Remote Open-Source Software Engineer – Contract

YO AI Labs; Manila; Remote; PHP 284,000 - 569,000; Full time

Job summary

YO AI Labs is seeking Software Engineers to contribute to open-source projects supporting AI training. You will work on real-world codebases, implementing features, debugging, refactoring, and optimizing performance in a fully remote, contractor setup. Prior AI experience is not required.

Selected candidates will join a distributed team, collaborating with global contributors and delivering well-documented solutions on a per-task basis, with outputs evaluated against project standards.

Qualifications

• Experience contributing to open-source projects.
• Ability to work independently in a remote environment.
• Strong communication and documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement features in existing open-source projects.
• Fix complex bugs and improve code reliability.
• Refactor legacy code for better performance, scalability, and readability.
• Apply algorithms and efficient problem-solving techniques.
• Review and validate code against project standards.
• Collaborate with remote contributors and document technical solutions.
• Provide clear technical explanations of implementations.

Skills

Python 3

Java

Rust

C++

TypeScript

Algorithms & Problem Solving

Bug Fixing

Feature Implementation

Codebase Refactoring

Performance Optimization

Job description

YO AI Labs is seeking Software Engineers to contribute to open-source projects supporting AI training. You will work on real-world codebases, implementing features, debugging, refactoring, and optimizing performance in a fully remote, contractor setup. Prior AI experience is not required.

Selected candidates will join a distributed team, collaborating with global contributors and delivering well-documented solutions on a per-task basis, with outputs evaluated against project standards.