About OpenTrainOpenTrain AI is the hiring and contracting organization for this role and the #1 platform for finding and building careers in AI training and data labeling. OpenTrain helps people discover opportunities, build a professional profile, and grow in a rapidly expanding field where human expertise shapes how advanced AI systems work.Free OpenTrain accountRemote opportunities across the AI training industryA platform for building a lasting AI training careerAbout AI Training WorkAI training is the human side of building artificial intelligence. Engineers and other specialists create examples, evaluate model behavior, and define reliable standards that help AI systems understand and perform complex work. In this role, your software engineering judgment will help train and assess AI agents on realistic technical challenges.Contribute directly to cutting-edge AI developmentUse your professional software engineering expertise in a flexible formatWork remotely with a task-based scheduleThe RoleOpenTrain is recruiting a Software Engineer Task Author to design and calibrate engineering challenges for AI training. You will create realistic prompts, scoring rubrics, and task environments that test how well AI agents handle real software engineering situations.This is a flexible, task-based hourly contract for working software engineers in Canada. The commitment is 20 or more hours per week, with potential for ongoing work and contract extension.Employment type: Contractor and part timeLocation: Remote within CanadaLanguage: EnglishPay: $70-$120 USD per hour, depending on experienceWhat You'll DoYou will create technically accurate tasks, validate their solutions, and establish explicit standards for evaluating AI-generated work. Each challenge should reflect realistic engineering conditions and have correctness criteria that can be checked consistently.Author engineering prompts involving integration failures, log-based debugging, bug traces,



and configuration fixesWrite scoring rubrics with exact correctness criteria and verification methodsSet up task environments containing realistic codebases, logs, alerts, and system statesSolve each task yourself to validate its soundness and accuracyCalibrate task difficulty to challenge the model appropriatelyReview and correct AI-drafted task prompts or rubrics when providedRequired QualificationsThis role requires hands-on, industry-level software engineering experience and the ability to reason carefully about real systems, failures, and fixes. You should be comfortable both solving technical problems and explaining how successful outcomes can be verified.Working software engineer with hands-on, industry-level experienceFluency in Git, version control workflows, and code review practicesStrong debugging skills, including reading logs, using observability tools, and tracing failures through a codebaseExperience with infrastructure, integrations, and configuration code, including APIs, services, configuration files, and CI/CDAbility to write and verify a code fix in a live or simulated environmentAbility to define precise, checkable correctness criteria for engineering outcomesHelpful BackgroundThe following experience can help you create more authentic and challenging engineering scenarios, although it is listed as helpful rather than required.Enterprise SaaS, e-commerce, telecommunications, or industrial engineering experienceExperience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Datadog, PagerDuty, or GrafanaFamiliarity with cloud-native architectures on AWS, GCP, or AzureWork Arrangement and CompensationThis is a remote, hourly contract position for engineers located across Canada. Work is flexible and task-based, with a commitment of 20 or more hours per week. Compensation ranges from $70 to $120 USD per hour depending on experience.Remote work from CanadaFlexible task-based contract20+ hours per week$70-$120 USD per hourPotential for ongoing work and contract extension #J-18808-Ljbffr

📌 Software Engineer Task Author (Ottawa)
🏢 OpenTrain AI
📍 Ottawa