Remote Senior Software Engineer — AI Coding Environments

YO AI Labs; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); Remote; USD 55,000 - 110,000; Part time

Job summary

YO AI Labs is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Contractor) to support an AI training project. The role is remote and requires about 15 hours per week, with tasks focusing on building reinforcement learning environments using MCP tools.

The engineer will design reproducible environments, verify outcomes deterministically, and author reference solutions for software tasks such as bug fixing, feature development, and performance tuning.

Qualifications

• Experience building reinforcement learning environments for software tasks.
• Ability to design reproducible environments and deterministic verification.
• Experience with bug fixing, feature implementation, refactoring, or performance optimization.

Responsibilities

• Create reinforcement learning environments for software engineering tasks.
• Design tasks including bug fixing, feature development, refactoring, and performance optimization.
• Build deterministic verification systems and golden reference solutions.
• Evaluate AI agents' ability to reason through complex codebases and MCP tools.
• Develop realistic, reproducible software engineering scenarios.
• Ensure tasks accurately measure coding ability, problem-solving, and tool usage.

Skills

Python 3

Java

Rust

C++

TypeScript

Algorithms & DS

Tools

MCP (Model Context Protocol)

Job description

YO AI Labs is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Contractor) to support an AI training project. The role is remote and requires about 15 hours per week, with tasks focusing on building reinforcement learning environments using MCP tools.

The engineer will design reproducible environments, verify outcomes deterministically, and author reference solutions for software tasks such as bug fixing, feature development, and performance tuning.