Software Developer - AI Trainer

DataAnnotation; California; Remote; USD 138,000 - 207,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

DataAnnotation is seeking contributors to run agentic coding sessions, analyze model outputs, and document failures to teach future coding agents. You will fix bugs, extend APIs, and evaluate how far models can operate on real tasks while maintaining high-quality explanations in English.

Compensation includes up to $150+ per hour, with many contributors earning substantial annual income. Flexible, remote work is offered, and no degree is required.

Qualifications

• Experience shipping production code in real projects.
• Excellent written English for explanations and training signals.
• No formal degree required; demonstration of skills matters.

Responsibilities

• Lead vibe-code sessions with frontier models on real tasks.
• Analyze model outputs against production standards and document results.
• Red-team models to reveal unsafe or incorrect solutions before users.

Skills

Production code shipping

Clear written English

Open-source contributions

Tools

Git

API testing

Code review

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 $150+/hr depending on task difficulty and specialization. Many contributors add $100k–$200k 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.