Know a Tool, Know Federal Work, or Lead Engineering

What's in this drop

Know one program well

Fourteen saved hourly roles are each built around one program. You do real work in it, such as laying out a circuit board in KiCad, modelling a building in FreeCAD or setting up a scene in a game engine, and explain every step so an AI system can learn the workflow; most also prefer a relevant master’s degree or PhD. KiCad, FreeCAD, LTspice, NgSpice and Qucs-S list $65 to $123/hr, LibreCAD has the highest top rate at $65 to $165/hr, and 3D Slicer for medical imaging lists $60 to $112/hr. The game engines (Godot, Solar2D, Open 3D Engine) list $70 to $130/hr and Panda3D $50 to $120/hr; a separate Godot Game Developer role pays per accepted task, with no supported numeric rate in the saved source. The drawing and pixel-art programs (Krita, LibreSprite, Inkscape) start at $21 to $25/hr and top out at $70/hr. See STEM and coding.

Federal work, as a skill

Eight roles ask for experience of how the US federal government actually works. Grants specialists draft funding announcements and score applications; budget analysts are asked for federal budget experience at about the GS-11/12 level; IT specialists for hands-on federal IT work; veterans service representatives review AI-written disability claims. Rates run from $50 to $70/hr for regulatory policy and $60 to $85/hr for grants, budgets and veterans claims, up to $70 to $100/hr for criminal investigation and $80 to $105/hr for IT. A student loan specialist role asks for a year advising borrowers on federal loans, at $30 to $50/hr. Alongside them, three medical coding and chart-review roles for people in the US want CCS, CIC or CPC certification (the chart reviewer also takes an RN or clinical background), at $50 to $70/hr. Start with the Medical Records Coder listing or browse medical.

Visual creatives, and the top of the range

Eight creative roles cover photography and cinematography, set and production design, fashion and interior styling, graphic and editorial design, brand and social creative, art buying, curating and photo editing. Their saved pay headers and descriptions disagree, so this review does not quote a rate for them. Confirm pay with the platform before applying. At the top of the advertised pay range, a chief engineer or senior mechanical engineer role lists $200 to $300/hr, and a systems architect role and a lead systems engineer role list $150 to $300/hr; all three prefer US-based people and also consider others with strong experience. An engineering manager role for people in the US with 10+ years of experience is also in the saved records, and an open-source maintainer role lists $150/hr for 40 hours per week on weekdays, on an exclusive basis. That role requires authorization to work in the United States on a W-2 basis.

Language work and paid studies

Music producers and audio engineers who work in English, French, German, Japanese or Korean can rate AI-generated songs; pay is per task in some languages and hourly in others, so read each listing. The saved records also include search-rating roles in Italy and Germany, data roles in Tamil and Telugu in India, and medical translation roles in Farsi and Thai for translators based in the US. Then the paid studies, which state a fixed or per-submission payment instead of an hourly rate: a shopping-experience study of about 5.5 hours for native speakers in France ($130), Germany ($182), Japan ($143) and the UAE ($195); a three-day study in Midtown Manhattan for native speakers of several languages at $1,200 to $1,600; and a one-time phone fitness-data contribution in the US that most people finish in under 30 minutes. An ongoing video-recording project in India and Vietnam lists $4 per accepted hour of video, up to 60 hours each. See data collection and translation.