micro1 AI jobs and platform overview
AI-native recruiting for evaluation and data work
micro1 recruits experts and skilled generalists for AI training projects — evaluation, annotation, red-teaming, and rubric work — using its own AI interviewer for the first screening pass. Projects arrive in waves tied to lab training cycles.
Sidequest tracks the micro1 opportunities currently published and lists 258 open micro1 roles right now, with advertised rates running a median of $70/hr across 251 hourly listings. Any rate shown is the figure a listing advertises, not earnings, and availability changes as micro1 opens and closes projects.
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How screening works
Profile creation, skills assessment, then an AI interview with 'Zara'. Passing candidates enter the talent pool and are matched as projects open.
Who fits best
Experts and strong generalists comfortable with fully-remote, task-based work and variable weekly hours. Role types range from evaluation and annotation to red-teaming and rubric work.
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Senior Software Engineer
micro1 places senior software engineers with an AI lab to grade model-generated code and build hard engineering problems with reference solutions and tests. Work is remote and contractor-based, with observed rates in the $245–280/hr range depending on background and task type.
Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
Analyze complex mechanical CAD assemblies, write expert-level design questions, and validate answers against model evidence. You will also evaluate AI-generated mechanical reasoning and document errors, ambiguity, tolerances, and edge cases.
Georgian Speaking Psychiatrist
micro1 is contracting Georgian-speaking psychiatrists to write and evaluate psychiatric case material in Georgian and English for AI model training. Work is remote, project-based, and paid hourly in an observed band of $100–200/hr.
Everyday AI Agent Tester
Test two AI agents on everyday errands such as shopping, bookings, returns and forms, then document how each performs. The work is completed from a smartphone and includes screen recording, step approvals, structured scoring and written feedback.
Compliance Attorney
micro1 is contracting US-licensed compliance attorneys to write, annotate, and critique legal reasoning that trains frontier AI models. Work is remote, project-based, and paid hourly in an observed $100–180/hr band — your compliance practice experience matters more than any AI background.
Georgian Speaking Psychologist (PhD)
micro1 is contracting PhD psychologists who work fluently in Georgian and English to evaluate AI-generated psychological content and build culturally grounded case material in both languages. The work is remote, project-based, and paid hourly in an observed band of $100–200/hr.
Venture Capital Associate
micro1 is contracting venture capital practitioners to write and grade tasks that mirror real deal work — screening memos, TAM/SAM/SOM builds, cap table scenarios, founder diligence. You author the reference reasoning, then judge whether model outputs hold up to the standard of an investment committee packet. Observed pay runs $45–100/hr, set by depth of deal experience and writing quality.
Litigation Attorney (Shareholder / LLC)
micro1 is contracting US-licensed litigation attorneys with shareholder and LLC dispute experience to draft motions, briefs, demand letters and discovery against synthetic fact patterns used to train AI models. Work is remote, asynchronous, and paid in an observed band of $100/hr, with tasks typically beginning within 24–48 hours of onboarding.
Principal Research Scientist (Computer Science / Computational Physics)
Evaluate frontier AI research in computer science or mathematical and computational physics through proofs, algorithms, numerical experiments, and simulation. The work centers on defining tractable open problems, validating model outputs, and documenting genuine progress and failure modes.
Physician AI Trainer – Hospital Medicine
Review adult inpatient records and documentation to assess whether clinical claims are supported, complete, and internally consistent. The work includes evaluating medication safety, documentation quality, and raw clinical data used to train AI systems.
Hospitalist Physician
Review inpatient records, FHIR data and clinical notes to assess whether documented information and claims are supported. Provide consistent, evidence-based feedback that helps train AI systems for inpatient care and documentation tasks.
Software Engineer – Backend
Create realistic backend feature implementation and bug-fix tasks that test how AI systems reason about production code. Build deterministic verifiers that accept reasonable valid solutions while rejecting incorrect or incomplete submissions.
Senior Electronics Quality Engineer
micro1 is contracting senior electronics quality engineers to judge AI model output on PCB assembly, wire harness, and semiconductor package inspection tasks. Day-to-day work means grading model reasoning against IPC-A-610, IPC/WHMA-A-620, AS6081, and MIL-STD-883 criteria and writing the rationale that teaches the model why a call was wrong.
Litigation Associate
micro1 is recruiting federal civil litigators to draft simulated motions and grade AI output on litigation tasks, part-time and fully remote. Applicants must document at least three motions won in federal civil litigation via court orders or docket entries.
Lawyer
micro1 is contracting U.S.-trained lawyers to review sample contracts, flag risky clauses, and write short memos that become training data for AI legal reasoning. Work is remote, asynchronous, and uses only public or synthetic documents — no client files, no privileged material.
Bilingual Mental Health Expert
micro1 is contracting bilingual psychologists and psychiatrists to evaluate AI-generated clinical and therapeutic content for accuracy, cultural fit, and ethical soundness. Work is remote and contract-based, with an observed pay band of $100–200/hr.
German Transcription Expert
Transcribe and quality-check German audio — including dialect-heavy and overlapping speech — for a customer project training speech and language models. Work is remote contractor work paid hourly, with annotation of speakers, timestamps, and context cues alongside the transcript itself.
Gujarati Transcription Expert
Transcribe Gujarati audio into accurate written text and annotate dialect, code-switching, and cultural references for AI training data. Contract work through micro1, fully remote, with observed pay of $8–12/hr depending on experience and throughput.
Open Source GitHub Maintainer
Review LLM-generated pull requests against open source repositories you actually maintain, and write the reasoning behind each accept/reject call. Roughly 15 hours a week, remote and asynchronous, paid per accepted task in an observed $150–300/hr band.
Car-Mounted 360° Video Recorder
Record 360° footage of your own vehicle navigating real roads from a trailing third-person perspective, then reframe and export it to assignment spec for an AI training dataset. You supply the camera (Insta360, GoPro MAX or comparable), a vehicle-rated exterior mount, and the software to produce the required view. Pay band: $15–20/hr, observed.
Video Data Entry Specialist (LATAM)
Record first-person video of routine household chores using a compatible smartphone and wearable head strap. This remote project is open to eligible candidates in specified Latin American and Caribbean countries, with compensation based on recorded video that meets project guidelines.
Bengali Transcription Expert
Transcribe and correct Bengali audio and video into accurate written text, including dialect and accent variation, for a language-data project that trains AI models. Work is remote contractor work on micro1's platform, paid hourly in an observed $10–22 range depending on experience and task type.
Gmail & Google Calendar AI Assistant Evaluator
You run everyday email, scheduling, and booking tasks through an AI assistant, then verify its work line by line against grading guidelines. It's US-only contract work requiring an iPhone with iMessage and a Facebook or Instagram account, with observed pay of $15–30/hr.
Urdu Transcription Expert
Transcribe and quality-check Urdu audio and video for AI training datasets, applying correct Urdu orthography, speaker labelling, and project-specific metadata conventions. Contract work through micro1, fully remote and task-based, with observed pay in the $10–22/hr range depending on task type and audio difficulty.
Media, Publishing & Communications Law Attorney
Apply media, publishing or communications law expertise to evaluate realistic legal scenarios used in AI training. The work includes original analysis, review of other contributors’ work and clear treatment of factual ambiguity, jurisdictional variation and unsettled law.
Product Safety & Regulatory Compliance Attorney
Review product safety rules, compliance strategies and legal materials to support AI training and evaluation. This remote contractor role suits attorneys experienced with federal, state and international regulatory frameworks.
Consulting Specialist
micro1 is contracting ex-consultants to rebuild and critique executive PowerPoint decks as training and evaluation data for AI systems. The work is remote across the US, UK and Canada, requires at least two years client-facing at a consulting firm, and has been observed in the $150–350/hr band.
Puzzle Solver (Coding)
Solve self-contained coding, debugging and algorithmic reasoning challenges used to test advanced AI models. The contractor role is fully remote, flexible and typically requires about 15 hours per week.
Senior Mobile Developer
Create challenging mobile engineering tasks that test frontier AI models on debugging, feature development, refactoring, and performance optimization. Each task requires a reproducible environment, deterministic verification, and a reference solution.
Paid Photo Contributor Opportunity (Hawaii-based)
Take and submit photographs of yourself for an AI data collection project, then complete a short questionnaire about the images. The project is remote and open to adults based in Hawaii who have their own smartphone.
VA Eligibility Specialist
Review veterans health care questions, build answer rubrics, and evaluate AI responses for accuracy on VA eligibility, enrollment, priority groups, and community care. This remote contractor project requires direct VA enrollment, eligibility, care coordination, or social work experience.
Medicare Enrollment Specialist
Review Medicare enrollment questions and AI-generated answers for accuracy, completeness, and realism. Create evaluation rubrics covering enrollment periods, coverage choices, penalties, Social Security, and employer coverage coordination.
Senior Field Service Technician
micro1 is contracting senior field service technicians to write and review diagnostic reasoning that trains AI models on industrial, HVAC, elevator, marine, rail, utility and telecom equipment. The work is remote and document-based: you read schematics and PLC logic, walk through fault isolation in writing, and cite the codes that govern the fix.
Consultant (Sales & GTM)
Rebuild executive sales and GTM slides in PowerPoint from supplied images, then write a reasoning log justifying every change made and every element deliberately left alone. Work is sprint-based and remote, with tasks typically running 1–2 hours each; micro1 has posted rates in the $150–350/hr range for this engagement.
Salesforce / HubSpot Administrator - Revenue Systems (SaaS)
micro1 is hiring experienced CRM administrators to work through messy SaaS revenue stacks — contradictory automations, duplicate accounts, retired policies still firing — and document the reasoning behind each call so AI models can learn it. Pay has been observed between $35 and $80/hr, remote and contract, with volume depending on project demand.
Investment Banking Associate
micro1 is contracting investment banking associates to write and review model-training tasks that mirror real deal work — DCFs, LBOs, accretion/dilution, comps, and pitch material. You author the reference answers, grade AI attempts against them, and help calibrate the rubrics used to score everyone else's.
Private Equity Associate
micro1 is contracting private equity associates to write and grade the kinds of tasks a deal team actually does — CIM screens, LBO builds, IC memos, diligence risk lists — so AI models can be trained and tested against them. Work is remote and contract-based, with observed rates of $45–100/hr depending on depth of deal experience.
Customer Service Expert
micro1 is contracting LATAM-based phone support professionals to place and receive live calls on behalf of US customers — booking reservations, scheduling appointments, and confirming vendors — while documenting each interaction to train AI agent systems. It is shift-based work: four 5-hour shifts per week over an initial 4-week engagement, paid for scheduled availability rather than per call.
CFD Engineer
micro1 is contracting CFD engineers to write, solve, and grade advanced computational fluid dynamics problems used to train and evaluate AI models. Work is remote, output-based (paid per accepted task), with a weekly minimum submission requirement and onboarding measured in days rather than weeks.
Norwegian Transcription Expert
Transcribe and review Norwegian audio and video into written text under strict formatting and annotation guidelines, flagging unclear speech rather than guessing. Contract, fully remote, with observed pay in the $20–30/hr range depending on assessed accuracy and throughput.
Human Data Manager
Manage human data workflows for annotation, collection, processing, analysis, and quality validation. This remote, full-time role focuses on operational metrics, scalable processes, and clear recommendations for teams training AI systems.
Investment Banking Associate
Review financial materials and AI-generated work using investment banking standards for valuation, transaction execution and professional presentation. The contract is remote and includes annotation, scenario design, model review and written feedback for AI training.
Software Engineer - Open Source Contributions
micro1 contracts experienced software engineers to work inside real open source codebases — adding features, fixing complex bugs, and refactoring legacy code — so that the resulting work can train AI coding models. Pay is output-based per accepted task, observed in the $50–100/hr range, with a weekly minimum submission requirement.
Veterans Service Officer
Review veterans benefits questions and AI-generated answers for accuracy, completeness, and realism. This remote contract requires current VA accreditation and at least one year of experience preparing and filing VA claims.
US-Licensed Physician
Review adult inpatient records and FHIR data to assess whether clinical claims, documentation and medication decisions are supported. This remote contractor role is aimed at US-licensed physicians with substantial hospitalist and Internal Medicine experience.
Generalist — U.S. Tax Workflow Evaluation
micro1 is staffing a short-term contract project evaluating AI-generated U.S. tax filing workflows against real returns and financial documents. The role requires connecting your own Gmail, Google Drive, and bank accounts via Plaid, and sharing your actual 2025 tax documents for sanitized downstream use.
Finnish Transcription Expert
Transcribe and quality-check Finnish audio for a language-technology client building speech and language models, following detailed project style guides. Work is remote contractor piecework with observed rates of $20–30/hr, and includes reviewing other contributors' transcripts as well as producing your own.
Senior DoD Staff Writing SME
micro1 is contracting former DoD staff writers to author prompts, reference artifacts, and grading rubrics that train and test AI on military staff writing — WARs, SITREPs, executive summaries, and performance reports. Work is remote, US-only, contractor-based, and pays an observed $40–80/hr depending on depth of federal reporting experience.
Medical Communications Manager
micro1 is contracting Medical Communications specialists to author and grade evaluation tasks built from slide decks, advisory board summaries, MedEd modules and HCP digital content. The work is judging whether AI-generated medical content holds up on scientific accuracy, fair balance, audience framing and source traceability — then writing the feedback that tells engineers why it failed.
Commercial Attorney
Redline MSAs, NDAs, DPAs and similar commercial agreements against a defined playbook, then write out the reasoning behind each edit so an AI model can learn from it. Remote contractor work for US-admitted transactional attorneys with at least four years of drafting and negotiation practice.
Research Engineer - Code Generation & Model Evaluation
micro1 is contracting research engineers to write, debug, and evaluate real-world coding tasks used to train and assess code-generation models. Work is remote, output-based (paid per accepted task) with a weekly minimum submission quota, and observed rates for this band run $50–100/hr.
Industrial Design CAD Expert
Review multi-part CAD assemblies in native FreeCAD format and write precise technical question-answer pairs about their structure, function, and part relationships. The output becomes training data for AI systems learning to reason about mechanical design intent.
Internal Medicine Hospitalist
Review adult inpatient records and clinical documentation to help evaluate and train medical AI systems. The work focuses on evidentiary support, documentation consistency, medication safety, and adherence to defined review guidelines.
Physics Expert (AMO / Optical Properties of Materials)
micro1 is contracting AMO physicists to review and critique atomic-structure and polarizability calculations — with a specific emphasis on ab initio configuration interaction methods and ytterbium isotopes — as training input for AI models. The work is part-time (5–10+ hrs/week), fully remote and schedule-flexible, and screening runs through an adaptive spoken AI interview.
Computational Chemistry, Structural Biology & Drug Discovery Scientist (PhD)
Create expert scientific problems, reference answers, and grading rubrics for AI systems working across computational chemistry, structural biology, and drug discovery. Review model outputs for methodological flaws, unsupported conclusions, and subtle scientific errors.
General Counsel
micro1 is recruiting in-house counsel with tech transactions experience to run simulated contract negotiations and redlining exercises that train and evaluate frontier AI models. Work is task-based at roughly 3.5 hours per task, with observed rates in the $90–130/hr range depending on how many tasks clear sign-off.
Legal Headhunter - Referral Partner
micro1 engages freelance legal headhunters as independent contractors to source and refer attorneys and legal specialists for client projects, some of which support AI system development. Compensation is success-based per placement, with the applicable fee confirmed before sourcing begins.
SHIP Medicare Counselor
Review Medicare questions and AI-generated answers for accuracy, completeness, and relevance to real beneficiaries. This remote, short-term contract requires current or recent SHIP certification or former SSA Medicare enrollment experience, plus at least one year of advising on core Medicare enrollment and coverage topics.
Educator/ Assessor Writer
micro1 is contracting educators and assessors to score and compare AI-generated written responses against project rubrics, then write the rationale behind each judgment. The work is fully remote, asynchronous, and built for people who already grade, examine, or supervise written work for a living.
Litigation Attorney (Commercial contract)
micro1 is contracting US litigation attorneys to draft motions, briefs, demand letters, and discovery in simulated multi-turn commercial contract disputes used to train and evaluate AI systems. Each draft is paired with rubric items that define what a strong legal response looks like, and you respond in turn to opposing counsel's simulated moves.
Mechanical CAD Expert
micro1 is contracting mechanical engineers to open native FreeCAD assembly files and write technical question-and-answer sets that are used to train and evaluate AI models on engineering reasoning. Observed pay runs $40–80/hr, remote and contractor-based, with deliverables measured per assembly rather than per hour logged.
Litigation Attorney
Review complex civil or commercial litigation scenarios, research governing law, and produce or evaluate strategies, pleadings, motions, briefs, and case-management recommendations. This remote contractor role supports AI training through task-based legal analysis, with no prior AI experience required.
Investment Funds Attorney
micro1 is contracting funds attorneys to run simulated negotiations and redlining exercises on LPAs, subscription agreements and side letters, then grade how AI models handle the same material. Work is task-based at roughly 3.5 hours per task, with observed rates in the $90–130/hr range depending on tasks completed and signed off.
SaaS Contracts Attorney
Review SaaS contract scenarios, perform simulated negotiations and redlines, and evaluate AI-generated legal work. This remote, part-time contractor role requires a J.D., active U.S. bar admission, and at least three years of in-house technology transactions experience.
ML Engineer (MSc. or PhD)
Develop and assess challenging machine-learning implementations spanning models, training pipelines, inference systems, and performance optimization. This remote contractor role requires an MSc or PhD, substantial machine-learning experience, Python proficiency, and experience using coding agents.
Bilingual Medical Doctor (Korean)
Review clinical cases, healthcare data and AI-generated medical content using physician expertise in Korean and English. This is a remote, part-time contractor role requiring at least approximately 15 hours per week.
Registered Nurse
Review inpatient documentation and evaluate AI-generated clinical content for accuracy, safety, and completeness. This remote contractor role is for U.S.-based Registered Nurses, with recent bedside experience and broad inpatient exposure preferred.
At-Work Video Recorder [Remote]
Record first-person smartphone video while performing normal physical tasks in a commercial or industrial workplace. This remote contract requires at least 2 hours of recording per day, workplace consent and compatible equipment.
PhysioNet Competitor (Biomedical Signal Processing & ML)
Create and evaluate technical problems involving physiological signals, time-series analysis and machine learning. This remote contract is aimed at people with direct PhysioNet Challenge or comparable competition experience and a verifiable personal contribution.
Journalist/Writer
micro1 is hiring working journalists, editors, and fact-checkers to score and compare AI-generated writing against prompts, style guides, and factual reality. The core task is ranking multiple model responses and writing short, defensible rationales for each judgment — observed rates run $90–140/hr on a contract, remote basis.
Clinical Publications Author
micro1 is recruiting experienced medical publications professionals to author and review evaluation tasks that test how well AI systems draft manuscripts, abstracts, and congress materials. The work centres on judging whether AI-generated scientific text is accurately grounded in source data and compliant with ICMJE, GPP, and EQUATOR reporting guidelines.
Derivatives Attorney (ISDA Specialist)
Review and redline ISDA Master Agreements in simulated negotiation exercises, then grade how AI models handle the same derivatives documentation tasks. Part-time contractor work through micro1, paid per completed task at an average handling time of roughly 3.5 hours.
Lawyer
Review AI-generated legal analyses, arguments, contracts, and other documents for substantive accuracy and sound reasoning. This remote contractor role is limited to US-based lawyers with a J.D., an active US bar license, and more than three years of post-J.D. practice.
Aerospace CAD Expert
Read native FreeCAD files of multi-part aerospace assemblies and author precise, non-guessable technical questions with fully referenced answers. The output trains AI systems to reason about mechanical design intent, so every question must have one defensible answer grounded in the model tree and geometry.
Clinical, Microbiome & Translational Research Scientist (PhD)
Design expert scientific problems and assess AI-generated reasoning across microbiome, metagenomics, clinical bioinformatics, and translational research. The work includes writing reference answers and rubrics, identifying subtle scientific errors, and revising contributions through peer review.
AI Facial Data Collection Associate (Siblings)
micro1 is collecting biometric facial data from sibling pairs — 30 unedited selfies and 10 video recordings per person, drawn from the past five years — to train and test facial recognition models on genetically similar faces. Both siblings must apply separately and complete their own submission before either can be onboarded.
FreeCAD Expert
Author verifiable question-and-answer sets from multi-part FreeCAD assemblies so AI models can be trained and tested on real mechanical engineering reasoning. Each item must have one exact answer that a competent engineer can confirm from the model geometry, not guess from context.
Mandarin Transcription Expert
micro1 is contracting native Mandarin speakers to produce verbatim transcriptions of Mandarin and English audio, with tagging and contextual annotation, for use in AI speech training data. Work is remote and project-based, with observed rates of $20–30/hr.
STEM Expert (MSc./PhD)
Solve and validate advanced STEM problems, using code to support calculations, simulations and technical review. This remote contractor role requires deep expertise in at least one relevant domain, practical coding proficiency and experience using coding agents.
STEM Expert – Chemistry & Computational Chemistry (PhD)
Evaluate chemistry and computational chemistry problems, reasoning chains, protocols, and data used to benchmark AI systems. This worldwide remote contractor role requires a relevant PhD, research experience, professional English, and depth in at least one named chemistry subfield.
Japanese Language Expert
Native-level Japanese speakers evaluate, correct, and write model outputs across translation, keigo register, and culturally specific reasoning tasks. micro1 screens through an AI-led interview that probes your Japanese depth and your ability to explain why a fluent-sounding output is still wrong.
Competitive Data Scientist
Create reproducible data science tasks, verified reference solutions, and tests that expose incomplete or incorrect agent outputs. This remote contract role suits practitioners with experience in competitions such as Kaggle, DrivenData, Zindi, or AIcrowd.
Locum Tenens Hospitalist
Review adult inpatient records and clinical documentation to assess whether AI training data is medically supported, complete, and internally consistent. This remote contractor role focuses on hospitalist workflows, medication safety, FHIR data, and documentation quality.
National Park Ranger
Review national park questions and AI-generated answers for accuracy, realism, safety, and usefulness. This remote contract is intended for current, former, or seasonal National Park Service rangers, interpretive rangers, and visitor services staff.
Data Scientist
micro1 is recruiting practicing data scientists and quants to evaluate how a frontier AI lab's models handle statistics, machine learning, experimentation, and quantitative reasoning. The work is contract, remote, and centres on writing expert-level prompts with reference solutions and diagnosing where model methodology breaks down. Observed rates run $245–280/hr.
Licensed Dietitian
micro1 is contracting Registered Dietitians in the US to review case-based nutrition scenarios, meal plans, and counseling text used to train AI models. Work is remote, asynchronous, and paid hourly in an observed $50–100 range depending on project and specialty depth.
Senior Metallurgist / Welding Inspector
micro1 is contracting senior metallurgists and AWS CWIs to make accept/reject calls on micrographs, weld macros, coatings, and LPBF cross-sections, then write the reasoning out in full so an AI model can learn from it. Work is remote, asynchronous, and paid in an observed band of $80–130/hr.
Federal Staff Reporting Analyst
micro1 is hiring US-based former federal and military staff writers to produce and grade authentic reporting artifacts — WARs, SITREPs, after-action reports, executive briefings — that teach AI models how staff writing actually works. Observed pay runs $40–80/hr on a remote contractor basis, with no prior AI experience expected.
Japanese Language Expert
Transcribe and quality-check Japanese audio for a speech-data project that trains AI systems, working to a client style guide. Work is remote and contract-based, with pay observed in the $20–36/hr range depending on task type and review tier.
Employment Lawyer
Review employment law scenarios and AI-generated legal work for errors, omissions, and weaknesses in reasoning. This remote contractor role is limited to US-based lawyers with a US J.D., an active bar license, and more than three years of substantive practice.
In-House Counsel
micro1 is recruiting in-house technology lawyers to run simulated contract negotiations and redlining exercises that train and evaluate frontier AI models. Work is task-based and remote, with an average handling time of roughly 3.5 hours per task and observed rates in the $90–130/hr range depending on tasks completed and signed off.
Certified Inpatient Coder
Review inpatient records and AI-generated clinical content for accurate ICD-10-CM, ICD-10-PCS, POA, and MS-DRG assignment. This remote contractor role also involves documenting coding discrepancies and giving written feedback that can improve model performance.
Litigation Attorney
Review litigation-focused AI outputs, perform simulated legal tasks, and build grading criteria for legal analysis. This remote, part-time contractor role is for actively practicing U.S.-licensed attorneys, with a strong preference for seasoned litigators.
Junior Data Scientist
Evaluate AI outputs across data science, statistics, machine learning, experimentation, and quantitative reasoning. The contract also involves creating prompts, datasets, reference solutions, and structured technical feedback.
Paid Photo Contributor Opportunity (Alaska-based)
Contributors in Alaska take and submit photographs of themselves using their own smartphone, then complete a short questionnaire. The remote project supports the development and evaluation of AI systems using images from people with varied backgrounds and physical appearances.
Quantitative Rates Researcher
Review AI-generated quantitative research and systematic trading strategies for fixed income and rates markets. Assess backtests, signal construction, rates mechanics, and real-world trading assumptions, then document specific methodological and implementation issues.
Retail Trade & Operations Expert
Review simulated retail scenarios, workflows, and written AI outputs for operational accuracy, compliance, and realistic decision-making. This remote contractor role is for professionals with at least five years of hands-on experience in retail operations or a relevant subdomain.
Privacy Analyst
Review business data and documents for privacy risks, PII exposure and data quality issues that could affect AI training. The work includes checking transformed data for missed redactions or anonymization failures and documenting findings clearly.
Graphic Designer
Create and evaluate visual assets that help train AI systems, following project guidelines and brand standards. The work includes digital illustration, layout, design critique, rationale documentation, and iterative revision in a remote contractor setting.
Hospitalist Physician
Review inpatient records, FHIR data and clinical notes to assess whether documentation and claims are supported. This remote contractor role uses hospitalist expertise to improve AI training data and model evaluation.
Dentist
Review and annotate dental data, clinical scenarios, imaging, and AI-generated outputs for accuracy and workflow realism. The work draws on practical dentistry and familiarity with digital tools such as imaging, CAD/CAM, practice management, and treatment planning software.
Dentist (DDS/DMD) - Dental Technology
Review dental cases, imaging, digital workflows, and clinical content to help evaluate and train AI systems. This remote contractor role combines clinical dentistry experience with required prior work in data annotation, RLHF, or AI model evaluation.
Senior Data Analyst
Review large business data sets and assess AI-generated analysis for accuracy, privacy, and data quality. This remote, part-time contract is limited to U.S.-based analysts with at least three years of relevant experience.
Senior NDT Inspector (Level II/III)
Interpret real radiographic, ultrasonic/PAUT, MT/PT and RVI data and write code-referenced accept/reject rationales that train AI systems on NDT judgment. Contract, remote, project-based, with observed rates of $70–110/hr depending on certification level and method coverage.
Bilingual Japanese Psychiatrist
micro1 is contracting Japanese-fluent psychiatrists to write and critique clinical case material in both Japanese and English for AI model training. Work is remote, project-based, and evaluated on clinical accuracy and cultural fidelity rather than prior AI experience.
English Voice Coach
Coach and evaluate spoken English for AI voice systems — rating pronunciation, prosody, and naturalness, and recording or re-recording reference audio when a model's output misses the mark. micro1 lists this role without a published pay band; rates are set per project at contracting.
Rates trader
Evaluate AI-generated rates trading strategies for accuracy, risk discipline and consistency with real desk practice. The remote contractor project draws on experience across swaps, swaptions, Treasury futures, Eurodollar/SOFR and repo markets.
Software Engineer
Build reproducible reinforcement-learning environments that test whether AI models can fix bugs, add features, refactor, and optimize real code. You write the task, the containerized repo it runs in, the test harness, and the golden reference solution — in Python, Java, Rust, Go, C++, or TypeScript.
Family Medicine Physician (MD)
Review clinical records and assess AI-generated medical content for accuracy, safety and alignment with primary care standards. This remote contractor role is for a U.S.-based MD licensed to practice medicine in the United States, with family medicine or primary care experience.
Medical Doctor - Physician Expert
Physicians review clinical cases, healthcare data, and AI-generated medical content for accuracy, relevance, and alignment with real-world practice. This remote, part-time contract is limited to US-based contributors and requires roughly 15 or more hours per week.
Voice Actor/Coaches
Review short voice recordings and write structured assessments of vocal qualities, delivery, accent or dialect, and recording conditions. This remote contractor role suits voice actors, voice coaches, dialect coaches, vocal pedagogues, and audio professionals comfortable applying precise terminology in writing.
Bilingual Vietnamese Psychiatrist
Develop and evaluate bilingual psychiatric case material that helps train AI systems in culturally accurate mental health reasoning. The work draws on Vietnamese clinical experience, English-language documentation, ethical judgment and knowledge of both Vietnamese and Western psychiatric frameworks.
Bilingual Vietnamese Psychologist (PhD)
Review psychological cases and AI-generated material, then develop culturally sensitive training content in Vietnamese and English. This remote contract role is aimed at psychologists who can preserve clinical meaning, ethical standards, and cultural context across both languages.
Sr. Full-Stack Software Engineer
Build, break, and grade full-stack engineering tasks used to train AI coding models — writing features across front-end and back-end, debugging unfamiliar repos, and reviewing AI-generated solutions for correctness and security. Contract work through micro1 at roughly 15 hours a week, paid per accepted task in an observed $50–100/hr band.
Competitive Coder
Write original competitive programming problems that appear on no existing online judge, then build the reference solution, checker, and test suite that make them usable as reinforcement learning environments. Work is remote, output-based at an observed $45–65/hr equivalent, with a minimum weekly task submission and at least 15 hours a week.
At-Home Video Recorder
Record first-person smartphone video while completing ordinary household chores at home. The project requires a compatible phone, safe repetitive movement, a wearable phone mount and residence in an eligible U.S. state.
Video Annotation Specialist
Review short video and audio clips and judge whether AI-generated descriptions of them are accurate, complete, and guideline-compliant. Work is remote, contract-based, and paid in an observed band of $8–10/hr, with written feedback on each flagged error forming the bulk of the deliverable.
Medical Coding Specialist
Review inpatient records and AI-generated outputs for accurate ICD-10-CM, ICD-10-PCS, DRG, MCC/CC and POA treatment. This remote US contractor role is aimed at experienced inpatient coding or clinical documentation professionals who can apply current coding guidance to complex admissions.
Personal Financial Advisor
Review personal financial planning cases, critique investment recommendations, and explain advisory decisions for AI training. The work is remote and contractor-based, with some collaboration between paired financial experts.
Senior AI Trainer
micro1 contracts Senior AI Trainers to grade, rank, and annotate responses from AI chat and search tools against detailed rubrics, and to write prompts that probe model limits. It is remote contractor work open to candidates in North America and Europe, with observed pay in the $14–36/hr range depending on background and project.
Visual Creative Expert
micro1 is contracting visually trained specialists — photographers, art directors, designers, illustrators, curators — to rate and critique aesthetic images used to train generative models. The work is remote and asynchronous: you score batches of filtered images on composition, lighting, color, styling and originality, and write the reasoning behind each call.
Backend Security Engineer
micro1 is hiring backend engineers with security depth to author realistic coding tasks — feature implementations and bug fixes — that AI models attempt, then write deterministic verifiers that pass every reasonable correct solution and fail everything else. It's contractor work at roughly 15 hours a week, remote and self-scheduled, paid per accepted task rather than per hour.
Senior Machinist / Construction & Field Ops Lead
micro1 is contracting veteran machinists, construction superintendents, drilling/mine planners and fire officers to review technical drawings and field plans, then explain in writing what a model got wrong and why. Observed pay runs $55–100/hr, remote and project-based, with no prior AI experience expected.
Bilingual Cantonese Psychiatrist
Develop and evaluate bilingual psychiatric case material used to train AI systems, with attention to clinical reasoning, ethics and cultural context. This remote contractor role combines Cantonese and English documentation with expert review of mental health model outputs.
Computational Biology & Bioinformatics Expert (PhD)
Evaluate computational chemistry workflows and scientific outputs used to benchmark or train AI systems. Although the title mentions computational biology and bioinformatics, the stated work focuses on molecular simulation, quantum chemistry, cheminformatics, and drug discovery.
Applied Scientist
Apply statistics, experimental design, and machine learning to evaluate and improve AI systems. The work includes producing reproducible analyses, reviewing quantitative reasoning, and writing expert prompts, datasets, and reference solutions.
Junior Software Engineer
Evaluate AI-generated code, develop coding problems, and review model reasoning across debugging, architecture, and system design. This is a remote contractor role for junior software engineers, with recent experience at a top technology company preferred.
Financial Aid Advisor
Review borrower questions and AI-generated guidance on federal student loan repayment, forgiveness, servicing and default. The work draws on direct borrower counseling experience and requires precise written evaluation against clear rubrics.
211 Specialist
Review government services questions and AI-generated answers using firsthand 211, information and referral, or benefits navigation experience. This is a remote, short-term contractor role requiring regular public-contact experience and practical knowledge of public benefits and community resources.
Investment Banking Expert
micro1 is contracting former M&A senior associates and VPs to build, critique, and explain investment banking work product — LBO and DCF models, comps, target screens, and pitchbook materials — as training data for AI systems. You'll spend as much time catching numerical errors and weak strategic logic in sample deliverables as you will producing your own, with observed rates of $175–300/hr.
Passport Acceptance Agent
Review passport questions and AI-generated answers using direct experience helping the public with applications. The work includes writing rubrics for applications, renewals, replacements, documents, photos, fees, processing options, and rules for minors.
Imagery Analyst - AI/ML Training Data
Review drone and maritime sensor imagery, correct machine-generated bounding boxes, and annotate missed vehicles, boats, people, and aircraft. The work covers daylight and thermal data in a secure Navy environment, with image-based submissions and a possible transition to video frames.
QA Engineer
Evaluate AI outputs, design test cases, annotate training data, and document defects and recurring model errors. This is a remote contractor role for QA engineers, and prior AI experience is not required.
Bilingual Medical Doctor (Japanese)
Review Japanese and English clinical cases, healthcare data, and AI-generated medical content for accuracy, relevance, and protocol alignment. This remote contract requires physician-level clinical judgment, Japanese fluency, English proficiency, and at least about 15 hours of weekly availability.
Punjabi Transcription Expert
Transcribe and quality-check Punjabi audio and video for an AI training data project, including speaker labels, metadata tags, and notes on dialect and cultural context. Work is remote and contract-based, with observed rates of $8–15/hr depending on task type and review tier.
Video Data Annotator
Review short video and audio clips, apply project guidelines, and assess AI-generated descriptions for accuracy and appropriateness. This remote contractor role also involves moderation decisions, concise written rationales, and consistent handling of confidential project data.
Contract Attorney
Review AI-generated contract redlines and run simulated negotiation exercises used to train and evaluate frontier legal models. Requires at least three years of in-house technology transactions experience negotiating MSAs, NDAs and DPAs, worked part-time and remotely.
Investment & Finance Expert
micro1 is recruiting investment banking, private equity, venture capital, and hedge fund professionals to evaluate how AI models reason about valuation, financial modeling, and live-market scenarios. Work is remote contractor work, output-based, with observed rates in the $245–280/hr range.
Art Related Professional
Review and select visual content for artistic quality, originality and technical execution in a remote contractor role. The work combines aesthetic judgment with clear written critiques that help calibrate AI training data.
English Voice Recording
Record provided English prompts in a quiet environment, following exact instructions for pronunciation, pacing and content. This remote contractor project is limited to U.S.-based speakers and requires clear audio from a smartphone or computer.
Substance Use - Adolescent Addiction Specialist
micro1 is contracting licensed adolescent addiction clinicians to review substance use case material and document assessments of risk, severity, and level of care using DSM-5 SUD and ASAM criteria. The written output trains AI systems, so reasoning has to be explicit, referenced, and usable by non-specialists.
Life Sciences Research Expert (Python)
Create, solve, and review life sciences research problems used to evaluate advanced AI systems. The work combines domain expertise with reproducible Python analysis, code review, and scientific error detection.
Certified Coding Specialist (CCS)
Review medical records and AI-generated clinical content for accurate ICD-10, CPT, and HCPCS coding. This remote contractor role focuses on coding integrity, documentation quality, record abstraction, and structured data entry.
Bluebook Citation Specialist (Law Students & Recent JDs)
Review Bluebook and pincite grading rubrics, identify ambiguous rules, and create realistic citation-checking tasks with supported corrections. This remote contractor role is intended for current law students or recent JD graduates with hands-on Bluebook and law journal experience.
Senior Accountant Expert
micro1 is contracting US-based senior accountants to review, annotate, and critique AI-generated financial statements, audit procedures, models, and tax documentation. Work is remote and project-based, with observed rates of $60–120/hr depending on credentials and depth of review.
Transactional Attorney
micro1 is recruiting in-house transactional attorneys to run simulated negotiations and redlining exercises that train and evaluate frontier legal AI models. Work is task-based and remote, with an average handling time near 3.5 hours per task and observed rates in the $90–130/hr range depending on tasks completed and signed off.
Inpatient Care Physician (MD/DO)
Review inpatient records, FHIR data and clinical notes to support the evaluation and training of clinical AI systems. This remote contractor role is for a US-based MD or DO with inpatient care expertise and strong clinical documentation judgment.
Agriculture, Forestry & Environmental Experts
Apply agriculture, forestry or environmental expertise to review datasets, assess scenarios and create technically accurate material for AI training. The remote contractor work covers areas such as sustainable agriculture, food science, conservation, land management and forestry.
Software Engineer (GitHub Contributor)
Build reproducible coding environments that test whether AI models can fix defects, implement features, refactor code, and improve performance. You will create reference solutions, deterministic verifiers, and technical documentation grounded in real backend engineering practice.
Medical Specialist
Review adult inpatient records and clinical documentation to assess whether medical claims are supported, complete and internally consistent. This remote contractor project uses specialist feedback to improve AI training data and model performance.
Bilingual Cantonese Psychologist (PhD)
Review psychological case material, create culturally sensitive training scenarios, and evaluate AI-generated content in Cantonese and English. This remote contractor role is aimed at psychologists with a PhD and experience spanning clinical and academic work.
Finance Specialist
micro1 is contracting finance professionals to rebuild and critique investor-grade PowerPoint decks — valuation summaries, board reports, pitch materials — as training and evaluation data for AI models. The work is remote and asynchronous across the US, UK, and Canada, with observed rates of $150–350/hr depending on depth of banking or consulting background.
Domain Contributor - Evaluation Specialist
Design domain-specific tasks that expose reasoning and sourcing failures in advanced AI models, then assess model outputs against authoritative evidence. This remote contract is aimed at experts in history, archival or library science, law, finance, journalism, or technology and industry history who have relevant AI training or evaluation experience.
Law Review Cite-Checker
Review Bluebook and pincite grading rubrics, identify edge cases, and create realistic citation-checking exercises with explained corrections. This remote contractor role is intended for current law students or recent JD graduates with law review or law journal experience.
Tax Attorney
Review tax law scenarios and AI-generated legal work for accuracy, completeness, and sound legal reasoning. This remote contractor role is limited to US-based attorneys with a J.D., an active US bar license, and more than three years of substantive legal practice.
Bankruptcy Attorney
micro1 is contracting licensed US bankruptcy attorneys to review AI-generated legal output, draft sample motions and pleadings, and write reasoned analyses of hypothetical Chapter 7, 11, and 13 scenarios. Work is remote, asynchronous, and paid hourly in an observed $100–180 range, with no prior AI experience expected.
Contracts Attorney
micro1 is contracting US-licensed transactional attorneys to redline commercial agreements — MSAs, NDAs, DPAs — against playbook positions and write out the reasoning behind each markup, as training data for AI systems. Observed pay is $90–110/hr, remote and contract-based, with no prior AI experience expected.
Bilingual Japanese Psychologist (PhD)
micro1 is contracting PhD psychologists who work fluently in Japanese and English to evaluate AI-generated psychological content and build bilingual case material for model training. Work is remote and project-based, with observed rates in the $100–200/hr range.
IT Manager
micro1 is contracting experienced IT/systems managers to review and critique AI-generated answers on infrastructure strategy, architecture planning, vendor selection, and security compliance. Work is remote, asynchronous, and paid hourly in an observed $60–75/hr band, with written assignments and structured discussions rather than hands-on administration.
Behavioral Analyst
micro1 is contracting behavioral analysts — therapists, counselors, acting coaches — to annotate tone, gesture, and speech patterns across text, audio, and video for an AI training project. Work is remote and contractor-based, part-time or full-time, with observed rates of $20–70/hr depending on background and project track.
Telugu Transcription Expert
Transcribe and annotate Telugu audio, video, and text for an AI training data project run through micro1. Work is remote and contract-based, with observed pay in the $10–24/hr range depending on task type and throughput.
Eating Disorder Specialist (Adolescent)
micro1 is contracting clinicians who treat adolescent eating disorders to write structured evaluations of complex case material used to train and benchmark AI systems. The work is remote and asynchronous, with observed rates of $45–95/hr and first tasks typically starting within 24–48 hours of onboarding.
FDA & Regulatory Compliance Attorney
Review FDA regulatory materials and create accurate legal content used to train and evaluate AI systems. The work covers submissions, compliance documentation, enforcement risk, and practical explanations of FDA requirements.
Equity research Expert
micro1 is contracting sell-side equity research veterans to build and grade datasets that teach AI systems to model companies, revise estimates, and defend investment theses. Work is remote and project-based, and the screen focuses on whether you have personally owned company models and published research through multiple earnings cycles.
Shopify Specialist
micro1 is contracting Shopify practitioners to review and correct AI training tasks built around e-commerce workflows and analytics. You'll judge whether proposed scenarios, data objects, and metric definitions match how Shopify actually behaves, and write up what's wrong.
Physics Expert (Statistical Physics / Quantum Information / Condensed Matter)
micro1 is contracting physics PhDs to write, critique, and adjudicate hard problems in statistical physics, quantum information, and condensed matter theory for an AI training project. The work centers on disordered Ising/Ashkin-Teller models, the Nishimori line, toric-code thresholds, and 4-state Potts numerics, at an observed $100–200/hr for 5–10+ hours a week.
Sales / Revenue / CS Operations Expert
micro1 is recruiting SaaS revenue operations practitioners to generate and evaluate training data for AI systems working on CRM configuration, data integrity, and cross-system workflow problems. The work is remote contract, paid hourly in an observed $40–80 range, and requires that you personally owned CRM admin work rather than managed someone who did.
Data Analyst
Review large business data sets and documents for accuracy, completeness, and PII exposure, then write up findings that feed into AI training pipelines. Contract work through micro1, fully remote, with observed rates of $31–60/hr depending on background and project.
Bilingual (Spanish) Benefits Counselor
Review Spanish and English questions about government services, build answer rubrics, and assess Spanish AI responses for accuracy, completeness, and natural wording. This remote contractor project requires professional or native command of both languages and at least one year assisting the public in a relevant service area.
Cantonese Transcription Expert
Transcribe and time-stamp Cantonese and English audio for an AI training dataset, and correct machine-generated transcripts against project style rules. Work is remote contractor work paid hourly, with output judged on accuracy of colloquial Cantonese, speaker labelling, and formatting consistency.
360° Video Recorder (Insta360 / GoPro MAX)
Capture third-person 360° video — walking, driving, and other everyday movement — using your own Insta360, GoPro MAX, or comparable camera on a harness or vehicle mount. Pay is observed at $20 per hour of footage that passes quality review, not per hour worked.
Data-Video Generalist (US-based)
Record first-person video of ordinary household chores on your own smartphone using a shipped head strap, and submit footage that meets project capture guidelines. The work is remote, US-only across a listed set of states, and paid per hour of accepted recorded video at an observed band of $13-15/hr.
Investment Funds & Asset Management Attorney
Review and create legal material covering investment funds, asset management, securities regulation, fund formation, compliance and investor relations. This is a remote contractor role focused on annotating documents and evaluating AI-generated legal content through asynchronous platform tools.
Venture Capital & Corporate Attorney
Review venture capital and corporate transaction materials to help evaluate and improve AI-generated legal analysis. The work covers investment documents, startup governance, transaction structuring, compliance issues, and clear explanations of legal concepts.
Structured Finance Attorney
Review and annotate structured finance contracts, transaction documents, and AI-generated legal content for accuracy, sufficiency, and clarity. This remote contractor role is aimed at attorneys with substantial experience in structured finance transactions, securities law, and financial legal documents.
Military Law Attorney
Review military law scenarios and assess AI-generated legal content for accuracy, clarity, and missing context. The work draws on knowledge of the UCMJ, military procedures, regulations, and relevant federal or international law.
Portuguese Transcription Expert
Transcribe and annotate Portuguese audio — conversational and formal, across regional varieties — to a written standard that AI speech models can train on. Work is remote, contractor-based, task-batched through micro1's platform, with occasional English audio and English-language project guidelines.
Video Data Annotation Specialist
Label short video and audio clips against project-specific guidelines and judge whether AI-generated descriptions of that media are accurate. Remote contractor work through micro1, observed at $8–10/hr, with volume and consistency mattering as much as any single call.
Generalist, US Personal Finance
Complete structured tasks that reflect US household budgeting, tax filing and digital finance workflows. This short-term remote contract requires US residence, US-based financial accounts, a personally filed 2025 federal tax return and account connection through Plaid.
Senior Aviation Maintenance Inspector
micro1 is contracting FAA-certified maintenance professionals to review, annotate, and critique aviation technical content — maintenance manuals, IPCs, borescope inspection data, composite repair records, and approach plates — so AI models learn to reason correctly about regulated maintenance work. Observed pay runs $70–130/hr, remote and largely asynchronous, with no prior AI experience expected.
Aerodynamics Expert (MSc. or PhD)
Create, solve, review, and validate aerodynamics and CFD tasks for an AI training project using programmatic engineering workflows. The role is fully remote, typically around 15 hours per week, with flexible scheduling and output-based contractor compensation.
App Security Expert
Build small application fixtures that model realistic vulnerabilities and secure implementations for AI-based security evaluation. Create deterministic tests, security-context manifests, and hidden answer keys focused on risks such as Sensitive Information Disclosure and Excessive Agency.
Small/Medium Business – Robotics Data Collection Partner
Partner with micro1 to collect workplace video showing employees completing varied, hands-on tasks for AI training. This remote contractor project is for business owners or operators in LATAM, the United States, or Canada who have at least two participating employees.
Life Sciences Research Scientist (PhD): Wet Lab & Computational Biology
Develop expert-level life sciences problems, reference answers, and evaluation rubrics used to assess AI reasoning. Review model outputs across experimental and computational biology for scientific accuracy, methodological rigor, and defensible interpretation.
Postal Clerk
Review postal-service questions and AI-generated answers using your USPS front-counter experience. This remote contract focuses on mail classes, postage, tracking, forwarding, claims, shipping labels, and international mailing guidance.
Generalist — Personal Finance Expert (UK)
micro1 is recruiting UK-based contractors with hands-on personal finance and self-assessment tax experience to evaluate AI-generated financial workflows against project rubrics. The project also asks participants to securely connect their own financial accounts via Plaid and supply sanitised tax documents as realistic training material.
QA & Source Inspection
micro1 is contracting senior quality inspectors to disposition simulated First Article Inspections, cosmetic defect calls, and hull survey scenarios so AI models can learn how expert inspectors reason. Work is remote and contract-based, with observed rates of $60–100/hr depending on depth in AS9102 and government source inspection.
Revenue Operations & CRM Systems Specialist (SaaS)
You untangle messy SaaS revenue stacks — CRM, billing, CPQ, ticketing — and write down exactly why a record, workflow, or policy is wrong and what the correct state should be. That written reasoning becomes training signal for AI systems learning to handle real revenue operations work.
Equity/Investment Research Analyst
Review equity research datasets, company models, earnings analyses, peer benchmarks, and investment theses used to train AI systems. This remote contractor role favors experienced sell-side researchers or publishing analysts with direct model ownership and deep sector knowledge.
Research Scientist - Computer Science & Computational Physics
Use frontier AI systems to investigate open problems, develop algorithms, test proofs, and run computational studies in computer science or computational physics. The work also requires checking results against formal evidence and recent literature, then documenting both progress and failure modes.
Legal Citation Specialist (Law Students)
Review Bluebook and pincite grading rubrics, identify gaps, and create realistic citation-checking tasks with supported corrections. This remote contractor role is intended for current or recent law students with hands-on cite-checking experience from a law review or law journal.
Data Science Specialist
micro1 is hiring data science practitioners to rebuild, critique, and annotate executive-grade PowerPoint decks and analytics reports so AI models learn what good business storytelling looks like. The work is remote contracting from the US, UK, or Canada, with observed rates in the $150–350/hr range depending on depth of analytics and consulting background.
Education Practitioner - Learning & Assessment Specialist
Review quizzes, formative assessments, tutoring content, and multimodal learning resources for accuracy, instructional value, and learner engagement. Apply rubrics and outcome measures, then document precise recommendations that can improve AI-driven educational tools.
Mechanical Design Engineer – CAD & Manufacturing
micro1 is contracting practicing mechanical design engineers to produce and critique CAD models, drawings, and GD&T-annotated documentation that trains AI systems on real manufacturing judgment. Work is remote and project-based, with observed rates of $40–80/hr depending on depth of industry experience and CAD breadth.
Evaluation Specialist/Recent Grad
Create research-backed question-and-answer pairs that expose the limits of advanced AI models, then revise them based on model performance and reviewer feedback. This is remote contractor work suited to recent graduates and experienced researchers from any academic or professional background.
Military Writing Specialist
micro1 is contracting former DoD professionals to write and grade authentic military reporting artifacts — SITREPs, WARs, AARs, decision briefs, executive summaries — that become training and benchmark data for AI models. Work is remote, US-only, and observed pay runs $40–80/hr depending on depth of reporting experience and branch coverage.
Research Evaluation Specialist (PhD / Researcher / Professor)
Create and validate difficult research questions that expose the limits of advanced AI systems in your academic discipline. The work requires primary-source research, defensible answer reasoning, precise citations, and revision based on model performance and reviewer feedback.
Software Engineering Specialist
micro1 is hiring software engineers to rebuild and critique executive-level technical presentations — architecture decks, data visualizations, engineering documentation — as training data for AI systems. Work is remote and asynchronous from the US, UK, or Canada, with observed rates of $150–350/hr depending on depth of engineering background.
Personal Injury Lawyer
Review personal injury scenarios and AI-generated legal work for accuracy, completeness, and sound reasoning. This remote contractor role is limited to US-based lawyers with a J.D., an active US bar license, and more than three years of practice.
STEM Expert – Biology & Bioinformatics (PhD)
Contractors design, evaluate, and critique biology and bioinformatics workflows used to benchmark and improve AI systems. The work requires advanced research or industry experience, hands-on biological data analysis, and proficiency in Python and/or R.
Spanish-Language Consumer Reviewer
Review Spanish and English questions and answers about US government services for naturalness, clarity, and ease of use. This remote, short-term contract is intended for US-based, Spanish-dominant or fluently bilingual adults with recent personal experience using a government service or document.
Adolescent Suicide & Self-Harm Specialist
micro1 is contracting child and adolescent clinicians to write structured suicide and self-harm risk assessments on adolescent case materials, then translate those formulations into guidance a non-specialist could act on. Work is remote and task-based, with observed rates of $45–95/hr and onboarding measured in days rather than weeks.
Game Developer
Build small game projects, realistic gameplay bugs, and multi-system feature challenges used to evaluate AI agents. The work also includes writing task briefs, producing reference solutions, defining observable success criteria, and playtesting every assignment.
Dutch Transcription Expert
Transcribe professionally recorded Dutch and English audio into clean, guideline-compliant text used to train speech and language models. Work is remote contractor work through micro1, with observed pay in the $25–30/hr range and volume that varies by project phase.
Lawyer
micro1 is contracting licensed lawyers to review contracts, research statutes and case law, and write rationales that train and evaluate AI systems on legal reasoning. The work is remote, asynchronous and project-based, with no prior AI experience required. Pay band: $60–75/hr (observed, not guaranteed).
Swiss German Transcription Expert
Transcribe Swiss German or English audio, marking speaker changes, linguistic nuances and contextual cues with close adherence to project guidelines. This remote contractor role also involves transcript review, ambiguity resolution and feedback on quality standards.
Open Source Contributor (GitHub)
micro1 is recruiting open-source engineers to author, solve, review, and validate hard software-engineering tasks used to train and evaluate coding models, including cross-language port work. You'll be asked to walk through specific pull requests you personally wrote, so a verifiable GitHub history of substantive contributions is the entry condition.
Generalist — Personal Finance Expert (Canada)
micro1 is contracting Canadian personal finance specialists to review and score financial content — tax filing, budgeting, credit — against a detailed rubric for AI training. Work is remote contractor work, rubric-driven, with written feedback expected on guideline gaps as well as on individual items.
Software Developer
micro1 places experienced software engineers on a client project producing training and evaluation data for coding models — writing reference solutions, critiquing model-generated code, and explaining reasoning in prose. Work is remote and contractor-based, with an observed band of $60–75/hr and no prior AI experience required.
Cantonese Language Evaluator
micro1 contracts native Cantonese speakers to review text and speech outputs from AI models for accuracy, fluency, and register, and to write up the specific reasons an output fails. Work is remote and task-based through micro1's internal platform, with observed rates of $30–40/hr.
AI Facial Data Collection Contributor
Contribute a personal archive of 30 unedited selfies and 10 short videos of yourself spanning the past five years, submitted for use as facial recognition training data. Payment is a single lump sum on delivery of a complete, spec-compliant set; siblings and twins are explicitly encouraged to apply separately.
English Teacher
Evaluate AI assistants by completing realistic English-teaching tasks and grading their responses for accuracy, tone, grammar, and instruction adherence. This is a remote contractor role for US-based teachers who use Google Classroom daily and meet the stated device and account requirements.
Litigation Attorney (Commercial Real Estate)
micro1 is contracting US litigation attorneys with commercial real estate experience to draft authentic litigation work product — motions, briefs, demand letters, discovery — inside simulated multi-turn disputes used to train and evaluate AI systems. You write under senior direction, build rubrics that define what a strong response looks like, and maintain a coherent case theory across successive turns.
Backend C#/.NET Developer
Write and review backend C#/.NET code that becomes training and evaluation data for AI models, working remotely on contract through micro1. The work rewards engineers who can explain why one implementation is correct and another is subtly broken, in writing.
Junior Transactional Attorney
micro1 is recruiting early-career transactional lawyers to run simulated contract negotiations and redlining exercises that train and evaluate frontier AI models. Work is part-time, remote, and contract-based, with observed rates of $70–90/hr.
Toast POS Specialist
micro1 is contracting people who have actually run Toast POS in restaurants — configuring menus, closing out tills, chasing a failed payment during a rush — to document those workflows for AI training. The work is written: scenario guides, workflow critiques, and annotation of real menus, orders, and transaction flows.
Consumer Reviewer
Review questions and AI-generated answers about Medicare and other U.S. government services from a consumer perspective. You will identify unclear or unnatural language and suggest practical, plain-language improvements.
Big Data Engineer
micro1 contracts experienced big data engineers to produce and review training material for AI coding models — pipeline design problems, Spark and SQL reasoning, and critiques of model-generated data engineering code. Work is remote, contractor-based, and observed rates run $30–80/hr depending on depth and assessed skill level.
Vlogger (Insta360, DJI Osmo, GoPro MAX)
micro1 is contracting 360° video recorders to capture continuous third-person footage — walking, driving, and moving through indoor and outdoor environments — as training data for embodied AI models. You supply your own Insta360, DJI Osmo, or GoPro MAX-class camera and a backpack or vehicle mount that keeps your full body in frame, and deliver clips of at least 60 seconds at 720p or better.
Investment Banking – M&A Advisory.
Review and produce M&A research, valuation models, transaction analyses, and presentation materials used to train AI systems. The work is remote and suited to experienced bankers who can identify numerical, accounting, and strategic weaknesses in deal materials.
Software Engineer (Open Source Contributor)
Create reproducible coding environments that test whether AI models can fix defects, implement features, refactor code and improve performance. Each task includes a golden reference solution, deterministic verification and documented technical reasoning.
Human Data Manager, New Grad
Manage human-data workflows used to train AI systems, from annotation and collection through validation, analysis, and reporting. This remote, full-time new-graduate role emphasizes data quality, operational efficiency, KPI design, and cross-functional execution.
Revenue Operations Specialist (SaaS)
micro1 is contracting SaaS revenue operations practitioners to create training data and evaluations for AI systems reasoning about CRM architecture, revenue workflows, and compliance-constrained processes. You'll document how you actually configured systems and arbitrated policy conflicts, then judge whether model outputs would survive contact with a real quote-to-cash stack.
AI Facial Data Collection Associate (Twins)
micro1 is recruiting pairs of twins to contribute personal facial imagery — 30 unedited selfies and 10 video recordings spanning the last five years — for use in training and testing facial recognition systems. Both twins must apply separately through the same process, and onboarding only begins once both applications are complete.
Senior Book Editor
micro1 is contracting senior book editors to produce editorial feedback, line edits, and structural critiques that train AI models on what good developmental and copy editing actually looks like. Work is remote and contract-based, with observed rates of $80–120/hr; candidates are expected to show a track record editing books published by recognized houses.
Photographer
Professional photographers provide images, descriptions, labels, and visual analysis used to train AI systems. The remote contractor role also involves reviewing submissions, following project guidelines, and coordinating around deadlines.
Mechanical Engineering Expert (MSc. or PhD)
Create, solve and validate AI training tasks across structural, thermal, mechanical and multiphysics engineering. The work is coding-heavy and combines physical modeling, simulation workflows, Python and coding agents.
Consular Officer / Passport Specialist
Review passport and citizenship questions, build answer rubrics, and evaluate AI-generated guidance for accuracy and completeness. This remote contract is for former State Department Consular Officers or Passport Specialists with direct adjudication or advisory experience.
Hardware Expert (MSc. or PhD)
Create and evaluate self-contained hardware engineering problems grounded in realistic product, test, integration, reliability, or research scenarios. This remote contract suits engineers who can document first-principles reasoning, validate results with appropriate tools, and produce reproducible reference solutions.
Medical Coder
Review and annotate outpatient medical records using ICD-10-CM, CPT and HCPCS coding standards, including E&M leveling. This remote contractor project uses expert coding decisions and feedback to train and evaluate AI systems.
Inpatient Coder (CCS / CIC)
Review inpatient records and assign or validate ICD-10-CM, ICD-10-PCS, POA and MS-DRG data used to train AI systems. The work is remote and suited to certified inpatient coders who can explain decisions using current official guidance.
Data Privacy Analyst
Review transformed datasets and legal documents to verify that personally identifiable information has been properly redacted or anonymized. Record privacy issues, explain discrepancies, and provide actionable feedback that can improve AI training data.
AI Facial Data Collection Associate
Contribute 30 unedited selfies and 10 short video recordings of yourself taken over the past five years to a facial-recognition training dataset, with participation restricted to contributors aged 50 or older. Payment is a single lump sum on accepted delivery of the full set, not an ongoing hourly engagement — the posted rate reflects the payout divided across expected effort.
Corporate Attorney
micro1 is contracting US-licensed corporate attorneys to annotate transactional documents and grade AI-generated corporate legal output against real deal standards. Work is remote, US-only, project-based, and paid hourly in an observed band of $100–180/hr.
Family Medicine Hospitalist
Review inpatient records and documentation to assess whether clinical information and claims are supported by the chart. This remote contractor project uses physician feedback to improve AI training data and documentation quality.
Exocentric Video Recorder
micro1 is contracting remote 360° video recorders to capture third-person (exocentric) footage of everyday movement, vehicle navigation, and animal-mounted POV for an AI training dataset. You supply your own 170°+ FOV camera and a backpack or vehicle mount that keeps your full body and surroundings in frame for clips of 60 seconds or longer.
AI Agent Evaluator
Test two AI agents side by side on everyday errands, recording each attempt and evaluating completion, quality, control, satisfaction, and time. This U.S.-based contractor role uses your own phone and eligible personal AI account, with no coding or AI development background required.
CAD Design Expert (Instructor)
Apply professional CAD expertise to create, explain, and critique sophisticated parametric models and multi-part assemblies for AI training. The work emphasizes design intent, tolerance decisions, manufacturability, and clear instructional documentation.
Software Engineer
Create realistic backend feature and bug-fix tasks that test how AI systems write and reason about code. Build deterministic verifiers that accept valid implementations while rejecting incomplete, incorrect or hard-coded solutions.
Litigator / Practicing Attorney (US)
micro1 is contracting licensed US litigators to review and correct AI-generated legal writing — briefs, memos, arguments — for legal accuracy and analytical rigor. Work is remote, asynchronous, and paid hourly in an observed band of $100–180/hr, with no prior AI experience expected.
Physics Expert (PhD / Postdoc)
micro1 is contracting physics PhDs and postdocs to write rigorous, fully documented solutions to advanced problems in their own research subfield, formatted in LaTeX and verified with SymPy/Python where useful. The engagement runs roughly 8–10 weeks at 10–15 hours per week, remote and fully flexible, with observed rates in the $100–200/hr range.
Danish Transcription Expert
Transcribe and annotate Danish audio for an AI training project run by micro1, working to detailed style guidelines that change as the schema evolves. Observed pay is $24–30/hr on a remote contractor basis, with no prior AI experience expected.
Hospitalist Reviewer
Review inpatient documentation — H&Ps, progress notes, discharge summaries — for clinical accuracy, completeness, and fidelity to the actual encounter, then adjudicate the discrepancies you find. Each judgment is graded against a structured rubric and must carry a short written rationale.
Corporate Transactions Attorney
micro1 is recruiting M&A attorneys to run simulated contract negotiations and redlining exercises that train and evaluate frontier AI models on transactional work. Pay is task-based — tasks average about 3.5 hours, with observed effective rates of $90–130/hr for work that passes review.
Attorney
micro1 is contracting transactional attorneys to redline commercial agreements — MSAs, NDAs, DPAs — against playbooks and write out the reasoning behind every markup, so AI systems can learn how in-house counsel actually negotiate. The work is remote and deadline-driven, with observed rates in the $90–110/hr range for contractors with a JD, active U.S. bar admission, and at least four years of contracting practice.
Military Operations & Reporting SME
micro1 is contracting former and current DoD staff officers, NCOs, and civilians to evaluate AI-generated military reporting — WARs, AARs, status reports, executive updates — for procedural accuracy and terminology. Work is remote and contract-based, with observed rates of $40–80/hr depending on background and project scope.
Usability Tester
Review short AI-generated answers about government services and explain what feels clear, confusing or difficult to follow. This remote, short-term contract is intended for US-based adults who use a phone or the web for everyday tasks, with no AI or technical background required.
Korean Language Expert
micro1 is contracting Korean Language Experts to evaluate, write, and annotate Korean content used to train and test AI models. Work is remote and contract-based, with observed rates in the $65–98/hr range depending on background and project scope.
Senior Software Engineer
Write realistic backend coding tasks — feature implementations and bug fixes — and pair each with a deterministic verifier that passes any reasonable correct solution and fails everything else. Work is contract, remote, roughly 15 hours a week on your own schedule, paid per accepted task rather than hourly.
Korean Language Expert
Transcribe and quality-check Korean audio — including code-switched Korean-English speech — to a written standard used for training AI speech models. Work is remote, contract-based, assignment-driven, and paid hourly in an observed band of $20–36.
Lawyer/Legal Writer
micro1 is contracting lawyers and legal writers to score and compare AI-generated legal writing, then write the rationale behind each score. The work is evaluative — no clients, no advice, no attorney-client relationship — and the core skill is spotting writing that sounds authoritative but isn't properly supported or qualified.
Human Intelligence Collector
micro1 is hiring experienced interviewers — military HUMINT, law-enforcement interviewing, skilled negotiation — to run and score structured elicitation sessions used to train AI systems. You document why you read a response as reliable, evasive, or motivated by a particular driver, in writing that a non-specialist reviewer can follow.
Adolescent/Child Safeguarding & Exploitation Specialist
micro1 is recruiting child protection clinicians to review adolescent case scenarios and write defensible safeguarding guidance that will be used to train and evaluate AI systems on sexual safety and exploitation risk. Work is remote, contractor-based, and paid in an observed band of $45–95/hr, with first tasks typically expected within 24–48 hours of onboarding.
AI Product Evaluator
Evaluate AI models and agents against defined scenarios, then document errors, behaviors, and anomalies in structured reports. This remote contractor role is open to candidates in India, Japan, or the United Kingdom and involves precise, sometimes repetitive work under strict timeframes.
Accountant / Auditor
micro1 contracts experienced accountants and auditors to review AI-generated financial analysis, build reference models, and write case material grounded in GAAP, IFRS, and tax compliance work. Observed rates run $60–75/hour on a remote, contractor basis with no prior AI experience expected.
Machine Learning Engineer
micro1 contracts machine learning engineers to produce expert Python and ML work that becomes training and evaluation data for frontier models. The work is remote and asynchronous, and pay has been observed in the $80–140/hr range depending on depth of framework and deployment experience.
Tamil Transcription Expert
Transcribe and proofread Tamil audio — across regional dialects, accents, and code-switched speech — to a written standard set by project guidelines. Work is remote contractor batches on micro1, with pay observed in the $10–24/hr range depending on assignment complexity and throughput.
Pediatric Hospitalist
Review inpatient pediatric records and FHIR data to assess documentation accuracy, clinical support, and consistency for AI training. The work includes checking age-specific details, weight-based dosing, assessments, plans, and transitions of care against project guidelines.