**Designers & Animators Wanted — Remote AI Training Work, $15–$180/hr**

Real, paid AI-trainer work — not a ghost listing. Mercor and micro1 are recruiting designers, animators, and video annotators to shape how AI systems judge visual and aesthetic quality. Applied Clinical Judgement is an official referral partner. Most roles below are remote and flexible; one is a staff-style hybrid position, flagged separately.

Design roles on these platforms move fast because the bar (portfolio evidence, named software fluency) filters applicants before a human even looks — so a tight, specific application matters more here than a long CV.

**Staff-style role — not remote, not flexible contract:**

### 👉 Character and Facial Animation Consultant — $60–$90/hr, hybrid
_Playa Vista or New York, monthly in-person attendance · 4+ yrs experience · 20 hrs/wk_
A leading AI lab needs senior character animators to set evaluation standards for a performance-transfer model — defining what "successful" emotional and physical fidelity looks like. Feature film or AAA game credits required, with hands-on facial animation or motion-capture work.
[Apply here](https://applied-clinical-judgement.co.uk/go?u=aHR0cHM6Ly90Lm1lcmNvci5jb20vMTgwRmI&rid=MER-CHARACTERANDFACIAL-06C1-REDORG)

**Remote, flexible contract roles:**

### 👉 Professional Design Experts — $80–$180/hr
_Remote · US, UK, Canada · 40 hrs/wk min_
An AI company research project on product design and aesthetic judgment. Native or near-native English, professional visual design or document design experience, and comfort in Figma, Sketch, or Adobe tools.
[Apply here](https://applied-clinical-judgement.co.uk/go?u=aHR0cHM6Ly90Lm1lcmNvci5jb20vUzNLRzQ&rid=MER-PROFESSIONALDESIGN-D16B-REDORG)

### 👉 Graphic Designer — Editorial, Poster & Marketing Layout — $20–$50/hr
_Remote · 3–5+ yrs experience · 10 hrs/wk min_
Annotate design assets and video using industry terminology, deconstruct compositions into metadata, and apply cinematography standards to clips. Adobe Creative Suite and Figma fluency essential, portfolio proof of typography and visual hierarchy required.
[Apply here](https://applied-clinical-judgement.co.uk/go?u=aHR0cHM6Ly9qb2JzLm1pY3JvMS5haS9wb3N0LzIyYmVjOThmLTc0ODQtNDJiNC1hZjE1LTE3ZTAzM2YwMTM2Zj9yZWZlcnJhbENvZGU9OGU3MjVhZjgtOWI4OS00ZjQ2LTk3M2ItOTU3NmMwYzE2Yzk3JnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9cmVmZXJyYWwmdXRtX21lZGl1bT1zaGFyZSZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249am9iX3JlZmVycmFs&rid=MIC-GRAPHICDESIGNEREDI-FD16-REDORG)

### 👉 Design Expert — $70–$80/hr
_5+ yrs experience · 40 hrs/wk_
Build evaluation tasks in rapid prototyping and human-AI collaborative coding — the "vibecoding" track — for product leads with shipped work and Figma or AI coding-assistant experience.
[Apply here](https://applied-clinical-judgement.co.uk/go?u=aHR0cHM6Ly90Lm1lcmNvci5jb20vdDMydDc&rid=MER-DESIGNEXPERT-E7CA-REDORG)

### 👉 Video Annotation Expert — $15–$80/hr
_Remote_
Evaluate robotics and human-activity footage against written instructions, compare samples, and refine AI-generated annotations. Domain knowledge counts for more than prior AI experience.
[Apply here](https://applied-clinical-judgement.co.uk/go?u=aHR0cHM6Ly9qb2JzLm1pY3JvMS5haS9wb3N0LzY5ZmVmM2Q3LWViZDQtNGY4Ni04YWFlLTc0YjgwYzdhOTAzNT9yZWZlcnJhbENvZGU9OGU3MjVhZjgtOWI4OS00ZjQ2LTk3M2ItOTU3NmMwYzE2Yzk3JnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9cmVmZXJyYWwmdXRtX21lZGl1bT1zaGFyZSZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249am9iX3JlZmVycmFs&rid=MIC-VIDEOANNOTATIONEXP-7D18-REDORG)

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**How this month looked in Arts & Design:** 60 live roles across Mercor, micro1, and Turing as of 31 August, 49 posted fresh in the last four weeks — nearly every live role in the category went up this month, which tells you the design category is being actively built out right now, not maintained on autopilot.

**The one hybrid, in-person role on this list is labelled as exactly that.** Applied Clinical Judgement never presents a staff-style, location-anchored position as generic remote flexible work, even when a platform's own listing buries the detail further down the page than the pay rate.

**Before you apply**, the [interview tips guide](https://applied-clinical-judgement.co.uk/getting-hired-ai-training/ai-interview-tips-mercor-micro1/) covers what a design or animation portfolio review actually looks like on these platforms, and the [CV tips guide](https://applied-clinical-judgement.co.uk/getting-hired-ai-training/ai-training-cv-tips/) covers how to present portfolio evidence so it survives an initial screen.

**Geography:** the hybrid animation role is US-only, based in Playa Vista or New York with monthly in-person attendance. The remote design roles lean US, UK, and Canada. If you're outside all three, the wider Arts & Design list carries some video-annotation work with no stated country restriction.

Like and share with a designer or animator on your feed — the hybrid role above is genuinely rare on this site; almost everything else is remote.

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*Disclosure: Applied Clinical Judgement (PRAG-DEL-SOL-ONE LTD) earns a referral fee from Mercor and micro1 if you are successfully placed. This does not affect your pay, your application, or either platform's hiring decisions.*