Remote AI Task Author — Software Engineer Challenges

OpenTrain AI; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 165,000; Part time

Job summary

OpenTrain AI is seeking a Software Engineering Task Author to design authentic engineering challenges based on real software work. You will craft prompts involving integration failures, log-based debugging, source-code investigation, and configuration fixes, then solve each task to verify scoring rubrics.

This is a fully remote, flexible, task-based contract role for working software engineers. The listing is marked entry level, while the work requires hands-on, industry-level engineering

Qualifications

• This role requires hands-on software engineering experience debugging and fixing real systems.
• Fluency with Git, version control workflows, and code review practices.
• Strong debugging skills: reading logs, observability tools, and tracing failures.
• Experience with infrastructure, integrations, APIs, and CI/CD configuration.
• Ability to write and verify a code fix in live or simulated environments.
• Ability to define precise, checkable correctness criteria for engineering outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Author engineering prompts covering integration failures, log-based debugging, bug traces through source-code, and configuration fixes
• Write scoring rubrics defining exactly what a correct diagnosis or fix looks like, including live-environment validation
• Set up realistic codebases, logs, alerts, and system states for each task
• Solve every task yourself, write the actual fix, and confirm that it works
• Adjust code complexity, log volume, failure modes, or ambiguity to calibrate task difficulty
• Review and correct AI-drafted task prompts or rubrics when provided

Skills

Software engineering

Debugging

Code review

Git workflows

Observability

CI/CD

Problem solving

Tools

Git

Datadog

Grafana

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

OpenTrain AI is seeking a Software Engineering Task Author to design authentic engineering challenges based on real software work. You will craft prompts involving integration failures, log-based debugging, source-code investigation, and configuration fixes, then solve each task to verify scoring rubrics.

This is a fully remote, flexible, task-based contract role for working software engineers. The listing is marked entry level, while the work requires hands-on, industry-level engineering