Poindexter Labs: pay, who can join and open jobs
UK expert reasoning-data startup that raised a 2 million pound seed round in 2026. Experts in math, physics, chemistry and biology, many with a PhD or olympiad medals, write and peer-review hard reasoning tasks for frontier AI labs. Everyone is paid the same rate regardless of location or degree, for time and for completed tasks.
Who can join Poindexter Labs
Hires in: Worldwide. Remote; contributors can be anywhere and are paid the same rate regardless of location. Source
How you get paid: Poindexter Labs does not publish its payout methods. Source
Hourly pay by platform: lowest, median and highest
Based on open jobs with hourly pay listed on aitrainer.jobs. The bar runs from the lowest to the highest rate; the dot is the median.
- Scale AI Human Frontier Collective$300–$300
- Respondent.io$80–$150
- 10x Team$25–$375
- Stellar AI$25–$200
- Workada$17–$130
- Rex.Zone$15–$150
- Mercor$30–$350
- RealTrainAI$48–$140
- Afterquery$20–$200
- Sovrano AI$35–$125
- Ethos$35–$350
- Aura One$6–$500
- Micro1$15–$150
- Mindrift$35–$100
- Invisible$5–$150
- Alignerr$10–$400
- TransPerfect$29–$58
- Anyone AI$7–$150
- Pasiflora AI$11–$40
- Appen$10–$100
- xAI$35–$35
- BrainTrust$5–$150
- Lionbridge AI$20–$35
- SuperAnnotate$5–$33
- HumanSignal$13–$80
- LXT$20–$25
- Lifted (Upwork)$10–$110
- Welocalize$5–$105
- CloudFactory$17.5–$25
- Volga Partners$5–$60
- RWS$5–$36
- Turing$15–$150
- Claru$5–$100
How to get accepted at Poindexter Labs
Application steps, the assessment and tips from people who got in.
Application steps
- Apply via poindexterlabs.ai/careers ('Apply now'), which goes to recruitment.poindexterlabs.net (role: Poindexter Contributor)
- Sit a live 20-minute subject-knowledge interview
- Complete ungraded onboarding with no task expiry
- Once accepted, you are eligible for any project with no per-project skill tests
The assessment
A live 20-minute 'Oxbridge-style' subject-knowledge interview that the founder calls AI-proof. There are no written skill tests per project.
Requirements
STEM depth in math, physics, chemistry or biology. The network is 53% PhD-level, 46% Olympiad medalists and 34% Oxbridge/Ivy/MIT.
Tips to get accepted
- Prepare for a live oral interview in your subject, like an Oxbridge admissions interview
- Olympiad, PhD or top-university credentials help most
- Lean toward task-based work; the company says it is uncapped, while review work is paid by time
- Use peer review; reviewers message you to fix issues rather than reject
- Tasks fail only if the attempter, reviewer and subject lead all agree
Sources: poindexterlabs.ai · poindexterlabs.ai · recruitment.poindexterlabs.net · pulse2.com · itbrief.co.uk
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