Hundreds of remote roles on the platforms GigDrift tracks pay at least $30 per hour. Every pay rate below is taken directly from the platform’s own listing — no estimates. New roles are added daily, and the most recently posted appear first, because those are the companies hiring right now.
Where the $30+/hour remote roles are
The highest-paying remote work on GigDrift is concentrated on a handful of vetted platforms. Read how each one works before you apply:
- Mercor — AI and expert talent marketplace, recurring referral earnings.
- Micro1 — AI training and vetted talent roles.
- Outlier — flexible AI training tasks, paid hourly.
- Turing — remote software and AI roles for developers.
What “$30+/hour remote” usually means
Most of these roles are contract or freelance, fully remote, and paid by the hour. Pay scales with skill: language, writing and data tasks tend to sit at the lower end of the range, while engineering, finance and specialist expert roles reach the top. Use the live list below — it is filtered to roles paying $30/hour or more and refreshed every day.
Open remote jobs paying $30+/hour (545 open)
- Network Engineer – Data for Autonomous Systems annotation NEW
- Sr UX Designer — Consello (via Remotesome)
- Qatar Educators (via Outlier AI)
- Welsh Language Expert
- Compliance Officers NEW
- AI Engineer (Contractor) — Consello (via Remotesome)
- Japanese Language Expert
- General Inbound (Coding) – Join the Outlier Expert Community (via Outlier AI)
- General and Operations Managers NEW
- AI Data Engineer (Contractor) — Consello (via Remotesome)
- Machine Learning Engineer
- General Inbound – Join the Outlier Expert Community (via Outlier AI)
- Project Management Specialists NEW
- Finance Expert
- Senior Full Stack Engineer — Avantos (via Remotesome)
- Math Expertise for AI Training (via Outlier AI)
- Training / onboarding / L&D Evaluator NEW
- AI Engineer
- Engineering Manager, Data Platform — SentiLink (via Remotesome)
- Law Expertise Sought for AI Training (via Outlier AI)
- Biology / environmental science Evaluator NEW
- Python Developer
- Sr Security Analyst — OneAxiom (via Remotesome)
- OpenClaw Agent Builder (Software Developers) (via Outlier AI)
- Healthcare / clinical Evaluator NEW
- Backend Engineer
- Senior Data & Platform Engineer — Avantos (via Remotesome)
- Korean AI Training (via Outlier AI)
- Software / AI / IT / data Evaluator NEW
- UI Developer
- Full Stack Engineer — Avantos (via Remotesome)
- Mandarin Chinese (Simplified) Freelance Writer (via Outlier AI)
- Lawyers NEW
- QA Specialist – AI Product Testing & Support
- Lead VOIP Engineer — Synthflow.ai (via Remotesome)
- Healthcare operations Evaluator NEW
- Biosecurity & Synthetic Biology Expert
- Sr Software Engineer – India — NuCurrent (via Remotesome)
- People ops / recruiting Evaluator NEW
- Child & Online Safety Expert
- Founding Software Engineer (Front-end Leaning) — AfterQuery (via Remotesome)
- Customer success / support operations Evaluator NEW
- Military Operations & IHL Expert
- Senior Backend Developer (Node.js) — Repriced (via Remotesome)
- Japanese language / cultural fluency Evaluator NEW
- Chemical Safety & Toxicology Expert
- Head of Engineering — Lazo (via Remotesome)
- Procurement / vendor management Evaluator NEW
- Red Team Lead (Offensive Cybersecurity)
- Ruby on Rails Engineer — Latori (via Remotesome)
- Data analysis / quantitative readouts Evaluator NEW
- Python Game Developer (Panda3D)
- Frontend Engineer — The Suite (via Remotesome)
- Computational Genomics, Statistical Bioinformatics Expert (PhD) NEW
- Nuclear & Radiological Security Expert
- Backend Engineer (heavy full-stack) — The Suite (via Remotesome)
- FP&A Expert NEW
- Corporate Finance Expert
- Senior Frontend Engineer — The Suite (via Remotesome)
- Product Design/UX Expert NEW
- Financial Services Expert
- QA Engineer — Reneverse (via Remotesome)
- Business Domain Expert — AI Model Evaluation Pilot (Admin, Marketing, HR, Accounting) NEW
- AI Jailbreak & Prompt-Injection Security Expert
- Frontend Engineer — Flexkeeping (via Remotesome)
- Domain Expert – Diagnostic Imaging (Visage 7 Research) NEW
- Mental-Health Crisis Prevention Expert
- Senior PHP Engineer — Flexkeeping (via Remotesome)
- Compliance & Financial Crime Domain Intake — Shape Upcoming Compliance Engagements NEW
- Financial Crime & AML Compliance Expert
- Senior Simulation Engineer — Sunrise Robotics (via Remotesome)
- Clinical Data Manager / CDISC NEW
- Tongan Bilingual Expert
- Senior Angular Engineer — Turtl (via Remotesome)
- Pharmacologist NEW
- Physics Professor/Researcher (PhD)
- Project Manager (part-time) — Glitchd (via Remotesome)
- Medical Writer NEW
- Video Editor
- Computer Vision Engineer – MLOps — Sunrise Robotics (via Remotesome)
- Biostatistician NEW
- Video related professional for AI training
- R&D Delivery Engineer — Sunrise Robotics (via Remotesome)
- Medical Safety Expert NEW
- Physics Expert (PhD / Postdoc)
- 3D Computer Vision Engineer — Sunrise Robotics (via Remotesome)
- Clinical Regulatory Expert NEW
- Physics Expert (Professor / Principal Investigator)
- Safety Engineer — Sunrise Robotics (via Remotesome)
- STEM Expert (Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biology)
- Physics Expert (Postdoc / Junior professor)
- Senior Software Architect — Glitchd (via Remotesome)
- Shopify Shop App Agent Annotator
- Mathematics Professor/Researcher (PhD)
- Blockchain Engineer — Glitchd (via Remotesome)
- Litigation Lawyer (Germany)
- Junior Electronic Engineer (Qucs-S)
- Senior Frontend Developer — Glitchd (via Remotesome)
- Litigation Lawyer (United Kingdom)
- Data Scientist
Looking for higher pay? Many of the same platforms list roles at $50/hour and above. Browse everything on the platform reviews hub.
