Hire pre-vetted AI training specialists from Asia: RLHF specialists, coding and domain expert trainers, multilingual trainers, and evaluators. Shortlist in 24 hours, $0 upfront, 14-day replacement guarantee.
24 Hours
to get matched
50-70 %
payroll savings
92 %
talent retention rate
4.9
avg client rating
200 +
companies building with us
Coding AI Trainer
🇵🇭Cebu, Philippines
Carlo reviews and ranks model-generated web code. He has graded thousands of frontend and Node.js solutions for correctness and security, with rationales a senior reviewer would sign off on.
Exp
6+ Years
English
Native
Ready
Full-time
Filipino AI Trainer
🇵🇭Davao, Philippines
Angelica writes Filipino and mixed Filipino-English data the way users really type it. She rates model output for tone and cultural fit as well as accuracy.
Exp
5+ Years
English
Native
Ready
Full-time
Malay AI Trainer
🇲🇾Johor Bahru, Malaysia
Amir writes and rates Malay training data and fixes text that has drifted into Bahasa Indonesia vocabulary. He also covers the mixed Malay and English common in everyday chat.
Exp
6+ Years
English
Native
Ready
Full-time
Dedicated AI Evaluation Specialist
🇨🇳Beijing, China
Wen builds evaluation and observability for production AI. She has owned grading pipelines, tracing, and quality dashboards for large language model platforms serving enterprise workloads.
Exp
9+ Years
English
Advanced
Ready
Full-time
Dedicated RLHF Specialist
🇲🇾Penang, Malaysia
Kelvin leads review queues for preference-data projects. He has written guidelines, built gold task sets, and tracked reviewer agreement so quality holds steady as a team grows.
Exp
7+ Years
English
Native
Ready
Full-time
Thai AI Trainer
🇹🇭Bangkok, Thailand
Nattapong produces native Thai prompts and ideal responses. He rates model output for register and politeness, and flags content that reads as harmless in English but not in Thai.
Exp
6+ Years
English
Advanced
Ready
Full-time
Dedicated AI training specialists who produce the human data your model learns from. Pre-vetted, compliant, and matched in 24 hours.
Specialists who work on your project only, learn your guidelines deeply, and hold the same quality bar week after week. Your data stays in your own tools.
Every candidate applies a real rubric to tasks with known answers. We score agreement, read every rationale, and check references. Only the top few percent pass.
Engineers, scientists, finance, legal, and medical professionals, plus native speakers of Vietnamese, Thai, Bahasa, Filipino, Malay, and Chinese.
We handle contracts, payroll, and compliance through our Employer of Record. You go from brief to a working specialist inside a week.
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Specialists hired
8
Engineers hired in Vietnam across five requisitions.
14
Developers hired across five role types in 18 months.
70%
Jump in productivity after building the team.
$1.5B
Exit via acquisition by a major automotive marketplace.
70%
Reduction in labor costs across store operations.
70%
Increase in business efficiency after the build.
50%
Productivity boost after scaling the engineering team.
3
Role types staffed for the group's technology team.
3 days
To source and onboard their first sales hire.
2 mo
Of hiring time saved on their lead engineer search.
Matched in 24 hours. Pre-vetted for your exact specialism. Transparent pricing.
Tell us the task types, your guidelines, the languages or fields involved, and the volume you expect.
24-hour shortlist of pre-vetted specialists with real portfolio work. Interview the ones you like.
We handle EOR, payroll, and compliance. Your specialist delivers real output in the first week.
Thanks to Second Talent, Open Campus quickly built a skilled tech team of 10 within two months, boosting productivity by 70% and accelerating our Web3 platform's development.
This success has strengthened our role in decentralized education and fueled our market expansion, highlighting our leadership in Web3 innovation.
Jonah L.
Head of Portfolio (raised US$100m)
Second Talent helped Beyond Cars (acquired by Carro) swiftly build a top-tier tech team in just a month, accelerating our platform's development and boosting productivity.
This success allowed us to expand into new markets, ultimately leading to our acquisition by a major automotive e-commerce company.
Garry Y.
Co-Founder (acquired by Carro)
Partnering with Second Talent has been a game-changer for our tech expansion.
Their ability to source top-tier talent from Vietnam helped us scale rapidly while maintaining quality. Their pre-vetted candidates integrated seamlessly, and their account management ensured smooth onboarding.
Tom F.
Co-founder (#1 US Real Estate Coach)
Second Talent played a key role in our tech expansion, quickly providing high-quality frontend talent that integrated seamlessly into our projects.
Their pre-vetted candidates, smooth onboarding process, and excellent support helped us build a strong, cost-effective team that drives our success.
Marco A.
Co-founder & CTO
Second Talent built our team of pre-vetted engineers who made our hiring decisions straightforward.
Once onboarded, our tech team saw a significant boost in productivity and development speed. Their excellent account management and responsive customer service also ensured smooth handling of all post-onboarding HR matters.
Jack N.
Director of IT (10,000+ employees)
Second Talent helped us rapidly scale by sourcing top-quality SDR talent from Indonesia.
Their pre-screened candidates fit perfectly, and their smooth onboarding and support built a strong, cost-effective team that helped to test and experiment sales with another market.
Leo W.
Co-founder (raised US$5m)
Human feedback, code, expert knowledge, and native language data. Pick a role to see profiles, rates, and a hiring guide.
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TL;DR: Hire pre-vetted AI training specialists from across Asia: RLHF specialists, coding AI trainers, domain expert trainers, multilingual trainers, and evaluation specialists. From $1,000 to $6,500+/mo depending on role and seniority. Shortlist in 24 hours, $0 upfront.
A base model learns language from huge amounts of text. What it learns next, how to follow instructions, when to refuse, how to reason through a hard problem, comes from much smaller sets of carefully made human data. Supervised fine-tuning needs ideal responses written by someone who knows the subject. Preference tuning needs reviewers who compare two answers and explain which is better. Evaluation needs rubrics and scored samples you can trust.
AI training specialists make that data. The quality of their judgement ends up inside your model, so it pays to hire for it deliberately.
Crowd platforms are built for volume. You get many anonymous reviewers, each spending a short time on your project. That suits simple labelling, but it struggles with open-ended work, where guidelines need interpreting and standards drift.
A dedicated specialist works on your project only. They learn your guidelines deeply, raise the edge cases the rules miss, and keep the same bar week after week. You talk to them directly, calibrate them against gold tasks, and replace them if they fall short. Your data stays inside your own tools and access rules.
| Specialist | What they do | Senior Rate (Monthly) |
|---|---|---|
| RLHF Specialist | Ranks model outputs, writes preference data, rationales, and ideal responses | $3,000–$4,500 |
| Coding AI Trainer | Writes reference solutions, grades model code, designs test-graded tasks | $4,000–$6,000 |
| Domain Expert AI Trainer | Writes and checks expert data in maths, science, finance, law, and medicine | $5,000–$6,500 |
| Multilingual AI Trainer | Writes and rates native data in Vietnamese, Thai, Bahasa, Filipino, Malay, and Chinese | $2,800–$4,000 |
| AI Evaluation Specialist | Builds evals, graders, guardrails, and red-team programs | $4,000–$6,500 |
Need engineers who train and deploy models rather than produce training data? See AI model training specialists. For high-volume labelling, see our data annotation specialists.
Asia gives you a deep bench of engineers, scientists, and professionals, plus native coverage of languages that most training data neglects: Vietnamese, Thai, Bahasa Indonesia, Filipino, Malay, Mandarin, and Cantonese. English is a working language across the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, and Hong Kong, and every specialist we place passes an English communication check, so they work from your guidelines as written.
Time zones help too. Teams in Asia can review a day's model output overnight for a US team, or work in full overlap with teams in Australia and the rest of Asia.
Every track has its own bar, and every track starts the same way: the candidate applies a real rubric to tasks with known answers. We score their agreement with the gold labels and read every rationale. Coding trainers also pass a live coding interview with a senior engineer. Domain experts have their degree or professional licence confirmed. Multilingual trainers are tested in their own language. An English check and reference checks follow. Only the top few percent pass.
You share the task types, your guidelines, and the volume you expect. We send a pre-vetted shortlist in 24 hours. You interview the candidates you like and can set them your own sample task. We handle contracts, payroll, and compliance through our Employer of Record service, so there is no local entity to set up.
Most clients go from first call to a working specialist in under a week. If the fit is wrong, our 14-day replacement guarantee covers a re-match at no extra cost.
We also place specialists for work beyond model training: Agentic AI Specialists who build autonomous agents, plus AI-powered recruiting roles, including AI Talent Sourcing Specialists, AI/ML Technical Recruiters, and AI Recruiting Specialists.
Tell us what you want your model to learn and the kind of data it needs. We will deliver a shortlist within 24 hours. Book a free consultation to begin.
$0 upfront. 14-day replacement guarantee. We handle payroll and compliance.
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