The work

You will spend most of your time reading French text a model produced and deciding whether it is actually good French — not merely grammatical. That means judging register, idiom, calque from English, gender and agreement errors that a spell-checker misses, and whether a sentence sounds like something a French speaker would say in that context. Tasks arrive in batches: rate two candidate outputs against each other, rewrite a passage to publication standard, mark spans where a translation drifts from the source, or annotate syntactic and semantic features according to a project rubric.

A second, less obvious part of the job is writing the explanation. Researchers use your rationale as much as your score, so a rejection needs to name the error type — anglicism, wrong aspect, tutoiement/vouvoiement mismatch, invented terminology — rather than saying the text reads poorly. Experts who can articulate why a fluent-sounding output is wrong tend to stay on projects longest.

What the screen looks for

  • Verifiable French depth. Native or near-native command, plus concrete professional history in translation, editing, linguistic annotation, or NLP data work in French.
  • Discrimination at the margin. Both outputs are fluent; the screen wants to know how you choose and how you justify it.
  • Rubric discipline. Following someone else's guideline when you privately disagree, and flagging the guideline rather than quietly overriding it.
  • Regional awareness. Hexagonal French, Québécois, Belgian, West African usage — knowing when a variant is an error and when it is simply not your variety.

Logistics

Fully remote and asynchronous. Work is contract, per-hour, and volume fluctuates with project phase — some weeks offer steady batches, others little. Most contributors commit 10–20 hours per week and are asked for consistent weekly availability rather than fixed hours. Onboarding typically includes a paid or unpaid calibration task; pay of $50/hr is as observed on the platform for this role, not a guarantee, and rates vary by project and assessed skill level.