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Korean PhD Subject Matter Experts

Welo Data

Role overview

Qualifications

  • A completed PhD or ABD near completion in a relevant field
  • Native or professional fluency in Korean
  • Strong writing and reasoning skills
  • Comfort working independently in a remote, deadline-driven setting

Responsibilities

  • Writing, reviewing, and grading responses within their field of expertise
  • Assessing AI-generated outputs for accuracy, reasoning, and nuance
  • Providing structured, actionable feedback to improve model performance
  • Applying doctoral-level judgment to specialized, real-world tasks

Key facts

  • Remote from: South Korea
  • Freelance
  • 115 - 115K yearly
  • Korean

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Writing
  • Questioning Skills
  • Ability To Meet Deadlines

About the company

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Welo Data

IT Services & IT Consulting

Welo Data works with technology companies to provide datasets that are high-quality, ethically sourced, relevant, diverse, and scalable to supercharge their AI models. As a Welocalize brand, Welo Data leverages over 25 years of experience in partnering with the world’s most innovative companies and brings together a curated global community of over 500,000 AI training and domain experts to offer services that span: - Annotation and Labeling: Transcription, summarization, image and video classification and labeling. - Enhancing LLMs: Prompt engineering, SFT, RLHF, red teaming and adversarial model training, model output ranking. - Data Collection and Generation: From institutional languages to remote field audio collection. - Relevance and Intent: Authoritative relevance solutions across any discovery target, with mature operating models and a highly trained global workforce. - The Welo Data advisory team members bring practical, applied AI expertise to your projects. They have both strong academic experience and a deep working knowledge of state-of-the-art AI tools, frameworks, and best practices. Elevate your Data with Welo Data.

Company details

Company typeLarge
IndustryIT Services & IT Consulting
Company size1001 - 5000

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Job description

About this opportunity

Welo Data is building a talent pipeline of PhD-level experts in South Korea in anticipation of upcoming work with a major AI client. This is not a role starting immediately — it's an early call for experts so we're ready to move the moment the project is confirmed. Register your interest now to be considered first when positions open.

Project Details

  • Location: Remote in Korea
  • Compensation: US$60/hour, paid for confirmed project work once it begins.
  • Engagement type: Freelance / Independent Contractor
  • Status: Building talent pipeline for upcoming project — not an immediate start

Who we're looking for

We're looking for depth of expertise, not general familiarity:

  • A completed PhD (or ABD near completion) in one of the following fields:
  • Social & Behavioral Science (psychology, sociology, anthropology, political science, economics, etc.)
  • Humanities (history, philosophy, religious studies, area studies, etc.)
  • Arts (art history, performance studies, music, media & cultural studies, etc.)
  • Language & Linguistics (Korean language, translation studies, applied linguistics, literature, etc.)
  • Native or professional fluency in Korean
  • Strong writing and reasoning skills — able to explain nuanced ideas clearly
  • Comfort working independently in a remote, deadline-driven setting

What the work will look like

Once confirmed, selected experts will help train and evaluate AI models by:

  • Writing, reviewing, and grading responses within their field of expertise
  • Assessing AI-generated outputs for accuracy, reasoning, and nuance
  • Providing structured, actionable feedback to improve model performance
  • Applying doctoral-level judgment to specialized, real-world tasks

Why join the pipeline now

  • Priority consideration when this (and future) projects open
  • Flexible, remote, project-based work well suited to researchers and academics
  • Meaningful work applying your expertise to real AI systems

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