Software AI Engineer

This remote contract role focuses on evaluating production code, debugging traces, and developer-facing AI outputs for correctness, with reviewers reproducing failures, writing minimal failing tests, and explaining fixes to guide model improvements.

Responsibilities

• Reproduce candidate code outputs in a sandboxed environment for Software AI Engineer assignments.
• Assess AI engineering solutions for correctness, complexity, idiomatic style, and edge-case handling.
• Create minimal failing tests that reveal bugs a model output missed.
• Compare paired solutions and rank them with a written rationale aligned to the rubric.
• Annotate failure modes (compile error, runtime crash, off-by-one, security issue) with severity scores.
• Document recurring code-generation failures to guide the modeling team’s focus.
• Calibrate against gold-standard reviews to maintain inter-rater agreement above target.

Requirements

• Strong day-to-day engineering experience you can read, run, and debug unfamiliar code for Software AI Engineer work.
• Comfort writing concise unit tests that capture a single failure mode.
• Familiarity with at least one of: pytest, Jest, JUnit, Go test, RSpec, or equivalent.
• Clear written reasoning that can persuade another senior engineer.
• Reliable async availability for at least 10 hours per week.

Technologies

• pytest
• Jest
• JUnit
• Go test
• RSpec

Why this role matters

Engineering model quality depends on code that compiles, passes tests, and handles edge cases. AuraOne pairs experienced engineers with the modeling team to evaluate outputs the way a code reviewer would.

Example tasks

• Reproduce a generated engineering solution to a coding task, run the test suite, and grade it.
• Write the smallest failing test that demonstrates a model's edge-case bug.
• Compare two paired solutions and rank them with a rubric-based rationale.
• Triage a security issue surfaced by a model and document the expected patch.

NICE TO HAVE

• Open-source contributions or a public portfolio showing production-quality code.
• Experience with the target language's standard tooling, linters, and idiomatic style guides.
• Familiarity with security-review checklists (OWASP, CWE) and AppSec patterns.

Skills

• Code review
• Debugging
• Unit testing
• Software engineering judgment
• AI engineering
• Software engineering
• AI model evaluation

Work model

• Remote — US-eligible. Independent specialist contractor. Employment type: CONTRACTOR. Applicants must be authorized to work from US.

Compensation

• Hourly rate confirmed after the interview process.

Application process

• Apply through AuraOne's specialist intake for role-specific routing and review. Final project scope, schedule, and contractor terms are confirmed before placement.