Occupational Therapist Expert

Licensed occupational therapists to build the functional and daily living 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 licensed occupational therapists as contractors to author and grade the functional scenarios those evaluations run on. What you'll actually do Author realistic OT scenarios across daily living skills, cognition, and adaptive strategiesWrite reference answers with the functional reasoning behind each recommendationGrade model output for safety, practicality, and client centered fitFlag recommendations that read well but fail in a real home or clinic Who this is for OTR/L with NBCOT certification and an active, unencumbered US license2+ years of clinical practiceDepth in daily living assessment, adaptive equipment, and functional goalsYou can write clinical reasoning clearly enough for another OT to follow it Contract and pay $70 to $105/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/occupational-therapist-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 OT scenarios across daily living skills, cognition, and adaptive strategies
• Write reference answers with the functional reasoning behind each recommendation
• Grade model output for safety, practicality, and client centered fit
• Flag recommendations that read well but fail in a real home or clinic

Required qualifications

• OTR/L with NBCOT certification and an active, unencumbered US license
• 2+ years of clinical practice
• Depth in daily living assessment, adaptive equipment, and functional goal setting
• Clear written English for documenting clinical reasoning
• Able to commit at least 10 hours per week

Preferred qualifications

• Pediatric, hand therapy (CHT), or home health specialization
• Cognitive or neuro rehabilitation experience
• Fieldwork education or clinical instruction experience

Why apply

• $70 to $105/hr, paid hourly via Stripe
• 100% remote and fully async with no productivity quotas
• Shape how frontier models reason about function and independence
• Ongoing project work with hours you set each week

Where you can work

This role is 100% remote, for applicants located in United States.