Role directory
Every kind of work that trains AI.
AI-training work is not one job. It spans rating model answers, writing expert reasoning, labeling data, lending a professional credential, and more, and the pay swings enormously by which one you do. Pick the work that fits your background to see what it pays and who hires for it, or browse by platform instead.
By kind of work
12 kinds of AI training work.
Each links to a full breakdown of what the work involves, what it pays across the market, and every platform that offers it, with its open roles right now.
AI Evaluation & Rating (RLHF)
0 open now68 platforms offer it
Rate, rank, and compare model responses so a model learns which answers are better. The backbone of modern alignment work, and an increasingly tiered one: routine rating is commoditizing while the premium moves to credentialed expert evaluation and reinforcement-learning reward signals.
Compiled across platforms and experience levels
Coding & Software Evaluation
0 open now40 platforms offer it
Review, write, and grade code so models can program: bug-finding, code-generation review, agentic-coding evaluation, and worked engineering examples. One of the best-paid categories for people with real software experience.
Compiled across platforms and experience levels
Math & STEM
0 open now30 platforms offer it
Author and verify advanced math, physics, chemistry, and biology problems, including formal proofs. Rare expertise (formal-proof mathematics, physics PhDs) sits at the very top of the pay scale on several platforms.
Compiled across platforms and experience levels
Law, Medicine & Finance
0 open now62 platforms offer it
Credentialed professionals (physicians, attorneys, CPAs, financial analysts, consultants) evaluate model reasoning in their field. The highest-ceiling work in the industry: in 2026 the expert-data premium climbed steeply, with medical, legal, and finance specialists commanding $250–$450/hr and the rarest consulting and executive engagements reaching $500–$1,000/hr for a verifiable license and years of experience.
Compiled across platforms and experience levels
Agentic Tasks & RL Environments
0 open now18 platforms offer it
Build and grade the interactive tasks and reinforcement-learning environments that agentic models train against: author multi-step tool-use scenarios, annotate agent trajectories and reasoning traces, and design verifiable-reward graders. This is the 2026 frontier of AI-training work and one of the best-paid, because it needs real domain judgment rather than volume.
Compiled across platforms and experience levels
Data Annotation & Labeling
0 open now43 platforms offer it
Annotate and label images, video, LiDAR point clouds, and text so models can perceive and categorize the world. Data annotation is the most accessible entry point into AI training, though the simplest labeling is increasingly automated by AI pre-labeling, so pay stays geography-priced with a real floor while budgets shift toward verifiable expert work.
Compiled across platforms and experience levels
Robotics & Physical-AI Data
0 open now5 platforms offer it
Generate and annotate the data that teaches robots and embodied AI to act in the physical world: label robot and egocentric video, annotate vision-language-action (VLA) demonstrations, collect teleoperation and manipulation data, and quality-check robot-perception datasets. This is the newest frontier of AI-training work, growing fast as humanoid and physical-AI labs race to close the real-world data gap that text and images cannot fill.
Compiled across platforms and experience levels
Multilingual & Localization
0 open now34 platforms offer it
Provide native-language data, translation, and dialect expertise, especially for the underserved and low-resource languages frontier labs are racing to cover as they close the multilingual reasoning gap. Native fluency in an in-demand language is a genuine premium skill, not just an entry ramp for non-US workers.
Compiled across platforms and experience levels
Transcription, Audio & Speech
0 open now33 platforms offer it
Transcribe, edit, and annotate recorded speech so AI models can hear and speak, or record your own voice for speech datasets. It spans accessible per-task transcription and voice recording and a fast-growing premium tier: native-language transcription, audio annotation, voice and audio evaluation, and AI-trainer sound engineering now command the top rates.
Compiled across platforms and experience levels
Writing & Content
0 open now17 platforms offer it
Write prompts, craft reference answers, and create or edit content that teaches models to write well. A strong fit for professional writers and educated generalists.
Compiled across platforms and experience levels
Red-Teaming & AI Safety
0 open now21 platforms offer it
Adversarially probe models to find unsafe, biased, or wrong behavior before release. Blends security, domain, and creative skills; pays a premium over generalist rating.
Compiled across platforms and experience levels
Research Studies & Surveys
0 open now9 platforms offer it
Take part in surveys, experiments, and human-preference studies that generate research and evaluation data. Two tiers: low-barrier consumer surveys are flexible supplemental income, while professional and expert panels (B2B interviews, paid expert consultations) pay materially more for verified expertise.
Compiled across platforms and experience levels
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