Freelance AI and ML Jobs (2026)

Three quarters of this hub is annotation work. Of the 937 live freelance listings as of September 2026, 714 are categorized as AI annotation and data labeling, and 719 come from a single agency account posting language, rating and AI trainer projects. That is worth knowing before you start scrolling: the freelance AI market on the board is mostly data work, with a smaller layer of contract engineering and consulting on top.

That smaller layer is where the technical roles live. Celonis has 22 freelance and contractor listings, Capco eight, Artefact and Esri six each and NICE six, and the titles are consulting shaped: Senior Consultant in Data Science and AI, Senior AI Deployment Consultant, Enterprise AI Solutions Consultant in London, a Senior Data Engineer contractor working with IICS and Redshift, and a German speaking cloud consultant on a four day week. Machine learning engineer roles number 21, data engineering 11 and NLP three.

Sixty eight percent of the listings are remote. By country, the US has 144, India 53, the UK 30, Germany 24 and Canada 23, though most of the annotation projects carry no location at all. Experience labels are misleading here: 776 listings are tagged mid level because that is how the agency posts them, with 113 senior, 20 staff and 13 entry level. Only 4 percent state pay in US dollars, and the median among those, about $43,000 a year, mostly reflects annotation rates rather than engineering day rates.

To find the engineering and consulting work, set the category filter to machine learning engineer or data engineer, which removes the annotation projects at a stroke, or use the keyword search for consultant or contractor. /contract-ai-jobs and /part-time-ai-jobs are the sibling work type hubs, and /rlhf-jobs isolates the language alignment subset if that is what you came for.