
AI Trainer (SWE)
Listing checked November 10, 2026 · pay as published by micro1
Key details
- Pay
- $60–120/hr
- Location
- Remote
- Job type
- contract
- Openings
- 100
- Posted
- November 9, 2026
Overview
micro1 seeks software engineers with paid experience in AI training or model evaluation for a project that pushes advanced AI systems to their limits. You will design realistic coding challenges, build reproducible environments, and judge model-generated code against clear standards. The work is fully remote and global, with a flexible schedule and a commitment of 15+ hours per week. Pay ranges from $60–$120/hour equivalent, based on accepted tasks that meet quality specs.
What You'll Do6
- Design software engineering tasks that test the limits of advanced AI models.
- Write task instructions, set up reproducible environments, and craft reference solutions, tests, and evaluation criteria.
- Review model-generated code and technical outputs for correctness, robustness, and completeness.
- Spot problems in implementation, debugging, dependencies, performance, testing, or reproducibility.
- Establish objective standards that define what counts as a correct solution.
- Evaluate long-horizon or agentic coding submissions when the project calls for it.
Requirements5
- Paid experience training, evaluating, benchmarking, or improving AI systems.
- Strong hands-on Python skills.
- Professional experience with at least one more language such as Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Rust, C++, C#, or Go.
- Solid grasp of software design, debugging, testing, version control, and dependency management.
- Public evidence of skill: substantial GitHub or GitLab repos, open-source contributions, maintainer roles, competition results (Codeforces, ICPC, Olympiad), developer tools, or technical write-ups.
Preferred Qualifications6
- Experience creating AI-training tasks, reference solutions, tests, graders, or benchmark problems.
- Experience reviewing other AI trainers' technical submissions.
- Codeforces rating around 1900 or higher, or strong results in another programming competition.
- Familiarity with Linux, Docker, CI/CD, command-line tools, or sandboxed environments.
- Prior work with long-horizon or agentic coding evaluations.
- Available to start immediately.
Who Should Apply
Software engineers who have already done paid AI-training or model-evaluation work and can show public proof of their coding skill. You should be comfortable with Python and at least one other language, and ready to commit 15+ hours per week on a flexible, remote schedule.
Salary Insight
Pay is $60–$120 per hour equivalent, calculated per accepted task that meets project specifications and quality requirements. Task availability and completion time can vary.
Pay and demand for AI Training roles
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This role · as published
$60–120/hr
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Typical pay · estimated
$70/hour
Median of 1,286 similar roles that publish pay · 302 publish only a top rate; those count at the rate they gave
Most AI Training roles pay $40–$95 per hour. This role's pay falls inside that range.
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