Remote AI training and data labeling jobs

Design and annotate expert-level multi-part assemblies in parametric CAD, write down the reasoning behind architecture, mating and tolerance choices, and critique sample designs so an AI learns how experienced designers think. A recognised CAD credential can stand in for the experience bar. 10 openings, $40–90/hour.

Pull apart multi-part CAD assemblies, write hard design-judgment questions with exact answers taken from the models, and find where AI reasoning about mechanisms and tolerances breaks. Five years of assembly design asked for. 20 openings, about 15 hours a week, $40–90/hour.

Senior quality inspectors disposition first article inspections, cosmetic defects and line inspection data so AI models learn how real accept/reject calls are made across aerospace, defense and marine work. Ten openings, contractor, $60–100/hour, remote.

Metallurgists and certified welding inspectors make accept/reject calls on micrographs, weld macros, coatings and LPBF additive builds against AMS, ASTM, AWS and NACE standards, documenting the reasoning to train AI. 20 openings, $80–130/hour, remote, US-based preferred.

Certified NDT Level II/III inspectors interpret RT, UT/PAUT, MT and PT data and make code-based accept/reject calls on welds and components, documenting their reasoning to train AI. 30 openings, $70–110/hour, remote, US-based preferred.

Master machinists, superintendents, mine planners and fire officers review technical drawings and field plans (GD&T, CNC setups, construction sheets, mine and fire plans) and explain them so AI models learn to read them. 20 openings, $55–100/hour, remote, US-based preferred.

Electronics quality engineers review Gerber and CAM data, apply IPC-610 and IPC-620 criteria, analyse SMT and AOI defects, screen for counterfeit parts under AS6081 and read C-SAM and X-ray images, all to train AI. 30 openings, $70–120/hour, remote, US-based preferred.

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.

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.

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.

Solve advanced aerodynamics problems and grade AI-generated answers across external aero, CFD, wind tunnel testing, propulsion and vehicle aero. Remote contractor paid per accepted task on a $60–130/hour band, a single opening. Aerospace or ME degree plus 3+ years; problem-authoring credentials strongly preferred.

Senior civil engineers build infrastructure evaluation tasks for AI: realistic design, permitting and construction scenarios, reference calculations and rubrics, on either a US (ASCE, ACI, AISC, AASHTO) or International (Eurocodes, ISO) standards track. 5+ years, PE or equivalent strongly preferred. Remote hourly contract at $70–80/hour.

Model simple mechanical components in SolidWorks, NX, Creo or CATIA, interpret drawings and tolerances, and critique AI output on CAD and conceptual FEA questions. Remote contractor, $55–100/hour, 50 openings. The preferred bar is 5+ years of hands-on design engineering.

Generate, structure and evaluate expert ALD and thin-film data for a frontier AI lab building semiconductor and physical-science models: solve hard problems, rate model reasoning, and turn recipes into model-ready data. US-based, 10–40 hours a week, $84/hour.

Review AI-generated advice on CAM, CNC and Fusion 360 manufacturing workflows, and write the rubrics that grade it for accuracy and efficiency. Teaching experience is highly preferred. $60–120/hour, paid per accepted task, open worldwide, 20 openings.

Umbrella listing for Mercor's nuclear red-team panel: fuel-cycle engineers, safeguards inspectors, nuclear security, forensics and nonproliferation specialists write prompts, judge frontier AI replies against a policy standard, and write reference answers. Remote contract at $65–75 per task; 21 hired this month.

Build and evaluate training data for a frontier lab's materials science models: DFT, AIMD, classical MD, surface and adsorption modeling, reaction energetics. For US-based computational PhDs fluent in VASP, Quantum ESPRESSO, CP2K, LAMMPS or ASE. Long-term, 10–40 hours a week, $84/hour.

Materials science PhDs author original, executable research problems for a scientific-computing AI benchmark, with depth in both semiconductor materials and molecular modeling. Tasks ship only when frontier models fail them more often than not. 6 weeks, 20+ hours a week, Git and Docker workflow. $70/hour, 212 hired this month.

Radiological emergency planners, field monitoring teams and consequence modellers red-team frontier AI models: write benign, dual-use and adversarial prompts, judge model replies against a policy standard, and write reference answers. Remote contract at $65–75 per task.

Solve hard analog, digital, mixed-signal, power and RF design problems and grade AI answers to them for technical correctness. Senior bar: MS/PhD or BS plus 8 years, five years of hands-on design with production or tape-out. Paid per accepted task, quoted at $60–130/hour. 25 openings.

Build, run and validate computational materials simulations in Python (atomistic, DFT, MD, continuum, electrochemical) as AI training tasks, using coding agents in your workflow. Per-task pay quoted at $80–150/hour, about 15 hours a week, global and fully remote. MS or PhD required. 100 openings.