Remote Software Engineer, Open Source Review & Testing

AuraOne; United States; On-site; USD 83,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

AuraOne is seeking a Software Engineer to focus on Open Source Contributions. You will review model-generated code, reproduce failures in a sandbox, and judge correctness with concise unit tests aligned to a rubric.

The role emphasizes clear written reasoning for senior engineers and requires reliable weekly availability. The position is remote within the United States and compensates via hourly, with contractors expected to document recurring issues and calibrate against gold-standard reviews

Qualifications

• Strong day-job engineering experience.
• Comfort writing concise unit tests that capture a single failure mode.
• Familiarity with a testing framework (pytest, Jest, JUnit, Go test, RSpec).
• Clear written reasoning in review notes to convince a senior engineer.
• Reliable async availability for at least 10 hours per week.
• Prior code-review or technical-interview-grading experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Run and reproduce candidate code outputs in a sandboxed environment for Software Engineer - Open Source Contributions assignments.
• Grade software engineer open source contributions engineering review solutions for correctness, style, and edge-case handling.
• Write minimal failing tests that demonstrate the bug a model output missed.
• Compare paired solutions and rank them with a written rationale tied to the rubric.
• Tag failure modes (compile error, runtime crash, off-by-one, security issue) with severity scores.
• Document recurring code-generation failures so the modeling team can target them.
• Calibrate against gold-standard reviews to keep inter-rater agreement above target.

Skills

Code review

Debugging

Unit testing

Software engineering judgement

Open source

Software engineering

Testing frameworks

Written reasoning

Job description

AuraOne is seeking a Software Engineer to focus on Open Source Contributions. You will review model-generated code, reproduce failures in a sandbox, and judge correctness with concise unit tests aligned to a rubric.

The role emphasizes clear written reasoning for senior engineers and requires reliable weekly availability. The position is remote within the United States and compensates via hourly, with contractors expected to document recurring issues and calibrate against gold-standard reviews