Meridial

Meridial

ML Engineer Specialist - Freelance AI Trainer Project

United States of America · Mid · Contract

Sponsorship not specified$30k-$50kDetected 25 days ago
PythonMachine LearningDeep LearningData ScienceNLPLLMsMLOpsScientific WritingResearchCommunicationProblem Solving

About the role

  • Do you enjoy Kaggle-style problem solving, iterating on models, testing ideas, and driving performance gains?
  • Now imagine doing that as paid work, where your solutions directly strengthen the world's most advanced AI systems.
  • Large-scale language models are evolving into engines of discovery, education, and engineering.

Responsibilities

  • Design new benchmark tasks: identify datasets, analyze state-of-the-art papers, build evaluation scripts, and provide reference implementations.
  • Improve training datasets: deliver structured feedback that makes AI outputs more accurate, reliable, and useful.
  • identify datasets, analyze state-of-the-art papers, build evaluation scripts, and provide reference implementations.

Nice to have

  • Proficiency in Python, ML frameworks, and cloud-based workflows.
  • Master's or PhD in CS/ML/data science preferred
  • peer-reviewed research or production ML systems a strong plus.
  • Clear communication skills, able to explain reasoning and "show your work."

Compensation

  • We offer a pay range of $30-$50 per hour, with the exact rate determined after evaluating your experience, expertise, and geographic location.
  • Final offer amounts may vary from the pay range listed above.

Benefits

  • Ready to turn your machine learning expertise into the knowledge base for tomorrow's AI?
  • As a contractor you'll supply a secure computer and high-speed internet; company-sponsored benefits such as health insurance and PTO do not apply.
  • Strong background in machine learning, NLP, or data science.
  • Experience with supervised/unsupervised learning, deep learning, reinforcement learning, probabilistic modeling, and applied NLP.

Company info

  • Be part of novel AI training initiatives: evaluating models, shaping datasets, and designing challenges at the research frontier.
  • We offer a pay range of $30-$50 per hour, with the exact rate determined after evaluating your experience, expertise, and geographic location.

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