Senior Software Engineer - AI Trainer

DataAnnotation; Fort Worth (TX); Remote; USD 165,000 - 276,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible remote work

Remote project opportunities

Job summary

DataAnnotation is seeking contributors to vibe-code with frontier models on real engineering tasks—fix bugs, extend APIs, and ship features to see how far the model goes on its own.

You will analyze the AI's work against production standards, document failures, rate the model's reasoning, and red-team to expose unsafe code and confidently wrong solutions before real users encounter them. Flexible, remote work available.

Qualifications

• Experience shipping production code in open-source projects or professional settings.
• Ability to explain complex AI behaviors in writing.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and test AI outputs.

Responsibilities

• Vibe-code with frontier models on real tasks: fix a bug, extend an API, ship a feature, and see how far the model gets on its own.
• Analyze the AI's work against production standards: find the bugs, explain the failure, and rate the model's reasoning.
• Red-team the models to expose unsafe code, faked test passes, and confidently wrong solutions before real users hit them.

Skills

Open-source experience

Clear written English

Job description

The newest models can vibe-code a whole feature in minutes. Someone has to check whether that code actually works, and that someone is you.

You'll run agentic coding sessions on real engineering tasks, analyze what the models produce, and red-team them until they fail in interesting ways. Every failure you document teaches the next generation of coding agents.

What you’ll actually do

• Vibe-code with frontier models on real tasks: fix a bug, extend an API, ship a feature, and see how far the model gets on its own.
• Analyze the AI's work against production standards: find the bugs, explain the failure, and rate the model's reasoning.
• Red-team the models to expose unsafe code, faked test passes, and confidently wrong solutions before real users hit them.

What we look for

• Professional or serious open-source experience shipping production code.
• Clear written English: your explanations are the training signal.
• No degree required. We care about what you can do, not where you learned it.

Compensation

Up to $150+/hr depending on task difficulty and specialization. Many contributors add $100k–$200k a year; some make it their full-time income.

About DataAnnotation

DataAnnotation is where 100k+ experts train the world’s leading AI models. $150M+ paid to contributors to date, and the average contributor stays 5+ years. Flexible, remote, and always project-available.