AlignerrDomain experts
Finance Lecturer (AI Training)
up to $70/hr
About this role, in Alignerr's words
We're looking for finance lecturers and economists to help shape how AI understands financial and economic reasoning. Your expertise will directly influence the quality of AI outputs in one of the most consequential domains — ensuring AI systems reason accurately about markets, valuation, risk, and beyond.
What you'll do
- Review AI-generated finance questions, explanations, and reasoning for accuracy and clarity
- Evaluate complex financial concepts including valuation, risk management, and market behavior
- Provide structured, expert feedback to improve how AI reasons through financial problems
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- Identify common misconceptions and gaps in AI-generated financial content
- Apply your teaching experience to assess whether explanations are pedagogically sound
- Work independently and asynchronously to complete task-based assignments
Candidate background
Who You Are
- 3+ years of experience teaching finance or economics at the postsecondary level
- Strong command of corporate finance, financial markets, or financial economics
- Able to critically evaluate written financial reasoning with precision and clarity
- Comfortable reviewing and assessing structured content at scale
- Self-motivated and reliable working in an asynchronous remote environment
Nice to Have
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- Graduate degree in Finance, Economics, or a related field
- Industry or applied finance experience (investment banking, asset management, fintech, etc.)
- Familiarity with AI systems, model evaluation, or data annotation workflows
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Finance Lecturer (AI Training)
About the Role
We're looking for finance lecturers and economists to help shape how AI understands financial and economic reasoning. Your expertise will directly influence the quality of AI outputs in one of the most consequential domains — ensuring AI systems reason accurately about markets, valuation, risk, and beyond.
This is a fully remote, flexible contract role that fits around your existing schedule. Work independently, on your own time, and make a meaningful impact on the future of AI.
- Organization: Alignerr (Powered by Labelbox) - Type: Hourly / Task-based Contract - Location: Remote - Commitment: 10–40 hours/week
What You'll Do
* Review AI-generated finance questions, explanations, and reasoning for accuracy and clarity * Evaluate complex financial concepts including valuation, risk management, and market behavior * Provide structured, expert feedback to improve how AI reasons through financial problems * Identify common misconceptions and gaps in AI-generated financial content * Apply your teaching experience to assess whether explanations are pedagogically sound * Work independently and asynchronously to complete task-based assignments
Who You Are
* 3+ years of experience teaching finance or economics at the postsecondary level * Strong command of corporate finance, financial markets, or financial economics * Able to critically evaluate written financial reasoning with precision and clarity * Comfortable reviewing and assessing structured content at scale * Self-motivated and reliable working in an asynchronous remote environment
Nice to Have
* Graduate degree in Finance, Economics, or a related field * Industry or applied finance experience (investment banking, asset management, fintech, etc.) * Familiarity with AI systems, model evaluation, or data annotation workflows
Why Join Us
* Work on cutting-edge AI projects with top research labs * Fully remote and flexible — work on your own schedule, anywhere in the world * Freelance perks: autonomy, variety, and global collaboration * Contribute to meaningful work that shapes how AI handles real-world financial knowledge * Potential for ongoing work and contract extension
Working with AlignerrPay, getting started and work, from Alignerr's own pages
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- Getting paid
- Billed weekly, Monday to Sunday, with approved work paid by the following Friday, according to Labelbox's help center. Payment goes through Stripe Connect or PayPal depending on your location, with one provider per country. intercom.help/labelbox/en/articles/13600616-alignerr-paym..., alignerr.com/process
- Before your first paid task
- Sign up, apply, verify your identity, set up billing and onboard. Some jobs add a Zara AI interview or domain assessments. alignerr.com/process
- How much work
- Time to your first project depends on demand and your skills, and there is no minimum number of hours. alignerr.com/faqs
- Contract
- Independent contractor, under terms with ALIGNERR LLC. alignerr.com/faqs, alignerr.com/privacy
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Pay across the field: Domain experts
Across 692 roles in this field with a stated hourly rate in US dollars, on 18 platforms, the middle half pays $65 to $130 an hour at the top of the range, and the median is $100. This role's top rate, $70, is in the middle half. Of the 259 distinct rates we count, 75 are lower and 173 are higher.
| Platform | Roles | Top of range, per hour |
|---|---|---|
| Alignerr (this platform) | 148 | $24 to $200 · median $80 |
| micro1 | 130 | $28 to $400 · median $110 |
| AfterQuery | 88 | $45 to $175 · median $100 |
| Handshake AI | 79 | $30 to $300 · median $85 |
| Mercor | 78 | $55 to $450 · median $120 |
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- First seen here on 27 Sep 2026, and still on Alignerr's list when we last read it on 13 Oct 2026.
- The listed pay has not changed since then.
- Posted by Alignerr
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- Last seen live
- Listing ID
- 22399a2e-9c90-42c7-806e-d18867c072a0
Pay as the source states it: “$35-70/hr”.
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