Senior Software Engineer - Remote AI Training Environments

Weekday 1; United States; Remote; USD 138,000 - 317,000; Part time

Job summary

Weekday 1 is seeking experienced Software Engineering Experts to help train next-generation AI systems by creating realistic coding environments, reference solutions, and evaluating complex engineering tasks.

You will design reproducible challenges, cover bug fixes, and optimize performance across languages including Python, Java, Rust, Go, C++, and TypeScript. This is a remote, contractor role (~15 hours/week) with competitive hourly pay.

Qualifications

• Hands-on software engineering experience across modern languages.
• Proficiency in Python, Java, Rust, Go, C++, or TypeScript.
• Strong understanding of algorithms and data structures.
• Debugging complex systems and resolving production issues.
• Experience refactoring and modernizing existing codebases.
• Ability to document technical decisions clearly.

Responsibilities

• Design reproducible software engineering environments for evaluating AI model performance.
• Develop high-quality reference ("golden") solutions for complex programming challenges.
• Contribute expert-level code samples in Python, Java, Rust, Go, C++, or TypeScript.
• Analyze, debug, and resolve complex software defects across diverse codebases.
• Design, implement, and validate scalable software features following best practices.
• Refactor legacy applications to improve maintainability, readability and performance.
• Optimize software systems by identifying bottlenecks and improving efficiency.
• Document technical reasoning, implementation decisions and solution methodologies for AI training quality.
• Review and validate technical submissions for correctness and clarity.
• Collaborate remotely with cross-functional teams to improve project quality and deliverables.

Skills

Software Engineering

Python

Java

Rust

Go

C++

TypeScript

Algorithms

Data Structures

Debugging

Code Refactoring

Performance Optimization

Job description

Weekday 1 is seeking experienced Software Engineering Experts to help train next-generation AI systems by creating realistic coding environments, reference solutions, and evaluating complex engineering tasks.

You will design reproducible challenges, cover bug fixes, and optimize performance across languages including Python, Java, Rust, Go, C++, and TypeScript. This is a remote, contractor role (~15 hours/week) with competitive hourly pay.