Speech and spoken language specialist - AI Evaluation for Education
Expert in establishing whether spoken reasoning can be scored from transcripts alone or needs audio, and what is lost either way.
📍 Remote
Individual
Employment type — Contract - Independent Expert
As Eticas expands its work on AI in Education in Europe and the US, we are looking to engage independent experts with different levels of expertise to make sure we have everyone at the table and different perspectives to assess our work. Engagements are remote, hourly-based and paid, with an initial defined scope.
Our work is focused on understanding how we can measure AI impacts on learning, and whether we have the tools to measure the right things and support the students who need it. We are also working to build standards so we have homogenized, comparable datasets to understand how learning is changing over time, what works and what doesn't, and for whom.
Working with schools, education authorities and edtech developers, we are testing AI scoring of complex student skills (written reasoning, collaborative problem solving, spoken reasoning) against trained teacher raters, and producing metrics and evidence that show when AI in learning can be trusted, and when it can't.
Our focus is on how AI performs on real student work, judged by real teachers, under real classroom conditions. We get as close as possible to the lived experience of learning and measure it, with the same discipline Eticas has applied for over a decade to AI in hiring, health and public services, among others.
This open call is part of our commitment to openness, inclusion and transparency, so that more voices can join this crucial work.
About the role
Review the spoken-reasoning draft definition (Nov 9);
Run or design the transcript-versus-audio comparison on a small sample (Nov 16 to 20);
Write memo (by Nov 24).
Who we are looking for / Competencies
Spoken-language assessment (oral proficiency scoring, speaking tests) or ASR evaluation with student speech;
Knows where transcription errors concentrate for adolescent speakers and how they bias a rater;
Can design a small comparison and write it up in a week.
Not a fit: speech engineers without assessment context.
Dedication
3 days between Nov 9 and Nov 24.
Compensation
$130-170 per hour depending on seniority and fit, invoiced monthly against hours worked.
How to apply
Send us an email to: careers@eticas.ai, and include a CV and a short separate note, one page at most, highlighting how your experience fits with the role and competencies required, references to relevant work and confirmation of availability in the times described in each position. Positions are assessed as they come.