Occupational Math Tutor

xAI's mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. As an AI Tutor – Occupational Math Specialist, you'll help advance xAI's mission by enhancing our AI technologies through high-quality inputs, labels, and annotations using specialized software. You'll focus on math as it is used in real-world occupational settings (e.g., finance, accounting, insurance, operations, logistics, skilled trades, healthcare analytics).

• Use proprietary tools to label and evaluate data.
• Support and ensure the delivery of high-quality curated data.
• Work with engineers to refine tasks, tools, and workflows.
• Design, select, and refine tasks grounded in real-world occupational math (insurance and risk, logistics and operations, skilled trades, finance and banking, accounting and tax, health and social data).
• Provide detailed, step-by-step solutions and evaluate model responses for correctness, adherence to domain rules, clarity, and plausibility.
• Interpret, analyze, and execute tasks based on given instructions.
• A Master's or PhD in a quantitative field such as Mathematics, Statistics, Operations Research, Economics, Finance, Actuarial Science, or a closely related discipline; or a Bachelor's degree plus 2+ years of professional experience in a math-heavy occupational domain.
• Professional licensure or certification in a skilled trade with demonstrated expertise in trade-specific mathematical calculations.
• Strong proficiency in applied mathematics relevant to at least one domain (e.g., probability and statistics, financial math, optimization under constraints, geometric and measurement calculations).
• Proficiency in reading and writing in both informal and professional English.
• Strong ability to navigate various information resources and databases.
• Outstanding communication, interpersonal, analytical, and organizational capabilities.
• Solid reading comprehension skills and capacity to exercise autonomous judgment with limited data.
• Strong passion for and commitment to technological advancements and innovation.
• Professional certifications in relevant fields (e.g., CFA, FRM, SOA exams, CPA, Six Sigma, PE, licensed surveyor, or similar).
• Prior professional experience in asset management, retail or commercial banking, insurance pricing/reserving, accounting/audit, logistics/supply chain planning, healthcare analytics, public policy analysis, or skilled trades.
• Previous AI Tutoring experience and/or experience teaching or training others in applied or occupational math topics.
• Experience building and reviewing complex spreadsheets, financial or risk models, dashboards, technical drawings, or similar artifacts.
• Flexible remote work from any location worldwide (subject to eligibility).
• Full flexibility to set own hours for contractor positions.
• Health insurance, 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave for eligible U.S.-based positions.
• Compensation: $45/hour - $75/hour (US-based, depending on experience, skills, education, and location).