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Open Source Contributor

micro1
Contract type
Freelance
Work mode
Remote · Worldwide
Experience
3 years

Job description

micro1 is looking for open-source contributors to support an AI-training project focused on complex, real-world technical workflows. Contributors create, solve, review, and validate challenging technical tasks to help improve how advanced AI systems reason, write code, use tools, and complete long-horizon projects.

At a glance

Employment
Contract · Independent contractor
Work mode
Remote · Worldwide
Pay
USD 60 – 120 / hour

What you'll do

  • Create realistic technical tasks based on professional, scientific, or engineering workflows.
  • Build reproducible task environments, reference solutions, tests, and objective evaluation criteria.
  • Review AI-generated work for correctness, completeness, and technical quality.
  • Diagnose model failures and explain why an approach or result is incorrect.

What we're looking for

  • Strong programming ability, including practical proficiency with Python.
  • Meaningful contributions to open-source software or substantial original public projects.
  • Experience in at least one relevant area: software engineering; machine learning or data science; scientific computing; hardware, embedded systems, or electronics; mechanical, aerospace, civil, chemical, or electrical engineering; developer tools, infrastructure, automation, or security.
  • Publicly verifiable evidence of skill such as meaningful merged contributions to established repositories, maintainer or core-contributor responsibilities, substantial original repositories or technical tools, scientific or engineering software contributions, public code supporting published research, or contributions involving implementation, debugging, testing, performance, infrastructure, simul

Nice to have

  • Experience designing technical tests, benchmarks, evaluation tasks, or reproducible environments.
  • Experience reviewing code or technical contributions from others.
  • Competition results, publications, public technical writing, or other evidence of expertise.
  • Previous experience contributing to complex projects over an extended period.

How to get hired

  1. 1Submit your application and public technical profiles.
  2. 2Complete an AI interview that includes technical and integrity checks.
  3. 3Complete a hiring-manager review.
  4. 4If selected, complete project onboarding and begin your first assigned task.

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