Remote C++ QA Lead — AI Training Quality

Parailabs; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 152,000; Full time

Job summary

Parailabs is looking for a C++ Quality Assurance Lead for an hourly, remote contractor role. You will oversee quality across AI training projects, review AI-generated C++ code, provide precise written feedback, and ensure contributors follow project guidelines.

You will monitor code correctness, memory safety, performance, readability, and manage QA workflows across remote teams; you will also build style guides and onboarding materials for scalable QA processes in AI data services projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent professional software engineering experience.
• Strong grasp of English to follow guidelines and provide clear technical feedback.
• 3+ years of professional experience in C++ development, systems programming, performance engineering, embedded software, backend engineering, code review, QA, or technical mentoring.
• Strong understanding of modern C++ standards, RAII, smart pointers, templates, STL containers/algorithms, object lifetime, move semantics, concurrency, exceptions, memory management, and build systems.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, debugging tools, and static analysis is preferred.
• Experience leading or supporting remote teams of trainers, reviewers, engineers, coding mentors, or QAs is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Quality monitoring: Spot-check C++ items, identify issues, provide feedback through DMs, and escalation recurring or critical quality problems.
• Code review: Evaluate AI-generated C++ code, debugging responses, algorithmic solutions, tests, explanations, and performance recommendations.
• Trainer/QA communication: Update contributors on Discord about guideline changes, workflow updates, and C++-specific review standards.
• Question handling: Respond to questions around memory safety, compilation, templates, STL usage, concurrency, complexity, testing, and rubric interpretation.
• Activation management: DM inactive contributors, track follow-ups, and flag availability issues.
• Documentation: Create and maintain C++ style guides, trackers, FAQs, examples, honeypots, calibration tasks, and onboarding materials.
• Onboarding: Run onboarding/training calls covering project expectations, rubrics, and C++ quality standards.
• Risk review: Flag unsafe, non-compilable, misleading, inefficient, or non-production-ready C++ recommendations.
• Process improvement: Identify recurring quality gaps and build scalable QA processes.

Skills

C++ development

QA

Code review

Technical mentoring

English communication

Remote team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering / Computer Engineering

Tools

CMake

GCC/Clang/MSVC

GDB/LLDB

Valgrind

GoogleTest

Catch2

GitHub

CI/CD

Profiling tools

Static analysis tools

Job description

Parailabs is looking for a C++ Quality Assurance Lead for an hourly, remote contractor role. You will oversee quality across AI training projects, review AI-generated C++ code, provide precise written feedback, and ensure contributors follow project guidelines.

You will monitor code correctness, memory safety, performance, readability, and manage QA workflows across remote teams; you will also build style guides and onboarding materials for scalable QA processes in AI data services projects.