Senior Software Engineer

Position: Senior Software Engineer

Type: Contract (Part time, ~15 hours/week)

Compensation: $50–$100/hour

Location: Remote

About the Opportunity
This opportunity is for experienced Senior Software Engineers interested in contributing to advanced AI research and evaluation projects.
The role involves applying your software engineering expertise to help train next-generation AI systems by creating realistic Reinforcement Learning (RL) environments that evaluate AI models on complex software engineering workflows.
No prior AI experience is required — your software engineering expertise is what matters.
Responsibilities
Create reproducible Reinforcement Learning environments that test AI models on complex software engineering problems.
Develop golden reference solutions for tasks involving debugging, feature implementation, codebase refactoring, and performance optimization.
Contribute expert-level code samples, debugging strategies, and development insights across modern programming environments.
Analyze, troubleshoot,



and resolve complex software defects and performance bottlenecks across diverse codebases.
Implement robust new features while ensuring scalability, maintainability, and adherence to software engineering best practices.
Refactor and optimize legacy code to improve clarity, efficiency, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
Document technical reasoning, solution approaches, and engineering decisions to support high-quality AI training data.
Review and validate peer-contributed code and technical submissions for accuracy, quality, and clarity.
Required Qualifications
Significant hands-on expertise in Python, Java, Rust, Go, C++, TypeScript, or a similar programming language.
Strong understanding of algorithms, data structures, software engineering principles, and performance optimization.
Proven ability to debug complex systems, resolve software defects, and optimize application performance.
Experience working with large

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