AI training jobs for data scientists and ML engineers

Who better to train AI than the people who build it? Data scientists and ML engineers are hired to evaluate analysis, statistics and machine learning work.

What the work looks like

Grading data analysis and statistical reasoning
Reviewing ML code and experiment design
Writing expert prompts that stump current models

What gets you hired

Published work, Kaggle results or production ML experience help. Many roles prefer a master's or PhD.

Most platforms screen with an AI interview or a skills test before matching you to projects. How the screens work. Then check what a rate is worth after tax with the take-home calculator.

Browse by field: Data & analytics, Machine learning.

Live roles for data scientists and ML engineers

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PhD roles44 roles

Disclosure: Mercor and micro1 pay us a referral bonus if someone we send gets hired. Neither program's rules deduct it from your pay, and roles are ranked by pay, never by bonus. How we make money

Questions people ask

Can data scientists and ML engineers do AI training work?

Yes. 44 live AI training roles right now are a fit for data scientists and ML engineers, with a median listed rate of $80 an hour. Published work, Kaggle results or production ML experience help. Many roles prefer a master's or PhD.

How much do AI training jobs pay data scientists and ML engineers?

The median live role pays $80 an hour, and the best pays up to $400. That's 7% above the $75 median across all AI training roles.

Is AI training work for data scientists and ML engineers full-time?

Usually not. It's contract work that comes in projects, often 10 to 20 hours a week, and projects can end with little notice. Most people do it alongside their main job.

Which platforms hire data scientists and ML engineers?

Right now: Alignerr (25 roles), Mercor (10 roles), Handshake AI (8 roles), micro1 (1 roles).

AI training jobs for data scientists and ML engineers

What the work looks like

What gets you hired

Live roles for data scientists and ML engineers

Machine Learning Evaluation Specialist

Machine Learning Engineer Talent Network

Computer Vision & ML Expert

Data Scientist Talent Network

Spatial Data Analyst

Data Scientist

LLM Research Scientist (Pre-training & Computer Vision & Adversarial Robustness)

Software Engineer - Machine Learning

Software Engineer – Machine Learning (AI Training)

Data Analysis Expert

Machine Learning Expert

ML Engineer (MSc. or PhD)

AI Data Quality Analyst

Data Labeling Specialist

E-commerce Data Analyst

Map & Location Data Analyst

Search Quality Evaluator

Video Annotation Specialist

Excel Expert — General

Financial Analyst AI Researcher

Financial Analyst AI Researcher

GPU Kernel Expert

ML Challenge Task Auditor

Meter Data Analyst

Linguistics Expert

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Senior Machine Learning Expert

Analista de Negocios (Business Analyst - Spanish)

Business Analyst

Data Science Expert - AI Content Specialist

Data Scientist

AI \u0026 Machine Learning Researcher

Machine Learning Expert

Principal Python Engineer - ML Infrastructure

Principal Python Engineer — ML Infrastructure

Principal Rust Engineer - ML Infrastructure

Systems Software Engineer - Machine Learning Ops

Application Users - Excel on macOS - Professionals

Machine Learning Engineer

Linguistics Expert (Germany)

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