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Open Source Contributor

60–120/hr

Remote

contract

100 openings

Posted November 8, 2026

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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 8, 2026

Overview

micro1 seeks open-source contributors for an AI-training project that builds complex technical workflows. You will create, solve, and review tasks in software engineering, machine learning, science, hardware, or engineering. Your work helps advanced AI systems reason, write code, use tools, and complete long-horizon projects. Strong public technical work matters more than prior AI-training experience. Python, open-source contributions, and domain depth are central.

What You'll Do6

Design realistic technical tasks that mirror professional, scientific, or engineering workflows.
Build reproducible task environments, reference solutions, tests, and objective evaluation criteria.
Review AI-generated work for correctness, completeness, and technical quality.
Diagnose model failures and explain why an approach or result is incorrect.
Validate tasks against project specifications and quality requirements.
Contribute to tasks across software engineering, machine learning, scientific computing, hardware, or engineering domains.

Requirements5

Strong programming ability, including practical proficiency with Python.
Meaningful contributions to open-source software or substantial original public projects.
Experience in at least one relevant area: software engineering; machine learning or data science; scientific computing; hardware, embedded systems, or electronics; mechanical, aerospace, civil, chemical, or electrical engineering; developer tools, infrastructure, automation, or security.
Publicly verifiable evidence such as merged contributions to established repositories, maintainer or core-contributor roles, substantial original repositories or technical tools, scientific or engineering software contributions, public code supporting published research, or contributions involving implementation, debugging, testing, performance, infrastructure, simulation, or data processing.
Forks, tutorial-only repositories, superficial documentation edits, contribution counts, or AI-generated repositories alone are not sufficient.

Preferred Qualifications4

Experience designing technical tests, benchmarks, evaluation tasks, or reproducible environments.
Experience reviewing code or technical contributions from others.
Competition results, publications, public technical writing, or other evidence of expertise.
Previous experience contributing to complex projects over an extended period.

Who Should Apply

Programmers with strong Python skills and a public track record of meaningful open-source work or original projects. You should have depth in at least one technical domain and be able to show verifiable contributions, not just forks or tutorials. Prior AI-training experience is not required.

Salary Insight

Pay is $60 to $120 per hour equivalent, paid per accepted task. Compensation is output-based, so you are paid for tasks that meet project specifications and quality requirements. Time per task varies with complexity and your workflow.

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

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Most AI Training roles pay $40–$100 per hour. This role's pay falls inside that range.

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