ML Engineer Specialist - Freelance AI Trainer Project

At a glance

Pay

$30–$50/hrStated by Meridial

Location

United States of America

Experience

Prior work in ML, NLP, or data science

Education

Preferred: graduate degree (Master's or PhD) in CS, ML, or data science

Work type

Coding / software engineering

Listed

Since Jul 19, last confirmed Oct 24

The work

Solve applied machine learning problems that probe and strengthen AI model reasoning, moving from simple baselines to optimized workflows.

What you would do

• Iterate on applied machine learning problems, moving from baselines to optimized workflows
• Assess research paper abstracts and introductions with reviewer rubrics, judging how clear, correct, and impactful they are
• Create new benchmark tasks with evaluation scripts and reference implementations

You're a fit if you

• have a strong grounding in ML, NLP, or data science
• can code in Python, use ML frameworks, and run workflows in the cloud
• have worked with supervised and unsupervised methods, deep and reinforcement learning, probabilistic models, and applied NLP
• can explain your reasoning clearly

Summarised by HumanSourcer from Meridial’s listing. Check the listing before you apply.

How the pay compares

Higher than 22% of the 130 distinct hourly rates advertised for Coding / software engineering roles right now. Hourly USD, top of each advertised range, one count per distinct rate. Same method as the Pay Index.

From Meridial’s listing

“Do you enjoy Kaggle-style problem solving, iterating on models, testing ideas, and driving performance gains? Now imagine doing that as paid work, where your solutions directly strengthen the world’s most advanced AI systems.”

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