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Open Source Maintainer / Core Contributor - Software Engineer

$150 per hour
Temporary

Gridnaut Recruiting

Gridnaut Recruiting is hiring a remote Open Source Maintainer / Core Contributor – Software Engineer contractor (pay $150/hr). Contribute to frontier AI research and evaluation work. Ideal candidates: Guide research and engineering teams to close knowledge gaps and improve AI model performance in software engineering, code review, and open-source maintenance topics.; Design challenging, realistic engineering tasks grounded in the open-source codebase the expert knows best, such as the features, refactors and bug fixes a maintainer would assign, and write accurate, well-structured reference solutions.; Evaluate AI-written code, tests and grading rubrics against the repository's architecture, conventions and quality bar, and provide clear, written technical feedback.; Build, run and test the project locally, including with Docker, to confirm that tasks, solutions and tests behave as intended.; Remote, independent contractor engagement through Gridnaut Recruiting..

Vacancy posted 7 days ago
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