SME CareersVerified
Posted 5d ago
Design & Creative Professionals
Remotecontract
IndesignIllustrator+20 more
Up to $150/hr
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AI Jobs Paying $150+/hr or More
117 live roles advertised at $150+/hr or more, from 6 sources. Median advertised pay $180/hr.
Live roles
117
117 role families
Median advertised
$180/hr
117 USD hourly
Remote
100%
of this set
Platforms
6
with live roles
Filtered view. The clean page is canonical and indexed; filtered URLs are noindex. Showing 11 of 117 roles, 100% remote.
Filtered roles
11 listings in 11 role families
Showing 1–11 of 11 role families. Language and region variants are grouped under one representative row.
SME CareersVerified
Posted 6d ago
CAD & Engineering Professionals
Remotecontract
3d ModelingAutocad+26 more
Up to $150/hr
View job
Handshake AIVerified
Posted 10d ago
Software Engineer
RemotePart-Time
Software EngineeringSoftware Architecture+9 more
$150/hr
View job
micro1Verified
Posted 11d ago
Chief Engineer / Senior Mechanical Engineer
Remotecontract
Multidisciplinary Project LeadershipMechanical Design & Engineering Analysis+2 more
$200–300/hr
View jobmicro1Verified
Posted 12d ago
Principal / Lead Systems Engineer
Remotecontract
Project ManagementCross Disciplinary Technical Leadership+2 more
$150–300/hr
View job
MercorVerified
Posted 12d ago
Open Source Maintainer / Core Contributor – Software Engineer
Remotefull-time
Open Source MaintenanceCode Review+8 more
$150/hr
View jobmicro1Verified
Posted 12d ago
Systems Architect / Chief Systems Architect
Remotecontract
System Architecture DesignTechnical Trade Studies+2 more
$150–300/hr
View job
TuringVerified
Posted 13d ago
Software Engineer
Remotecontract
PythonJavaScript+12 more
$200/hr
View jobMercorVerified
Posted 1mo ago
Infrastructure / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Remotepart-time
KubernetesAWS+28 more
$200/hr
View job
AfterQueryVerified
Posted 2mo ago
Structural Engineer Expert
Remote
Civil EngineeringStructural Engineering+16 more
$153/hr
View jobMercorVerified
Posted 2mo ago
Legacy Codebase Migration Expert
Remotepart-time
JavaPython+18 more
$200/hr
View jobShowing 1–11 of 11 role families. Language and region variants are grouped under one representative row.
Design & Creative Professionals
SME CareersVerifiedRemote5d agocontract
IndesignIllustratorPhotoshopXd+18
Up to $150/hrView job
CAD & Engineering Professionals
SME CareersVerifiedRemote6d agocontract
3d ModelingAutocadAutocad Civil 3dBentley Microstation+24
Up to $150/hrView job
Software Engineer
Handshake AIVerifiedRemote10d agoPart-Time
Software EngineeringSoftware ArchitectureDistributed SystemsBackend Systems+7
$150/hrView job
Chief Engineer / Senior Mechanical Engineer
micro1VerifiedRemote11d agocontract
Multidisciplinary Project LeadershipMechanical Design & Engineering AnalysisTechnical ReviewTesting & Root Cause Analysis+0
$200–300/hrView job
Principal / Lead Systems Engineer
micro1VerifiedRemote12d agocontract
Project ManagementCross Disciplinary Technical LeadershipSystem IntegrationVerification & Validation+0
$150–300/hrView job
Open Source Maintainer / Core Contributor – Software Engineer
MercorVerifiedRemote12d agofull-time
Open Source MaintenanceCode ReviewGitGitHub+6
$150/hrView job
Systems Architect / Chief Systems Architect
micro1VerifiedRemote12d agocontract
System Architecture DesignTechnical Trade StudiesInterface & Dependency ManagementTechnical Strategy & Architecture Governance+0
$150–300/hrView job
Software Engineer
TuringVerifiedRemote13d agocontract
PythonJavaScriptReactC+++10
$200/hrView job
Infrastructure / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
MercorVerifiedRemote1mo agopart-time
KubernetesAWSDatadogPrometheus+26
$200/hrView job
Structural Engineer Expert
AfterQueryVerifiedRemote2mo ago
Civil EngineeringStructural EngineeringStructural DesignStructural Analysis+14
$153/hrView job
Legacy Codebase Migration Expert
MercorVerifiedRemote2mo agopart-time
JavaPythonJavaScriptTypeScript+16
$200/hrView job
Pay distribution
- Under $250
- $25–$490
- $50–$990
- $100–$1490
- $150+11
USD hourly midpoints, anomalies excluded. Advertised pay, not earnings.
Top skills
- software architecture
- technical writing
- code review
- python
- screen recording
- ai training
- civil engineering
- distributed systems
- devops
- docker
How these numbers are calculated
NearSkill lists 117 live roles advertised at $150+/hr or more, grouped into 117 role families. Of the 117 USD hourly listings, the median advertised rate is $180/hr. The middle 50% sits between $150 and $237.50/hr, and the full posted range is $150 to $350/hr. These are advertised rates, not earnings.
The largest sources in this set are micro1 (40), Mercor (36), AfterQuery (20), Handshake AI (10). The skills that appear most often are attention to detail, ai model evaluation, patient safety, clinical reasoning, data annotation. 100% of this set is remote.
Eligibility is mixed: 31 listings publish country eligibility explicitly, 0 imply it in the description, 51 do not state it. 35 listings are marked worldwide. Missing eligibility is treated as unknown, not as worldwide.
Figures were computed from the live job feed on November 15, 2026. Counts and pay move as listings are added or closed. NearSkill does not estimate missing pay, and non-USD rates are excluded from the USD medians rather than converted.
Questions, answered
How many roles are live paying $150+/hr or more?
117 active listings on November 15, 2026, grouped into 117 role families. Near-identical language or region variants are grouped so one employer cannot fill the list.
What is the median advertised pay?
$180/hr from 117 USD hourly listings. The middle 50% runs from $150 to $237.50/hr. It is advertised pay, not earnings, and missing pay is not estimated.
Which platforms have the most roles?
micro1 leads with 40 listings, followed by Mercor (36), AfterQuery (20), Handshake AI (10).
Are these roles remote?
100% of this set is remote. Remote describes the work arrangement; it does not guarantee that the employer accepts applicants from every country.
How is country eligibility determined?
Eligibility comes from the listing's country field when it is present, or from explicit eligibility language in the description. 51 listings in this set do not state it, and those are treated as unknown rather than worldwide.