Meridial (Invisible)Coding & software eval
SWE Infrastructure Specialist (JS/TS/Python) – Freelance AI Trainer Project
up to $150/hr
About this role, in Meridial (Invisible)'s words
Are you a software engineer with deep infrastructure expertise and a systems-level mindset eager to shape the future of AI? Large-scale language models are increasingly responsible for reasoning about real-world systems, cloud architectures, and performance-critical infrastructure. With high-quality expert training data, tomorrow’s AI can better design, evaluate, and operate complex software systems at scale. That training data begins with you.
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Are you a software engineer with deep infrastructure expertise and a systems-level mindset eager to shape the future of AI? Large-scale language models are increasingly responsible for reasoning about real-world systems, cloud architectures, and performance-critical infrastructure. With high-quality expert training data, tomorrow’s AI can better design, evaluate, and operate complex software systems at scale. That training data begins with you.
We’re looking for SWE Infrastructure Specialists fluent in JavaScript, TypeScript, and Python who specialize in systems thinking, software and infrastructure architecture, performance optimization, and quality engineering. You’ll challenge advanced language models on realistic infrastructure and platform scenarios involving cloud design, Infrastructure-as-Code abstractions, deployment workflows, scalability constraints, and failure modes. This work focuses on evaluating how models reason about architectural tradeoffs, abstraction layers, environment isolation, state management, and reliability across distributed systems.
On a typical day, you will converse with the model on infrastructure and platform engineering tasks using JavaScript, TypeScript, and Python, verify architectural soundness and logical correctness, assess code quality and testing strategies, analyze performance bottlenecks and deployment risks, capture reproducible failure cases, and suggest improvements to prompt design and evaluation metrics to strengthen model reasoning.
A bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD in computer science, software engineering, or a closely related technical field is ideal. Real-world experience in cloud platforms, infrastructure engineering, platform or DevOps roles, performance analysis, or QA practices strongly signals fit. Clear technical communication and the ability to clearly articulate system-level reasoning and tradeoffs are essential.
Ready to turn your engineering expertise into the knowledge base for tomorrow’s AI? Apply today and start teaching the model that will teach the world.
We offer a pay range of $80-to-$150 per hour, with the exact rate determined after evaluating your experience, expertise, and geographic location. Final offer amounts may vary from the pay range listed above. As a contractor you’ll supply a secure computer and high-speed internet; company-sponsored benefits such as health insurance and PTO do not apply.
Job title: SWE Infrastructure Specialist (JS/TS/Python) – Freelance AI Trainer Project Employment type: Contract Workplace type: Remote
Working with Meridial (Invisible)Pay, getting started and work, from Meridial (Invisible)'s own pages
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- Getting paid
- Earnings are processed every two weeks. Meridial says all time on projects is paid, with no platform cut. meridial.ai/faq, meridial.ai/become-an-expert
- Before your first paid task
- A profile, a brief confirmation step, then a signed Statement of Work once you are matched. Its postings say the exact rate is set after it evaluates your experience, expertise and location. meridial.ai/faq, job-boards.greenhouse.io/agency/jobs/4784908101
- How much work
- No guarantee of immediate work: Meridial reaches out when a project needs your domain, and your profile stays active until then. meridial.ai/faq
- Contract
- Independent contractor, not an employee of Meridial or Invisible Technologies. meridial.ai/faq
Read on the pages linked above on 23 Sep 2026. Platforms change these terms, so check the linked page before you rely on one.
How does the pay compare?Across Coding & software eval roles, not this role alone
From our own daily reads of every open listing on the platforms we follow, not from Meridial (Invisible)'s posting. How we count.
Pay across the field: Coding & software eval
Across 393 roles in this field with a stated hourly rate in US dollars, on 14 platforms, the middle half pays $65 to $120 an hour at the top of the range, and the median is $95. This role's top rate, $150, is in the top quarter. Of the 140 distinct rates we count, 122 are lower and 11 are higher.
| Platform | Roles | Top of range, per hour |
|---|---|---|
| Alignerr | 137 | $50 to $400 · median $100 |
| micro1 | 46 | $35 to $350 · median $110 |
| Handshake AI | 43 | $47 to $125 · median $80 |
| Mercor | 33 | $60 to $200 · median $105 |
| Meridial (Invisible) (this platform) | 33 | $22 to $65 · median $50 |
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This listing's history
- First seen here on 19 Aug 2026, and still on Meridial (Invisible)'s list when we last read it on 12 Oct 2026.
- Posted by Meridial (Invisible)
- First seen by AIPayList
- Last seen live
- Listing ID
- 4745191101
Pay as the source states it: “pay range of $80-to-$150 per hour”.
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