Specific Specialists works with experienced engineers to build high-quality datasets of human-authored technical writing. We're looking for software engineers and data scientists to contribute the kind of English documents you already write at work — the ones where you reason through a problem before anyone writes code.

What we're looking for
We want documents that show your thinking, not documents that describe a finished system.

Documents that fit:
Design docs and RFCs where you weighed multiple approaches and picked one
Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) with the rationale spelled out
Technical proposals and system design write-ups
PRDs and scoping documents with tradeoffs and non-goals
Migration plans, including what could go wrong and how you'd handle it
Postmortems and incident write-ups with real root-cause reasoning
Build-vs-buy analyses and technology evaluations
Experiment design docs and analysis write-ups (for data scientists)
Capacity, reliability, or performance planning docs

Documents that don't fit:
Source code, or documentation auto-generated from code




API reference pages, changelogs, or release notes
Blog posts, tutorials, or conference talks
Anything written primarily by an AI tool

What makes a robust submission
You were the author or the primary author
Written in English
3–10 pages of substantive content
It reads like a real working document — assumptions, open questions, disagreement, revision marks, and rough edges are all welcome
The reasoning is visible: what you considered, what you rejected, and why

Compensation
$15 per accepted document. We review submissions within 1 day and give specific feedback rather than silently rejecting work. Contributors who consistently submit strong documents are invited into ongoing, higher-volume projects.

How to apply
Apply by submitting a 1 - 2 document sample in our marketplace, also let us know how many documents you have to contribute.

If your documents fit, we'll follow up by email with onboard

📌 Software Engineer — Technical Documentation Contributor (India)
🏢 Specific Specialists
📍 India