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AI Trainer (SWE)

$60–$120/hr

Published pay. The final rate depends on your test, experience and country.

Remote · Worldwide 100 openings Language: English Posted 9 Nov 2026

AI Trainer (SWE) is remote AI-training work for developers, paying $60–$120/hr, open to applicants worldwide. Posted 9 Nov 2026, still open on 13 Nov 2026. Zekai lists it for free; the application goes to the employer's platform.

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Pay: $60–$120/hour equivalent, paid per accepted task

Location: Global, fully remote

Job Type: Contractor

Time Commitment: 15+ hours per week

Schedule: Flexible

our partner is looking for Software Engineers with prior professional AI-training or model-evaluation experience to support a project focused on improving advanced AI systems.

You will use your software engineering expertise to create challenging technical tasks, evaluate model-generated code, identify failures, and establish objective standards for correct solutions. This role is intended for candidates who have already completed substantive AI-training work.

What You’ll Work On

  • Create realistic software engineering tasks that challenge advanced AI models.
  • Develop task instructions, reproducible environments, reference solutions, tests, and evaluation criteria.
  • Evaluate model-generated code and technical deliverables for correctness, robustness, and completeness.
  • Identify issues involving implementation, debugging, dependencies, performance, testing, or reproducibility.

Required Qualifications

  • Prior paid experience training, evaluating, benchmarking, or improving AI systems.
  • Strong practical proficiency with Python.
  • Professional experience with at least one additional programming language, such as Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Rust, C++, C#, or Go.
  • Strong knowledge of software design, debugging, testing, version control, and dependency management.

Public Proof of Skill

Strong applicants should provide evidence such as:

  • Substantial GitHub or GitLab repositories
  • Meaningful open-source contributions
  • Maintainer or core-contributor responsibilities
  • Codeforces, ICPC, Olympiad, or other programming-competition results
  • Public developer tools, libraries, systems, or technical projects
  • Technical publications, benchmarks, or engineering write-ups

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience creating AI-training tasks, reference solutions, tests, graders, or benchmark problems.
  • Experience reviewing other AI trainers’ technical submissions.
  • Codeforces rating of approximately 1900 or higher, or strong results in another programming competition.
  • Experience with Linux, Docker, CI/CD, command-line tools, or sandboxed environments.
  • Prior experience with long-horizon or agentic coding evaluations.
  • Availability to begin immediately.

Application Process

  • Submit your application, AI-training experience, and public technical evidence.
  • Complete an AI interview containing technical and integrity checks.
  • Complete a hiring-manager review.
  • If selected, complete project onboarding and begin your first assigned task.

Compensation

  • Compensation is output-based. Experts are paid for tasks that meet project specifications and quality requirements. Task availability and completion time may vary.

This is a 100% remote contract role, open to applicants worldwide in the countries the employer accepts.

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Pay
At the published rate, 10 hours a week would be about $600–$1,200 and 20 hours about $1,200–$2,400 before tax. Hours depend on the project, so treat this as a ceiling, not a promise.
Openings
100 openings means this is a high-volume project. You are not competing for one seat: if you pass the test, there is room for you.
Location
Open worldwide in the countries the employer accepts. Payments usually go out through services like PayPal or Wise, so check one of them works in your country.
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