Coding AI Training Jobs: What RLHF Code Review Actually Involves (With a Sample Task)

There are 231 open AI-training jobs for software engineers on AI Trainer HQ right now, across 10 platforms. The median listed pay is $65/hr, and most roles fall between $30 and $115/hr. Senior roles on 10x Team have a $139/hr median. But "AI coding job" covers very different work, from ranking two Python snippets to debugging an agent across a whole repository. Here's what the work actually involves, which skills pay most, and a realistic sample task.

RLHF (reinforcement learning from human feedback) for code means engineers produce the judgments a model learns from. Common task types:

You don't train models directly. You produce the training data.

From the software engineering hub, data as of 26 October 2026:

Mercor has listed US software engineers at $70–150/hr this month. Several current Mercor roles require you to own a MacBook ($50–60/hr) for macOS app-usage projects. Anyone AI hires developers by country, mostly in Latin America.

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Coding roles open by country: US 123, India 94, UK 90, Philippines 80, Kenya 78. Coding is one of the most globally open categories, so check yours on the eligibility tool.

Listings don't break pay down by programming language, but patterns are clear from the roles:

Prompt: "Write a Python function that returns the k most frequent words in a string, case-insensitive, ties broken alphabetically."

def top_k ( s, k ): from collections import Counter c = Counter ( s. lower (). split ()) return [ w for w, _ in c. most_common ( k )] Response B:

import re from collections import Counter def top_k ( s, k ): words = re. findall ( r " [a-z ' ]+ ", s. lower ()) c = Counter ( words ) return sorted ( c, key = lambda w: ( - c [ w ], w ))[: k ] A strong review:

That's the skill being paid for: precise, spec-grounded reasoning, written clearly.

Screen recording (GIF attached: /workspace/aitrainerhq/recordings/aitrainerhq-browse-and-filter-jobs.gif):

At the $65/hr median, 10 hours a week is about $650 before tax. Senior engineers on 10x Team can do much better, but those roles have strict screening and fewer seats (10 open right now).

Every figure here comes from AI Trainer HQ's own tracking. We pull live jobs only from each platform's own applicant tracking system, re-check them at the source every 24 hours, and convert pay to US dollars per hour. Medians use the midpoint of each role's listed range, and roles that don't state pay are left out. The full method is on our methodology page. Numbers move daily, so treat this post as a dated snapshot and confirm the details on the live listing before you apply.

Open the software engineering hub, filter by country, and apply to one high-volume platform (Mercor or Meridial) and one senior-focused one (10x Team) if your experience fits.