What the work actually is

You spend your day producing analytical problems and reference answers that a large language model is likely to get wrong, then explaining, in writing, exactly why the correct answer is correct. The listing's own examples are representative: reading a sales-by-month distribution across locations and deciding which grew most (and defending the time window you chose), or solving an ordering-constraint puzzle about a postman's delivery route. Other shifts of the same work involve taking a long piece of content, breaking it into logical blocks, summarising it faithfully, and verifying its factual claims through online research. Because German is a mandatory requirement, expect a meaningful share of tasks to run in German — writing prompts, checking model output, or translating and localising reasoning tasks without losing the logical structure.

The unit of value here is the explanation, not the answer. Training data that says "Maple grew most" is nearly worthless; training data that walks through why a base-period anomaly distorts the growth rate, and what the model should have noticed, is what the labs pay for. Annotation rubrics will ask you to flag specific failure modes — arithmetic slips, unjustified assumptions, hallucinated citations, constraint violations — rather than rate an answer good or bad.

What the screen looks for

  • Genuine German fluency, not conversational German. Expect to be assessed on producing precise analytical prose in German, not just understanding it.
  • Reasoning that survives follow-up. Screeners typically re-ask a puzzle with one constraint changed to see whether you reasoned or pattern-matched.
  • Research discipline. How you verify a claim, what sources you reject, and what you do when sources conflict.
  • Writing. The listing names business analysts, journalists, technical writers, editors and translators for a reason — prior professional writing experience is the strongest proxy they have.
  • Availability that is real. 40 hours per week with 2–5 hours overlapping America/Los_Angeles is a hard operational constraint, not a nice-to-have.

Logistics

Contractor assignment, no medical or paid leave, remote, with contract extension tied to performance and project need. You supply your own desktop or laptop and a reliable connection. No specialised domain background is required — the listing says so explicitly — and candidates without a bachelor's degree are considered if they have relevant working experience. Compensation is described only as "competitive based on experience and expertise"; treat any figure you hear elsewhere as unverified until it appears in your contract.