AI training jobs for software engineers and coders: 46 open roles, up to $175/hr (October 2026)
Coding roles open right now across AI-training platforms, with the pay each listing posts and links to apply on the platform's own site.
Roles updated 2026-10-15. Pay is as posted by each platform.
Open roles
46
on 5 platforms
Posted hourly pay
$40–$175/hr
27 listings post an hourly USD rate; median top of range $120/hr
No country named
29 of 46
Listings that name no country. Check eligibility on the platform.
Which platforms are hiring
| Platform | Open roles | Posted hourly pay |
|---|---|---|
| Mercor | 18 | $50–$175/hr |
| DataAnnotation | 11 | $40–$150/hr |
| Welo Data | 10 | Not posted |
| Scale AI Human Frontier Collective | 6 | Not posted |
| Handshake AI | 1 | Not posted |
Also hires for this, with no listing in our feed today: Alignerr, Appen (CrowdGen), micro1, Mindrift, Outlier, Surge AI, TELUS Digital AI Community, xAI (AI Tutor).
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Open roles, highest posted pay first
All 46 →Builders & Developers: Share Your AI Coding Sessions
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Cybersecurity Practitioner: Paid Expert Interviews (SOC, Incident Response, Detection, AppSec)
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Software Engineer — Agentic Search Systems
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Backend Engineer
DataAnnotation
DevOps Engineer
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Frontend Engineer
DataAnnotation
Full Stack Engineer
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Machine Learning Engineer
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Software Engineer
DataAnnotation
Application Security Engineer
DataAnnotation
Cybersecurity Expert
DataAnnotation
Embedded Systems Developer
DataAnnotation
Incident Responder
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Penetration Tester
DataAnnotation
Software & Firmware Engineering Experts
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LLM Research Scientist (Pre-training & Computer Vision & Adversarial Robustness)
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Cloud / DevOps Engineer (Infra & IaC)
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Computer and Information Systems Managers
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Engineering & Software Domain Expert
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AI Developer Trace Task Auditor
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SWE-Bench Task Auditor
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AWS Serverless & Infrastructure-as-Code Task Auditor
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Staff Software Engineer, Mobile (Android, Kotlin, Full Stack)
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Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Node.js, TypeScript, Rust)
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Quick answers
- How much do AI training jobs for software engineers and coders pay?
- Across 27 open listings that post an hourly rate in USD as of 2026-10-15, posted pay runs from $40 to $175 per hour. The median top of the posted range is $120/hr. Posted rates are maximums; what you earn depends on project availability and hours.
- Which platforms have AI training jobs for software engineers and coders?
- By number of open roles as of 2026-10-15: Mercor (18), DataAnnotation (11), Welo Data (10), Scale AI Human Frontier Collective (6), Handshake AI (1).
- Which platform posts the highest pay for software engineers and coders?
- Mercor, with posted pay up to $175/hr across 18 open roles as of 2026-10-15.
- Can I do these jobs from outside the US?
- 29 of the 46 open roles name no country, which usually means the platform decides by project. The rest are limited to the countries they list. Each platform's page lists who it accepts.