AI Tutor - Design Specialist
x.ai
WorldwideremotePosted 1 month ago
Skill Required
Design-EvaluationAI-Data-AnnotationDesign-Quality-AssuranceHuman-AI-CollaborationDesign-Training-Data-SpecialistAI-Design-SpecialistDesign-TutorAI-Pedagogy-SpecialistAI-Chatbot-DesignerDesigndesignAIInformation Architecturesoftware engineeringGenerative AIWeb AccessibilityEngineeringwrittenFigmaCloudandFulltime
Key highlights
- U.S.-based candidates are paid $35–$75 per hour, with rates adjusted for relevant experience, skills, education, geographic location, and qualifications
- The role supports training of SpaceXAI’s Grok AI system via design evaluation, refinement, and dataset annotation work
- No visa sponsorship is available for this position
- SpaceXAI is unable to hire US-based candidates located in Wyoming or Illinois at this time
- Contractor roles offer fully flexible, self-determined scheduling with no fixed hour commitments
- Eligible U.S.-based employees receive health insurance, a 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave
Role overview
SpaceXAI’s mission is to build AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and support humanity’s pursuit of knowledge. The organization has a small, highly motivated team focused on engineering excellence, operates with a flat organizational structure, and expects all employees to be hands-on contributors to the company mission, with leadership granted to those who demonstrate initiative and consistent delivery of excellence. All staff are required to have strong work ethic, prioritization skills, and the ability to concisely, accurately share knowledge with teammates. This role is for an AI Design Specialist tasked with enhancing SpaceXAI’s models, including the Grok AI, by providing high-quality, design-context-specific data annotations and inputs. The specialist will leverage expertise across design disciplines including graphic design, brand and visual design, product/UI/UX design, web design, game design, and illustration to evaluate, refine, and create design work that teaches Grok to distinguish weak, superficially attractive design from clear, functional, well-resolved design, with work grounded in design judgment rather than software engineering or mastery of every creative medium.
Responsibilities
- Evaluate design outputs across formats, including visual assets, layouts, documents, websites, interactive prototypes, and/or games.
- Distinguish weak design from work that is actually clear, functional, and well-resolved, identifying and clearly articulating issues with design that looks attractive but fails in practical use.
- Refine, restyle, or recreate outputs that fall short of quality standards, producing exceptionally strong reference examples.
- Write precise, well-reasoned annotations and critiques explaining the differences between mediocre, good, and excellent design.
- Help label high-quality datasets spanning graphic design, interface design, web experiences, game feel, and related design writing.
- Collaborate with engineering teams on evaluation tasks, rubrics, and examples that set a high bar for design quality.
- Work across a wide range of briefs and styles, from simple static pieces to complex interactive products, while maintaining consistent quality and design judgment.
Requirements
- Demonstrated design excellence in at least one professional design discipline, such as graphic design, brand/visual design, product or UI/UX design, web design, game design, or illustration.
- A public portfolio (personal site, Behance, Dribbble, ArtStation, shipped product, published work, or equivalent) that demonstrates strong taste and finished, high-quality work.
- Sharp eye for design fundamentals including visual hierarchy, typography, spacing, color, composition, consistency, and clarity of communication.
- Ability to evaluate design quality even outside of your primary design specialty, and clearly articulate what works, what does not, and why.
- Fluency in English, with excellent written communication skills for creating critiques, annotations, and design rationale.
- High attention to detail and comfort working from evolving instructions in a fast-paced evaluation setting.
- Comfort creating high-quality reference examples, not only scoring existing design work.
Nice to have
- Strength across more than one design domain (for example, graphic design plus web design, or UI design plus game design).
- Experience shipping or professionally reviewing websites, product interfaces, or games.
- Familiarity with accessibility and inclusive design principles (for example, contrast, readability, target size, and clear information architecture).
- Working knowledge of modern design tools such as Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, or equivalent; frontend or game-engine familiarity is a plus but not required.
- Experience with generative AI design tools and a clear point of view on when AI output is generic, broken, or actually well-designed.
- Prior experience in design critique, art direction, QA, design review, data annotation, dataset creation, or AI evaluation.
- Familiarity with Google Workspace, Slack, Notion, and other remote work and collaboration tools.
Benefits
- Eligible U.S.-based positions include health insurance, a 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (specific role details provided during the interview process)
- Contractor roles offer full flexibility to set your own hours and determine the exact amount of time needed to complete deliverables
- Eligibility for remote work from any location worldwide, subject to legal eligibility, time-zone compatibility, and role-specific needs
Additional details
- Tutor roles may be offered as full-time, part-time, or contractor positions, depending on role needs and candidate fit.
- For contractor positions, hours vary widely based on project scope and contractor availability, with no fixed commitments required; on average, most projects may involve at least 10 hours per week to achieve deliverables effectively, though this is not a fixed commitment and depends on the scope of work.
- Tutor roles may be performed remotely from any location worldwide, subject to legal eligibility, time-zone compatibility, and role specific needs.
- For US-based candidates, the company is unable to hire in the states of Wyoming and Illinois at this time.
- The company is unable to provide visa sponsorship for this role.
- Employees working from a personal device must use a Chromebook, Mac with MacOS 11.0 or later, or Windows 10 or later.
- SpaceXAI is an equal opportunity employer; full details on data processing are available in the Recruitment Privacy Notice.
- This role was originally posted on the Himalayas platform.
- Compensation details for international candidates will be provided during the recruitment process.