Build the people behind the future of AI, from Africa.
For AI labs and companies: researchers, engineers, and the expert humans who train and evaluate your models, recruited, employed, and managed by us. For AI experts: paid, properly contracted work that uses your field or your language.
Hire AI talent and stand up expert pools
Researchers and engineers through talent search, vetted expert contributors for training and evaluation, and people operations for your Africa team.
Talk to our AI team →Get paid to judge AI in your field
Law, medicine, finance, language and engineering: flexible, contracted project work that uses your real expertise.
Apply to join →CareerBuddy AI, in six answers.
- Who is this for?
- AI labs and AI companies building models and teams, and the experts (lawyers, doctors, finance and compliance specialists, engineers and native speakers) who want paid AI work.
- What problem are you solving?
- Labs struggle to find ML talent and domain experts who can judge model output in African contexts. Experts struggle to find AI work that is properly contracted and fairly paid.
- What does CareerBuddy activate?
- For labs: AI talent search, a vetted human data workforce for training and evaluation, and people operations for your Africa team. For experts: a screened network matched to paid, contracted projects.
- What outcome can you expect?
- Labs get researchers hired and expert evaluation that holds up in the markets their models ship into. Experts get flexible, paid work that uses their field or their language.
- Why CareerBuddy?
- CareerBuddy recruits, contracts and pays people across 50+ countries, and has placed 4,200+ professionals. Every expert is screened by a person before any live work.
- What should you do next?
- Labs: talk to our AI team. Experts: apply to join the network.Talk to our AI team →
Four ways we work with AI teams
"We need ML and research talent we can’t find."
- Contingent, retained, and executive search
- Including country leadership
- Shortlist in 4 days
"We need vetted experts and native speakers for training and evals, at scale."
- Recruitment and credential checks
- Skill and quality testing
- Onboarding and pay in 50+ countries
"We need a people function for our Africa team."
- Embedded recruiters and HR ops
- Contractor management, EOR, and payroll
- Policies built for your markets
"We need Africa’s AI community to know us."
- Media and newsletters
- Events and hackathons
- Employer brand for technical audiences
Your expertise, paid to make AI better.
AI needs people who know the field, not just generalist labellers. We screen professionals, match them to projects with AI labs, and contract and pay them properly.
Lawyers & legal professionals
Practising lawyers who judge model output against real statute and case practice.
Compliance, risk & financial services
Compliance officers, risk analysts and finance professionals from regulated institutions.
Doctors & healthcare professionals
Clinicians who understand African care realities, not just textbook medicine.
Translators & language specialists
Native speakers of Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, Nigerian Pidgin, Swahili, French, Arabic and more.
Engineers & domain experts
Software, energy and industrial specialists for technical reasoning and benchmark design.
Why Africa for AI
Languages covered
Our responsible workforce standards
The people who train and evaluate models deserve fair pay, real contracts, and support. We publish our standards so you can hold us to them.
How it works
Questions labs and experts ask
Talk to our AI team.
Tell us the roles or the pool you need. We reply within one business day.