Software Engineer (Open Source Contributor)

AuraOne; United States; Remote; USD 153,000 - 207,000; Part time

Job summary

AuraOne is seeking a Software Engineer (Open Source Contributor) to remotely review production code, reproduce issues, and write minimal tests for model-quality evaluation. You will assess correctness, style, and edge-case handling in candidate solutions and provide clear rationale to guide improvements.

Collaborate with the modeling team, tag failures, and document recurring issues to improve automated reviews.

Qualifications

• Strong day-job engineering experience with ability to read, run, and debug unfamiliar code.
• Ability to write concise unit tests that capture a single failure mode.
• Familiarity with a testing framework (pytest, Jest, JUnit, Go test, RSpec, etc.).
• Clear written reasoning to convince another senior engineer.

Responsibilities

• Run and reproduce candidate code in a sandboxed environment.
• Grade software engineer outputs for correctness, style, edge cases.
• Write minimal failing tests to demonstrate bugs.
• Compare paired solutions with a rubric-based rationale.
• Tag failure modes with severity scores.
• Document recurring code-generation failures for the modeling team.

Skills

Code review

Debugging

Unit testing

Engineering judgment

Engineering review

Software engineering

Job description

Category: Coding, SWE & Agent Evaluation. Pay: $130 / hr. Location: Remote - US-eligible. Contractor.

Software Engineer (Open Source Contributor) 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 Software Engineer (Open Source Contributor) assignments.
• Grade software engineer 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 Software Engineer (Open Source Contributor) 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
• Software Engineer engineering review
• Software engineering

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.