AI Training
AI Trainer (SWE)
- Posted
- Location
- Global
- Openings
- 100
Pay: $60–$120/hour equivalent, paid per accepted task
Location: Global, fully remote
Job Type: Contractor
Time Commitment: 15+ hours per week
Schedule: Flexible
The company is looking for Software Engineers with prior professional AI-training or model-evaluation experience to support a project focused on improving advanced AI systems.
You will use your software engineering expertise to create challenging technical tasks, evaluate model-generated code, identify failures, and establish objective standards for correct solutions. This role is intended for candidates who have already completed substantive AI-training work.
What You’ll Work On
- Create realistic software engineering tasks that challenge advanced AI models.
- Develop task instructions, reproducible environments, reference solutions, tests, and evaluation criteria.
- Evaluate model-generated code and technical deliverables for correctness, robustness, and completeness.
- Identify issues involving implementation, debugging, dependencies, performance, testing, or reproducibility.
Required Qualifications
- Prior paid experience training, evaluating, benchmarking, or improving AI systems.
- Strong practical proficiency with Python.
- Professional experience with at least one additional programming language, such as Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Rust, C++, C#, or Go.
- Strong knowledge of software design, debugging, testing, version control, and dependency management.
Public Proof of Skill
Strong applicants should provide evidence such as:
- Substantial GitHub or GitLab repositories
- Meaningful open-source contributions
- Maintainer or core-contributor responsibilities
- Codeforces, ICPC, Olympiad, or other programming-competition results
- Public developer tools, libraries, systems, or technical projects
- Technical publications, benchmarks, or engineering write-ups
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience creating AI-training tasks, reference solutions, tests, graders, or benchmark problems.
- Experience reviewing other AI trainers’ technical submissions.
- Codeforces rating of approximately 1900 or higher, or strong results in another programming competition.
- Experience with Linux, Docker, CI/CD, command-line tools, or sandboxed environments.
- Prior experience with long-horizon or agentic coding evaluations.
- Availability to begin immediately.
Application Process
- Submit your application, AI-training experience, and public technical evidence.
- Complete an AI interview containing technical and integrity checks.
- Complete a hiring-manager review.
- If selected, complete project onboarding and begin your first assigned task.
Compensation
- Compensation is output-based. Experts are paid for tasks that meet project specifications and quality requirements. Task availability and completion time may vary.
Skills
- AI Training
- Software Engineering
This role at a glance
At $60–$120/hr, the AI Trainer (SWE) role comes to about $5,200–$10,400 a month for 20 hours a week, or $10,400–$20,800 a month full time — roughly $125,000–$250,000 over a full year. These are estimates before tax; contract roles are paid for the hours you work. It was posted 2 days ago. AI Training roles listed on RemoteJobsOne have stayed open a median of 56 days before closing, counted over the 32 that have closed so far.
20 hours a week
$5,200–$10,400
a month, before tax
Full time
$10,400–$20,800
a month at 40 hours a week
A full year
$125,000–$250,000
full time, 52 weeks
Open for
2 days
AI Training roles here close after about 56 days, counted over 32 that have closed. Apply while it is open.
How this pay compares
This role pays $60–$120/hr. Across the 29 hourly ai training roles open on RemoteJobsOne right now, the median runs from $60 to $120 an hour, and published rates range from $8 to $285. Its top rate of $120 sits within the category's median range.
This role
$60–$120/hr
AI Training median
$60–$120/hr · full spread $8 to $285
What these skills pay
Hourly pay across every open role on RemoteJobsOne that asks for the same skills as this one.
- AI Training$60–$120/hr median
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Questions about this role
How much does the AI Trainer (SWE) role pay?
It pays $60–$120/hr, which is about $10,400–$20,800 a month full time before tax. The rate is set by the employer and shown exactly as published.
Compare pay across remote rolesIs this AI Trainer (SWE) job fully remote?
Yes. It is listed as a fully remote role, with the posting naming Global. You work from home, on your own equipment.
Is it full-time, part-time or contract work?
The employer has not said.
What skills does the AI Trainer (SWE) role ask for?
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