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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.

Truelancer
AI Research Benchmarking +12 Engineering Python Analysis Jupyter Testing Education STEM Statistics Mathematics Physics Experimentation Machine Learning
  • United States
  • Up to $115/hr
  • Jul 23, 2026

Research Engineer (AI Evaluation & Benchmarking) – Google DeepMind RE-Bench Project About the Opportunity We are hiring experienced Research Engineers, AI Researchers, Machine Learning Engineers, Applied Scientists, and Research Scientists to contribute to a cutting-edge AI…

AfterQuery
Machine Learning AI Optimization +12 Model Serving Architecture Systems Engineering Engineering Computer Vision vLLM TensorRT-LLM SGLang Quantization Communication Flexible LLM Inference
  • Remote (Global)
  • $125/hr
  • Jul 22, 2026

We're assembling a group of senior software and ML engineers to work on one of the hardest open problems in AI today: how well can frontier models reason about LLM inference systems, GPU-level performance optimization, and model-serving architecture?

TELUS International
AI ASR TTS +12 Accuracy Analysis Linguistics Pronunciation Transcription Editing Segmentation Training Consistency Phonetics Engineering Voice AI
  • Remote (Global)
  • Jul 20, 2026

At TELUS Digital, we are advancing the future of Artificial Intelligence by helping AI systems understand, process, and generate human speech with greater accuracy and naturalness.

Alignerr
Rust Machine Learning Infrastructure +12 AI Training Research Make Flexible Organization Annotation Engineering Microsoft Teams English Communication Writing
  • Remote (Global)
  • $50–$75/hour
  • Jul 14, 2026

What if your mastery of Rust could directly shape the infrastructure powering the next generation of AI models? We're looking for a Principal Rust Engineer to design and build high-performance systems at the heart of real AI research and production workflows — working alongside…

Alignerr
Research AI Organization +12 Machine Learning Creativity Engineering Communication Precision Biology Genomics Bioinformatics Modeling Healthcare Chemistry Astrophysics
  • Remote (Global)
  • $200–$400/hour
  • Jul 14, 2026

What if your years of hard-earned research expertise could directly shape the future of AI? We're looking for domain experts with deep machine learning knowledge to design evaluation challenges that push state-of-the-art AI systems to their limits — the kind of problems only a…

Anyone AI
Research Benchmarking AI +9 Reasoning Calibration Rubrics STEM Machine Learning Writing English Spanish Benchmark Development
  • United States, Latin America
  • Jul 6, 2026

Anyone AI Labs Reports to: CEO · Remote / LatAm / US The role Evaluation is one of the hardest open problems in AI: we still don't have reliable ways to measure what frontier models can and can't do, and the field mostly runs on benchmarks that are saturated, contaminated, or…

Alignerr
Labelbox AI Python +12 TensorFlow PyTorch scikit-learn Scalability Modeling Architecture Logic Problem Solving English Communication Machine Learning Training
  • Remote (Global)
  • $90-120/hr
  • Jun 19, 2026

Labelbox • Remote (United States preferred) Shape the data that powers frontier AI Quick facts - Engagement - Hourly, at‑will contractor- Schedule - Fully remote & asynchronous (min.

Meridial AI
AI Expert - Machine Learning & AI Research Contractor ↘ +4 regions
Python Research STEM +12 Humanities English AI Training Writing Reasoning Annotation English Proficiency AI Training Academic Writing LLM Evaluation Evaluation Frameworks
  • United States, Australia, Canada +1United Kingdom
  • $25/hr
  • Jun 3, 2026

The ideal candidate holds a Masters-equivalent research degree in a STEM, computational, or humanities field and demonstrates native or near-native English proficiency.

Alignerr
Machine Learning Research Data Science +11 Reinforcement Learning LLM Evaluation Model Evaluation Feature Engineering ML Pipelines Scientific Computing Quantitative Analysis Natural Language Processing Signal Processing Research Writing Technical Communication
  • Remote (Global)
  • $200 - $400/hr
  • May 18, 2026

Alignerr is seeking machine learning domain experts to help design advanced evaluation challenges for frontier AI systems. This role focuses on building expert-level machine learning evaluation tasks that test the limits of state-of-the-art AI models using deep scientific and…

Meridial AI
AI Expert - Machine Learning & AI Research Contractor ↘ +4 regions
Python Research STEM +12 Humanities English AI Training Writing Reasoning Annotation English Proficiency AI Training Academic Writing LLM Evaluation Evaluation Frameworks
  • United States, Australia, Canada +1United Kingdom
  • $25/hr
  • May 11, 2026

The ideal candidate holds a PhD (or Masters-equivalent research degree) in a STEM, computational, or humanities field and demonstrates native or near-native English proficiency.

NVIDIA
Reinforcement Learning AI Infrastructure +12 Training Engineering Open Source Microsoft Teams Experimentation Network Fundamentals Machine Learning Python C++ Communication RLHF DPO
  • United States (US: CA)
  • From $184,000/yr
  • Apr 23, 2026

Reinforcement learning post-training is driving some of the most significant capability gains in AI today. It is the process that teaches a model to reason through hard problems, follow complex instructions, and act as an autonomous agent.

Meridial AI
AI Quality Assurance Education +12 Research Microsoft Teams Reasoning Assurance Testing Verification Compliance Consistency Prompt Injection Accuracy Rubrics Engineering
  • Remote (Global)
  • $6 – $65/hr
  • Mar 9, 2026

Are you an AI QA expert eager to shape the future of AI? Large-scale language models are evolving from clever chatbots into enterprise-grade platforms.

Meridial AI
AI Modeling Reasoning +12 Problem Solving Training Robotics Mapping Precision Transformations Geometry Consistency Accuracy Research Mathematics Engineering
  • United States
  • $8 – $65/hr
  • Mar 9, 2026

Are you an experienced Homography specialist eager to shape the future of AI? Large-scale language models and computer vision systems are evolving rapidly, moving beyond basic perception into advanced mathematical modeling, spatial reasoning, and applied problem-solving.

Meridial AI
Machine Learning AI Testing +12 Education Engineering Reasoning Research Writing Rubrics LLMs Optimization Transformers Natural Language Processing Training Modeling
  • United States
  • $30 – $50/hr
  • Feb 12, 2026

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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