Academic Writing Editor

About GPTZero

GPTZero is on a mission to restore trust and transparency on the internet. As the leading AI detection platform, we empower educators, students, journalists, marketers, and writers to navigate the evolving landscape of AI-generated content. With millions of users and institutions relying on us, we’re building a category-defining company at the intersection of AI and information integrity.

Our team comes from high-performing engineering cultures, including Uber, Meta, Amazon, Affirm, and leading AI research labs, including Princeton, Caltech, Vector, and MILA.

What we're looking for

In this role, you'll set the standard for writing feedback and fact checking for millions of users, including educators, students, and journalists. You'll bring your talent in high-quality writing and analytical thinking to improve real writing. You'll work closely with a world-class team of researchers to build software that improves the quality of the world’s information.

What you'll contribute

• Provide detailed writing feedback and rubric-based grading on high school and university level writing

• Give written feedback to our AI writing coaches to improve their focus and thoroughness

• Create fact checks on argumentative, research-level writing in social sciences, by identifying checkable claims, identifying fallacies, and producing research write-ups

• Develop new writing coaches for our users based on popular, real-world rubrics

• Note: this is a part-time contract role (20 hrs/week), with opportunities for contract-to-hire

Qualifications

• Fluent or better proficiency in English

• Experienced in teaching writing at a college/research level (as an instructor, editor, teaching assistant, or tutor)

• Strong debater mindset (argumentative writing, logic, philosophy) and superb ability to steelman an argument

• History of strong results on standardized writing exams (AP, IB, GRE, or others)

• Strong GPA in writing or social science related subjects

• Able to understand and execute new tasks quickly

• Driven, thoughtful, creative and empathetic

• Efficient typer and proficient with web

• Remote is fine (our AI team is in Toronto), although we will require availability to meet for 1 hour, 3x a week from 10-6pm ET.

Who you'll be joining

Our Team

You will be working directly with

• Alex (our CTO) R&D at Uber self-driving division and Facebook, 3 patents in ML

• George (our AI research lead) PhD from University of Toronto and ex-AWS research.

• Edward (our CEO, ex-Bellingcat, Microsoft, BBC investigative journalism) to craft the messages we send to our community, and shape the GPTZero brand.

Additionally, you will be working with an experienced (eg. ex-Google, Meta, Microsoft, Bloomberg ML, Uber, Vector, MILA), diverse (eg. an engineering team with both Y-combinator and Obama scholarship recipients, a designer with art featured in the Met), and driven (eg. an operator who has scaled a company to 100M+ revenue and is committed to doing it again) group of individuals, described by one investor as one of the strongest founding teams seen in their career.

Together, we are committed to making a permanent impact on the future of writing, and on humanity

Our Angels and Advisors 

• Tom Glocer (Legendary Reuters CEO)

• Mark Thompson (Legendary NYT CEO and current CNN chief executive)

• Jack Altman (CEO of Lattice, brother of Sam Altman)

• Karthik Narasimhan (Princeton NLP Professor, co-author of OpenAI’s original GPT paper) 

• Emad Mostaque (CEO of Stability AI)

• Doug Herrington (CEO of Worldwide Amazon Stores)

• Brad Smith (President of Microsoft)

• Tripp Jones (Partner at Uncork Capital)

• Ali Partovi (co-founder of Code.org, early investor in Dropbox and Airbnb)

• Russ Heddleston (CEO of Docsend)

• Alex Mashrabov (Snapchat, Director of AI)

• Faizan Mehdi (Affinity, Director of Demand Generation)

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