
Junior Machine Learning Engineer
Listing checked November 13, 2026 · pay as published by micro1
Key details
- Pay
- $60–120/hr
- Location
- Remote
- Job type
- contract
- Openings
- 100
- Posted
- November 13, 2026
Overview
This contract role with micro1 puts you on an AI training project where you'll build, test, and refine machine learning systems. Expect heavy coding in Python with coding agents, covering model development, training and inference pipelines, numerical computing, and performance tuning. You'll work about 15 hours per week on a flexible schedule, fully remote, and get paid per completed task. The work is hands-on: you'll create and validate engineering tasks that demand reproducible workflows and objective correctness checks.
What You'll Do8
- Build and validate machine learning models, training pipelines, and inference systems.
- Implement model components, data pipelines, evaluation systems, and numerical methods.
- Create reproducible programmatic workflows using Python and command-line tools.
- Solve challenging machine learning engineering tasks that involve model modification or implementation.
- Construct training or inference workflows that can be reproduced and verified.
- Optimize memory usage or throughput for model runs.
- Debug numerical or system-level failures and confirm the implementation meets correctness and performance requirements.
- Review and validate machine learning tasks submitted by others.
Requirements6
- BS in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, or a closely related quantitative field.
- Strong professional or research experience in machine learning.
- Practical proficiency with Python and coding agents.
- Experience using coding agents with Python in your workflow.
- Ability to work with command-line tools and build reproducible workflows.
- Comfort with a coding-heavy role focused on model development and performance.
Preferred Qualifications2
- Experience at a well-established technology company, AI laboratory, research organization, or other recognized engineering environment.
- Exceptional open-source or academic experience may also qualify.
Who Should Apply
This role suits a junior machine learning engineer with a quantitative degree and solid Python skills, including hands-on use of coding agents. You should be comfortable debugging numerical issues and building reproducible training or inference pipelines. If you have research or open-source experience that shows depth, that counts too.
Salary Insight
Pay ranges from $60 to $120 per hour. Compensation is output-based: you are paid per task that meets the project specifications, and the time each task takes varies with your experience and workflow. Minimum submission requirements apply.
Pay and demand for Machine Learning & AI roles
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This role · as published
$60–120/hr
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Typical pay · estimated
$70/hour
Median of 1,416 similar roles that publish pay · 305 publish only a top rate; those count at the rate they gave
Most Machine Learning & AI roles pay $40–$100 per hour. This role's pay falls inside that range.
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Most requested skills · share of roles
- ai evaluation13%
- python12%
- llm evaluation11%
- data annotation10%
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