Machine Learning Engineer (AI Training)

Overview

Models are surprisingly bad at reasoning about themselves: training dynamics, evaluation design, data pipelines, and deployment trade-offs. Plausible-sounding ML advice is often subtly wrong.

As a Machine Learning Engineer you'll stress-test how models reason about ML systems and write the answers a strong practitioner would give, shaping how the next generation handles your field.

What you’ll actually do

• Write prompts that probe how models reason about training, evaluation, debugging, and productionizing ML systems.
• Review AI output for subtle errors: leaky evaluations, wrong loss formulations, and misdiagnosed training failures.
• Write the correct solution when the model falls short, grounded in real practitioner experience.

Roles this fits

Common backgrounds: ML Engineer, MLOps Engineer, Applied Scientist.

What we look for

• Hands-on experience training, evaluating, or deploying models professionally or in serious personal work.
• Comfort with the modern ML stack; most tasks assume Python and PyTorch or JAX.
• Clear written English: your explanations are the training signal.
• No degree required. We care about what you can do, not where you learned it.

Compensation

Up to $150+/hr depending on task difficulty and specialization. Many contributors add $100k–$200k a year; some make it their full-time income.

About DataAnnotation

DataAnnotation is where 1M+ experts train the world’s leading AI models. Hundreds of millions paid to contributors to date, and the average contributor stays 5+ years. Flexible, remote, and always project-available.

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Hourly rate up to $150+ / hour

Commitment Flexible hours

Type Independent contractor

Payouts Weekly

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Where you can work

This role is 100% remote, for applicants located in these 6 countries: Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand and United States.