01 · The role
What you would do
- Design realistic ML engineering tasks that challenge advanced AI models
- Prepare task instructions, reproducible environments, reference solutions and grading criteria
- Evaluate model-written code, experiments and analyses
- Spot data leakage, faulty validation, unstable training, performance problems and results that cannot be reproduced
02 · Requirements
What they ask for
- Earlier paid work training, evaluating or benchmarking AI systems
- Strong Python and hands-on use of PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, XGBoost, LightGBM or similar
- Public evidence of your skill, such as GitHub projects, competition results, Hugging Face models or publications
- Pass micro1's screening: an application, an AI interview with technical and integrity checks and a hiring-manager review
Helpful, not required
- Experience writing AI-training tasks, rubrics or benchmark problems, or reviewing other trainers' work
- Kaggle Expert status or better, or strong results in another technical competition
- Experience with long-horizon or agentic AI evaluations
- Machine learning
- Python
- PyTorch
- Model evaluation
- Benchmarks
03 · Eligibility
Who can apply
Global and fully remote, the listing says. None of Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, South Africa or Egypt is on micro1's list of countries it cannot hire from.
Open in AfricaOpen in NigeriaOpen in KenyaOpen in GhanaOpen in South AfricaOpen in Egypt
- NigeriaCan apply
- KenyaCan apply
- GhanaCan apply
- South AfricaCan apply
- EgyptCan apply
That is as far as the listing and micro1's country rules show: the listing has the last word, and rules change. micro1 in Africa
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04 · Applying
How to get in
You apply through micro1's own process. The steps from sign-up to first paid task are on its profile.
- How AI interviews work at micro1 and Mercor: what the AI interview checks, and how to prepare.
- Getting paid from Africa: PayPal, Payoneer, Airtm, Wise and more. It covers which of micro1's payout routes work where you live, and what they cost.
05 · Source
About this listing
We last confirmed this opening on Nov 11, 2026, and it was posted on Nov 9, 2026. Rates and hours come from the listing unless the note beside the rate says otherwise. Where the listing names no countries, the Africa status is our reading of it and of what is known of micro1's country rules, set out on its profile, and never marks a role more open than they show. The listing itself has the final word.
The listing on jobs.micro1.ai(opens in a new tab)