micro1Rating & model evaluation
Senior AI Trainer
up to $36/hr
About this role, in micro1's words
micro1 is engaging Senior AI Trainers to collaborate on a customer-driven project enhancing AI system quality through expert-level model training and evaluation. In this role, you'll apply your generalist expertise and hands-on experience with AI products to help train next-generation AI systems. Your work will shape how models learn, reason, and perform through high-quality, real-world input.
What you'll do
Key Responsibilities
- Evaluate the performance of AI chat and search tools under standardized, repeatable conditions.
- Apply detailed grading guidelines to accurately evaluate, rank, and annotate model responses, providing structured feedback that improves model performance.
- Write, refine, and stress-test prompts that probe model capabilities, ensuring coverage of diverse scenarios, edge cases, and user intents.
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- Verify consistency and accuracy across evaluations, correcting discrepancies between ratings and the underlying rubric or guidelines.
- Utilize AI training tools and platforms to record findings and submit evaluation datasets in alignment with project standards and milestones.
- Collaborate with project trainers and contributors to resolve ambiguities, refine guidelines, and ensure evaluation consistency across the team.
- Participate in ongoing quality reviews, incorporating feedback to maintain rigorous training and annotation standards.
Candidate background
What this role asks for
- Video Annotation
- Data Labeling
- Video Annotation Tools
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- Video Annotation: “listed by the platform under required skills: Video Annotation”
- Data Labeling: “listed by the platform under required skills: Data Labeling”
- Video Annotation Tools: “listed by the platform under required skills: Video Annotation Tools”
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A closer look
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Full job descriptionThe original posting, in micro1's words
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Role Title: Senior AI Trainer
Role Type: Contractor, Remote
Location: Northern America and Germany.
micro1 is engaging Senior AI Trainers to collaborate on a customer-driven project enhancing AI system quality through expert-level model training and evaluation. In this role, you'll apply your generalist expertise and hands-on experience with AI products to help train next-generation AI systems. Your work will shape how models learn, reason, and perform through high-quality, real-world input.
Key Responsibilities:
• Evaluate the performance of AI chat and search tools under standardized, repeatable conditions.
• Apply detailed grading guidelines to accurately evaluate, rank, and annotate model responses, providing structured feedback that improves model performance.
• Write, refine, and stress-test prompts that probe model capabilities, ensuring coverage of diverse scenarios, edge cases, and user intents.
• Verify consistency and accuracy across evaluations, correcting discrepancies between ratings and the underlying rubric or guidelines.
• Utilize AI training tools and platforms to record findings and submit evaluation datasets in alignment with project standards and milestones.
• Collaborate with project trainers and contributors to resolve ambiguities, refine guidelines, and ensure evaluation consistency across the team.
• Participate in ongoing quality reviews, incorporating feedback to maintain rigorous training and annotation standards.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
• Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy in reviewing and evaluating AI-generated content.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for effective collaboration, reporting, and timely updates on progress and challenges.
• Demonstrated time management and self-organization abilities for independent, remote project participation.
• Analytical and problem-solving mindset, with a proactive approach to resolving evaluation challenges.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Proven experience with AI model training, RLHF, data labeling, or similar data-centric evaluation projects.
• Familiarity with AI products and tools, including prompt engineering and understanding of model behaviors and limitations.
• Experience writing evaluation rubrics, grading model outputs, or reviewing AI responses for accuracy, helpfulness, and safety.
• Background in AI training, machine learning data preparation, or LLM-focused projects (strongly preferred).
Working with micro1Pay, getting started and work, from micro1's own pages
What the platform publishes in general. These are not extra terms confirmed for this particular role.
- Getting paid
- Paid in US dollars twice a month through Deel, usually landing around the 5th and the 20th. Nothing is paid until Deel's identity check is done. library.micro1.ai/working/faqs, library.micro1.ai/working/payroll-policy
- Before your first paid task
- An AI interview with micro1's recruiter Zara, then your profile, ID verification, a KarmaCheck background check and the Deel contract. Some pipelines add a quiz or test task. micro1.ai/experts, micro1.ai/ai-interview-guide, library.micro1.ai/getting-started/next-steps-after-certif..., library.micro1.ai/working/faqs, library.micro1.ai/working/what-to-expect
- How much work
- Certification makes you eligible but does not guarantee placement. micro1's FAQ puts the usual commitment at about 15 to 20 hours a week, depending on the client. micro1.ai/experts, library.micro1.ai/working/faqs
- Contract
- Independent contractor, with the contract issued through Deel. library.micro1.ai/policies/understanding-your-expert-agre..., library.micro1.ai/working/deel
Read on the pages linked above on 23 Sep 2026. Platforms change these terms, so check the linked page before you rely on one.
Alex's experience on micro1A personal account, not a promise about your project
Alexruns this site and has worked on micro1 himself. Written 31 Aug 2026.
- Every interview I took used an AI interviewer, and some included a timed business exercise of around 25 minutes.
- On later applications, interview reuse on micro1 was often partial, and I still answered questions about one to three additional skills.
- I entered a requested rate for the job. One listing showed about $180 an hour. I requested about $160 and received the rate I entered. Those amounts are approximate, and this describes my application, not proof that a lower request caused acceptance.
- Onboarding and setup came to about 2 hours, with clear materials. Of the three platforms I worked on, it was the easiest transition into work. That is an estimate from my projects, not a platform average.
- On my micro1 project, Hubstaff showed time and mouse or keyboard activity, not screenshots, app names or website history. That describes what I saw, not every possible setup.
- I was paid for hours logged, once every 14 days, and I have not experienced late or incorrect payments. That was my arrangement.
One person's applications, not a promise about yours.
What happens after you apply, first-handHow does the pay compare?Across Rating & model evaluation roles, not this role alone
From our own daily reads of every open listing on the platforms we follow, not from micro1's posting. How we count.
Pay across the field: Rating & model evaluation
Across 160 roles in this field with a stated hourly rate in US dollars, on 13 platforms, the middle half pays $30 to $65 an hour at the top of the range, and the median is $45. This role's top rate, $36, is in the middle half. Of the 45 distinct rates we count, 17 are lower and 28 are higher.
| Platform | Roles | Top of range, per hour |
|---|---|---|
| Meridial (Invisible) | 98 | $15 to $150 · median $50 |
| Rise Data Labs | 15 | $40 to $50 · median $45 |
| Alignerr | 9 | $120 |
| micro1 (this platform) | 8 | $15 to $150 · median $60 |
| Handshake AI | 6 | $15 to $200 · median $60 |
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This listing's history
- First seen here on 23 Sep 2026, and still on micro1's list when we last read it on 13 Oct 2026.
- The listed pay has not changed since then.
- Posted by micro1
- First seen by AIPayList
- Last seen live
- Listing ID
- efa1517a-bee2-4687-97bf-42fd1282e883
Pay as the source states it: “micro1 job record, ideal_hourly_rate: $14–$36/hr”.
Platforms sometimes change a rate after posting. Every listing here is re-read at least once a day and corrected when its source moves, so a difference you see on the platform is usually a change made since the last read. How freshness works.
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