PhD Researcher: Remote AI Training Expert ($80-$200/hr) - AITraining.jobs (Job)
Description:
AI companies pay PhD researchers to train and test their AI models. You write problems from your own research area that the best models get wrong, with a verified solution, grade a model’s step-by-step reasoning against it, and explain where it went wrong. Some projects add rubric writing or reviewing other experts’ problems. It is remote, hourly contract work, and the hours depend on the project.
Pay: typically $80-$200 an hour, set per project and stated on each role (live figures, October 2026). Remote, flexible hours, contract work you can do alongside your job.
What the roles ask for: Many roles take a master’s or a PhD in progress, and several accept postdoctoral researchers or equivalent research experience; the best-paid ask for a completed doctorate in a named field. Each listing states the degree, the field and the countries it accepts, and platforms ask for proof of the degree when they verify you. Of the 35 open roles for PhDs whose requirements we read, 26 ask for a PhD, 5 a master’s, 3 a bachelor’s or a degree and 1 name no degree.
AITraining.jobs lists 74 open roles of this kind (18 Oct 2026) from platforms such as Alignerr, micro1, Mercor and Turing, each with its pay, the license or degree it asks for and the countries it accepts. Many are open to people in the US. Choose a role on our list and apply on the platform’s own page; applying is free.
About us: AITraining.jobs is a US job site and recruiting partner for AI training work (O-mega Enterprise, Inc., Newark, Delaware). Some platforms pay us when a person we refer starts work; that never changes what you are paid.