Live roles · by country
AI jobs in Japan, ranked by real pay
Every live role below is open to people in Japan — either posted specifically for the country or worldwide-remote. Rates are read from the platforms' own job feeds and sorted by verified pay, so the best-paying eligible work is always on top.
- 425
- live roles
- $25–$100/hr
- typical verified pay
- $58/hr
- median rate
- $230/hr
- top verified rate
30 roles are specific to Japan; the rest are worldwide-remote and accept applicants there. ● feed updated 1h ago · rates read from platform job feeds — “up to” ceilings never sorted as real pay (methodology).
What this slice looks like right now
- ▪ Most of this work comes from Meridial (Invisible) (194), Welo Data (Welocalize) (137) and Mercor (80).
- ▪ Half of the advertised rates here sit above $58/hr, measured from 61 distinct advertised rates.
- ▪ Best-paid role open now: Disease-Area Clinician — Trial Endpoints & Prescribing $230/hr.
- ▲ 7 listings advertise an “up to” ceiling, the highest $90/hr against a top verifiable $230/hr. We never rank on ceilings.
- ▪ 2 roles pay per task, shown as per-task — never converted into an hourly figure.
- ▪ 16 roles were posted in the last 7 days.
- ▪ 131 listings publish no pay at all. We show them rather than guess a rate.
- Apply ↗Welo Data (Welocalize)Experts · Other expertJapan
- Apply ↗CrowdGen by AppenMultilingual & translationJapan
- Apply ↗Welo Data (Welocalize)Multilingual & translationJapan
- Apply ↗Welo Data (Welocalize)Multilingual & translationJapan
- Apply ↗RWS TrainAIMultilingual & translationJapan
- Apply ↗RWS TrainAIMultilingual & translationJapan
- Apply ↗Meridial (Invisible)Multilingual & translationJapan
- Apply ↗Meridial (Invisible)Multilingual & translationJapan
- Apply ↗Meridial (Invisible)RLHF & model evaluationJapan
- Apply ↗Meridial (Invisible)Multilingual & translationJapan
- Apply ↗Meridial (Invisible)Multilingual & translationJapan
- Apply ↗Meridial (Invisible)Multilingual & translationJapan
- Apply ↗Senior Python Data Scraping Engineer (Freelance)up to $40/hrMindriftCoding & software evalJapanceiling, not typical
- Apply ↗MindriftExperts · Business & opsJapanceiling, not typical
- Apply ↗Freelance Agent Evaluation Engineerup to $50/hrMindriftCoding & software evalJapanceiling, not typical
- Apply ↗Freelance Mobile App Developer (iOS / Android)up to $60/hrMindriftCoding & software evalJapanceiling, not typical
- Apply ↗MindriftCoding & software evalJapanceiling, not typical
- Apply ↗AI Evaluation Engineer (Python, QA or Security)up to $50/hrMindriftCoding & software evalJapanceiling, not typical
- Apply ↗MindriftRLHF & model evaluationJapanceiling, not typical
- Apply ↗Bilingual Metadata Specialist¥4000K/yrWelo Data (Welocalize)Multilingual & translationJapan
- Apply ↗Welo Data (Welocalize)Multilingual & translationJapanpay not published
- Apply ↗Welo Data (Welocalize)Multilingual & translationJapanpay not published
- Apply ↗Welo Data (Welocalize)Multilingual & translationJapan, Indiapay not published
- Apply ↗Welo Data (Welocalize)Multilingual & translationJapanpay not published
- Apply ↗Welo Data (Welocalize)Coding & software evalJapanpay not published
- Apply ↗Welo Data (Welocalize)Multilingual & translationJapanpay not published
- Apply ↗Welo Data (Welocalize)Voice & audioJapanpay not published
- Apply ↗Welo Data (Welocalize)Multilingual & translationJapanpay not published
- Apply ↗Welo Data (Welocalize)Multilingual & translationJapanpay not published
- Apply ↗Welo Data (Welocalize)Multilingual & translationJapanpay not published