Professional Gamer

📍remote
🕒Full-time
💰$18 – $18/hr
📅Posted August 2, 2026

Job Description

Role Title: Professional Gamer

Role Type: Contractor

Location: Remote

micro1 is engaging Professional Gamers to participate in an innovative project for a customer, providing gaming expertise and insights. In this role, you'll apply your expertise to help train next-generation AI systems. Your work will shape how models learn, reason, and perform through high-quality, real-world input. No prior experience in AI is required — your domain knowledge is what matters. This engagement is an exciting chance for experienced gamers to influence the future of AI technologies by playing curated PC game titles and capturing valuable data.

Scope of Work

  1. Play selected PC games while recording per-frame synchronized gameplay video and capturing keyboard/mouse telemetry

  2. Collect and submit detailed engine-level signals and in-game event data as specified by project guidelines

  3. Perform high-quality annotation of gameplay scenarios and events, ensuring accuracy and context

  4. Conduct hands-on quality assurance to identify and document gameplay issues, bugs, or data anomalies

  5. Maintain consistent participation with daily gaming sessions of at least 2-3 hours and timely data submission

  6. Communicate effectively with project managers and technical stakeholders, submitting feedback and progress updates in both written and verbal formats

  7. Adhere to all project protocols regarding data security, privacy, and compliance

Preferred Qualifications

  1. Demonstrated expertise in PC gaming, with a strong track record in competitive or professional gaming environments

  2. Experience with gameplay recording tools, telemetry capture, or similar technical setups

  3. Background in quality assurance testing or detailed annotation within gaming or related fields

  4. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with an emphasis on clarity and proactive updates

  5. Familiarity with game mechanics, strategy, and meta across multiple PC titles

  6. Ability to provide actionable feedback on user experience, bugs, and gameplay flow

  7. Self-motivated, reliable, and comfortable working independently in a remote engagement

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About Micro1

Micro1 is building the essential infrastructure for the next generation of artificial intelligence, moving beyond the limitations of static datasets to create a dynamic ecosystem where models truly learn to think and act. At its core, the company understands that the path to frontier intelligence isn't paved with synthetic data alone; it requires the nuance, judgment, and contextual awareness that only expert human guidance can provide. By positioning itself at the intersection of human expertise and advanced reinforcement learning, Micro1 is tackling the hardest problem in AI today: teaching models not just to answer questions, but to reason through complexity and take meaningful actions in unpredictable, real-world environments.

This mission comes to life through Realm, Micro1's flagship training environment. Realm functions as a high-fidelity simulation ground where AI agents are immersed in scenarios that closely mirror the messiness of actual human workflows. Rather than relying on abstract benchmarks, Realm forces models to engage in agentic actions, multi-step decisions, digital navigation, coding, and problem-solving that require genuine comprehension. It is within these realistic sandboxes that world-class human data is generated, creating a continuous feedback loop where expert annotators observe, correct, and guide model behavior. This process does more than just fine-tune outputs; it fundamentally elevates a model's underlying reasoning architecture, ensuring that the intelligence developed in training holds up when deployed into the wild.

But training is only half the equation. Micro1 recognizes that the true test of an AI system lies in its production performance, which is where Cortex enters the picture. Cortex is a contextual evaluation platform designed to move beyond superficial accuracy metrics and provide a granular, real-time view of how agents behave in live settings. It doesn't just flag errors; it surfaces the underlying context behind failures, revealing why an agent struggled with a particular user intent or environmental variable. This insight is invaluable for engineering teams, as it transforms evaluation from a passive checkpoint into an active improvement tool. With Cortex, companies can catch degradation early, understand the nuances of edge cases, and feed those learnings directly back into Realm for retraining, creating a virtuous cycle of continuous advancement.

Ultimately, Micro1 is not merely a data lab or an evaluation tool it is a comprehensive intelligence engine that connects the entire lifecycle of model development. From the expert human feedback that sharpens raw capability, to the realistic RL environments that forge robust agentic behavior, to the contextual oversight that ensures reliability in production, Micro1 provides the integrated foundation that AI labs and enterprises desperately need. As the industry races toward truly autonomous systems, Micro1 stands as the critical bridge between laboratory breakthroughs and dependable, real-world impact, ensuring that frontier models do not just perform well on paper, but deliver genuine value in the complex, dynamic world they are meant to serve.