In the latest live check (13 November 2026), 2,000+ listings with an AI and machine learning word in the title claimed to be remote. Under 2% were confirmed open worldwide, under 10% had no lock we could find, and most were limited to a place, working hours or a language. Below are the 10 remote AI and machine learning job types ranked by how many live listings each had, with what the work is and who can apply from where.
Disclosure: Covesight is the site you are reading, and we built it. The counts below come from Covesight's own daily check of remote listings, rounded down.
How we counted
Covesight reads remote listings every day from companies' own hiring systems and a few job feeds, and checks each one for where the company can hire, working hours and language. For this page we kept the listings whose title contains AI, artificial intelligence, machine learning, ML, MLOps, LLM, generative AI, deep learning, computer vision, NLP, reinforcement learning or applied scientist. Each listing counts once, under the first job type below that its title fits. A title is a rough signal, so some AI and machine learning roles with plain titles, such as "Software Engineer" at an AI and machine learning company, are not counted here. How Covesight works explains the three states.
Across all live remote listings, under 1% were confirmed open worldwide. For AI and machine learning listings the figure was under 2%. AI and machine learning listings were more often open worldwide than remote listings overall.
The top 10 remote AI and machine learning jobs right now
Ranked by live listings in the latest check, most first. Job types with the same count stay in a fixed order.
1. Software engineers on AI teams
Backend, full stack and enterprise engineers who work on AI features or AI tools inside a company. Most ask for normal software skills plus some experience with AI.
Under 25% of the AI and machine learning listings in the latest check. Some were confirmed open worldwide, and some had no lock we could find. The places named most often: the USA and Canada. Example titles: "AI Data Engineer", "Architect, GenAI", "ML Ops Architect".
2. Operations, strategy and other AI roles
Automation, enablement, recruiting, writing and strategy roles that work with AI every day. These are often the easiest way in without an engineering background.
Under 20% of the AI and machine learning listings in the latest check. Some were confirmed open worldwide, and some had no lock we could find. The places named most often: the USA and the United Kingdom. Example titles: "ML Intern", "AI Builder", "Head of AI".
3. AI trainers, raters and data annotators
They write, check and grade the examples AI models learn from, often as freelance or contract work. Many ask for a subject such as coding, math or a language rather than an AI background.
Under 20% of the AI and machine learning listings in the latest check. Some were confirmed open worldwide, and some had no lock we could find. The places named most often: the USA and India. Example titles: "AI Tutor - Math", "AI Data Annotator", "AI Tutor - Design".
4. AI engineers and LLM application developers
They build products on top of large language models: chat assistants, agents, search and automation. The work is mostly software engineering, and a working app you can link to says a lot.
Under 10% of the AI and machine learning listings in the latest check. None was confirmed open worldwide, and some had no lock we could find. The places named most often: the USA and Canada. Example titles: "AI Engineer", "AI Architect", "AI Developer".
5. AI sales, solutions and go-to-market roles
They sell AI products to businesses, help customers set them up and run the marketing around them. Solutions and sales engineer roles mix technical skill with client work.
Under 10% of the AI and machine learning listings in the latest check. None was confirmed open worldwide, and some had no lock we could find. The places named most often: the USA and the United Kingdom. Example titles: "GTM - AI", "AI Growth Ops", "AI Growth Engineer".
6. Machine learning engineers
They train models and put them into products such as ranking, fraud checks, recommendations and forecasts.
Under 10% of the AI and machine learning listings in the latest check. At least one was confirmed open worldwide, and some had no lock we could find. The places named most often: the USA and Canada. Example titles: "ML Engineer", "AI/ML Engineer", "AI / ML Engineer".
7. ML platform and infrastructure engineers
They build the systems that train and serve models: data pipelines, GPU clusters, feature stores and the tools other engineers use.
Under 10% of the AI and machine learning listings in the latest check. Some were confirmed open worldwide, and some had no lock we could find. The places named most often: the USA and Europe. Example titles: "MLOps Engineer", "MLOps Team Lead", "MLOps Engineer(NJ)".
8. AI research scientists and data scientists
They design and test new models and methods, or use machine learning to answer business questions. Research roles often ask for a master's degree or a PhD and published work.
Under 10% of the AI and machine learning listings in the latest check. At least one was confirmed open worldwide, and some had no lock we could find. The places named most often: the USA and the United Kingdom. Example titles: "AI Scientist", "ML Researcher", "Applied Scientist".
9. AI product managers and designers
They decide what an AI feature should do, how people use it and how to tell whether it works.
Under 5% of the AI and machine learning listings in the latest check. None was confirmed open worldwide, and some had no lock we could find. The places named most often: the USA and Canada. Example titles: "AI Product Owner", "Product Lead, AI", "AI Motion Designer".
10. AI safety, security, governance and risk roles
They test models for harm and misuse, secure AI systems, and make sure a company follows the rules on how it builds and uses AI. Experience in security, law or risk carries over.
Under 3% of the AI and machine learning listings in the latest check. None was confirmed open worldwide, and some had no lock we could find. The places named most often: the USA and the United Kingdom. Example titles: "Risk&AI Manager", "AI Security Engineer", "Cyber & AI Risk Analyst".
Which remote AI and machine learning jobs you can apply to from where you live
A remote listing is open to you when it names your country, names a region that includes it, or is confirmed open worldwide. This is what the latest check found for AI and machine learning listings:
| If you live in | Share of AI and machine learning listings open to you |
|---|---|
| The US | under 50% |
| The UK | under 10% |
| Canada | under 10% |
| Germany | under 10% |
| Australia | under 3% |
Someone in the US could apply to under 50% of them. Outside the US, Canada came closest, at under 10%. Among the listings limited to a place, the places named most often were the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom, India and Spain. Each country page on the board lists every remote job open to someone living there, in every field, and is updated every day.
Remote AI and machine learning jobs with a full page on the board
These AI and machine learning listings have a full public page with the company and the apply link, listed open worldwide first:
- Engineering Manager - MLOps & Analytics at Canonical, open worldwide
- Senior AI Content Specialist at Social Discovery Ventures, open worldwide
- ML Inference Engineer â Terminal-Bench Task Designer (vLLM / SGLang / TensorRT-LLM) at Toptal, open worldwide
- Operations Expert with Python for AI Supply Chain Task Design at Toptal, open worldwide
- AI Scientist - Entrepreneur in Residence at Molecule, open worldwide
- AI Trainer - Video Annotation at iMerit Technology, open worldwide
- Software Engineer, AI Coding Tasks at Askable, open worldwide
- AI Platform Engineer (Global) at Accelerant, open worldwide
Related role pages: Engineering jobs, Data jobs, Product jobs and Marketing jobs. Jobs confirmed open worldwide in every field are on the open-worldwide board.
What the official numbers say
There is no official count of AI jobs, but the US Bureau of Labor Statistics tracks the closest research job. It projects employment of computer and information research scientists to grow 22 percent from 2025 to 2035, much faster than the 3 percent average for all occupations, and names AI as one reason. It counted about 38,600 such jobs in 2025, with a median annual wage of $140,300 in May 2025, and says they typically need at least a master's degree. Those are US figures for one research title, not for every AI role and not for remote work.
How to get a remote AI job
- Pick one job type above and search for its titles. "AI engineer", "machine learning engineer" and "applied scientist" ask for different things.
- Show working things. A model you trained, an app built on a language model or an evaluation you wrote up, with code and a short write-up, says more than a list of courses.
- Read the location line first. Many AI listings that say remote can only hire in one country, as the table above shows.
- If you want to start with AI training work, read remote AI training jobs first. It covers who can apply and how to spot a fake, and How to check if a remote job posting is real shows each step.
Where Covesight fits, and where other sites do better
Covesight is the site you are reading, and we built it. It is free, on the web and in the app, and employers do not pay to be listed. For an AI and machine learning job search it does three things most job sites do not:
- It reads the fine print of every remote listing, every day, for where the company can hire, working hours and language, and labels each one. That is how this page can say that under 2% of 2,000+ remote AI and machine learning listings were confirmed open worldwide.
- With a free account it shows only the jobs open to the country you live in, ranked, with an optional daily email.
- Listings that leave the company's hiring system are removed at the next daily check.
Where other sites do better: Covesight reads companies' own hiring systems and a few general feeds, so it misses AI work posted only on freelance marketplaces, academic and lab positions posted on university sites, and roles filled through recruiters or LinkedIn. If you want a hybrid or office job at an AI lab near you, a general job site with a location search is the better tool.
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