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Remote AI Expert - Machine Learning & AI Research Jobs in North America 2026

42 remote jobs open to candidates in North America in AI Expert - Machine Learning & AI Research. Updated daily.

Mercor
STEM Research AI +12 macOS Physics Chemistry Biology Mathematics Engineering Python Jupyter MATLAB LaTeX Analysis Reasoning
  • Remote (Global)
  • $50 – $60/hr
  • Oct 18, 2026

Mercor is looking for STEM researchers who hold or are currently pursuing an MSc or PhD to support a research project with a leading AI lab. You will work through real research workflows on your own Mac to help benchmark and improve cutting-edge AI models.

Scale AI
Research AI Monitoring +12 Alignment Auditing Testing Prompt Injection Fine-Tuning MATCH Make Analysis Writing Communications Machine Learning Statistics
  • Canada, United Kingdom, United States
  • $100/hr
  • Oct 16, 2026

The Human Frontier Collective (HFC) brings researchers and scientists together to tackle consequential problems in AI. In partnership with Scale Labs, we are building a small cohort of researchers to work on the empirical foundations of AI safety.

Micro1
Machine Learning Flexible AI +12 Training Optimization Python Engineering Debugging Infrastructure Command Line Mathematics Statistics Research Organization Open Source
  • Remote (Global)
  • $60 – $120/hr
  • Oct 16, 2026

Job Type: Contractor (~15 hours per week) Schedule: Flexible—you choose the hours and days you work, including weekends if desired We are looking for highly skilled Machine Learning Experts to contribute to an AI training project involving model development, training and…

AfterQuery
Research AI Analysis +10 Machine Learning Statistics Mathematics Python PyTorch JAX Machine Learning Research Experiment Design Computer Science Deep Learning
  • Remote (Global)
  • $115/hr
  • Oct 7, 2026

AfterQuery builds the expert evaluation data that frontier AI labs use to measure and improve their models. We're hiring machine learning researchers as contractors to author and solve the analysis problems those evaluations run on, drawn from your own research: experiment…

RemoExperts
AI Engineering Machine Learning +12 Training Rubrics Reasoning Calibration Statistics Python PyTorch TensorFlow English Fine-Tuning AI Training Annotation
  • Remote (Global)
  • USD $75–150 per hour, adjusted by country of residence.
  • Oct 2, 2026

We are looking for machine learning engineers to help train and evaluate AI models on machine learning and LLM engineering tasks. You will design tasks, review AI-generated ML code and methodology, and write the reference answers that models are measured against.

Turing
Research AI Reinforcement Learning +12 Training Reasoning STEM Finance Sales Collaboration Engineering Algorithms Operations Microsoft Teams Strategic Thinking Interpretation
  • Remote (Global)
  • Sep 29, 2026

Based in San Francisco, California, Turing is the world’s leading research accelerator for frontier AI labs and a trusted partner for global enterprises deploying advanced AI systems.

DataAnnotation.tech
AI Expert - Machine Learning & AI Research Contractor ↘ +6 regions
Reasoning Training Dynamics +12 Machine Learning Debugging AI MLOps Python PyTorch JAX English Make Flexible Data Pipelines ML Systems
  • Australia, Canada, Ireland +3New ZealandUnited KingdomUnited States
  • Up to $150+/hr
  • Sep 22, 2026

Models are surprisingly bad at reasoning about themselves: training dynamics, evaluation design, data pipelines, and deployment trade-offs. Plausible-sounding ML advice is often subtly wrong.

Weekday
MLOps Profiling AI +12 GenAI Infrastructure Programming Analysis Debugging Training Writing Machine Learning Research Engineering Microsoft Teams Rubrics
  • United States, Canada, United Kingdom
  • $90 – $120/hr
  • Sep 17, 2026

Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge GenAI team and help build foundational AI models from the ground up. We're seeking MLOps Engineers with hands-on experience in large language model infrastructure across any of four areas: GPU kernel programming, performance profiling and…

Mercor
Research Microsoft Teams AI +10 Training MATCH Writing Modeling Communication Reasoning Machine Learning AI Training Professional Experience Written communication
  • Remote (Global)
  • $70 – $120/hr
  • Sep 15, 2026

The research teams behind the best-known AI models come to Mercor for machine learning judgment they can't generate on their own. Your standards and expertise become the rubric that frontier AI is graded against.

AfterQuery
Machine Learning Research AI +12 Education Annotation Robotics Optimization Forecasting Reasoning Statistics Mathematics Writing Training Flexible Remote Work
  • Remote (Global)
  • $150/hr
  • Sep 15, 2026

Paid, remote work authoring and validating research-grade ML benchmark tasks. For Master's or PhD-level ML researchers with at least one first-author paper.

Meridial AI
Machine Learning AI Sourcing +12 Audit Training Auditing Algorithms Logic PyTorch TensorFlow Problem Solving Insurance AI Training Model Training Professional Experience
  • Remote (Global)
  • From $60/hr
  • Sep 4, 2026

<< Insert Job Description Here>> Project Overview We are sourcing experienced technical specialists in Machine Learning to audit tasks used to train and evaluate AI systems.

NVIDIA
Engineering Reinforcement Learning Microsoft Teams +12 AI Training Network Fundamentals Open Source Infrastructure Strategic Thinking SGLang Kubernetes Leadership Architecture Benchmarking Management
  • United States (US: CA, DC, MA +2)
  • From $272,000/yr
  • Aug 25, 2026

Open to candidates in Washington D.C., New York, Washington, California and Massachusetts only. Can you bring together globally distributed teams and the systems they build into a production-quality reinforcement learning ecosystem for researchers and model builders?

Mercor
Research Training Machine Learning +12 Make Accuracy Quantization Distillation Modeling Fine-Tuning DPO RLHF RLAIF Calibration PyTorch JAX
  • Remote (Global)
  • $100 – $120/hr
  • Aug 5, 2026

We're looking for experienced machine learning researchers with hands-on experience training and improving deep learning models end-to-end, across vision and language. You'll work on well-scoped empirical open-ended ML research problems.

AfterQuery
Machine Learning Research Engineering +11 Optimization Infrastructure AI Education Communication Flexible Kernel Optimization Professional Experience Written communication Structured Feedback Remote Work
  • Remote (Global)
  • $135/hr
  • Aug 4, 2026

We're building a research cohort of senior domain experts in ML inference and GPU kernel engineering — spanning inference serving systems, kernel optimization, and large-model deployment infrastructure — to help evaluate how frontier AI models reason about hard, real-world…

Weekday
AI Research Reasoning +12 Segmentation Python Testing Accuracy Rubrics Training PyTorch TensorFlow Optimization Communication Annotation Benchmarking
  • United States
  • $80 – $110/hr
  • Jul 29, 2026

Join a cutting-edge AI research initiative and help shape the next generation of frontier AI models. We are seeking experienced Computer Vision Experts to serve as subject matter experts, designing challenging real-world vision tasks, creating high-quality reference solutions,…

Weekday
Natural Language Processing AI Research +12 Training Reasoning LLMs Python Testing Rubrics Machine Learning Consistency Accuracy Engineering Optimization PyTorch
  • United States
  • $80 – $110/hr
  • Jul 29, 2026

Join a cutting-edge AI research initiative and help shape the next generation of frontier AI models. We are seeking experienced Machine Learning & NLP Experts to contribute their technical expertise toward training and evaluating advanced AI systems.

Turing
Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Statistics +13 Prompt Engineering Deep Learning Large Language Models (LLMs) Generative AI Reinforcement Learning representation-learning Computer Vision Natural Language Processing Optimization Python PyTorch TensorFlow research-evaluation
  • Remote (Global)
  • Jul 26, 2026

Evaluate AI-generated reproductions of machine learning research papers, assess technical correctness and research quality, and help improve frontier AI systems using your expertise in ML, AI, or Statistics.

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