12 Remote and Startup Jobs for the AI-Powered Nomad (June 28, 2026)
Frontier-lab contract gigs via Mercor, plus a16z portfolio openings, RemoteOK, and We Work Remotely — 12 roles, every link re-verified this week.
Welcome back, nomads!
This week's issue spans four sourcing channels — Mercor's AI talent platform, the latest a16z Build openings, fresh picks from RemoteOK, and verified listings from We Work Remotely — with every link re-confirmed against today's index.
🤖 Mercor — Contract Work at the Frontier Labs
Mercor is an AI-powered talent platform that matches you to contract work at top AI labs based on one live AI interview. All roles below are fully remote, self-scheduled, and paid weekly via Stripe. These are rolling positions — not single postings with close dates.
If you're new: I updated my resume and got an instant Mercor offer — I broke down exactly what I changed in I Updated My Resume and Got an Instant Mercor Offer. Read that before you apply — it covers how to position yourself for the AI interview and which tracks actually pay.
1.Video Game Annotator
Label gameplay footage, mechanics, and player behavior to train models that understand interactive environments. The work is detail-heavy — tagging actions, UI states, and edge cases frame by frame — and it rewards people who actually know how games are built and played.
Strong fit if you’re a serious gamer with a sharp eye for detail and the patience to annotate consistently at scale.
Apply: https://t.mercor.com/Af0pF
2.Government Backoffice — Visual Document Understanding
Annotate scanned government forms, records, and back-office paperwork so models can read and extract structured data from messy real-world documents. Accuracy matters more than speed here — the labels you produce become the ground truth.
Strong fit if you have experience with document processing, data entry, or any role where precision with paperwork was the whole job.
Apply: https://t.mercor.com/g4HEv
3.Real Estate Appraisal — Visual Document Understanding
The same visual-document-understanding track, focused on appraisal reports, valuation documents, and property records. You’ll label the fields and layouts that teach models to parse appraisal paperwork correctly.
Strong fit if you’ve worked in real estate, appraisal, mortgage, or title and can recognize what each document is supposed to contain.
Apply: https://t.mercor.com/URAC5
4.IT Operations Manager
Run the operational backbone for AI lab contract work — systems, tooling, access, and the day-to-day infrastructure that keeps distributed contributor teams shipping.
Strong fit if you’ve managed IT operations for a remote or distributed team and like being the person who makes everything run quietly in the background.
Apply: https://t.mercor.com/kmuCS
5.Voice Actor: CX Agent Voice Cloning (USA)
Record voice samples used to build customer-experience agent voices. Clear, natural, US-English delivery is the core requirement, along with the consistency to produce clean takes across long scripts.
Strong fit if you have voice or narration experience, a quiet recording setup, and a warm, neutral American accent. (US-based only.)
Apply: https://t.mercor.com/fmUBs
6.Architecture Expert
Bring domain expertise in architecture to train and evaluate models on design reasoning, building systems, codes, and drawings. You’ll review model outputs, write reference answers, and flag where the AI gets architecture wrong.
Strong fit if you’re a practicing or trained architect who can explain not just the right answer but why it’s right.
Apply: https://t.mercor.com/Qtyht
🚀 Startup & Growth-Stage Picks
surfaces the freshest openings inside portfolio companies that have capital, momentum, and teams actively building. Links re-verified as of this issue — if a deep link has rotated, search the role title on the company's board.
7.Design Engineer — Ramp
New York City · $172K–$440K
Ramp just raised $750M at a $44B valuation and is looking for a Design Engineer who sits at the intersection of brand, product, and engineering. The work is AI-first by default: start in Claude or Cursor to explore and build, test with real customers, move to Figma for systems and polish. You’re shipping production experiences with a high bar for craft, performance, and reliability.
Strong fit if you write code and design in the same breath, and won’t compromise on either.
Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ramp/3d81a24f-cca4-4b2b-9478-cf422adc8237
8. Chief of Staff to the CSO — EliseAI
New York City · up to $250K
EliseAI raised a $250M Series E last year at a $2B+ valuation. You’ll be the force multiplier for the Chief Strategy Officer — driving execution across the company’s highest-priority strategic initiatives, ensuring focus, momentum, and alignment as EliseAI scales to new markets.
Strong fit if you’re the person who turns strategic intent into executable cadence and has a track record of making senior leaders more effective.
Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/eliseai/f4db1afc-82e6-4dfa-91e3-6b1f59758593
9. Brand Design Director — Abridge
San Francisco or New York · up to $313K + equity
Abridge uses AI to turn doctor-patient conversations into structured clinical records — and they’re looking for someone to set a new standard for design in healthcare. The Brand Design Director will shape how Abridge looks, feels, and communicates across every user touchpoint. Systems-minded, mission-driven, exceptional taste required.
Strong fit if you’ve built brand design systems from scratch and genuinely care about the healthcare space.
Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/abridge/0de36f0e-a059-4ef1-9d33-d40fb8995a00
10. GTM Lead — Kindred
Remote · Full-time
Kindred is a home exchange travel platform — you swap your home to stay in someone else’s, instead of paying for a hotel. The model has genuine product-market fit with a community that’s grown organically.
As GTM Lead, you own non-traditional growth channels: community partnerships, platform integrations, grassroots events, BD, and referral acquisition. You’re building and testing the growth playbook from scratch.
Strong fit if you’ve built growth programs for a marketplace or community product, work well without a large team below you, and are energized by finding channels before they’re obvious.
Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kindred/72656491-1ede-4814-bf3a-a21f18569fce
🌍 Remote Jobs Hiring Worldwide — Verified Open
11. Account Executive - Staking— Nansen
Remote (Europe/Asia preferred) · Full-time
Nansen is a blockchain analytics platform used by serious crypto investors to track on-chain activity and follow the smart money. As an AE on the staking team, you’ll own the full sales cycle for Nansen’s staking products — prospecting, demoing, and closing with institutional and professional clients across Europe and Asia.
Strong fit if you’ve sold technical or financial products, understand crypto and web3 natively, and can hold a credible conversation about staking with sophisticated buyers.
Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/nansen/jobs/5983629004
12. Remote Customer Support Technician — SkySlope
Remote (US) · $24.50/hr · Full-time · Benefits included
SkySlope is the transaction management platform used by roughly 300,000 real estate agents. This is a support technician role — not a customer-success upsell seat. You’re solving real problems via email, chat, and phone, on a 4×10 schedule (four days, ten hours each).
The comp is hourly with full benefits: medical, dental, vision, 401k match, and paid parental leave. A stable remote role with real infrastructure behind it.
Strong fit if you want a fully remote, benefits-included position with a structured schedule and a product that’s deeply embedded in a real industry workflow.
Apply: https://remoteok.com/remote-jobs/remote-customer-support-technician-skyslope-1129688
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