How to apply to Lifted (Upwork)

Who can join

• Be at least 18, or the age of majority in your country if that is higher. Lifted's User Agreement says so, and says each contract sets your work relationship; nothing in it makes you Lifted's employee.
• An Upwork freelancer account for most projects. The postings ask for an Upwork proposal and send selected people an Upwork contract offer, and say an active contract is required to receive onboarding instructions, assessment access and payment.
• Living where the project is open. Each project is posted per country, and some name it strictly: its English-speaker AI training project (labelled Scale AI) takes only people located in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, the UK, the US or Canada, with one of the ID documents it lists for that country (such as a driver's licence), and a bachelor's degree or higher.
• The credentials the project names. Its 'stump the AI' benchmark project asks for a master's degree or higher, 10 or more years in a technical field and at least one publication, for an ongoing project of at least 7 weeks.
• For language projects, real fluency that is tested: Invisible's JSON audio evaluation projects want C1 or C2 level in the language, verified through a speaking and listening assessment, not just a resume claim, plus fluency in reading and fixing JSON.
• The right equipment. Its audio segmentation and transcription projects need a laptop or desktop (mobile devices are not supported), a reliable internet connection and 20 or more hours a week.
• For its US household video project: age 18 or over, living in one of 20 listed US states, an iPhone 13 or newer (not the 16e or 17e), a Google Pixel 6 or newer or a Samsung Galaxy S21 or newer, a head-mounted phone strap, and at least 10 approved hours of footage.
• For its AI coding assistant evaluation: a software project you alone own in a Git repository, which the client must approve. Projects owned by an employer, client, university or startup, covered by an NDA, or about AI model training are not eligible.
• A government ID for contracts on Lifted's own platform. Lifted verifies identity through Persona, usually when a contract is created; the ID must show your name, photo, date of birth and signature, and student cards, photocopies and expired documents are refused.

Step by step

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   Find a project on Lifted's board

   Lifted posts its openings on SmartRecruiters as 'Lifted, an Upwork Company'. Most are not AI work (Airbnb home consultant, creative and staffing roles), so look for titles that say AI training, evaluation, transcription or annotation, and read each posting for the country, the pay if stated, the weekly hours and how it pays.

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   Or answer an invitation

   Lifted works mainly through invited opportunities, sent by clients or by Lifted's talent sourcers, in Lifted or through Upwork. Some Lifted roles show in Upwork search with a Lifted icon; 'Apply on Lifted' opens the full posting, and proposals for those are submitted on Lifted. Lifted has no public job marketplace of its own.

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   Apply, then send the Upwork proposal and the client's form

   A posting's 'I'm interested' button opens its application. Then follow its hiring steps: its CFD engineering project, for example, asks you to submit an Upwork proposal, complete the required Google Form and accept the Upwork contract, and says only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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   Accept the Upwork contract offer

   Selected people receive an Upwork contract offer with onboarding instructions for the client's task platform. Accept it: without an active contract you get no onboarding instructions, no assessment access and no pay.

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   For Scale AI work, wait for the login it sends

   A December 2025 offer for Scale AI work through Lifted said Outlier login credentials arrive within about 48 hours of accepting, that you must not create your own Outlier account, that time is tracked in Hubstaff, and that a $5 milestone in the contract is a placeholder you should not submit for payment.

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   Pass the client's evaluation

   Each client tests you on its own platform. Its Lua (Roblox) code evaluation project, for example, sends an initial survey, then invites those who pass to a paid technical evaluation of about 2 to 3 hours that pays $150 if approved.

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   For some Invisible projects, work on Invisible's platform

   Its geospatial project, run by Invisible, says all work, onboarding and payments happen on Invisible's platform, with no Upwork contract or Upwork payment, and that Upwork has approved this as an off-platform opportunity. On its geospatial project the assessment decides whether you work as an operator ($35 an hour) or in quality assurance ($40), and completing it does not guarantee selection.

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   Do the work and get paid weekly

   Work is project-based and remote, at 10 to 39 hours a week on its engineering projects, with volume that can change; the structural engineering posting says payments are issued weekly for the previous week's work.

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   If you are invited to Lifted's own platform

   Clicking a Lifted invitation on Upwork means consenting to share your Upwork profile with Lifted so it can set up your account. You then submit proposals on Lifted, and complete identity and tax verification, which onboarding and payment wait for.

Tips to get accepted

• Read which company the project is for. Some postings name it in the text (its Dogri linguist project names Labelbox and Alignerr), and that company's platform, rules and pay apply once you start.
• Check the Upwork fee percentage before you send the proposal. It is shown when you submit a proposal or get an offer, and once a proposal, offer or contract is sent it is locked for that contract.
• On a Scale AI contract, do not submit the $5 placeholder milestone and do not make your own Outlier account; the offer said both can delay or block your pay and project access.
• Expect silence if you are not picked. Its CFD project says only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
• Expect several rounds on senior coding projects. Its senior Python project ($80 to $100 an hour) lists them: your proposal, a short qualification form from the client, an Upwork contract offer, the client's evaluation, then a technical interview with the client.
• For voice projects, the audition decides. Its US English voice actor project asks for one sample script by your first name (A to K one set, L to Z the other), recorded as 24-bit, 48 kHz mono WAV with no plugins or processing, narrated by a human (AI is not allowed); selected actors then deliver 3 hours of audio within one week.
• On Lifted's own platform, add a withdrawal method early: a new one is held for 3 days before it works, the account name must match your verified name exactly, and from 1 September 2026 Direct to U.S. Bank costs $2.99 a transfer for talent with a non-U.S. tax address (free with a U.S. one).
• Finish identity verification as soon as Lifted asks: you have 7 days, you cannot start a contract until it is done, and falsified documents can mean permanent suspension.
• Keep every talk on the platform until a contract exists. Upwork warns of fake AI training jobs that charge a fee to start and of interviews moved to Telegram or WhatsApp, and says a legitimate client never asks you to pay to start working.