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Posted 6 months ago
Computer Vision Developer - Crop Stress Detection
We analyze drone imagery for growers who want earlier warnings about crop stress. The first use case is identifying zones that need field review, not...
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Posted 6 months ago
AI Ethics Consultant — Media & Publishing
Large European media group. We publish news, run streaming services and operate a programmatic advertising business. We use AI in 12 different ways —...
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Posted 6 months ago
ML Developer — Real Estate Price Prediction API
Property platform in Singapore. Agents and buyers want a price estimate for any property before a formal valuation. We need an ML-powered valuation A...
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Medical Imaging ML Engineer - Lab Workflow Triage
We are building workflow triage tools for clinical image review. The goal is to prioritize cases for human review and surface obvious quality issues,...
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Posted 6 months ago
AI-Powered Growth Analyst
We're a SaaS company that just crossed 10k paying customers and we want to accelerate growth from 10k to 50k without increasing CAC. We need a growth...
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Posted 6 months ago
Freelance Data Scientist — Credit Risk Modelling
Our fintech is rebuilding our credit risk scoring model and we need a freelance data scientist to lead the modelling work. You'll own the feature eng...
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Posted 6 months ago
Pricing Data Scientist — Elasticity Modelling
We're the pricing team at a European airline. We price 180 routes. Our current pricing is largely rules-based — look at competitors, apply a markup, d...
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Posted 6 months ago
Data Engineer — Snowflake & dbt Migration
We're migrating from a legacy on-premise data warehouse (PostgreSQL + custom ETL scripts) to Snowflake with dbt for transformations and Airflow for or...
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Posted 6 months ago
NLP Engineer — Arabic Banking Chatbot
We are a Gulf retail bank. We want to deploy an AI chatbot that handles Tier-1 customer enquiries — balance checks, transaction history, card blocking...
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AI Engineer — Legal Contract Automation
We have three automation projects that have been approved by leadership and need to get done. Budget is allocated. Timeline is 4 months. Project 1: C...
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Freelance AI work rewards proof and speed
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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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.
Lead with outcomes
"Cut support tickets 30% with a RAG chatbot" beats "LLM developer". Put two or three results with numbers at the top of your profile.
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Offer a short paid pilot or audit. Companies hire freelancers faster when the first commitment is small.
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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.
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