Meridial (21), RWS TrainAI (18) and Welocalize (10) have the most open AI training roles that ask for Portuguese: 64 roles at 11 platforms on 26 October 2026.
If you live in Portugal, read two lists. 64 roles ask for Portuguese, and 573 roles in any language are open to someone working from Portugal. Both are below.
Roles in Portuguese, platform by platform
| Platform | Roles in this language | With an hourly rate | Median listed rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meridial | 21 | 0 | too few rates |
| RWS TrainAI | 18 | 17 | $21.60 |
| Welocalize | 10 | 0 | too few rates |
| TSMG | 5 | 0 | too few rates |
| Mercor | 4 | 4 | too few rates |
| SME Careers | 2 | 2 | too few rates |
| Appen | 1 | 1 | too few rates |
| micro1 | 1 | 1 | too few rates |
| Volga | 1 | 1 | too few rates |
| Weekday | 1 | 0 | too few rates |
| xAI | 1 | 1 | too few rates |
Platforms are in order of roles in Portuguese, then by name. The second number is how many of those roles list an hourly rate in US dollars, and the third is the median of those rates. A platform with fewer than 5 such rates shows "too few rates" instead of a median.
The median listed hourly rate for Portuguese roles was $22.95 on 27 rates. These roles include language work, and the next section gives field medians.
2,605 open roles at 22 platforms today
What the work is
Language work in Portuguese means rating and correcting AI answers, transcribing audio, recording your voice or checking translations, as our guide to AI training jobs by language describes. Some roles also ask for a subject, such as law, science or coding, on top of the language. Across all languages, the roles in the languages field listed a median of $22.50 an hour, against $110 in law and $90.50 in finance.
The live list of every role that asks for Portuguese has filters for country, field and pay.
Brazil or Portugal
A role that asks for Portuguese can name one variant. 36 name Brazil, 9 name Portugal or European Portuguese and 19 name neither. 32 of the 64 are open to someone working from Portugal. If you speak European Portuguese, read the variant in the title first.
- The roles that name Brazil listed a median of $21.60 on 18 rates. Platforms with these roles include RWS TrainAI (16), Welocalize (8) and Meridial (7).
- The roles that name neither variant listed a median of $35 on 7 rates.
A role for Brazilian Portuguese can want a Brazilian speaker, and an address in Brazil is only part of that. The full picture for Portugal is in AI training jobs in Portugal and for Portuguese speakers.
Roles open to Portugal on any platform
| Platform | Open to Portugal | Open roles |
|---|---|---|
| Meridial | 203 | 757 |
| micro1 | 203 | 269 |
| Welocalize | 40 | 314 |
| Appen | 22 | 54 |
| xAI | 18 | 18 |
| TSMG | 16 | 111 |
| Anyone AI | 14 | 201 |
| SME Careers | 12 | 262 |
| Weekday | 12 | 166 |
| RWS TrainAI | 10 | 136 |
| G2i | 7 | 7 |
| 10x Team | 5 | 104 |
| Mindrift | 4 | 19 |
| Mercor | 3 | 295 |
| Volga | 3 | 50 |
| HumanSignal | 1 | 25 |
| Terac, Innodata, Scale AI, Turing picked by hand, Alignerr picked by hand, Remotasks and Handshake AI | 0 | 112 |
In any language, 573 roles are open to someone working from Portugal, which is 19.8% of all open roles on 26 October 2026. 233 of them name Portugal and 340 say worldwide. A posting that names no country is not counted.
The median listed hourly rate of these roles was $65 on 314 rates, with a middle half from $40 to $100.
Best-paid expert roles
For doctors, lawyers, PhDs and scientists: the highest hourly pay listed on the 23 platforms we read. Chosen by pay only, at most two per platform.
Top pay
Terac
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Getting paid from Portugal
544 of the 573 roles open to Portugal are contracts, not employment, so taxes and social security are yours to handle. The EU's Your Europe portal explains that you are usually taxed in the country where you are tax resident (Your Europe, income taxes abroad, read October 2026). For one platform we wrote a guide on payments and recibos verdes, in Portuguese. An accountant can check your own case.
Where to look next
- Roles open to Portugal in any language: remote AI training roles open to Portugal.
- All roles in Portuguese, on the Portuguese site: vagas.
- The wider numbers: AI Training Jobs Report, October 2026.
What to watch out for
- Some platforms check your country again when you apply, even when the posting says worldwide.
- The number of roles is a snapshot. Roles open and close every day, and a platform with many roles today can have few next week.
- The listed rate is the posting's. What you earn depends on the hours a project offers and on passing the platform's tests.
- Never pay to join. The US FTC advises walking away from anyone who asks for an upfront fee for a job (consumer.ftc.gov, job scams, read October 2026).
How we count
A role counts for a language when its posting names that work language. Platforms are ordered by number of roles, then by name. Each role counts once, at the middle of its listed hourly range in US dollars. A role that lists only a maximum counts at that maximum, and company-wide ranges that are not the pay of a role are left out. Method: AI Training Pay Index. Other comparisons: which platforms accept which countries.
Prepare the interview: practice questions for each kind of role.
Sources
- This site's list of open roles (jobs.json), read on 26 October 2026.
- micro1 jobs portal, read on 26 October 2026.
- Meridial job board (Greenhouse), read on 26 October 2026.
- Mindrift job board (Workable), read on 26 October 2026.
- Welocalize job board (Lever), read on 26 October 2026.
- RWS job board (Lever), read on 26 October 2026.
- Terac job board (Ashby), read on 26 October 2026.
- xAI job board (Greenhouse), read on 26 October 2026.
- SME Careers, read on 26 October 2026.
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