Senior Open-Source Engineer – Remote (Part-Time)

YO AI Labs; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 83,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

YO AI Labs is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with a strong open-source profile to design and evaluate challenging software tasks for AI training. You will build reproducible environments and reference solutions that test AI models on debugging, feature development, refactoring, and performance optimization.

No prior AI experience is required—your software engineering expertise and open-source contributions matter most.

Qualifications

• Proven experience contributing to open-source projects with strong coding skills.
• Ability to design and implement tasks for AI evaluation and testing.
• Comfort working across multiple languages and codebases with strong documentation.

Responsibilities

• Create expert-level software engineering tasks involving bug fixing, feature implementation, refactoring, and optimization.
• Develop reproducible environments and golden reference solutions for AI evaluation.
• Review and validate technical submissions for quality and accuracy.
• Document technical reasoning, solutions, and code decisions.

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 with a strong open-source profile to design and evaluate challenging software tasks for AI training. You will build reproducible environments and reference solutions that test AI models on debugging, feature development, refactoring, and performance optimization.

No prior AI experience is required—your software engineering expertise and open-source contributions matter most.