Open Source Maintainer / Core Contributor – Software Engineer
Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge GenAI team to be at the core of the AI revolution, where your expertise fuels the development of the most advanced Large Language Models.
Overview
Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge GenAI team and help build foundational AI models from the ground up. We're seeking talented open-source maintainers and core contributors with deep, hands-on ownership of a mature, widely used open-source codebase to bring real-world engineering and code review judgment and elevate the quality of our AI training data. The role requires 30–40 hours per week, with flexible scheduling. Most work is asynchronous and can be done in the evenings or on weekends, with occasional meetings with the lab's researchers as needed.
You'll be engaged through Cincinnatus LLC, with the opportunity to be placed at a leading AI lab as part of their extended workforce.
Key Responsibilities
- 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.
