ML/AI Expert — Earn Up to $150/hr

Earn up to $150 USD/hr training AI with your machine learning expertise Earn up to $150/hr training AI models with Outlier.ai. Put your ML/AI expertise to work evaluating frontier models remotely on your schedule. Apply now. ML/AI Expert — Earn Up to $150/hr | Outlier AI Apply Now Write and debug ML code, evaluate model outputs, and work on your own schedule — apply in minutes with no long-term commitment required See Common Tasks Work Remotely Up to $150 USD/hr Contribute to real AI research PhD PAY RATE LOCATION Global DEGREE REQ. Masters Earn Up to $150 USD/hr - Plus additional incentives Rates vary based on expertise and project requirements. Paid via PayPal and AirTM Remote - Global Choose your own schedule. Most experts spend 5-10 hrs/week, up to 40 hours Use GPT, Claude, and more — completely free Over $200/month in AI access, included at no extra cost. About the Role Responsibilities Ideal Qualification Compensation Application Process FAQs Outlier is the world's leading expert platform, connecting an elite network of contributors to train AI for OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft — ensuring the future of AI is built by the people who understand it best. 900K+ Outlier Experts $600M+ Paid Out Countries Responsibilites Review ML papers. Analyze research papers on ML, systems, and optimization to build challenge problems for agents that learn through recursive feedback. Build evals. Write the automated graders and verifiers that score an agent’s attempt and set the rewards. Catch reward hacking. Author LLM-judged rubrics that distinguish a genuine solve from an agent gaming the metric or hard-coding its way to a high score. Test with frontier models. Run top models against your problem and check that stronger ones outperform weaker ones — and that performance climb across the recursive iterations. Analyze the trajectories. Review what the model actually did across iterations, diagnose where it failed, and confirm gains come from the feedback loop, not luck. Document it. Capture the problem design, why it’s hard, how each model performed, and what the failure modes reveal. Common Tasks Write a prompt Write simple prompts that will act as a starting point for AI models Edit Preview Correct AI-models chain of thought Review, analyze, and rank AI-models chains of thought for correctness and approach Step 1 Response Step 2 Response Improve Approve Step 3 Response A completed Bachelor's or higher in Computer Science, Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics / Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Electrical or Computer Engineering, Physics, Computational Linguistics / NLP, Robotics, Operations Research, Computational Neuroscience, Computational Biology / Bioinformatics, Software Engineering, or Data Science Either 2+ years in a hands-on Machine Learning / AI role at a frontier AI lab, a Big Tech AI org, an AI-native startup or AI data company, or a comparable corporate research lab or well-funded AI product company, or 3+ years of hands-on Machine Learning / AI work at any employer with evidence of models built, trained, fine-tuned, or evaluated personally Ability to write clearly and precisely about Machine Learning and AI concepts in fluent English Currently accepting applicants from: On average, contributors earn an additional 7.5% through Missions — Outlier's version of surge pricing. The top quartile boosts their earnings by an average of 11%. ** Join a Network of Elite Medical Professionals Work flexibly from anywhere, anytime - no minimum hours Free access to leading LLMs — worth $200+/month Create an account on Outlier Upload your resume and tell us about your background Upload your valid ID and add your phone number Start earning by completing tasks Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) What is Outlier? How is it related to Scale AI? What's the expected time commitment for participants? When and how will I be paid? How can I get support? Who do I contact with questions as I onboard? What do I need to sign up for this opportunity? Will I be an Outlier employee? Who else will be a part of the program? Have more questions? View more FAQs here ** Rates vary based on expertise, skills assessment, location, project need, and other factors. For example, higher rates may be offered to PhDs. 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