Open-Source Engineer

You will create, solve, review, and validate challenging software-engineering tasks used to train AI systems. The work covers front-end and back-end systems, unfamiliar repositories, complex debugging, code translation, testing, and review of AI-generated patches.

You will work across interfaces, services, libraries, APIs, databases, and external dependencies. You will also assess whether proposed code is correct, complete, secure, and maintainable.

• Explore and understand unfamiliar open-source software repositories.
• Implement and debug front-end and back-end components.
• Trace data and program execution across connected systems and external dependencies.
• Reproduce software issues, identify their underlying causes, and implement fixes that fit existing architectures and contribution standards.
• Translate complete coding builds from one programming language into another.
• Write unit, integration, regression, and end-to-end tests.
• Review AI-generated patches for correctness, completeness, security, and maintainability.

What It Pays and Takes

This is a fully remote contractor role with flexible scheduling. The work is listed as part time and is open to candidates in a defined set of countries across the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

• $100 to $150 per hour equivalent, paid per task that meets the project specifications.
• Expected commitment: approximately 15 hours per week.
• Flexible scheduling, including the option to work weekends when needed.
• Fluent English.
• A public or otherwise verifiable GitHub profile.
• Meaningful ownership of or contributions to one or more open-source repositories.
• Strong software-engineering experience in front-end, back-end, full-stack, systems, developer tooling, infrastructure, or another substantial technical area.
• Experience with multiple programming languages, such as TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Java, Go, Rust, C++, C#, or Ruby.
• Ability to understand and modify unfamiliar codebases.
• A portfolio showing substantive authored code, not only documentation updates, dependency changes, formatting work, or minor corrections.

How it works

You apply here in about two minutes; the application finishes on the hiring platform, with a short AI interview if you are shortlisted.

About AI Training Work

OpenTrain is a platform where people find AI-training and data-labeling work, build a profile, and apply to projects. AI training uses human-written, reviewed, and tested examples to help artificial intelligence systems produce more useful and reliable results.