Remote AI training jobs in the United States

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.

598
open jobs
45
posted this week
$70/hr
median published rate
$400/hr
highest published rate
7
platforms hiring

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.

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  • Data & Machine Learning
  • Platform: Mercor
  • Location: United States

This role involves evaluating and judging AI models as a machine learning expert, providing the critical expertise that research teams cannot generate alone. You will use your practical experience to assess modeling problems, training code, and production approaches, explaining your reasoning clearly. This permanent roster recruits machine learning practitioners ready to participate in AI training and evaluation projects.

Posted September 15, 2026

OpenRecently verified$70-120/hr

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  • Data & Machine Learning
  • Platform: Mercor
  • Location: United States
  • Level: Intermediate

This role involves designing and evaluating MLOps infrastructure tasks for training large language models, in the areas of GPU programming, performance profiling, debugging distributed workloads, and high-performance inference. You will generate quality training data by writing precise technical solutions and providing detailed feedback to research and engineering teams. This role targets engineers with confirmed hands-on expertise in ML systems and infrastructure, capable of reasoning about trade-offs between throughput, latency, and memory on modern accelerators.

Posted September 15, 2026

OpenRecently verified$90-120/hr

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  • Data & Machine Learning
  • Platform: micro1
  • Location: 58 countries

This role consists of building a photographic dataset to train and evaluate artificial intelligence systems. You are recruited as a pair of twins to photograph and submit images of yourselves, individually or together, following simple instructions, then answer a short questionnaire. The project takes place entirely remotely via your smartphone.

Posted September 14, 2026

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  • Data & Machine Learning
  • Platform: Mercor
  • Location: United States

This role involves using EViews, specialized software for econometric analysis and time series modeling, to perform statistical analysis work and economic forecasting. You must have the software installed on your own Windows computer and be able to document your work through high-resolution screenshots.

Posted September 13, 2026

OpenRecently verified$45-55/hr

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  • Data & Machine Learning
  • Platform: Mercor
  • Location: United States

This role involves evaluating and testing specialized applications in scientific computing, particularly MATLAB on Windows. You will use your own software environment to capture visual data and validate the functioning of numerical computation, simulation, and signal processing tools.

Posted September 13, 2026

OpenRecently verified$45-55/hr

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  • Data & Machine Learning
  • Platform: Mercor
  • Location: United States

This role involves leveraging your advanced Excel expertise to improve the training of generative AI models. You will design realistic Excel tasks drawn from your professional experience, provide structured solutions, and evaluate the work of other experts to ensure the quality of training data. The ideal profile is a versatile generalist who has applied Excel at a high level across multiple sectors and business functions.

Posted September 12, 2026

OpenRecently verified$70-100/hr

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  • Data & Machine Learning
  • Platform: micro1
  • Location: 58 countries

This role involves developing and validating machine learning models, training pipelines and inference systems as part of an AI training project. The role is heavily focused on Python programming and requires confirmed expertise in machine learning engineering, with the ability to implement, optimize and debug complex solutions.

Posted September 11, 2026

OpenRecently verified$80-150/hr

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  • Data & Machine Learning
  • Platform: micro1
  • Location: 58 countries

Help improve artificial intelligence systems by providing your photos and information about yourself. This remote data collection role is for people aged 50 and older, whose representation is often insufficient in AI model training data.

Posted September 10, 2026

OpenRecently verified$139-140/hr

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  • Data & Machine Learning
  • Platform: micro1
  • Location: 58 countries

This remote contract role involves annotating video footage of robotic arms performing assigned tasks, tagging key actions and outcomes and marking frame-accurate start and end timestamps. It suits senior annotators who can apply detailed grading guidelines, check timing alignment, and keep consistent standards with a team.

Posted September 10, 2026

OpenRecently verified$21-35/hr

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  • Data & Machine Learning
  • Platform: micro1
  • Location: 58 countries

This role invites experienced data analysts to examine and validate large business datasets to contribute to the training of AI systems. The job combines critical data analysis, strict confidentiality compliance, and formulating recommendations to ensure the quality of information for machine learning.

Posted September 9, 2026

OpenRecently verified$31-60/hr

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  • Data & Machine Learning
  • Platform: micro1
  • Location: 58 countries

This role involves contributing to the creation of an image dataset as a member of a sibling group. You will take and submit photographs of yourself according to precise instructions, then answer a short questionnaire. The project aims to train AI systems to recognize visual similarities between family members.

Posted September 9, 2026

OpenRecently verified$139-140/hr

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  • Data & Machine Learning
  • Platform: Mercor
  • Location: United States
  • Language: Norwegian

This role consists of evaluating and strengthening the safety of advanced AI models by analyzing their behavior on sensitive topics in Norwegian. You will use your bilingual proficiency (English-Norwegian) and cultural judgment to identify gaps and bypass attempts, with no prior AI experience required.

Posted September 4, 2026

OpenRecently verified$58-62/hr

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  • Data & Machine Learning
  • Platform: Mercor
  • Location: United States
  • Language: Turkish

You will participate in improving AI model safety by evaluating how they handle sensitive subjects in Turkish. Your linguistic and cultural judgments will help identify and strengthen weaknesses in these systems when facing delicate content. No prior AI experience is required.

Posted September 4, 2026

OpenRecently verified$23-27/hr

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  • Data & Machine Learning
  • Platform: Terac
  • Location: United States

This study invites machine learning engineers and AI researchers to build test scenarios on a remote reinforcement learning platform. Participants set environmental parameters, define spatial constraints and agent interaction rules, run preliminary agent tests, and then share usability feedback in an interview. It is aimed at people with hands-on experience in simulation design and RL environments.

Posted September 3, 2026

  • Data & Machine Learning
  • Platform: Terac
  • Location: United States

This project asks evaluators to examine how a digital shopping assistant answers real e-commerce questions and to locate where its reasoning or product suggestions fall short. The work is remote and ongoing, and it is aimed at people with quality assurance, data evaluation, or e-commerce backgrounds who can build structured evaluation frameworks.

Posted September 2, 2026

  • Data & Machine Learning
  • Platform: Mercor
  • Location: United States
  • Level: Intermediate

You will evaluate the methodological quality and scientific rigor of machine learning tasks designed to train and test models at a cutting-edge AI laboratory. You will provide structured feedback on experimental design, model selection and evaluation protocols, critiquing claims against observed results.

Posted August 28, 2026

OpenRecently verified$70-90/hr

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  • Data & Machine Learning
  • Platform: micro1
  • Location: 58 countries

This role involves transcribing polyphonic musical recordings into structured scores, separating soprano, alto, tenor, and bass voices from a mono mix and generating accurate MusicXML scores. The job requires a combination of advanced musical skills (ear training, harmony, voice leading) and technical Python capabilities to analyze audio spectra and automate the transcription workflow.

Posted August 26, 2026

OpenRecently verified$50-100/hr

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  • Data & Machine Learning
  • Platform: Terac
  • Location: United States

This is a paid one-hour trial for people who know a professional or personal workflow well. Participants turn that workflow into a demanding prompt, test it in ChatGPT to find where the model fails, and make the prompt harder when the model succeeds. The work suits domain experts and power users who can judge AI outputs quickly and who are open to ongoing evaluation work.

Posted August 25, 2026

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  • Data & Machine Learning
  • Platform: micro1
  • Location: 58 countries
  • Level: Intermediate

Join a team of data analysts to evaluate AI assistants in realistic analytical workflows. You will perform structured tasks simulating common use cases (anomaly investigations, KPI reporting, data refreshing) using AI-powered solutions connected to cloud data warehouses. Your domain expertise in data analysis will help train the next generation of AI systems.

Posted August 18, 2026

OpenRecently verified$50-60/hr

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Questions about AI training jobs in the United States

How many AI training jobs in the United States are open right now?

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.

How much do AI training jobs in the United States pay?

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.

Which platforms offer AI training jobs in the United States?

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.

What skills do AI training jobs in the United States ask for most?

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.

How do you know a job accepts applicants from the United States?

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.

How do I apply?

Apply now opens the official posting on the platform, where you complete the application. You need no account on SideHustler. To see which roles fit your background first, add your resume and every open job is scored against your profile.