Mathematics Quality Assurance Lead (QAL)
SME Careers • Remote
Education
PhD
Type
Hourly
Pay Rate
$75/hr
Listed
53d ago
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About this role
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In this hourly, remote contractor role, you will work as a Mathematics Quality Assurance Lead (QAL) to oversee quality, consistency, and trainer performance across mathematics AI training projects. You will review AI-generated math content and trainer/QA work, evaluate output quality against project guidelines, provide precise written feedback, and ensure that all contributors follow the expected quality standards.
You will assess work for mathematical accuracy, logical reasoning, calculation correctness, proof validity, notation quality, clarity, formatting, instruction-following, and adherence to project-specific rubrics. You will spot recurring quality issues, communicate updates to trainers and QAs, support onboarding, maintain documentation, and help activate contributors who are not working consistently. This role requires strong mathematics expertise, strong English communication skills, excellent attention to detail, structured communication, and the ability to manage quality workflows across remote technical teams.
This role is with SME Careers, a fast-growing AI Data Services company and subsidiary of SuperAnnotate, delivering training data for many of the world’s largest AI companies and foundation-model labs. Your mathematics quality leadership will directly help improve the world’s premier AI models by ensuring that math training data is accurate, logically sound, clearly explained, well-documented, and aligned with client expectations.
Selection process involves an AI interview, a domain-specific task, and an interview with a recruiter.
Key responsibilities
- Quality monitoring: Spot-check mathematics items, identify quality issues, provide ongoing feedback through DMs, and escalate recurring or critical issues.
- Mathematical review: Evaluate AI-generated math explanations, proofs, derivations, calculations, word-problem solutions, diagrams/descriptions, and step-by-step reasoning for correctness and clarity.
- Trainer and QA communication: Update trainers and QAs on Discord about new item guidelines, project changes, workflow updates, quality expectations, and math-specific review standards.
- Question handling: Respond to trainer/QA questions clearly and promptly, especially around reasoning validity, notation, assumptions, solution methods, proof structure, formatting, and rubric interpretation.
- Trainer/QA activation management: DM contributors who are inactive or not working, encourage activation, track follow-ups, and flag availability issues when needed.
- Documentation: Create and maintain mathematics project documentation, including style guides, trackers, FAQs, quality notes, examples, honeypots, calibration tasks, and onboarding materials.
- Onboarding and training: Schedule and run onboarding/training calls with trainers and QAs to explain project expectations, workflows, rubrics, quality standards, and mathematics-specific review requirements.
- Quality alignment: Ensure all trainers and QAs apply mathematics guidelines consistently and understand updates as projects evolve.
- Error-pattern analysis: Identify recurring issues such as skipped reasoning steps, invalid simplifications, wrong formulas, notation inconsistencies, arithmetic mistakes, or answers that are correct but poorly justified.
- Process improvement: Identify recurring quality gaps, propose workflow improvements, and help build scalable QA processes for mathematics AI training projects.
Your profile
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics Education, or a closely related quantitative field.
- Strong grasp of the English language to follow project guidelines, communicate with teams, and provide clear mathematical feedback in English.
- 3+ years of professional experience in mathematics, teaching, tutoring, research, quantitative analysis, technical writing, curriculum development, problem creation, assessment design, or math-content review.
- Strong understanding of core mathematics topics such as algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, linear algebra, discrete mathematics, probability, statistics, number theory, combinatorics, differential equations, and mathematical proofs.
- Ability to evaluate math content against detailed rubrics and identify issues such as incorrect assumptions, flawed reasoning, invalid proofs, calculation errors, notation problems, missing steps, hallucinated facts, or incomplete explanations.
- Comfortable reviewing both conceptual explanations and step-by-step solutions, including whether each step logically follows from the previous one.
- Familiarity with mathematical tools or workflows such as LaTeX, Python, MATLAB, R, WolframAlpha/Mathematica, GeoGebra, Desmos, spreadsheet modeling, or symbolic computation tools is preferred.
- Experience leading or supporting remote teams of trainers, annotators, reviewers, educators, technical writers, or QAs is strongly preferred.
- Comfortable working in fast-moving remote environments using tools such as Discord, Google Sheets, Google Docs, trackers, dashboards, and project management systems.
- Highly detail-oriented and organized, with the ability to maintain style guides, FAQs, trackers, onboarding materials, honeypots, calibration tasks, and other quality documentation.
- Experience with AI training, data annotation, large language models, prompt/response evaluation, mathematical content QA, or rubric-based LLM evaluation is a strong plus.
- Native fluency in Punjabi
🌍 Geographic Availability This role is available to qualified experts globally. However, as a U.S.-based company, SME Careers complies with U.S. export control and sanctions regulations. Eligibility depends on your country of residence and any applicable trade restrictions. Some projects may have additional language or region-specific requirements.
💰 Pay Rate May Vary Based on Your Location Your actual compensation will be determined based on your location and local market conditions. See regional job listings for localized pay information, or the application process will clarify your specific rate.
If you're unsure whether you're eligible, proceed with the application—SME's screening will determine your jurisdiction status and applicable compensation.
How long hiring takes
Across the AI training platforms we refer candidates to, the median gap between referral and hire is about 30 days. It varies by platform and role, so treat it as a rough guide for this one.
Why this role
This Mathematics QAL role pays $75/hr for overseeing quality and consistency across mathematics AI training projects. SME Careers requires an advanced math or statistics degree along with three or more years of teaching, research, or quantitative analysis experience, since the feedback has to hold up mathematically as well as pedagogically. A mathematician who already reviews or grades advanced work will recognize the core task here, just applied to AI-generated solutions instead of student work.
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Common questions
How does SME Careers pay freelancers?
Weekly, through Deel. Deel also handles tax compliance, which is how SME Careers pays contractors across more than 40 countries without running its own international payroll.
Is SME Careers work ongoing or project-based?
Project-based. Assignment duration and availability vary by project, but consistently high-quality work earns priority access to whatever comes next.
What does task-based AI training work look like?
Practical, hands-on data work: recording short videos, categorizing images, rating text responses, or analyzing data. Tasks are designed to be short and distinct, typically 5 to 60 minutes each.
What does QA Testing work look like for a Mathematics Quality Assurance Lead (QAL)?
Tasks here are scoped to QA Testing, not generic labeling. As a Mathematics Quality Assurance Lead (QAL), expect to draw on real domain judgment (evaluating outputs, correcting errors, or providing expert reasoning specific to QA Testing) rather than following a one-size-fits-all rubric. If you don't have hands-on QA Testing background, this is likely not the right listing to start with.
What specific skills does this listing call for?
Mathematics, Mathematical Reasoning, Technical Review, and Documentation are named directly in the listing. If you don't have hands-on experience with these, expect the screening process to test for them directly rather than accepting adjacent experience as a substitute.
How much does this specific role pay?
This listing is posted at $75/hr, a per-task rate. Pay can change between when we last checked the listing and when you apply, so confirm the current number on the platform's own application page before committing time.
What happens when I click Apply on this listing?
You'll be taken to SME Careers's external site to complete your application there. This listing links through a referral, but the process is identical to applying directly; the link just routes you correctly. Create an account on their site and follow their onboarding steps.
Is a PhD required?
For this specific role, yes, or near-equivalent professional depth. The credential gate is enforced at the assessment stage, not just on paper. That said, active PhD candidates and people with equivalent published research have qualified without a formal degree. The assessment is the real filter.
Is there an interview?
Yes. Selection process involves an AI interview, a domain-specific task, and an interview with a recruiter.
Who is behind SME Careers?
SME Careers is the expert talent division of SuperAnnotate, an AI data infrastructure platform, connecting domain experts with high-level AI training projects.