Remote Backend Engineer (Contractor) - AI/ML Systems

turing; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 96,000 - 165,000; Part time

Job summary

Turing in San Francisco, CA, seeks a Software Engineering Evaluator to curate datasets for training and benchmarking large language models, collaborating with researchers. You will work across Python backend and JavaScript frontend, review AI-generated code, and improve production-grade software with cross-functional teams.

The role is a flexible contractor, 10–40 hours per week, for one month, based in the United States.

Qualifications

• Several years of software engineering experience (3 years or more).
• Strong expertise in building full-stack applications using Python and JavaScript (React, Node.js).
• Experience deploying scalable, production-grade software using modern languages and tools.
• Deep understanding of software architecture, design, development, debugging, and code quality/review assessment.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills for clear, structured evaluation rationales.

Responsibilities

• Work on AI model training initiatives by curating code examples, building solutions, and correcting code across both Python and JavaScript (React, Node.js), with additional work in C/C++, Java, Rust, and Go.
• Evaluate and refine AI-generated code across backend and frontend contexts to ensure that it is efficient, scalable, and reliable.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance AI-driven coding solutions against industry performance benchmarks.
• Build agents that can verify the quality of the code and identify error patterns across full-stack applications.
• Hypothesize on steps in the software engineering cycle (prototyping, architecture design, API design, production implementation, launch, experiments, monitoring, operational maintenance) and evaluate model capabilities on them.
• Design verification mechanisms that can automatically verify a solution to a software engineering task.

Skills

Python

JavaScript

React

Node.js

Full-stack

Production-grade

Software architecture

Code review

Job description

Turing in San Francisco, CA, seeks a Software Engineering Evaluator to curate datasets for training and benchmarking large language models, collaborating with researchers. You will work across Python backend and JavaScript frontend, review AI-generated code, and improve production-grade software with cross-functional teams.

The role is a flexible contractor, 10–40 hours per week, for one month, based in the United States.