Senior Forward Deployed Engineer — Public-Sector AI Programs (Remote)

AuraOne Human Data; United States; A distancia; USD 83.000 - 165.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

AuraOne, Inc. invites senior engineers to join a remote, contractor-track role focused on evaluating production code, debugging traces, and AI outputs for public-sector programs.

You will reproduce, test, and critique model outputs in a sandbox, writing precise unit tests and rationales like a seasoned code reviewer. You’ll grade solutions, document failure patterns, and help the modeling team target gaps with actionable patches, ensuring high-quality, robust reviews for critical government

Formación

• Strong day-job engineering experience—read, run, and debug unfamiliar code for Senior Forward Deployed Engineer work.
• 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—review notes to convince another senior engineer.

Responsabilidades

• Run and reproduce candidate code outputs in a sandboxed environment for assignments.
• Grade solutions for correctness, style, and edge-case handling.
• Write minimal failing tests that demonstrate a missed bug.
• Compare paired solutions with a rationale tied to the rubric.
• Tag failure modes with severity scores.
• Document recurring code-generation failures for the modeling team.
• Calibrate against gold-standard reviews to maintain inter-rater reliability.

Conocimientos

Code review

Debugging

Unit testing

Engineering judgment

Senior engineering review

Herramientas

pytest

Jest

JUnit

Go test

RSpec

Descripción del empleo

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer — Public-Sector AI Programs (Remote) is a remote engineering review track for evaluating production code, debugging traces, and developer-facing AI outputs against real-world correctness standards. Reviewers reproduce failures, write the unit test the model should have written, and explain the fix so the modeling team can target the gap.

Why this role matters

Engineering model quality lives or dies on whether the generated code actually compiles, passes tests, and handles edge cases. AuraOne pairs experienced engineers with the modeling team to grade outputs the way a code reviewer would.

Responsibilities

• Run and reproduce candidate code outputs in a sandboxed environment for Senior Forward Deployed Engineer — Public-Sector AI Programs (Remote) assignments.
• Grade senior forward deployed engineer u.s. government 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.

Qualifications

• Strong day-job engineering experience — you can read, run, and debug unfamiliar code for Senior Forward Deployed Engineer — Public-Sector AI Programs (Remote) work.
• Comfort writing concise unit tests that capture a single failure mode.
• Familiarity with a testing framework. pytest, Jest, or JUnit. Go test, RSpec, or whatever you use.
• Clear written reasoning — your review note has to convince another senior engineer.
• Reliable async availability for at least 10 hours per week.
• Prior code-review or technical-interview-grading experience is a plus.

Example tasks

• Reproduce a generated engineering solution to a coding task, run the test suite, and grade it.
• Write the smallest failing test that demonstrates a model's edge-case bug.
• Compare two paired solutions and rank them with a written rationale tied to the rubric.
• Triage a security issue surfaced by a model and document the patch the model should have produced.

Nice to have

• Open-source contributions or a public portfolio that demonstrates production-quality code.
• Experience with the target language's standard tooling, linters, and idiomatic style guides.
• Familiarity with security-review checklists (OWASP, CWE) and AppSec patterns.

Skills

• Code review
• Debugging
• Unit testing
• Software engineering judgment
• Senior Forward Deployed Engineer U.S. Government engineering review

Work model

Remote — US-eligible. Remote · Independent specialist contractor. Employment type: CONTRACTOR. Applicants must be authorized to work from US.

Compensation

Hourly rate confirmed after the interview process.

Strong day-job engineering experience — you can read, run, and debug unfamiliar code for Senior Forward Deployed Engineer — Public-Sector AI Programs (Remote) work. Comfort writing concise unit tests that capture a single failure mode. Familiarity with a testing framework. pytest, Jest, or JUnit. Go test, RSpec, or whatever you use. Clear written reasoning — your review note has to convince another senior engineer. Reliable async availability for at least 10 hours per week. Prior code-review or technical-interview-grading experience is a plus.