Open Source Contributor (GitHub)
micro1 is engaging highly skilled Open-Source Software Engineers to contribute to an AI training project involving software development, repository exploration, debugging, system architecture, and code evaluation. Contributors will explore unfamiliar repositories, implement and debug front-end and back-end components, trace data and execution across complete software systems, reproduce and resolve issues, write comprehensive tests, and review AI-generated patches. The role is particularly suited to engineers who own or maintain open-source repositories or have made meaningful contributions to established projects. Contributions should demonstrate substantial engineering ability beyond documentation updates, dependency bumps, formatting changes, or minor typo corrections. The expected commitment is approximately 15 hours per week with flexible scheduling.
Salary
USD100 - USD150 / hour
Department
Open-Source Software Engineering & AI Evaluation
Experience
Strong software-engineering experience in front-end, back-end, full-stack, systems, developer tooling, infrastructure, or another substantial technical area, with meaningful ownership of or contributions to open-source repositories
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Role fit snapshot
- Engagement
- Remote contractor | micro1 application platform
- Experience
- Recorded experience: Strong software-engineering experience in front-end, back-end, full-stack, systems, developer tooling, infrastructure, or another substantial technical area, with meaningful ownership of or contributions to open-source repositories
- Core expertise
- Open-Source Software Engineering & AI Evaluation | Open-Source Software Development | GitHub | Python3
- Named tools
- Python | JavaScript | TypeScript
- Geographic eligibility
- Not specified beyond Remote
- Listing dates
- Posted 2026-09-16 | Valid through 2026-10-16
- Compensation
- Recorded compensation: $100-$150/hour
Responsibilities
- Explore and understand unfamiliar software repositories and existing project architectures.
- Implement, modify, and debug front-end and back-end components.
- Trace data and execution across interfaces, services, libraries, APIs, databases, and external dependencies.
- Reproduce software issues and identify their underlying causes.
- Implement solutions that fit existing project architecture and contribution standards.
- Create, solve, review, and validate challenging software-engineering tasks.
- Write unit, integration, regression, and end-to-end tests.
- Review AI-generated patches for correctness, completeness, security, and maintainability.
- Translate complete coding builds from one programming language into another when required.
- Evaluate software changes across multiple programming languages and technical domains.
- Discuss repositories, pull requests, issues, and code personally authored by the contributor.
- Collaborate with the customer's team on technical requirements and software-engineering tasks.
- Meet minimum weekly task submission requirements.
Skills
Requirements
- A public or otherwise verifiable GitHub profile.
- Meaningful ownership of or contributions to one or more open-source repositories.
- Strong software-engineering experience across front-end, back-end, full-stack, systems, developer tooling, infrastructure, or another substantial technical area.
- Experience with multiple programming languages.
- Ability to understand, navigate, and modify unfamiliar codebases.
- Demonstrated engineering contributions beyond documentation updates, dependency bumps, formatting changes, or minor typo corrections.
- Ability to discuss specific repositories, pull requests, issues, and code personally authored.
- Strong debugging, analytical, and technical problem-solving skills.
- Ability to write and maintain unit, integration, regression, and end-to-end tests.
- Ability to evaluate code and AI-generated patches for correctness, completeness, security, and maintainability.
- Experience with one or more of TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Java, Go, Rust, C++, C#, Ruby, PHP, or other languages used in substantial open-source projects.
- Ability to work independently in a remote environment.
- Availability for approximately 15 hours per week.
- Ability to meet minimum weekly task submission requirements.
- Readiness to begin immediately and start first tasks within 24–48 hours after onboarding.
Benefits
- Fully remote contractor opportunity open worldwide.
- Compensation listed at $100–$150 per hour, with actual payment structured on an output basis for qualifying tasks.
- Approximately 15 hours per week with flexible scheduling.
- Freedom to choose working hours and days, including weekends if needed.
- Opportunity to contribute to next-generation AI training using real-world open-source engineering expertise.
- Work involving repository exploration, debugging, architecture, testing, and code evaluation.
- Opportunity to work with established open-source projects and substantial technical codebases.
- Opportunity to apply expertise across multiple programming languages and engineering domains.
- Roles are typically filled within 48 hours.
- Potential to begin first tasks within 24–48 hours after completing onboarding.
- No prior AI experience explicitly required.
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- Verify the current compensation at the official source.
- Review the required skills and experience.
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