598 open roles accept applicants living in the United States, based on the countries each platform publishes. The work is remote, and pay is published by the platform, usually in US dollars.
Pay figures cover the 546 open jobs that publish an hourly rate in USD. They are published rates, not a guarantee of income. Last checked on October 8, 2026.
Research role focused on evaluating code generation by LLMs: designing evaluation frameworks and criteria.
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Participants work on their own real projects using an AI coding assistant in a terminal while each session is recorded for an AI research organization. The role suits both experienced developers and non-coders who build with AI tools.
Posted October 7, 2026
This full-time role involves building, running and improving highly available cloud infrastructure, mainly on AWS and Kubernetes, for complex enterprise production systems. It suits experienced infrastructure, SRE, DevOps or platform engineers who can debug incidents, build observability with tools like Datadog, and work closely with software teams.
Posted October 7, 2026
This contract role centers on testing 2D design, animation, illustration and other creative applications through realistic designer and animator workflows. The work is to find bugs and usability problems, document them clearly, and help improve how AI systems are evaluated. It suits QA professionals who also know creative software well.
Posted October 7, 2026
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This contract role asks an experienced mobile engineer to design realistic coding challenges that test how well AI models handle mobile software problems such as bug fixing, feature building, refactoring and performance work. For each challenge the expert builds a reproducible environment, writes verifiers that accept varied correct solutions and reject shortcuts, and provides a reference solution. It suits developers with deep hands-on experience in React Native, Flutter, SwiftUI, UIKit, Jetpack Compose or Android Views.
Posted October 7, 2026
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This is a paid evaluation role for database engineers who will design realistic tasks that test how well AI agents handle database work. Each task is a self-contained problem with a reproducible environment, a working reference solution, tests, and grading criteria that separate robust engineering from code that only looks correct. It is aimed at experts with deep database-engine internals experience, not at DBA, SQL analytics, or ETL-only profiles.
Posted October 6, 2026
You will contribute to training next-generation AI models by creating realistic coding tasks and implementing deterministic verifiers. This flexible contracting role is aimed at experienced backend engineers capable of generating relevant technical challenges and automatically evaluating solutions.
Posted October 6, 2026
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You will help train AI models by creating realistic programming tasks and deterministic validators. This flexible contractor role will allow you to leverage your backend development experience to design relevant challenges for AI to solve.
Posted October 3, 2026
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This remote study asks practicing software engineers to review programming tasks and the evaluation harnesses built to test AI agents on them. You will check whether the tasks, test cases and environment structure reflect realistic software engineering work. It suits engineers with solid experience building, testing and reviewing complex systems.
Posted October 2, 2026
Mercor is recruiting experienced software and firmware engineers to support an AI research initiative with a major technology organization. The job involves evaluating and improving complex engineering solutions involving embedded systems, firmware, FPGA/RTL designs, flight software and hardware test workflows, drawing on hands-on experience with physical products and real-world debugging.
Posted September 26, 2026
Mercor is recruiting operational cybersecurity experts to participate in video research interviews designed to create a benchmark of AI agents in enterprise defense. This short, well-paid job involves sharing your practical experience on tools, decision-making processes, and the potential impact of AI in your field.
Posted September 23, 2026
This role involves leveraging your cybersecurity expertise to train next-generation AI systems. You will use Security Onion to execute security workflows, analyze alerts and network traffic, then document your approaches to create quality training data for AI models. The ideal profile combines solid hands-on experience with Security Onion and the ability to clearly communicate technical steps.
Posted September 23, 2026
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You will evaluate AI-generated content (presentations, spreadsheets, documents) in the software engineering domain, assessing their quality and applicability in professional contexts. Your technical expertise and deep knowledge of software development will enable you to identify factual, aesthetic, and presentation errors to provide structured and reliable feedback. This role suits an experienced software engineer capable of critically reviewing AI-generated work with rigor.
Posted September 21, 2026
You will contribute to training AI models by applying your expertise in cybersecurity and software development. You will analyze vulnerabilities, fix bugs, implement features and perform security audits on various projects. This role is aimed at experienced engineers in information security and backend development.
Posted September 21, 2026
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You will create realistic programming tasks and verifiers to train AI systems, leveraging your expertise in backend development and your awareness of software security issues. This role is for experienced engineers in service architecture and security best practices, with no AI prerequisite.
Posted September 20, 2026
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This role involves creating realistic programming problems and implementing checkers to train next-generation AI systems. You will leverage your backend development expertise to design coding tasks involving feature implementation and bug fixes, as well as to automatically validate solutions proposed by AI.
Posted September 20, 2026
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You will create reinforcement learning environments to test the ability of AI models to solve complex competitive programming problems. For each problem, you will develop a reference solution, design robust validators, and build a comprehensive test suite. This role is for competitive programming experts capable of working autonomously in remote work.
Posted September 16, 2026
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This role involves contributing to an AI training project as an open source software engineer. You will explore unfamiliar repositories, implement and debug front-end and back-end components, and evaluate patches generated by AI. The ideal candidate is an experienced developer with significant contributions to established open source projects.
Posted September 16, 2026
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This remote contract role allows you to contribute to an AI training project as a senior full-stack engineer. The tasks involve developing, debugging, evaluating, and refactoring software components covering both front-end and back-end, as well as translating code from one language to another.
Posted September 16, 2026
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Mercor is looking for experienced software engineers to evaluate and rate code generated by AI models. You will be asked to write engineering problem statements, examine AI solutions for production robustness, and identify hidden defects. This role is aimed at developers with solid industrial experience and excellent ability to document their technical analysis.
Posted September 15, 2026
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FAQ
598 AI training jobs in the United States are open on SideHustler today. 45 were posted in the last 7 days. Listings are rechecked against the official postings: the latest check on this list was on October 8, 2026.
Among the 546 open roles that publish an hourly rate in USD, pay runs from $6 to $400 per hour, with a median of $70. These are the rates the platforms publish, not a guarantee of income or hours.
Mercor (284), micro1 (276), Mindrift (15), Terac (11), Handshake AI (7), xAI (4) and Turing (1). You apply on the platform itself, which handles screening, contracts and payment.
The most requested areas of expertise on these listings are AI Evaluation, Data Annotation, Content Annotation, Multilingual Expertise, Language Evaluation. Each listing states its own requirements.
Each job listed here comes from a posting where the platform publishes the countries it accepts, and United States is among them. 616 other open jobs do not publish their eligible countries: they are in the full catalog but not on this page.
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