Remote Software Engineer (Contract) - AI Code Evaluation

Weekday AI; United States; Remote; USD 207,000 - 276,000; Part time

Job summary

Weekday AI is seeking a motivated Junior Software Engineer to contribute to evaluating and improving AI systems. This remote contractor position targets early-career engineers with strong fundamentals and practical coding experience.

You will evaluate AI-generated code, design problems, craft reference solutions, and develop test cases while reviewing debugging, architecture, and system design reasoning to boost reliability and performance.

Qualifications

• At least one year of professional software engineering experience at a well-established technology company.
• Strong understanding of programming fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented programming.
• Practical experience writing, debugging, testing, and reviewing code.
• Familiarity with software development practices, including version control, code reviews, testing, and debugging.
• Ability to assess code for correctness, performance, readability, and maintainability.
• Foundational understanding of software architecture and system design principles.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written communication skills, with the ability to explain technical decisions and complex engineering concepts clearly.
• Ability to work independently and deliver accurate, high-quality technical assessments.

Responsibilities

• AI-Generated Code Evaluation: Review AI-generated code for functional correctness, readability, maintainability, efficiency, and adherence to software engineering best practices.
• Coding Problem Development: Design challenging programming problems that assess algorithmic thinking, debugging skills, implementation quality, and practical engineering judgment.
• Reference Solution Creation: Develop accurate, well-structured reference solutions that demonstrate effective approaches to solving software engineering problems.
• Test Case Development: Create comprehensive test cases to validate functionality, identify edge cases, and detect incomplete or incorrect implementations.
• Technical Reasoning Assessment: Evaluate AI-generated explanations and decisions involving software architecture, system design, debugging, and implementation strategies.
• Code Quality Analysis: Identify bugs, inefficient algorithms, poor design choices, security concerns, and violations of established coding standards.
• Technical Feedback: Provide detailed, actionable feedback explaining errors, weaknesses, and opportunities to improve code quality and model performance.
• Documentation: Clearly document problem requirements, expected behavior, solution approaches, testing procedures, and technical evaluation findings.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure that coding tasks, reference solutions, and evaluation criteria are accurate, consistent, and reproducible.

Skills

Software Engineering Fundamentals

Programming and Coding

Data Structures and Algorithms

Code Review and Quality Assessment

Debugging and Troubleshooting

Automated Testing and Test Case Dev

Problem-Solving and Logical Reasoning

Technical Documentation and Written...

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Weekday AI is seeking a motivated Junior Software Engineer to contribute to evaluating and improving AI systems. This remote contractor position targets early-career engineers with strong fundamentals and practical coding experience.

You will evaluate AI-generated code, design problems, craft reference solutions, and develop test cases while reviewing debugging, architecture, and system design reasoning to boost reliability and performance.