On 26 October 2026, 573 of 2,544 open AI training roles (19.8%) accepted people working from Portugal. 64 roles asked for Portuguese as the work language. Those are two different lists, and most people in Portugal will find more work in the first one.
Roles you can do from Portugal
A role counts here when its posting names Portugal or says worldwide. 233 roles name Portugal. 340 say worldwide.
| 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 |
Platforms are in order of roles open to Portugal. Most of the roles that name Portugal are at micro1 (166 of 233), because many of its postings share one long country list. Meridial, Welocalize and xAI reach Portugal mostly through worldwide roles.
The median listed hourly rate of the roles open to Portugal was $65 (314 rates, middle half $40 to $100). That is above the median of all roles, $55, because many well paid expert roles are open worldwide or name Portugal.
2,605 open roles at 22 platforms today
By field
| Field | Open to Portugal | Hourly rates | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Languages | 272 | 65 | $27.50 |
| Coding | 68 | 56 | $75 |
| STEM | 60 | 48 | $67.50 |
| Generalist | 49 | 35 | $55 |
| Law | 42 | 40 | $122.50 |
| Finance | 25 | 22 | $110 |
| Medicine | 25 | 21 | $107.50 |
| Writing | 21 | 16 | $68.75 |
| Robotics | 8 | 8 | $15 |
| Trades | 3 | 3 | too few rates |
With a degree in medicine, law, finance or a science subject, the expert roles are where the listed rates are highest. Language roles are the largest group and list less.
Across all platforms, roles open to someone in an EU country listed a median of $57.50 (1,045 roles). Roles not open to the EU listed $39.75 (1,343 roles).
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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Roles that ask for Portuguese
64 roles name Portuguese as the work language. Their median was $22.95 (27 rates).
- 36 name Brazil, with a median of $21.60 on 18 rates. Most are at RWS TrainAI (16), Welocalize (8) and Meridial (7).
- 9 name Portugal or European Portuguese. Only 2 list an hourly rate, too few for a median.
- 19 name neither, with a median of $35 on 7 rates.
32 of the 64 are open to someone working from Portugal. The rest name Brazil or another country only. If you speak European Portuguese, check the variant in the title: a Brazilian Portuguese role usually wants a Brazilian speaker.
What to watch out for
- Some platforms check your country again when you apply, even when the posting says worldwide.
- A listed rate is what the posting says. Your earnings depend on how many hours a project offers and on passing the platform's tests.
- 544 of the 573 roles are contracts, not employment, so taxes and social security are yours to handle. For one platform we wrote a guide on payments and recibos verdes. Check your own case with an accountant.
Where to look
- Remote AI training roles open to Portugal
- AI training roles in Portuguese
- All roles in Portuguese, on the Portuguese site
- AI Training Jobs Report, October 2026
How we count
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. Company-wide ranges that are not the pay of a role are left out. There is no median with fewer than 5 rates. Method: AI Training Pay Index.
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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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