Remote Senior Software Engineer - Open-Source AI Tasks

YO AI Labs; North Carolina; On-site; USD 83,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

YO AI Labs is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to craft and evaluate challenging open-source tasks for AI training. The role emphasizes reproducible environments, reference solutions, and testing AI model capabilities across debugging, feature development, refactoring, and performance optimization.

No prior AI experience is required; strong software engineering expertise and open-source contributions matter most. Remote work is available and compensation is based on per-task outputs.

Qualifications

• Proficient in Python, Java, Rust, C++, and TypeScript with strong CS fundamentals.
• Solid understanding of algorithms and data structures.
• Experience debugging complex systems and optimizing performance across large codebases.

Responsibilities

• Create expert-level software engineering tasks including bug fixing, feature implementation, refactoring, and optimization.
• Develop reproducible environments and golden reference solutions for AI evaluation.
• Work with Python, Java, Rust, C++, Go, and/or TypeScript codebases.
• Debug complex systems and resolve performance bottlenecks.
• Implement scalable and maintainable features.
• Refactor legacy code to improve performance and reliability.
• Document technical reasoning, solutions, and code decisions.
• Review and validate technical submissions for quality and accuracy.

Skills

Python 3

Java

Rust

C++

TypeScript

Algorithms & Data Structures

Bug Fixing

Feature Implementation

Codebase Refactoring

Performance Optimization

Job description

YO AI Labs is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to craft and evaluate challenging open-source tasks for AI training. The role emphasizes reproducible environments, reference solutions, and testing AI model capabilities across debugging, feature development, refactoring, and performance optimization.

No prior AI experience is required; strong software engineering expertise and open-source contributions matter most. Remote work is available and compensation is based on per-task outputs.