What the 173 open Software Engineering AI training jobs that publish an hourly rate pay today. Computed from live listings, never estimated.
| Platform | Jobs with a rate | Median | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mercor | 34 | $95/hr | $50-250/hr |
| DataAnnotation | 9 | $95/hr | $40-150/hr |
| micro1 | 21 | $75/hr | $30-300/hr |
| Alignerr | 106 | $63/hr | $15-120/hr |
| Expertise | Jobs with a rate | Median | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Teaming | 21 | $90/hr | $15-250/hr |
| AI Safety | 11 | $90/hr | $15-120/hr |
| Adversarial Testing | 19 | $83/hr | $15-150/hr |
| Kubernetes & Docker | 13 | $80/hr | $20-200/hr |
| Code Quality & Review | 107 | $75/hr | $20-300/hr |
| AI Evaluation | 104 | $75/hr | $15-280/hr |
| Full-Stack Engineering | 37 | $75/hr | $35-300/hr |
| Java & TypeScript | 34 | $75/hr | $20-300/hr |
| DevOps & Infrastructure | 23 | $75/hr | $20-200/hr |
| Frontend Development | 21 | $75/hr | $25-300/hr |
A job counts in each area of expertise it asks for. Rows need at least 8 published rates.
You maintain one or several open source repositories and are invited to evaluate code patches generated by AI models, providing detailed and justified feedback. This role allows AI systems to benefit from your domain expertise to progress, with no specific artificial intelligence prerequisites.
Posted August 14, 2026
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You will evaluate code generated by AI models by examining its correctness, quality, and design. You will also participate in creating complex engineering problems, reference solutions, and test cases to train AI models on realistic software tasks. This role is for senior software engineers who have worked at major technology companies.
Posted August 27, 2026
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This role involves evaluating advanced AI systems on their ability to analyze complex cybersecurity scenarios, identify vulnerabilities and propose exploits. The ideal candidate is an experienced offensive security researcher with publicly recognized technical contributions and deep expertise in vulnerability research and security engineering.
Posted August 4, 2026
A senior-level role at a fundamental AI models laboratory: you will participate in enhancing the capabilities of a model on complex software engineering tasks. This role is suited for senior software engineers with solid experience from leading technology companies.
Posted July 19, 2025
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
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FAQ
Among the 173 open Software Engineering jobs that publish an hourly rate in USD, the median published rate is $70 per hour, and half of them fall between $60 and $90. Published rates run from $15 to $300 per hour.
By median published rate on today's open Software Engineering jobs: Mercor $95 per hour (34 jobs), DataAnnotation $95 per hour (9 jobs), micro1 $75 per hour (21 jobs), Alignerr $63 per hour (106 jobs). A platform with fewer than 8 published rates in this field is not ranked.
From the Software Engineering jobs open on SideHustler today. For each job that publishes an hourly rate in USD we take the middle of its published range, then compute the median and the quartiles. 8 open Software Engineering jobs do not publish an hourly rate and are left out.
No. These are the rates platforms publish on their postings, not a guarantee of income or hours. What you earn depends on the project, the hours available and the platform's terms.
