MercorAlignerr
Backend & software engineering
Review and write backend code for correctness, efficiency, and scalability, and explain the reasoning in plain English. Senior engineers land at the top of the range.
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I do this work myself, through a few expert marketplaces. Remote, asynchronous, and it pays well. The projects turn over constantly, so it's worth looking again. I'll refer you in.
No catch: you apply through my link, the platform vets you (not me), and you work your own hours. When you're hired, the platform pays me a bonus. Costs you nothing.
You'll be working on AI research projects where humans help AI to get better at helping humans: checking what it gets wrong, and writing the material it learns from. It pays for what you know, and most roles ask for no AI background at all.
Find your field below.
Review and write backend code for correctness, efficiency, and scalability, and explain the reasoning in plain English. Senior engineers land at the top of the range.
Apply through my linkJudge AI-written web code across the stack, front to back. Good fit if you've shipped real products and can say why code is right or wrong.
Apply through my linkEvaluate model reasoning, outputs, and data problems. For people who work in ML or data day to day and can spot when an answer is subtly wrong.
Apply through my linkLife, physical, and social sciences. Published researchers and PhDs who can hold a model to a real expert standard.
Apply through my linkLicensed attorneys reviewing legal reasoning and drafting. Your bar admission and practice experience are the qualification.
Apply through my linkMDs and clinicians checking medical reasoning and answers for accuracy and safety. Your license and specialty are what matter.
Apply through my linkExperienced teachers and subject-matter experts who can write and grade high-quality material in their subject. Humanities and languages count too.
Apply through my linkAnalysts, bankers, and finance pros checking financial reasoning, models, and answers. Your markets and modeling experience are the qualification.
Apply through my linkOperators, strategists, and analysts reviewing business reasoning and workflows. Real operating experience is what counts.
Apply through my linkMechanical, electrical, civil, and the rest. Reviewing technical reasoning and answers in your engineering discipline.
Apply through my linkDesigners and creatives judging visual work, craft, and creative reasoning. Your portfolio and eye are the qualification.
Apply through my linkNative and expert speakers, linguists, and audio pros working on language quality, translation, and speech data.
Apply through my linkMercor staffs experts well beyond these fields. If you've got real, verifiable depth in something, there's likely a place for it.
Apply through my linkHistory, philosophy, literature, and the rest. Scholars who can judge argument, sourcing, and the nuance a model gets wrong.
Apply through my linkYou know your field well enough to catch the subtle mistakes, the ones a casual reader sails right past.
Half the work is writing the why in plain English. Marking the answer is only the start.
Async, remote, your own hours. Good alongside a job, a practice, or a degree.
Yes. Mercor and Alignerr are established AI-data marketplaces that pay experts to help train models. I've done the work myself. You go through their own vetting, and you're paid by them directly.
No. Your pay and vetting are exactly the same either way. The referral bonus comes from the platform, not from you.
Then you don't need a referral for that one. If you're on Mercor already but not Alignerr, use my Alignerr link for that pool instead.
It's hourly and varies by field and seniority. Senior technical roles often run around $80–150/hr. The platform sets the rate; I don't.
You do a short screen and, for technical roles, a skills assessment. Pass, and you sit in the pool and get matched to projects as they open.
Pick your field above and apply through the link. If you're not sure which one fits, email me and I'll point you the right way.
I refer people to these platforms as an independent expert on them. I don't represent Mercor or Alignerr and I'm not their recruiter. Referral bonuses are paid by the platforms under their own terms.