Senior Data Scientist-Remote Engineering Review Contractor

AuraOne Human Data; United States; Remote; USD 165,000 - 248,000; Full time

Job summary

AuraOne, Inc. is seeking an experienced contractor for remote evaluation of production code, debugging traces, and developer‑facing AI outputs.

You will reproduce failures, write minimal failing tests, and explain fixes so the modeling team can target gaps in production code quality. Responsibilities include grading data engineering solutions for correctness, documenting recurring failures, and calibrating reviews with a rubric.

Qualifications

• Strong day‑job engineering experience reading, running, and debugging unfamiliar code.
• Ability to write concise unit tests capturing a single failure mode.
• Familiarity with a testing framework (pytest, Jest, JUnit, Go test, RSpec, or equivalent).
• Clear written reasoning to convince a senior engineer.

Responsibilities

• Run and reproduce candidate code outputs in a sandboxed environment.
• Grade data engineering solutions for correctness, style, and edge‑case handling.
• Write the smallest failing test that demonstrates a bug.
• Compare paired solutions and rank them with a rubric‑based rationale.
• Tag failure modes with severity scores and document recurring failures.

Skills

Code review

Debugging

Unit testing

Software engineering judgment

Data engineering

Tools

pytest

Jest

JUnit

Go test

RSpec

Job description

AuraOne, Inc. is seeking an experienced contractor for remote evaluation of production code, debugging traces, and developer‑facing AI outputs.

You will reproduce failures, write minimal failing tests, and explain fixes so the modeling team can target gaps in production code quality. Responsibilities include grading data engineering solutions for correctness, documenting recurring failures, and calibrating reviews with a rubric.