content, including evaluating speech accuracy, cultural vocal expressions, and contextual interpretation.
• Demonstrated ability to transcribe audio with high accuracy across accents and varying audio quality.
• Comfort providing high-quality voice recordings and feedback on audio samples in multiple languages.
• Strong comprehension, independent judgment on ambiguous or varied audio material (including noisy or accented speech).
• Strong communication, interpersonal, analytical, detail-oriented, and organizational skills.
• Commitment to developing AI that masters sophisticated multilingual audio capabilities.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Exceptional attention to linguistic nuance, auditory detail, and data quality beyond standard transcription work.
• Deep understanding of what constitutes good/useful audio data.
• Strong command of advanced transcription and annotation practices, including handling disfluencies, accents, and prosodic features consistently and accurately.
• Background in linguistics (phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics), speech sciences, cognitive science, or equivalent practical experience, with ability to analyze accent variation and multilingual speech patterns.
• Experience working with speech/audio datasets, annotation workflows, or AI training data, including knowledge/experience with training voice models and understanding how data quality impacts model performance.
• Professional experience in voice work (voice acting, voice recording, podcasting) demonstrating clarity and recording quality.
• Demonstrated ability to exercise independent judgment in ambiguous audio scenarios and make consistent, defensible annotation decisions.
• Portfolio (strongly preferred for advanced candidates): voice samples, annotated transcripts, or audio-related work demonstrating quality and methodology.

Location and Other Expectations

• Tutor roles may be offered as full-time, part-time, or contractor positions.
• For contractor positions, hours vary widely by project and availability. On average, many projects may require at least 10 hours per week (not a fixed commitment). Contractors have flexibility to set their own hours.
• Tutor roles may be performed remotely from any location worldwide, subject to legal eligibility, time-zone compatibility, and role-specific needs.
• For US-based candidates, xAI is unable to hire in Wyoming and Illinois at this time.
• xAI is unable to provide visa sponsorship.
• For those working from a personal device, required platforms: Chromebook, Mac with macOS 11.0 or later, or Windows 10 or later.

Compensation and Benefits

• US-based candidates: $35/hour - $45/hour depending on experience, skills, education, geographic location, and qualifications. International compensation details will be provided during recruitment.
• Benefits vary by employment type, location, and jurisdiction. For eligible U.S.-based positions, benefits may include health insurance, 401(k), and paid sick leave.