Remote Open-Source AI Training Engineer (Contract)

SaidGig; United States; Remote; USD 138,000 - 207,000; Part time

Job summary

SaidGig seeks an experienced software engineer to contribute to open-source AI training tasks on a fully remote, contractor basis. You will work across front-end and back-end areas, understand unfamiliar repositories, and translate or adapt code between languages.

This role emphasizes substantive engineering work and verifiable open-source impact. Flexible scheduling with about 15 hours weekly, global remote engagement, and task-based compensation.

Qualifications

• Public or verifiable GitHub profile.
• Meaningful ownership of, or contributions to, one or more open-source repositories.
• Contributions must demonstrate substantive engineering work, not solely documentation updates, dependency updates, formatting changes, or minor typo fixes.
• Be prepared to discuss repositories, pull requests, issues, and code you personally authored.
• Strong experience in front-end, back-end, full-stack, systems, developer tooling, infrastructure, or another substantial technical area.
• Experience working in multiple programming languages and modifying unfamiliar codebases.
• Relevant languages may include Python 3, Java, Rust, C++, TypeScript, JavaScript, Go, C#, Ruby, PHP, or other languages used in substantial open-source projects.

Responsibilities

• Create, solve, review, and validate complex software-engineering tasks across front-end and back-end systems.
• Explore and understand unfamiliar software repositories.
• Implement, modify, and debug front-end and back-end components.
• Trace data flow and execution across interfaces, services, libraries, APIs, databases, and external dependencies.
• Reproduce software issues, identify root causes, and implement solutions aligned with existing architecture and contribution standards.
• Help translate complete coding builds from one programming language to another.
• Write unit, integration, regression, and end-to-end tests.
• Review AI-generated patches for correctness, completeness, security, and maintainability.

Skills

Open-source contributions

GitHub profile

Multi-language programming

Front-end & back-end development

Debugging & testing

Job description

SaidGig seeks an experienced software engineer to contribute to open-source AI training tasks on a fully remote, contractor basis. You will work across front-end and back-end areas, understand unfamiliar repositories, and translate or adapt code between languages.

This role emphasizes substantive engineering work and verifiable open-source impact. Flexible scheduling with about 15 hours weekly, global remote engagement, and task-based compensation.