Remote ML Researcher (Contract) — Python & ML Pipelines

micro1; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 165,000; Part time

Job summary

micro1 is a data lab that helps AI labs & Enterprises train foundational models and agents, providing frontier evaluations and reinforcement learning environments to improve LLM capabilities. The team sources domain experts for high-quality training data and emphasizes rigorous evaluation and throughput optimization.

The Machine Learning Researcher role is highly coding heavy, focused on developing models and training/inference systems, with pay per task and flexible scheduling.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, or a related quantitative field.
• Strong professional or research experience in machine learning.
• Practical proficiency with Python and coding agents.

Responsibilities

• Develop and validate machine-learning models, training pipelines, and inference systems.
• Implement model components, data pipelines, evaluation systems, and numerical methods.
• Build reproducible workflows using Python and command-line tools.

Skills

Machine Learning

Python programming

Education

Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science, ML, AI, or related

Tools

Python

Coding agents

Job description

micro1 is a data lab that helps AI labs & Enterprises train foundational models and agents, providing frontier evaluations and reinforcement learning environments to improve LLM capabilities. The team sources domain experts for high-quality training data and emphasizes rigorous evaluation and throughput optimization.

The Machine Learning Researcher role is highly coding heavy, focused on developing models and training/inference systems, with pay per task and flexible scheduling.