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Our clients post content across six to ten channels each, and most of them have no idea which channel actually drives conversions versus just impressi...
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Hugging Face and PyTorch are the core of what we build at Ulara AI. If you've adapted speech models across languages and care about getting prosody ri...
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You'll be the second infrastructure specialist on a lean four-person platform team, working directly with our CTO to solve a problem that's been quiet...
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As a fully async team spread across multiple time zones, we believe great engineers can work from anywhere, though this particular role includes month...
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We believe AI should work for everyone, not just big tech, and our tools are used by nonprofits and local government offices trying to make civic proc...
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LangChain, retrieval-augmented generation, and a dialogue state tracker sit at the center of the conversational assistant our team ships today, but us...
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We're building voice assistants that sound natural in more than a dozen languages, not just English with a translated script bolted on. Our voice clon...
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PyTorch models, Kubernetes clusters, and a serverless inference layer are what our platform runs on today, but edge deployments are where our biggest...
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Career context
Companies hire freelance AI talent for defined outcomes: an LLM feature shipped, a workflow automated, a model evaluated, a dataset labelled. They choose people who show similar work and can start quickly. A focused profile with two or three concrete projects wins more contracts than a long list of skills.
This page lists freelance, contract and contract-to-hire roles from AI companies. Contract-to-hire is the quickest route to a full-time role: you prove yourself on real work first. RemoteAI is also opening a services marketplace where you can sell fixed-price AI services to companies directly.
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Every company on RemoteAI is actively hiring AI talent. No noise, no ghost listings, no recruiter markups.
Every role on RemoteAI is an AI specialist position. No noise, no irrelevant listings from unrelated industries.
No recruiter in the middle. Your application goes straight to the company making the decision. Faster responses, no markups.
Creating a profile, applying, and getting hired costs nothing. No placement fee, no revenue percentage, no exclusive contracts.
Every listing shows compensation range before you apply. No wasted interviews with companies outside your range.
Every role is remote. Some require timezone overlap — the listing will specify. Filter by region if that matters to you.
Track all your applications, messages, and interviews in one place. No more losing track of where you applied.
Step by step
Rates depend on specialty and proof of results: automation and data work starts lower, LLM, agent and ML engineering pay more, and senior specialists with shipped systems charge premium hourly rates. Each listing shows what the company published.
"Cut support tickets 30% with a RAG chatbot" beats "LLM developer". Put two or three results with numbers at the top of your profile.
Hours per week, time zone overlap and a rate range save a round of messages and signal professionalism.
Offer a short paid pilot or audit. Companies hire freelancers faster when the first commitment is small.
Profile guide
Not all profiles get responses. These are the signals that separate candidates who get interviews from those who don't.
Repos, demos, case studies or before/after metrics from client projects.
Breaking a request into milestones with prices is what clients remember.
Short weekly updates and clear handover notes win repeat work.
Specialists (RAG, voice agents, n8n, evaluation) win against generalists.
Meeting deadlines on small contracts is how freelancers get the large ones.
Ask every satisfied client for a short testimonial.
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FAQ
Everything you need to know before applying for your first freelance AI engineer role.
This page lists freelance, contract and contract-to-hire AI roles from AI companies, updated daily. You can also create a free RemoteAI profile so companies looking for AI freelancers can contact you.
It depends on specialty and track record. Automation and data projects start at modest hourly rates; LLM, agent and machine learning engineers with shipped systems charge much more. Fixed-price projects are common for well-defined work.
A contract that can turn into a full-time role after a trial period. It lets both sides test the fit on real work first.
No. Applying to jobs on RemoteAI is free and the company pays you directly.
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