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Court Interpreter Expert
$80/hr
About this role, in AfterQuery's words
Certified court interpreters to build the legal interpretation scenarios frontier AI labs use to test model judgment.
What you'll do
Responsibilities
- Author realistic courtroom and legal interpretation scenarios
- Write reference interpretations with the reasoning behind each terminology choice
- Grade model output for accuracy, register, and legal meaning
- Flag renderings that read fluent but change the legal meaning
Candidate background
Who this is for
- State or federally certified court interpreters, or holders of an equivalent credential
- Working interpreters with at least 2 years in legal settings
- Interpreters with full professional command of legal terminology in both working languages
- Clear writers who can document the reasoning behind an interpretation decision
Required qualifications
- State or federal court interpreter certification, or an equivalent credential
- 2+ years of interpreting in legal settings such as courtrooms, depositions, or attorney client meetings
- Full professional command of legal terminology in both working languages
- Clear written English for documenting interpretation decisions
- Able to commit at least 10 hours per week
Preferred qualifications
- Federal court certification or NAJIT membership
- Experience across depositions, arraignments, and trial interpreting
- Sight translation and legal document translation experience
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Full job descriptionThe original posting, in AfterQuery's words
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Certified court interpreters to build the legal interpretation scenarios frontier AI labs use to test model judgment.
AfterQuery builds the expert evaluation data that frontier AI labs use to measure and improve their models. We're hiring certified court interpreters as contractors to author and grade the legal interpretation scenarios those evaluations run on.
What you'll actually do
• Author realistic courtroom and legal interpretation scenarios, from arraignments to depositions to attorney client meetings
• Write reference interpretations with the terminology and register decisions behind each rendering
• Grade model output for accuracy, completeness, and legal register in both languages
• Flag renderings that read fluent but change the legal meaning
Who this is for
• State or federally certified court interpreters, or holders of an equivalent credential
• Working interpreters with at least 2 years in legal settings
• Interpreters with full professional command of legal terminology in both working languages
• Clear writers who can document the reasoning behind an interpretation decision
Contract and pay
• $60 to $100/hr , paid weekly via Stripe. Your rate is set from your experience, not negotiated down after you start.
• Fully remote, fully async. No fixed hours.
• Minimum 10 hours per week, no maximum. Scale up or down week to week.
• No screen recording, no keystroke monitoring, no idle timers.
• Independent contractor. Ongoing project work rather than single task batches.
How our hiring process works
• Apply at /apply/court-interpreter-expert. About five minutes. Resume plus a few structured questions.
• Resume review. Every application gets read against a published rubric and gets a decision.
• Written assessment. You may be asked to take a written assessment for further placement.
• Onboarding. Sign the contractor agreement, connect Stripe, and get platform access.
• Project match. You're matched to live work in your specialty, usually within a week of onboarding.
About AfterQuery
AfterQuery is an expert data lab. We build the evaluation and training data that frontier AI labs use to measure what their models can and can't do in real professional work. Our contributors are practicing professionals, not annotators, and the work is credited, reviewed, and paid at professional rates.
Responsibilities - Author realistic courtroom and legal interpretation scenarios - Write reference interpretations with the reasoning behind each terminology choice - Grade model output for accuracy, register, and legal meaning - Flag renderings that read fluent but change the legal meaning
Required qualifications - State or federal court interpreter certification, or an equivalent credential - 2+ years of interpreting in legal settings such as courtrooms, depositions, or attorney client meetings - Full professional command of legal terminology in both working languages - Clear written English for documenting interpretation decisions - Able to commit at least 10 hours per week
Preferred qualifications - Federal court certification or NAJIT membership - Experience across depositions, arraignments, and trial interpreting - Sight translation and legal document translation experience
Why apply - $60 to $100/hr, paid weekly via Stripe - 100% remote and fully async - Shape how frontier models handle courtroom interpretation - Ongoing project work with hours you set each week
Working with AfterQueryPay, getting started and work, from AfterQuery's own pages
What the platform publishes in general. These are not extra terms confirmed for this particular role.
- Getting paid
- Approved work is paid every Friday for the prior week, by Stripe to a bank account, with no fees. Stripe holds the first payout for 7 days. docs.afterquery.com/articles/payments-taxes/payment-setup
- Before your first paid task
- One assessment per expert pool, unpaid and with no retake. Onboarding takes about 10 minutes: legal documents, phone, ID through Persona, and payments. docs.afterquery.com/articles/onboarding/assessments, docs.afterquery.com/articles/onboarding/complete-your-onb...
- How much work
- Projects are assigned by assessment fit as they come up, and higher-rated contributors get priority. docs.afterquery.com/articles/onboarding/assessments, docs.afterquery.com/articles/about/contract-work
- Contract
- Independent contractor. Most contractors register as individuals. docs.afterquery.com/articles/about/contract-work, docs.afterquery.com/articles/onboarding/complete-your-onb...
Read on the pages linked above on 23 Sep 2026. Platforms change these terms, so check the linked page before you rely on one.
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- First seen here on 28 Aug 2026, and still on AfterQuery's list when we last read it on 24 Oct 2026.
- Listed pay changed on 29 Sep 2026: up to $100/hr before, $80/hr after.
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