Principal Engineer / Professor — Technical Expert (Remote)

AuraOne Human Data; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 255,000; Full time

Job summary

AuraOne Human Data seeks a Principal Engineer / Professor — Technical Expert (Remote) to oversee remote engineering review tasks, evaluate production code, and ensure AI outputs meet real-world correctness standards. You will reproduce failures, write unit tests, and explain fixes so the modeling team can target gaps.

The role emphasizes concise reasoning, strong debugging, and high standards. This contractor position offers flexible remote work within the US and requires authorized US work,

Qualifications

• Experience reading, running, and debugging unfamiliar code.
• Ability to write concise unit tests capturing a single failure mode.
• Familiarity with pytest, Jest, or JUnit and similar frameworks.
• Clear, persuasive written reasoning for senior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Run and reproduce candidate code outputs in a sandboxed environment for Principal Engineer / Professor — Technical Expert (Remote) assignments.
• Grade principal engineer / professor technical engineering review solutions for correctness, style, and edge-case handling.
• Write minimal failing tests that demonstrate the bug a model output missed.
• Compare paired solutions and rank them with a written rationale tied to the rubric.
• Tag failure modes (compile error, runtime crash, off-by-one, security issue) with severity scores.
• Document recurring code-generation failures so the modeling team can target them.
• Calibrate against gold-standard reviews to keep inter-rater agreement above target.

Skills

Code review

Debugging

Unit testing

Software engineering judgment

Principal Engineer Review

Remote work

Job description

Principal Engineer / Professor — Technical Expert (Remote) is a remote engineering review track for evaluating production code, debugging traces, and developer-facing AI outputs against real-world correctness standards. Reviewers reproduce failures, write the unit test the model should have written, and explain the fix so the modeling team can target the gap.

Why this role matters

Engineering model quality lives or dies on whether the generated code actually compiles, passes tests, and handles edge cases. AuraOne pairs experienced engineers with the modeling team to grade outputs the way a code reviewer would.

Responsibilities

• Run and reproduce candidate code outputs in a sandboxed environment for Principal Engineer / Professor — Technical Expert (Remote) assignments.
• Grade principal engineer / professor technical engineering review solutions for correctness, style, and edge-case handling.
• Write minimal failing tests that demonstrate the bug a model output missed.
• Compare paired solutions and rank them with a written rationale tied to the rubric.
• Tag failure modes (compile error, runtime crash, off-by-one, security issue) with severity scores.
• Document recurring code-generation failures so the modeling team can target them.
• Calibrate against gold-standard reviews to keep inter-rater agreement above target.

Qualifications

• Strong day-job engineering experience — you can read, run, and debug unfamiliar code for Principal Engineer / Professor — Technical Expert (Remote) work.
• Comfort writing concise unit tests that capture a single failure mode.
• Familiarity with a testing framework. pytest, Jest, or JUnit. Go test, RSpec, or whatever you use.
• Clear written reasoning — your review note has to convince another senior engineer.
• Reliable async availability for at least 10 hours per week.
• Prior code-review or technical-interview-grading experience is a plus.

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 written rationale tied to the rubric.
• Triage a security issue surfaced by a model and document the patch the model should have produced.

Nice to have

• Open-source contributions or a public portfolio that demonstrates 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
• Principal Engineer / Professor Technical engineering review

Work model

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

Compensation

$80- $185/hour