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School Science (Elementary) Team Lead

  • Kind of work: Science
  • Location: India only
  • Experience: Expert
  • Hours: Flexible
  • Languages: English, Punjabi

Up to $10/hr

Remote science contract with SME Careers, up to $10/hr, open to people in India. First seen Oct 28.

Is this job worth applying to?

Pay
Below typicalTops out at $10/hr. The typical top rate across 106 priced science listings is $90/hr.
Getting in
Some screening~30 min: profile + 15-min AI interview. Credentials in your field.
Steady work
Work is patchyProjects can end a placement for quality issues.
Payout record
Pays on timeSchedule: weekly. Paid via Deel.
Freshness
No post dateSME Careers doesn't publish post dates. First seen Oct 28, 2026; still listed Nov 6, 2026.
Where you live
Named countries onlyOpen in India.

The job description

In this hourly, remote contractor role, you will work as a School Science (Elementary) Quality Assurance Lead (QAL) to oversee quality, consistency, and trainer performance across elementary-level science education AI training projects. You will review AI-generated school science 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 scientific accuracy, grade-level appropriateness, conceptual clarity, child-safe explanations, curriculum alignment, age-appropriate language, reasoning quality, 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 elementary science knowledge, educational judgment, strong English communication skills, excellent attention to detail, and the ability to manage quality workflows across remote education-focused 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 elementary science quality leadership will directly help improve the world’s premier AI models by ensuring that school science training data is accurate, age-appropriate, engaging, safe, and clearly explained for young learners.

Responsibilities

  • Quality monitoring: Spot-check elementary science items, identify quality issues, provide ongoing feedback through DMs, and escalate recurring or critical issues.
  • Science education review: Evaluate AI-generated science explanations, worksheets, activities, short answers, lesson-style content, examples, quizzes, and student-facing explanations for accuracy and grade-level fit.
  • Trainer and QA communication: Update trainers and QAs on Discord about new item guidelines, project changes, workflow updates, quality expectations, and elementary science review standards.
  • Question handling: Respond to trainer/QA questions clearly and promptly, especially around grade-level appropriateness, scientific concepts, safe activities, student misconceptions, 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 elementary science 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 school-science-specific requirements.
  • Quality alignment: Ensure all trainers and QAs apply elementary science review guidelines consistently and understand updates as projects evolve.
  • Safety review: Flag unsafe experiments, misleading health/environment claims, overly advanced explanations, incorrect science facts, or age-inappropriate content.
  • Process improvement: Identify recurring quality gaps, propose workflow improvements, and help build scalable QA processes for elementary science AI training projects.
  • Native fluency in Punjabi

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s, Master’s, teaching credential, or equivalent professional experience in Elementary Education, Science Education, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Science, Environmental Science, STEM Education, or a related field.
  • Strong grasp of the English language to follow project guidelines, communicate with teams, and provide clear written feedback.
  • 3+ years of experience teaching, tutoring, curriculum development, educational content review, science communication, classroom support, instructional design, or related education workflows.
  • Strong understanding of elementary-level science concepts across life science, physical science, earth science, environmental science, scientific inquiry, observation, evidence, experiments, and safety.
  • Ability to evaluate science education content against detailed rubrics and identify issues such as scientific inaccuracies, age-inappropriate wording, unsafe experiment suggestions, misleading simplifications, incorrect analogies, or confusing explanations.
  • Familiarity with grade-level expectations, child-friendly explanations, educational scaffolding, classroom activities, worksheets, assessments, and curriculum standards is preferred.
  • Experience leading or supporting remote teams of educators, reviewers, curriculum writers, annotators, trainers, 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 documentation.
  • Experience with AI training, data annotation, LLM evaluation, educational QA, curriculum QA, or rubric-based review is a strong plus.

How do you apply to SME Careers?

  1. Apply on SME Careers

    The Apply button opens this post on SME Careers's own site. You apply with them, not with Rubric. Budget about 30 min: profile + 15-min AI interview.

  2. Get through screening

    What SME Careers asks for after you apply:

    • Do the ~15-minute English AI video interview on a desktop (up to 3 attempts)
    • Take any written or video qualification exam
    • Sign the Deel contract and join Discord
    • Wait for a project offer by email
  3. Start work and get paid

    Pay schedule: weekly. Paid via Deel. You're paid for the work they hand out, not a fixed salary.

SME Careers also needs

  • Credentials in your field
  • Desktop with webcam
  • Deel account

Red flags

None on record for SME Careers. A real platform never asks you to pay for training, equipment or a "starter kit".

What is SME Careers like to work for?

SuperAnnotate's expert-hiring site, which places credentialed specialists on hourly AI training contracts paid through Deel.

Advertised pay$20–130/hr
Getting inSome screening
Application takes~30 min: profile + 15-min AI interview
How you get paidWeekly, via Deel
Payout recordPays on time
CountriesHires in nearly 90 countries, including India, Nigeria, Kenya, Pakistan and the Philippines; sanctioned countries are excluded and some projects set region or language rules.

Listings show only an 'up to' rate: about $20/hr for generalists, $60/hr software, $90/hr healthcare and $110/hr legal; your actual rate depends on credentials and location.

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