Backend Engineer AI Trainer (Coding Tasks)
About the role
Software engineers with backend experience can help train AI by creating coding tasks and checks that test how well it fixes bugs and builds features. No AI experience is needed; your engineering know how is what counts. Remote contract work at about 15 hours a week with flexible hours. Click Apply to open the micro1 page, sign up there using this link, and micro1 handles screening and hiring. AI Alerts may earn a referral fee if you're hired through this link. It costs you nothing and doesn't change how we pick or rank jobs.
What you'll do
- Create realistic, challenging coding tasks for AI to solve, covering feature implementation and bug fixes, to help train AI
- Write deterministic verifiers that accept valid solutions and reject everything else
- Review how AI handles codebase refactoring, performance work and debugging
- Work flexible hours, including weekends if you want, at about 15 hours a week
- Meet the weekly minimum task submissions, as pay is per task that meets project specs
Requirements
- Strong backend experience in Java, Node.js, Go, Rust, Typescript, Python, C++ or similar
- A track record building scalable services and APIs
- Comfort with debugging, performance work and automated testing
- Solid code review instincts
- Strong understanding of algorithms, data structures and core computer science concepts
- Strong analytical, problem solving and technical communication skills
- Nice to have: a strong testing background, including test strategy and diagnosing flaky tests
- Selection: micro1 screens applicants and handles hiring, with an AI interview and a technical assessment
About micro1
micro1 is a data lab that helps AI labs and large companies train AI models and agents. It finds and checks skilled people from many fields, like law, medicine, finance and coding, to produce the training data that makes AI work better.
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