Curated remote opportunities

Remote AI Expert - Machine Learning & AI Research Jobs in United States 2026

48 remote jobs open to candidates in United States in AI Expert - Machine Learning & AI Research. Updated daily.

RustLabs AI
Machine Learning AI Training +5 Rubrics Go MATCH AI Training Data Science
  • Remote (Global)
  • $20 – $100/hr
  • Oct 30, 2026

Design the evaluations and rubrics that show where models go wrong. Build evals, write rubrics, and review training data and model pipelines. What you would do Design evaluations and benchmarks. Write rubrics that turn judgment into clear criteria.

AfterQuery
Machine Learning Research AI +9 Computer Vision Triton Education REST API GitHub Flexible ML Systems AI Agents Computer Science
  • Remote (Global)
  • $80/hr
  • Oct 29, 2026

Paid, remote contract work turning published ML systems and GPU kernels research into coding tasks for frontier AI agents. For PhD-level researchers and research engineers who publish and ship code.

Turing
Machine Learning AI Training +12 Engineering Programming Architecture Mathematics Research Reasoning Accuracy Logic LangGraph CrewAI STEM Physics
  • Remote (Global)
  • $30 per approved task
  • Oct 26, 2026

We are building LLM evaluation and training datasets to train LLM to work on realistic software engineering problems. One of our approaches in this project is to build verifiable SWE tasks based on public repository histories in a synthetic approach with human-in-the-loop; while…

Gramian Consulting Group
AI Expert - Machine Learning & AI Research Contractor ↘ +6 regions
Research Engineering Leadership +12 Microsoft Teams AI Training Optimization Python Education English Infrastructure Command Line Algorithms ROOT Compliance
  • United States, Canada, Mexico +3Costa RicaPanamaGuatemala
  • Oct 26, 2026

Gramian Consultancy is a boutique consultancy specializing in IT professional services and engineering talent solutions. With a strong background in software engineering and leadership, we help companies build high-performing teams by matching them with professionals who truly…

Micro1
Flexible AI Training +12 Optimization Python Machine Learning Engineering Debugging Infrastructure Command Line Mathematics Statistics Research Organization Open Source
  • Remote (Global)
  • $60 – $120/hr
  • Oct 23, 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…

Micro1
Flexible AI Training +12 Optimization Python Machine Learning Engineering Debugging Infrastructure Command Line Mathematics Statistics Research Organization Open Source
  • Remote (Global)
  • $60 – $120/hr
  • Oct 23, 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…

Mercor
MLOps Profiling AI +12 GenAI Machine Learning Infrastructure Programming Analysis Debugging JAX XLA Training Writing Pallas Research
  • Remote (Global)
  • $90 – $120/hr
  • Oct 22, 2026

Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge GenAI team to be at the core of the AI revolution, where your expertise fuels the development of the most advanced Large Language Models. 1.

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
AI Expert - Machine Learning & AI Research Full-time ↻ Reposted ↘ +3 regions
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.

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) (not 57 countries)
  • $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)
  • $272,000 – $431,250/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?

Workbolt
AI Expert - Machine Learning & AI Research Contractor Talent pool ↻ Reposted
AI Flexible Engineering +12 Debugging Documentation Machine Learning Python PyTorch TensorFlow Monitoring MLOps Onboarding Machine Learning Engineering Data Pipelines Experiment Design
  • Remote (Global)
  • $70 – $250/hr
  • Aug 22, 2026

Join Workbolt AI’s Machine Learning Engineer Talent Network to be considered for flexible contract opportunities with AI labs and technology companies seeking experienced machine learning engineering professionals.

Stay in the loop.

One email per week, 5 hand-picked roles.