AI Trainer (ML Engineering)

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Contract type
Freelance
Work mode
Remote · Worldwide
Experience
3 years

Job description

Machine Learning Engineers with prior professional AI-training or model-evaluation experience support a project focused on improving advanced AI systems by creating technical tasks and evaluating model-generated work.

At a glance

Employment
Contract · Independent contractor
Work mode
Remote · Worldwide
Pay
USD 60 – 120 / hour

What you'll do

  • Create realistic machine learning engineering tasks that challenge advanced AI models.
  • Develop task instructions, reproducible environments, reference solutions, and evaluation criteria.
  • Evaluate model-generated code, experiments, analyses, and technical deliverables.
  • Identify issues involving data leakage, incorrect validation, unstable training, performance, or reproducibility.

What we're looking for

  • Prior paid experience training, evaluating, benchmarking, or improving AI systems.
  • Strong practical proficiency with Python.
  • Hands-on experience using PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, XGBoost, LightGBM, or comparable ML tools.
  • Public proof of skill such as GitHub repositories or public model implementations, Kaggle/DrivenData/AIcrowd or similar competition results, Hugging Face models or datasets, research publications or technical reports, open-source ML contributions, or public benchmarks, experiments, or technical projects.

Nice to have

  • Experience creating AI-training tasks, reference answers, rubrics, graders, or benchmark problems.
  • Experience reviewing other AI trainers' technical submissions.
  • Kaggle Expert, Master, or Grandmaster status, or strong results in another technical competition.
  • Publications or open-source contributions in machine learning.
  • Prior experience with long-horizon or agentic AI evaluations.
  • Availability to begin immediately.

How to get hired

  1. 1Submit your application, AI-training experience, and public technical evidence.
  2. 2Complete an AI interview containing technical and integrity checks.
  3. 3Complete a hiring-manager review.
  4. 4If selected, complete project onboarding and begin your first assigned task.

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