Remote AI Software Engineering Program Lead (Contract)

Braintrust; United States; Remote; USD 43,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Contract: 3 months

Job summary

Braintrust is seeking a Senior Technical Program Lead - AI Software Engineering to help lead program delivery for advanced AI systems. The role combines leadership of distributed software engineers with hands-on code review and data-driven improvement of development processes.

You will translate research goals into practical tasks, build scalable workflows, and mentor program leads while aligning with customer objectives and delivery timelines.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of experience in software/technical program leadership.
• Experience leading distributed teams and managing complex programs.
• Comfort reading code and assessing tests in Python, TypeScript, Java, or Go.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery across scope, schedules, quality, throughput, contributor performance and cost.
• Build workflows for coding datasets, repository-level tasks, AI-agent trajectories, reinforcement-learning environments, benchmarks and technical evaluations.
• Improve instructions, review processes, incentives and capacity planning to resolve delivery bottlenecks.
• Partner with talent teams to define contributor needs, assess engineers and support onboarding, training and ramp-up.
• Build team-lead and reviewer structures for distributed programs involving hundreds of contributors.
• Analyze quality trends and recurring errors, then address their underlying causes.
• Serve as a key customer contact, communicating progress, risks and recovery plans while translating research objectives into practical task specifications.
• Use Python, SQL or similar tools to automate quality sampling, defect analysis and operational reporting.
• Turn effective workflows into reusable playbooks and mentor other program leads.

Skills

Program leadership

Distributed teams

Analytical judgment

Customer-facing communication

Python

SQL

TypeScript

Java

Go

Tools

Python

SQL

Job description

Braintrust is seeking a Senior Technical Program Lead - AI Software Engineering to help lead program delivery for advanced AI systems. The role combines leadership of distributed software engineers with hands-on code review and data-driven improvement of development processes.

You will translate research goals into practical tasks, build scalable workflows, and mentor program leads while aligning with customer objectives and delivery timelines.