Remote AI training and data labeling jobs

Economists with a Master's or PhD and a year or more at a top research institution (World Bank, IMF, the Fed, a graduate school) work on a research project for a leading foundation-model AI lab. Remote contract at $120–150/hour, at least 10 hours a week for a minimum of four weeks.

Use your QuickBooks Online or Desktop experience on an AI training project: run invoicing, bill pay and reconciliations, review P&L, balance sheet and cash flow reports, and flag accounting errors. 40 openings, remote contractor, $90–170/hour.

Condensed matter PhDs create, solve, review or audit research-level problems for CritPt, a public benchmark testing whether frontier AI models can do real physics research. Nineteen narrow research areas, from bosonization to SYK. Remote hourly contract at $80–110 per hour.

AMO physicists create, solve, review or audit research-level problems for CritPt, a public benchmark testing whether frontier AI models can do real physics research. Seven narrow areas, including levitated optomechanics, cavity QED and ultracold atoms in optical lattices. Remote hourly contract at $80–110 per hour.

Researchers who have published on stochastic autocatalytic growth create, solve, review or audit research-level problems for CritPt, a public AI physics benchmark. A single narrow area: chemical master equations, branching processes and reaction-network moments. Remote hourly contract at $80–110 per hour.

High energy and nuclear theorists create, solve, review or audit research-level problems for CritPt, a public benchmark testing whether frontier AI models can do real physics research. Seven narrow areas, from AdS/BCFT to quasi-PDFs and dark photon searches. Remote hourly contract at $80–110 per hour.

Mathematical physicists create, solve, review or audit research-level problems for CritPt, a public AI physics benchmark, where the standard of proof sits closer to mathematics than physics. Four narrow areas, from hypergeometric identities to Fefferman-Graham geometry. Remote hourly contract at $80–110 per hour.

Hands-on structural, thermal, mechanical design and dynamics engineers review and write hard engineering problems about real hardware (loads, margins, heat transfer, vibration, tolerances) for an AI research initiative. 5+ years with 3 recent hands-on. Remote contract, $100–120/hour.

Hands-on systems, integration, reliability and manufacturing test engineers review and write hard engineering problems about real hardware (V&V, qualification, FMEA, root-cause analysis) for an AI research initiative. 5+ years with 3 recent hands-on. Remote contract, $100–120/hour, weekly via Stripe or Wise.

Embedded firmware, FPGA/RTL, flight software and hardware test automation engineers review and write hard problems about software that runs on real hardware (timing, race conditions, interfaces, bring-up) for an AI research initiative. 5+ years, 3 recent hands-on. Remote contract, $100–120/hour.

Hands-on RF, power electronics, analog/mixed-signal, PCB and signal integrity engineers review and write hard problems about real hardware designs, measurements and bring-up for an AI research initiative. 5+ years with 3 recent hands-on. Remote contract, $100–120/hour, weekly via Stripe or Wise.

Native Danish speakers transcribe and annotate Danish speech audio for AI training, check other transcripts for consistency, and help refine the annotation schema. No AI experience needed. 10 openings, remote contractor, $24–30/hour.

Experienced mechanical designers produce manufacturing-ready drawings and 2D/3D CAD models with full GD&T, document design intent, and critique existing engineering documentation to train AI. SolidWorks, Fusion 360, Onshape, Inventor, Creo, NX plus FreeCAD. 10 openings, contractor, $40–80/hour.

Maintainers of real open source repositories review LLM-generated patches against their own codebase, justify each verdict in writing, and peer-review other experts. Open globally, about 15 hours a week, paid per accepted task at a stated $150–300/hour equivalent. 10 openings.

Build benchmark tasks for Terminus Bench 4 from real terminal and infrastructure problems: a problem setup, a working environment, a reference solution and an automated verifier for each. Remote independent contractor work through Meridial at $35/hour.

Experienced IT and systems managers: critique IT strategy, architecture, vendor and security-compliance scenarios and write the expert input that trains AI tools for IT professionals. 5+ years leading technical teams or enterprise infrastructure. 5 openings, contractor, $60–75/hour.

Mechanical designers build and edit fully parametric CAD parts and assemblies from written briefs, audit models for GD&T and manufacturability, and document design intent for AI training. The project runs in FreeCAD, and SolidWorks skills transfer. Forty openings, $40–100/hour.

AI safety testing in Telugu and English: provoke and document jailbreaks, bias and harmful output from chat models, and judge the quality of their Telugu answers. Evaluation skill matters more than security experience. Remote hourly contract at $16–22/hour, weekly pay; H-1B and STEM OPT excluded.

Remote hourly contract for financial analysts, accountants and business analysts who already use Excel on their own Mac. $60–70/hour, paid weekly via Stripe or Wise. Mac Excel specifically, not Windows; you need your own Microsoft licence and a display above 2.5 megapixels.

Read, edit and summarise criminal law material for AI training: statutes, case law and court filings distilled into clear arguments, with feedback on legal accuracy. JD or LLM, bar membership and substantial criminal practice, ideally at a major firm, preferred. 10 openings at $140–400/hour.

University sociology instructors design assessment tasks and matching rubrics (built on frameworks such as Bloom's taxonomy) for an education-focused AI project, and review other educational material. PhD or ABD with active teaching and research. Fifty openings, $50–90/hour.

Record scripted and unscripted Telugu speech to professional studio standard for a language-AI project, then check your own files against the technical spec. Native-level Telugu, three years in recording or voiceover, and your own pro equipment (used in the interview too). $10–30/hour, 25 openings.

Odia and English AI safety work: probe chat models for jailbreaks, bias and harmful output and judge whether their Odia answers hold up. One of the lowest-resource languages in the family and the busiest Indian variant, with 88 hired this month. Remote hourly contract, $16–22/hour.

Review financial statements against GAAP or IFRS, assess audit procedures and internal controls, build and check Excel models, and turn real engagements into case studies that teach an AI how finance work is done. Five years in reporting, audit or tax is the stated bar. Fifteen openings, contractor, $60–75/hour.