Human Intelligence Collector

Responsibilities

• Conduct or assess structured elicitation and interview sessions to extract accurate and relevant information from varied subjects.
• Establish rapport with participants to encourage open communication without pressure or coercion.
• Analyze responses in real time by reading tone, pacing, and nonverbal cues and dynamically adjusting questioning strategies.
• Assess internal consistency, reliability, and potential evasiveness of responses and provide confidence assessments.
• Identify and annotate emotional and motivational drivers influencing participant responses.
• Document analytical reasoning clearly and traceably for downstream review and learning.
• Score or annotate sessions according to detailed rubrics while maintaining objectivity and consistency across cases.

Skills

Requirements

• 3–5+ years of professional interviewing, intelligence elicitation, or investigative questioning experience.
• Experience such as military HUMINT, law-enforcement interviewing, or skilled negotiation.
• Training in recognized interviewing methodologies such as the PEACE model, cognitive interviewing, or similar frameworks.
• Expertise interpreting paralinguistic and nonverbal cues including tone, pacing, hesitation, and gestures.
• Ability to clearly justify analytical assessments in writing rather than relying solely on intuition.
• Exceptional written English skills with clarity, precision, and defensibility.
• Experience working with diverse populations or through interpreters.
• Familiarity with data annotation, AI model evaluation, or after-action and assessment report writing.
• Ability to work at least approximately 15 hours per week.

Benefits

• Fully remote contractor opportunity.
• US-based candidates preferred.
• Compensation of $25–$65 per hour.
• Opportunity to contribute professional interviewing and intelligence expertise to AI training.
• No prior AI experience required.