Javascript - Senior Developers - AI Training - Louisville, US

prolificacademicltd; United States; Remote; USD 55,000 - 69,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Flexible tasks

Job summary

Prolific Academic Ltd. seeks a technically adept reviewer to contribute JavaScript and TypeScript expertise for AI model training and evaluation.

You will review generated code, run executions, and provide structured feedback, with a short skills assessment guiding the workflow. Responsibilities include validating correctness, maintainability, and sound engineering practices; analyzing algorithm explanations; and identifying inefficiencies, outdated syntax, or security issues in generated code.

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree in computer science, software engineering, or a closely related technical field.
• Professional experience building scalable web applications with JavaScript or TypeScript.
• Ability to solve medium- to hard-level algorithm problems independently in JavaScript.
• Strong knowledge of the event loop, closures, prototypal inheritance, and asynchronous programming, including promises and async/await.
• Careful, readable, modular coding aligned with modern ES6+ practices.
• Ability to detect subtle logic errors, memory leaks, and security vulnerabilities in generated code.

Responsibilities

• Assess generated JavaScript and TypeScript for correctness, maintainability, and sound engineering practices.
• Check the logic behind algorithm explanations, including solutions to challenging programming problems.
• Run scripts in Node.js or browser environments and verify their output and performance.
• Identify inefficient approaches, outdated syntax, invented APIs, security issues, and other defects.
• Give clear feedback on model reasoning about frontend and backend design.

Skills

JS/TS expertise

Algorithm problem solving

Event loop async

Modular ES6+ coding

Security & memory leak detection

Education

Bachelor/Master/PhD in CS/SE

Tools

Jest

Cypress

Webpack

Vite

Node.js

Job description

Role overview

Contribute professional JavaScript and TypeScript expertise to the training and evaluation of AI models. Work consists of reviewing generated code and explanations, checking behavior through execution, and providing structured feedback; participation follows a short skills assessment.

Responsibilities

• Assess generated JavaScript and TypeScript for correctness, maintainability, and sound engineering practices.
• Check the logic behind algorithm explanations, including solutions to challenging programming problems.
• Run scripts in Node.js or browser environments and verify their output and performance.
• Identify inefficient approaches, outdated syntax, invented APIs, security issues, and other defects.
• Give clear feedback on model reasoning about frontend and backend design.

Requirements

• A bachelor's, master's, or doctoral degree in computer science, software engineering, or a closely related technical field.
• Professional experience building scalable web applications with JavaScript or TypeScript.
• Ability to solve medium- to hard-level algorithm problems independently in JavaScript.
• Strong knowledge of the event loop, closures, prototypal inheritance, and asynchronous programming, including promises and async/await.
• Careful, readable, modular coding aligned with modern ES6+ practices.
• Ability to detect subtle logic errors, memory leaks, and security vulnerabilities in generated code.

Nice to have

• Experience with React, Node.js, Vue, or Angular; testing tools such as Jest or Cypress; and build tools such as Webpack or Vite.
• Familiarity with REST APIs, GraphQL, and server-side development in Node.js.

Benefits and work setup

Tasks are paid, with rates advertised up to $50 per hour; actual task availability and rates may vary. Some assignments require an uninterrupted hour, though shorter tasks may also be offered. Work is described as flexible and remote, following a 10-15-minute assessment.