Software & Firmware Engineering Experts

AuraOne, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 138,000 - 165,000; Part time

Job summary

AuraOne, Inc. is seeking a Remote Software & Firmware Engineering Experts reviewer on a contract basis. You will reproduce candidate code in a sandbox, grade embedded solutions for correctness, and write minimal failing tests to expose edge cases.

You will compare paired solutions and provide written rationales tied to rubrics, while tagging failure modes and documenting recurring issues for the modeling team. This role requires reliable part-time availability and strong engineering judgment.

Qualifications

• Strong day-job engineering experience—read, run, and debug unfamiliar code.
• Comfort writing concise unit tests that capture a single failure mode.
• Familiarity with a testing framework (pytest, Jest, JUnit or equivalents).
• Clear written reasoning to convince another senior engineer.

Responsibilities

• Run and reproduce candidate code outputs in a sandboxed environment.
• Grade embedded systems solutions for correctness, style, and edge cases.
• Write minimal failing tests demonstrating a missed bug.
• Compare paired solutions and rank with rubric-based rationale.
• Tag failure modes (compile error, runtime crash, off-by-one, security risk).
• Document recurring code-generation failures for the modeling team.
• Calibrate reviews to maintain high inter-rater reliability.

Skills

Code review

Debugging

Unit testing

Software engineering judgment

Embedded systems

Tools

pytest

Jest

JUnit

Go test

RSpec

Job description

Software & Firmware Engineering Experts 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 & Firmware Engineering Experts assignments.
• Grade embedded systems 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 & Firmware Engineering Experts 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
• Embedded systems

Work model

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

Compensation

$100–$120 / hr

Strong day-job engineering experience — you can read, run, and debug unfamiliar code for Software & Firmware Engineering Experts 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.