Software Engineer: AI Expert
Quick facts
- Pay
- $30–$1,000/hr
- Type
- Contract
- Location
- Remote
- Skills
- Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, C++, Rust
- Platform
- Alpheva — 134 open jobs
- Typical pay at Alpheva
- $100–250/hour · median $183 (129 jobs on our site)
- Payout
- Not published by Alpheva
- Apply
- Free to apply — never pay to get AI training work
Alpheva AI is looking for experienced software engineers to help train and evaluate AI coding systems through realistic repositories and engineering workflows.
Projects capture the practical judgment behind reliable software, including understanding unfamiliar systems, assessing implementations, and explaining engineering decisions.
Projects may span backend and distributed systems, APIs, databases, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, security, frontend and mobile engineering, machine learning infrastructure, and coding agents.
Project terms
The project scope, requirements, and applicable rate are shared before you accept an assignment. Assignments may be short or recurring, with no fixed schedule or minimum commitment.
How it works
1. Apply: Tell us about your engineering background, experience, and areas of expertise.
2. Get qualified: Complete a short, paid software engineering assessment designed around the type of work you will perform.
3. Get matched: When your experience matches an active project, review the scope, requirements, and compensation.
4. Do the work: Complete the agreed project tasks.
5. Get paid: Receive the agreed rate for your completed work.
Confidentiality
You are not required to share confidential information, proprietary source code, trade secrets, or materials belonging to your employer. Use only approved project materials.
Requirements
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong programming, debugging, and code review skills in production codebases.
- Ability to understand unfamiliar repositories and explain technical decisions clearly.
- Experience writing and reviewing tests and assessing correctness, maintainability, and security.
- Experience with Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, Java, C++, Rust, or a similar language.
- Prior AI research experience is not required.
Pay
$30–$1,000/hr
Alpheva is a new expert network (launched September 2026); payout methods are not published yet, so confirm your first payment before scaling up.