SuperAnnotate (SME)

Yes. Deel payouts to contractors are on record, and SME Careers is SuperAnnotate's own channel for hiring expert AI trainers, operated by SME Solutions, Inc. of San Francisco. Landing paid hours once approved is far less sure. A pass does not bring a project. On 29 October 2026, 129 of 264 open roles stated there was no immediate project, onboarded contractors describe months of waiting, and the rate offered can sit well under a listing's 'up to' figure.

No. SuperAnnotate (SME) is a real company. RemoWork warns that impersonators trade on the SME Careers name, though we found no named case. Genuine pages live only on sme.careers and docs.sme.careers. Mail comes from support@sme.careers, payments@sme.careers or legal@sme.careers, and Deel is the only place for contracts and ID checks. A LinkedIn post should point to sme.careers, and no real role asks you to pay.

Yes. A real, funded company (a Series B with NVIDIA's venture arm among its backers) whose contractors report being paid through Deel. Approval is not the same as work: 137 of its 138 health postings on 2 November 2026 said no project was open for the role yet, and many approved contractors report waiting months for one. Payouts: Weekly through Deel, as an independent contractor: work done Monday to Sunday is paid the following Friday once SME's team approves it, usually arriving 1 to 3 days after SME submits the payout. On hourly projects only tracked active time is paid, and SME's team sets your rate. SME pays once a week through Deel, combining approved earnings into a single payout: Monday to Sunday work is paid the following Friday, and the money usually lands 1 to 3 days after SME sends it to Deel, depending on your withdrawal method. Hourly projects pay tracked active time only, and the hourly rate is set by SME's team, not by you.

Up to $35–$150/hr (posted ceilings, by role and country). Ceilings as posted on SME Careers' public jobs list on November 2, 2026: 138 postings for 10 health roles, each stating a maximum hourly rate and no minimum. US ceilings: Medical Doctor (Specialist) $150, Radiologist $120, Healthcare Specialist (rubric design) $100, Nurse Practitioner and Dentist $90, Psychology Quality Assurance Lead $80, Public Health Expert and Clinical Researcher $70, Nurse and Pharmacist $65 (Germany posts the same). Brazil's are lower (Pharmacist $45, Nurse $50, Radiologist $70) and those of the 14 South and Southeast Asian countries lowest (Pharmacist $35, Nurse and Nurse Practitioner $40, Radiologist $50); Medical Doctor (Specialist) is $150 in all 17. 137 of the 138 say there is no immediate project for the role. SME's team sets your actual rate, and what contributors report being paid sits below the posted ceilings (worker and review-site reports, read October 31, 2026).

SuperAnnotate (SME) pays Up to $35–$150/hr (posted ceilings, by role and country) (employer-stated). It is remote contract work on AI beside a clinical job, not patient care, with no guaranteed hours. Worker sentiment: Trustpilot (SuperAnnotate) 2.9/5 (33 reviews) · Trustpilot (SME Careers) 2.9/5 (2 reviews) · Indeed (SuperAnnotate) 5.0/5 (1 review).

Weekly through Deel, as an independent contractor: work done Monday to Sunday is paid the following Friday once SME's team approves it, usually arriving 1 to 3 days after SME submits the payout. On hourly projects only tracked active time is paid, and SME's team sets your rate.

No. SuperAnnotate (SME) is remote contract work on AI, not patient care: you use your professional knowledge to review and improve what AI models say. Never share identifiable patient information in the work.

Roughly 15 minutes are scheduled, with a short grace period so you can complete the last answer. You talk on video with an AI interviewer whenever it suits you, and the recording is kept; most interviews are in English.

A single retake exists, and only for results marked Retake available. If the interview broke off for a technical reason, or you answered fewer than three questions, it shows as Incomplete and does not use up an attempt. Beyond that, SME's team grants an extra try only rarely and at its discretion.

It varies by role and country. On 29 October 2026 the highest ceiling among the hourly postings (2,219 of the 2,220 open) was $150 an hour, for the Medical Doctor (Specialist) role, and the lowest $2.50 (Computer Vision QA Specialist, Bangladesh and India). Across all postings the middle ceiling was $40; the 223 American postings spanned $20 to $150, with $55 in the middle. All of these are maximums, not offers.

Weekly, via Deel, for work the team has approved: a Monday to Sunday week is released on the Friday after it, and you typically see the money 1 to 3 days later. You first need a Deel contract that is active and an identity Deel has verified. Money for a paid exam is handled roughly 10 days after your Deel contract is finished.

SuperAnnotate does: SME Careers' job posts call it a subsidiary, and its privacy policy names two controllers, SuperAnnotate Inc. and SME Solutions, Inc., sharing one address in San Francisco. Tasks are carried out on a work platform, SuperAnnotate's own being one example.

Each job takes one application, so the same role cannot be reapplied to. Failing one role costs you nothing on the others. And someone who qualified without being matched stays in SME's network, it says, to be considered as new roles open.

SME's own words are that onboarding makes you eligible to be matched and is no guarantee of being placed straight away. Experiences on Reddit split: some got paid project work, while others sat for two months, one for eighteen months, with nothing.

Yes on hourly projects, whenever the timer runs: the Insightful desktop app may log the applications and websites you use and capture screenshots and screen recordings. Stop the timer and, by SME's account, recording stops too.

Per SME, no: it neither trains models on your recording, face or voice nor gives them to clients. It holds a recording for 24 months at most, and support@sme.careers will delete it within 30 days of a request. Not every applicant believes this, judging by posts on Reddit and Trustpilot.