{"id":362,"date":"2026-09-11T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getaiwork.com\/articles\/?p=362"},"modified":"2026-09-10T03:19:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T03:19:27","slug":"scale-ai-remote-tasks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getaiwork.com\/articles\/scale-ai-remote-tasks\/","title":{"rendered":"Scale AI Remote Tasks in 2026: Where the Work Went"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\n.gaw-updated{font-size:.85rem;color:#64748b;margin:0 0 1.2rem}\n.gaw-answer{background:#eef6ff;border-left:5px solid #1d4ed8;padding:1.1rem 1.3rem;border-radius:0 10px 10px 0;margin:1.4rem 0;font-size:1.05rem;line-height:1.6}\n.gaw-answer strong{color:#1e3a8a}\n.gaw-facts{background:#f8fafc;border:1px solid #e2e8f0;border-radius:10px;padding:1.1rem 1.4rem;margin:1.4rem 0}\n.gaw-facts p{margin:0 0 .4rem;font-weight:700;font-size:.95rem;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.04em;color:#475569}\n.gaw-facts ul{margin:.4rem 0 0 1.1rem;padding:0}\n.gaw-facts li{margin:.35rem 0;line-height:1.5}\n.gaw-tablewrap{overflow-x:auto;margin:1.4rem 0}\n.gaw-table{border-collapse:collapse;width:100%;font-size:.95rem}\n.gaw-table th{background:#0f172a;color:#fff;text-align:left;padding:.6rem .8rem}\n.gaw-table td{border-bottom:1px solid #e2e8f0;padding:.6rem .8rem;vertical-align:top}\n.gaw-table tr:nth-child(even) td{background:#f8fafc}\n.gaw-cta{background:linear-gradient(135deg,#0f172a,#1e3a8a);color:#fff;border-radius:14px;padding:1.5rem 1.6rem;margin:2rem 0;text-align:center}\n.gaw-cta p{color:#e2e8f0;margin:.3rem 0 1rem}\n.gaw-cta strong{color:#fff;font-size:1.15rem}\n.gaw-cta a.gaw-btn{display:inline-block;background:#34d399;color:#052e22;font-weight:800;padding:.85rem 1.6rem;border-radius:999px;text-decoration:none}\n.gaw-cta .gaw-sub{font-size:.8rem;color:#94a3b8;margin-top:.7rem}\n.gaw-author{display:flex;gap:1rem;align-items:center;background:#f8fafc;border:1px solid #e2e8f0;border-radius:12px;padding:1rem 1.2rem;margin:2rem 0}\n.gaw-author img{width:64px;height:64px;border-radius:50%;object-fit:cover;flex-shrink:0}\n.gaw-author p{margin:.15rem 0;font-size:.92rem;line-height:1.45}\n.gaw-faq h3{margin:1.3rem 0 .35rem;font-size:1.06rem}\n.gaw-faq p{margin:0 0 .6rem}\n.gaw-toc{background:#f8fafc;border:1px solid #e2e8f0;border-radius:10px;padding:.9rem 1.3rem;margin:1.2rem 0;font-size:.93rem}\n.gaw-toc ul{margin:.3rem 0 0 1rem;padding:0}\n.gaw-verdict{background:#f0fdf4;border:1px solid #bbf7d0;border-radius:10px;padding:1rem 1.3rem;margin:1.4rem 0;line-height:1.6}\n<\/style>\n<p class=\"gaw-updated\">By <a href=\"\/articles\/about\/\">Mufy Pachorawala<\/a>, founder of getAIwork &middot; Last updated: <strong>September 10, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"gaw-answer\"><strong>Scale AI runs three worker platforms, not one: Outlier, Remotasks and the Human Frontier Collective.<\/strong> Outlier is the practical route for most people, and it is now operated by an affiliate called Smart Ecosystem Inc. Scale itself has a new chief executive as of July 2026 and has moved most of its business toward enterprise and government work.<\/div>\n<div class=\"gaw-facts\">\n<p>Key facts<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Scale AI has a new CEO: Francis deSouza, appointed July 30, 2026.<\/strong> Almost every article still names Alexandr Wang or interim chief Jason Droege<\/li>\n<li><strong>Outlier is now operated by Smart Ecosystem Inc., doing business as Outlier AI<\/strong>, per its Terms of Use effective May 11, 2026. Every page footer reads <em>\u00a9 2026 Smart Ecosystems<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Meta took a reported <strong>49% non-controlling stake for about $14.3 billion<\/strong> in June 2025. Google, OpenAI and Microsoft wound down work with Scale within weeks<\/li>\n<li>Scale cut <strong>200 employees, 14% of staff, plus 500 contractors<\/strong> in July 2025, concentrated in data labelling<\/li>\n<li><strong>39 of Scale&#8217;s 217 open corporate roles<\/strong> are public sector, defence or national security, and 44 are in Washington DC<\/li>\n<li><strong>Outlier publishes no hourly rate.<\/strong> Its own FAQ says only that <em>rates vary by expertise, project complexity, and location<\/em><\/li>\n<li>For comparison, the free getAIwork board lists <strong>582 paid AI platform programmes<\/strong> among 1,521 live listings at <a href=\"https:\/\/getaiwork.com\/board\/\">getaiwork.com\/board\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gaw-toc\"><strong>On this page:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#what\">What happened to Scale AI<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#three\">The three worker platforms<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#outlier\">Outlier, the practical route<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#pay\">Pay<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#hfc\">Human Frontier Collective<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#sme\">Scale&#8217;s own contractor roles<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#mercor\">One story that is not about Scale<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#verdict\">Verdict<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#faq\">FAQ<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"what\">What actually happened to Scale AI?<\/h2>\n<p>Three things in fifteen months, and they explain most of what people notice about the task supply.<\/p>\n<p>On <strong>June 12, 2025<\/strong> Scale announced what it called the next phase of the company&#8217;s evolution. Meta invested, founder Alexandr Wang left to work on Meta&#8217;s AI efforts while remaining a board director, and chief strategy officer <strong>Jason Droege<\/strong> became interim chief executive. Scale&#8217;s own wording described Meta as holding <em>a minority of Scale&#8217;s outstanding equity<\/em> at a valuation of over $29 billion. Press reporting put concrete numbers on it: roughly <strong>$14.3 billion for a 49% non-controlling stake<\/strong>. Scale has never stated those figures itself, which is itself informative.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gaw-photo\">\n<figure style=\"margin:1.8rem 0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/getaiwork.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/scale-ai-remote-tasks-photo1.jpg\" alt=\"Scale AI's business has moved toward enterprise and government work\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:12px;display:block\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Then the customers left. Within two days of the announcement, Google, reported to be Scale&#8217;s largest customer, was planning to split. OpenAI wound down its work by June 18. Microsoft ended its partnership the same month. xAI was reported to be exploring alternatives. If your biggest buyers are frontier labs and one of them buys half of your supplier, the others do not stay.<\/p>\n<p>On <strong>July 16, 2025<\/strong> Scale cut 200 employees, 14% of its staff, plus 500 contractors, with the cuts concentrated in data labelling while enterprise and government sales were expanded. Droege&#8217;s memo said the company had scaled its core data-labelling business too quickly.<\/p>\n<p>And on <strong>July 30, 2026<\/strong>, Scale appointed <strong>Francis deSouza<\/strong> as chief executive, previously chief operating officer and president of security products at Google Cloud and before that chief executive of Illumina. His stated priorities are getting Scale&#8217;s solutions into more businesses and governments, delivering data for AI labs, and showing value through provable outcomes. If you are reading an article that still says Alexandr Wang runs Scale, it is at least fourteen months stale.<\/p>\n<p>The direction is visible in the hiring. Of 217 open roles on Scale&#8217;s careers board on September 10, 2026, thirty-nine carry public sector, government, defence or national security in the title and forty-four are located in Washington DC. The boilerplate on every listing names Meta, Ernst and Young, Mayo Clinic, Time Inc., the Government of Qatar and US government agencies including the Army and Air Force. Scale is now an enterprise and defence contractor that also runs crowd platforms, rather than the other way round.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"three\">The three Scale worker platforms, and which is which<\/h2>\n<p>Almost every guide treats Scale&#8217;s crowd work as one thing. Scale&#8217;s own Terms of Use name three separate platforms with three separate support channels, and they sit at very different points on the ladder.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gaw-tablewrap\">\n<table class=\"gaw-table\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Platform<\/th>\n<th>What it is<\/th>\n<th>Who it wants<\/th>\n<th>Status<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Outlier<\/strong> (outlier.ai)<\/td>\n<td>The main freelance task platform<\/td>\n<td>Degree holders, some projects requiring bachelor&#8217;s, master&#8217;s or PhD<\/td>\n<td>Open and recruiting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Remotasks<\/strong> (remotasks.com)<\/td>\n<td>The legacy crowd platform<\/td>\n<td>Originally general task workers<\/td>\n<td>Still loads, still governed by current terms, but not recruiting in many countries<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Human Frontier Collective<\/strong> (hfc.scale.com)<\/td>\n<td>A fellowship-style research tier<\/td>\n<td>Doctoral researchers and academics<\/td>\n<td>Open, applications by sign-up<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"font-size:.85rem;color:#64748b;margin:.4rem 0 0\">All three are named in the Outlier Terms of Use effective May 11, 2026, each with its own support address.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Remotasks deserves its own article and we have given it one. The short version for here: the site still loads, accounts still log in, and it is still covered by current terms, but its own sign-up flow now redirects blocked applicants elsewhere. Its exact wording is worth quoting, because it is the company answering the question directly: <em>Unfortunately, we aren&#8217;t currently accepting new contributors from your location on Remotasks. However, we encourage you to check out exciting opportunities to train Generative AI on Outlier.ai.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"outlier\">Outlier: the route that actually works<\/h2>\n<p>Outlier is where Scale points people, and it is accepting sign-ups. There is a live opportunities board covering maths, law, full-stack software engineering, coding in Simplified Chinese and Spanish, agent-building projects and region-specific listings.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gaw-photo\">\n<figure style=\"margin:1.8rem 0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/getaiwork.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/scale-ai-remote-tasks-photo3.jpg\" alt=\"Outlier is the practical route into Scale-operated task work\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:12px;display:block\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>The ownership has changed and nobody has reported it.<\/strong> Outlier&#8217;s FAQ still describes it as a platform operated by Scale AI, but its Terms of Use effective May 11, 2026 name the contracting party as <em>Scale AI, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and its affiliates, including Smart Ecosystem Inc., doing business as Outlier AI<\/em>. Every page footer now reads <em>powered by Scale AI<\/em> above <em>\u00a9 2026 Smart Ecosystems<\/em>. We found no announcement or press coverage explaining the restructuring, so we are reporting the entity names as fact and leaving the reason alone.<\/p>\n<p>One practical correction that will save you an evening: <strong>Outlier&#8217;s old Greenhouse job board is dead.<\/strong> Those URLs now return &#8220;the job board you were viewing is no longer active&#8221;. Applications go through app.outlier.ai and nowhere else. A large amount of ranking content, aggregator listings and forum advice still links the dead board.<\/p>\n<p>To apply you need a valid ID and mobile phone from your country of residence, a current resume, and a LinkedIn profile showing your education and work history. Outlier says you need at least an associate degree, that some projects require a bachelor&#8217;s, master&#8217;s or PhD, and that it runs a selective screening process. Onboarding is described as taking 30 to 90 minutes. You work as an independent contractor and there is no visa sponsorship.<\/p>\n<p>Outlier says it operates in 50 countries. It publishes no country list anywhere on its site, so eligibility only becomes clear per opportunity. If you want a view of what is open across the whole category rather than one platform&#8217;s board, our <a href=\"\/articles\/ai-training-platforms-hiring-now\/\">AI training platforms hiring now<\/a> roundup is the faster check.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"pay\">What do Scale&#8217;s platforms pay?<\/h2>\n<p>This is the section where honesty is more useful than a number. <strong>Outlier does not publish a rate.<\/strong> Its FAQ answers the question &#8220;how much does Outlier pay?&#8221; with: <em>Rates vary by expertise, project complexity, and location. You&#8217;ll always see the tasking rate before starting any project.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So any article quoting you a specific Outlier hourly range is either quoting a single project someone saw, or quoting the dead Greenhouse listings. Neither is a rate card. What Outlier does publish is that it has paid over $500 million to experts, that pay is weekly, and that it offers competitive pay plus quality-based rewards.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gaw-tablewrap\">\n<table class=\"gaw-table\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Platform<\/th>\n<th>Published pay information<\/th>\n<th>Payment method<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Outlier<\/td>\n<td>No rate published. FAQ states rates vary by expertise, project complexity and location, and that you see the rate before starting<\/td>\n<td>Weekly on Tuesdays for work completed the previous Tuesday to Monday midnight UTC, via PayPal, Airtm or ACH bank transfer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Human Frontier Collective<\/td>\n<td>No pay figures published anywhere on the site<\/td>\n<td>Not published<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Scale careers, Subject Matter Expert (part-time hourly)<\/td>\n<td>No rate published<\/td>\n<td>Not published<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Scale careers, salaried roles for comparison<\/td>\n<td>AI Advisory Consultant $141,600 to $177,000; Contributor Experience Manager $134,400 to $168,000; Director of Engineering, Physical AI $302,400 to $378,000<\/td>\n<td>Salaried employment<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"font-size:.85rem;color:#64748b;margin:.4rem 0 0\">Quoted exactly as published on Scale, Outlier and Human Frontier Collective pages retrieved September 10, 2026. Salary bands are for full-time employees and are shown only to illustrate the disclosure gap. Nothing here is a promise of earnings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>That last row is the interesting one. Scale publishes salary bands for its employees on the same careers board where its hourly contractor role publishes nothing. That is pay transparency law working exactly as written, and it is a neat illustration of which side of the line crowd work sits on.<\/p>\n<p>The weekly payment cycle is genuinely a point in Outlier&#8217;s favour. Compared with the roughly six-week cycle we describe in <a href=\"\/articles\/appen-review\/\">our Appen review<\/a>, weekly on Tuesdays is a meaningful quality-of-life difference when the work is irregular.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gaw-cta\"><strong>Not sure which of these is right for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The free 2-minute quiz filters 1,521 screened listings to the platforms and roles that fit your background and country.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gaw-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/getaiwork.com\/?h=outlier&amp;utm_source=articles&amp;utm_medium=organic&amp;utm_content=scale-ai-remote-tasks\">Take the 2-minute match quiz &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"gaw-sub\">Free to take &middot; real listings, screened daily &middot; no income promises, ever<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"hfc\">What is the Human Frontier Collective?<\/h2>\n<p>The least-documented of the three, and the most interesting if you have a research background. HFC sits at hfc.scale.com, is badged <em>Powered by Scale AI<\/em>, and has its own support address at Scale. Its positioning is fellowship rather than gig work: apply to the fellowship, define what right means in your field, build evaluations and reasoning standards that frontier systems have to meet.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gaw-photo\">\n<figure style=\"margin:1.8rem 0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/getaiwork.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/scale-ai-remote-tasks-photo2.jpg\" alt=\"The Human Frontier Collective recruits doctoral researchers\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:12px;display:block\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The testimonials name doctoral researchers from MIT, Stanford, Harvard Medical School, Johns Hopkins and UC Davis, and one member describes authoring legal benchmarks later accepted at major machine learning conferences. There is an open sign-up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It publishes no pay figures at all.<\/strong> That is not necessarily a warning sign at this end of the market, where engagements are negotiated, but it does mean you cannot compare it to anything before applying. If you hold a doctorate and this work interests you, the credential-led end of the category is where rates are highest across the board, as we found in our <a href=\"\/articles\/telus-international-ai-review\/\">TELUS Digital review<\/a> and <a href=\"\/articles\/surge-ai-review\/\">Surge AI review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"sme\">Scale&#8217;s own careers board has a contractor role, and most people miss it<\/h2>\n<p>Tucked into Scale&#8217;s corporate careers board is a part-time hourly posting called <strong>Subject Matter Expert<\/strong>, open in Canada and the United States, last updated in August 2026. Its wording: <em>Part-time (Hourly). Work as many or as few hours as you&#8217;d like, with the flexibility to set your own schedule based on your availability.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The work is quality auditing rather than labelling: structured audits of task outputs, defining quality benchmarks, scoring rubrics and evaluation criteria. It explicitly excludes contributor-facing work, with no task assignment or queue management. It asks for deep domain expertise in a specialised field such as medicine, law or engineering. It publishes no rate.<\/p>\n<p>If you have the credentials, this is a route into Scale that does not go through a crowd platform at all, and it is not mentioned in any of the roundups we checked.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"mercor\">One widely shared story that is not about Scale<\/h2>\n<p>A piece of housekeeping, because we keep seeing this merged. The November 2025 story about an AI company cutting thousands of contractors from a project and redeploying them at <em>$16\/hour, down $5<\/em> is about <strong>Mercor<\/strong>, not Scale. Several roundups have folded it into Scale&#8217;s timeline. It is a real and relevant datapoint about the category&#8217;s rate direction, and it belongs to a different company. Our <a href=\"\/articles\/mercor-review\/\">Mercor review<\/a> covers that platform properly.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"verdict\">So where should you actually apply?<\/h2>\n<div class=\"gaw-verdict\"><strong>Outlier, through app.outlier.ai, if you hold at least an associate degree and want task work with weekly payment. The Human Frontier Collective if you hold a doctorate. Scale&#8217;s own Subject Matter Expert posting if you hold a professional credential and want auditing work rather than tasking. Not Remotasks, and not the dead Greenhouse links.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>The honest framing of Scale in 2026 is that it is a large, healthy, pivoting company whose crowd platforms are now a side business rather than the main event. That is neither good news nor bad news for you specifically. It just means the task supply follows Scale&#8217;s enterprise and government contracts rather than the frontier-lab boom that built the platform, and that is a slower, lumpier rhythm.<\/p>\n<p>As always, do not wait on one queue. <a href=\"\/articles\/outlier-alternatives\/\">Outlier alternatives<\/a> covers the platforms most people run alongside it, and <a href=\"\/articles\/ai-training-jobs-no-experience\/\">AI training jobs with no experience<\/a> is the right starting point if you are new to this work.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gaw-cta\"><strong>See what is open across every platform at once<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1,521 live AI listings, 582 paid platform programmes, screened and human-approved. Free and public, no account.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gaw-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/getaiwork.com\/board\/\">See the live board &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"gaw-sub\">Free to browse &middot; real listings, screened daily &middot; no income promises, ever<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gaw-faq\">\n<h2 id=\"faq\">Frequently asked questions<\/h2>\n<h3>Who owns Scale AI now?<\/h3>\n<p>Scale AI remains an independent company. Meta invested in June 2025 in what Scale described as a minority of its outstanding equity at a valuation over $29 billion; press reporting put that at roughly $14.3 billion for a 49% non-controlling stake. Founder Alexandr Wang left to work at Meta while staying on Scale&#8217;s board.<\/p>\n<h3>Who is the CEO of Scale AI?<\/h3>\n<p>Francis deSouza, appointed on July 30, 2026. He was previously chief operating officer and president of security products at Google Cloud, and before that chief executive of Illumina. Jason Droege had been interim chief executive since June 2025.<\/p>\n<h3>Is Outlier still owned by Scale AI?<\/h3>\n<p>Outlier&#8217;s FAQ describes it as operated by Scale AI, but its Terms of Use effective May 11, 2026 name the contracting parties as Scale AI, Inc. and its affiliates including Smart Ecosystem Inc., doing business as Outlier AI. Every page footer reads powered by Scale AI above a Smart Ecosystems copyright line. No public announcement explains the restructuring.<\/p>\n<h3>How much does Outlier pay per hour?<\/h3>\n<p>Outlier does not publish a rate. Its FAQ states that rates vary by expertise, project complexity and location, and that you always see the tasking rate before starting a project. Any specific hourly range you see quoted elsewhere is either one person&#8217;s project or a figure taken from Outlier&#8217;s now-dead Greenhouse listings.<\/p>\n<h3>How does Outlier pay you?<\/h3>\n<p>Weekly, on Tuesdays, for work completed from the previous Tuesday through Monday midnight UTC, with payment by PayPal, Airtm or ACH bank transfer. That is a considerably faster cycle than most platforms in this category.<\/p>\n<h3>Do you need a degree to work on Outlier?<\/h3>\n<p>Outlier says you need at least an associate degree, and that certain projects may require a bachelor&#8217;s, master&#8217;s or PhD. You also need a valid ID and mobile phone from your country of residence, a current resume and a LinkedIn profile showing your education and work history.<\/p>\n<h3>What is the Human Frontier Collective?<\/h3>\n<p>A third Scale-operated platform at hfc.scale.com, framed as a fellowship for doctoral researchers who build evaluations and reasoning standards for frontier AI systems. It has an open sign-up and its own support address at Scale. It publishes no pay figures.<\/p>\n<h3>Where do I apply for Scale AI remote tasks?<\/h3>\n<p>Through app.outlier.ai for general task work, hfc.scale.com for the research fellowship tier, or Scale&#8217;s own careers board for the part-time Subject Matter Expert auditing role. 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