How to apply to RWS TrainAI Community

Who can join

• Be 18 or older. RWS's TrainAI FAQ sets 18 as the minimum age to join the community.
• Live where the posting says. Each TrainAI posting names one language and one place; its US AI Data Quality Rater posting asks you to reside in the United States and adds that not all states are eligible.
• Native-level fluency in the posting's language and enough English to follow written guidelines: the AI Data Specialist posting for French from Canada asks for English at B2 to C2.
• Your own Windows or Mac computer, high-speed internet, an email account and the latest Google Chrome. RWS does not provide equipment or software.
• For recording projects: a quiet room, a computer microphone or headset, and your own accent (its Danish conversation recording posting says contributors must not imitate dialects or accents that are not their own).
• For expert projects, a credential: the Linguistic AI Auditor posting for French from Canada asks for a degree in translation or linguistics, or experience as a professional linguist, and takes freelancers only, not companies.
• For search evaluator projects: sign the project NDA, keep reliable antivirus software, commit 5 to 20 hours a week, and be the only rater in your household (its Spanish, United States posting).
• Some projects ask for ID verification, for example its Hindi AI Linguistic Quality Evaluator posting in Singapore.
• In the US, you cannot work for RWS as both a payroll employee and a freelancer or independent contractor in the same calendar year.

Step by step

1. 1

   Find a posting

   Open RWS's TrainAI job board on Lever. Each posting names its language, place, weekly hours and hourly rate; on 11 Nov 2026 it listed 133 TrainAI postings, all remote contract work.

2. 2

   Apply

   Attach a CV and give your contact details, then answer the Global TrainAI Screening: your country, native language and other fluent languages, highest education, whether you are 18 or older, whether you worked for RWS as a W-2 employee this year, and project questions such as a translation degree.

3. 3

   Choose private individual or freelancer

   The form defines a Freelancer as someone with official tax registration (for example a VAT number); everyone else chooses Private Individual. It also asks whether you can invoice and, for freelancers, since when you have been in business.

4. 4

   Pass the language test and onboarding

   The Linguistic AI Auditor posting lists its recruitment steps: an application review, a short language test in English and your target language, 'database onboarding', then a short automated qualification test on the project guidelines.

5. 5

   Qualify for the project

   Search evaluator projects add training modules and a test made by RWS's client, which you must pass before any work, and a project NDA.

6. 6

   Get invited and work

   After sign-up, RWS emails invitations to projects that suit you, with each project's payment details given in advance. Tasks run on RWS's own platforms or its clients'.

7. 7

   Get paid

   Pay goes to PayPal or straight to your bank account, the method you choose during registration.

Tips to get accepted

• Pick your vendor type with care: a Trustpilot reviewer (November 2025) writes that private individuals are paid 14 days after a work order is issued, through Tipalti links, and freelancers 30 days after it, once they create an invoice in RWS's Workzone portal.
• Check each work order against the hours you logged: a February 2026 Trustpilot reviewer says theirs did not match, and that the invoice's pay date fell more than a month after they created it.
• Keep the onboarding email that states your rate: a worker on RWS's own forum says they were not paid the hourly amount that email promised for the Diamond project.
• Translators and linguists: on 11 Nov 2026 the board listed five Linguistic AI Auditor postings at 24 USD an hour (French in Canada; Bengali, Chinese Simplified, Malay and Tamil in Singapore) for people with a translation or linguistics degree or professional linguist experience.
• Questions about your application go to AICommunity@rws.com; RWS says it receives many messages each day and answers as quickly as it can.
• Once you work on a project, TrainAI support takes requests through its help form at trainai.zendesk.com, and RWS says it replies within 48 hours on business days.
• Official TrainAI pages and emails come only from rws.com or moravia.com: hover over a link to check its domain, and never pay anyone to join, since RWS says it never asks members for money.