Metagenomics Specialist - AI Trainer

DataAnnotation; Oregon; Remote; USD 55,000 - 207,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible, remote work

Project-based contributions

Potential for high earnings

Job summary

DataAnnotation is building the next generation of coding agents by vibing codes with frontier models and evaluating their outputs against production standards. You will fix bugs, extend APIs, and ship features while documenting findings and exposing failure modes to guide model improvements.

Clear written English and production-quality coding experience are essential; no degree is required. This is a flexible, remote role with project-based work and substantial earning potential.

Qualifications

• Professional or serious open-source experience shipping production code.
• Clear written English: your explanations are the training signal.
• No degree required. We care about what you can do, not where you learned it.

Responsibilities

• Vibe-code with frontier models on real tasks: fix a bug, extend an API, ship a feature.
• Analyze the AI's work against production standards and rate the model's reasoning.
• Red-team the models to expose unsafe code and confidently wrong solutions before real users.

Skills

Frontier model coding

Bug fixing

API development

Code analysis

Documentation

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Testing frameworks

Job description

The newest models can vibe-code a whole feature in minutes. Someone has to check whether that code actually works, and that someone is you.

You'll run agentic coding sessions on real engineering tasks, analyze what the models produce, and red-team them until they fail in interesting ways. Every failure you document teaches the next generation of coding agents.

What you’ll actually do

• Vibe-code with frontier models on real tasks: fix a bug, extend an API, ship a feature, and see how far the model gets on its own.
• Analyze the AI's work against production standards: find the bugs, explain the failure, and rate the model's reasoning.
• Red-team the models to expose unsafe code, faked test passes, and confidently wrong solutions before real users hit them.

What we look for

• Professional or serious open-source experience shipping production code.
• Clear written English: your explanations are the training signal.
• No degree required. We care about what you can do, not where you learned it.

Compensation

Up to $40 – $150+/hr depending on task difficulty and specialization. Many contributors add $10k–$100k+ a year; some make it their full-time income.

About DataAnnotation

DataAnnotation is where 100k+ experts train the world’s leading AI models. $150M+ paid to contributors to date, and the average contributor stays 5+ years. Flexible, remote, and always project-available.