American Sign Language (ASL) - Freelance AI Trainer Project

Job description

Are you an American Sign Language expert eager to shape the future of AI? Large‑scale language models are evolving from clever chatbots into powerful engines of linguistic and cultural understanding. With high‑quality training data, tomorrow’s AI can democratize world‑class education, improve accessibility for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing communities, and accelerate communication tools for everyone. That training data begins with you—we need your expertise to help power the next generation of AI. We’re looking for ASL specialists who live and breathe American Sign Language fluency, Deaf culture, visual linguistics, ASL grammar and syntax, non-manual markers, fingerspelling, and regional variations. You’ll challenge advanced language models on topics like ASL-to-English translation, classifier usage, receptive and expressive skills, facial expressions in ASL, and spatial grammar—documenting every failure mode so we can harden model reasoning. On a typical day, you will converse with the model on real-world ASL communication scenarios and theoretical questions in signed language linguistics, verify linguistic accuracy and cultural appropriateness, capture reproducible error traces, a...