Improv Actor AI Trainer

🇺🇸Remote - Remote (USA)$45K–$65K/yri3h ago

Corporate Research AI Training Content Development Performance Machine Learning

Summary

Join Handshake AI as an Improv Actor to collaborate with other performers in unscripted creative sessions designed to test and improve leading AI models. This remote, part-time role leverages your acting and improv skills to generate natural, human interactions that advance AI research.

Key Responsibilities: Improvise scenes and dialogue based on light prompts and creative constraints, collaborating with other performers to create grounded and engaging interactions. Experiment with character, emotion, and subtext while maintaining consistency and authenticity throughout sessions.

Skills & Tools: Strong improv and acting instincts with ability to make bold creative choices, emotional awareness to authentically express and shift between emotions, and the capacity to stay true to character voice and emotional logic across extended interactions.

Qualifications: Background in improv, acting, theater, sketch, or other performance-based work (formal training or real-world experience both welcome). Demonstrated creative expertise and disciplinary knowledge relevant to AI research testing.

Location: Remote (USA)

Compensation: $45K–$65K/yr (estimated)

Job Description

Opportunity Overview

Handshake AI is inviting actors, improvisers, and performers to join a paid, collaborative improv project to work with one of the leading AI companies. You'll be matched with other performers over video and given a light prompt or scenario to explore together.

Sessions are unscripted and open-ended. You'll improvise scenes, explore characters, and respond naturally in the moment, with plenty of creative freedom to shape how each interaction unfolds.

Projects are remote, part-time, and flexible, making them easy to fit alongside auditions, classes, or rehearsals.

Project Details

Improvise scenes and dialogue using light prompts, personality notes, and creative constraints. You'll have wide latitude to explore tone, emotion, and character choices.
Collaborate with other performers by building on scenarios and interactions that feel grounded, human, and fun to play.
Experiment with character, emotion, and subtext, drawing on your acting instincts to create natural, engaging moments.

Qualifications

Acting or Improv Experience: Background in improv, acting, theater, sketch, or other performance-based work (formal training or real-world experience both welcome).
Strong Creative Instincts: You enjoy making bold choices, playing with character, and following the moment where it leads.
Emotional Awareness: Ability to recognize, express, and shift between emotions in a way that feels authentic and human.
Consistency & Care: You can stay true to a character's voice and emotional logic across a scene or interaction.

Selection for each project is limited to a small cohort chosen for their disciplinary and research expertise. We are seeking experts in new research areas to test the limits of the world’s top LLMs’ understanding by completing tasks that positively impact the next frontier AI model.

Application Process

Create a Handshake account
Upload your resume and verify your identity
Get matched and onboarded into relevant projects
Start working and earning

Work authorization information

F-1 students who are eligible for CPT or OPT may be eligible for projects on Handshake AI. Work with your Designated School Official to determine your eligibility. If your school requires a CPT course, Handshake AI may not meet your school’s requirements. STEM OPT is not supported. for more information on what types of work authorizations are supported on Handshake AI.