Senior C++ Engineer | $30/hr Remote

Senior C++ Engineer Work Snapshot

• Job Type: Contract
• Location: Remote
• Compensation: Up to $30 per hour
• Level: Middle to Senior Level

Roles & Responsibilities

• Review AI-generated C++ code, systems designs, and technical explanations for correctness, safety, performance, and reasoning quality
• Evaluate complex engineering solutions involving concurrency, memory management, systems programming, low-level optimization, and performance-critical architectures
• Identify bugs, unsafe memory usage, logical flaws, concurrency issues, race conditions, performance bottlenecks, and architectural weaknesses in AI-generated outputs
• Write high-quality reference implementations and step-by-step technical explanations demonstrating modern C++ best practices and systems-level reasoning
• Compare and rank multiple AI-generated responses based on correctness, maintainability, efficiency, readability, safety, and adherence to the prompt
• Fact-check technical claims related to operating systems, debugging, low-level programming, performance optimization, compilers, and systems architecture
• Conduct structured code reviews enforcing coding standards, maintainability principles, performance requirements, and production-grade engineering quality
• Generate detailed prompts, benchmark tasks, and evaluation scenarios to improve AI reasoning and code generation capabilities in modern C++
• Support AI model improvement through annotation workflows, technical evaluations, quality assurance reviews, and structured engineering feedback
• Collaborate asynchronously with AI training and research teams to improve the quality, safety, and reliability of frontier AI systems

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor s degree or higher in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or a closely related technical field
• Strong years of professional experience developing production software in C++ for systems-level, performance-critical, embedded, or large-scale applications
• Expert-level proficiency in modern C++ (C++11 and later), including templates, move semantics, RAII, smart pointers, STL, and advanced language features
• Strong understanding of systems programming concepts including concurrency, threading, synchronization, operating systems, low-level optimization, and memory management
• Hands-on experience with compilers, linkers, debuggers, profilers, sanitizers, build systems, and modern C++ development tooling
• Ability to critically evaluate low-level systems code for correctness, performance, maintainability, scalability, and safety
• Proven experience conducting detailed code reviews and enforcing engineering standards in complex C++ codebases
• Familiarity with CI/CD workflows, automated testing frameworks, Git-based development practices, and production debugging workflows
• Strong analytical thinking and attention to detail with the ability to identify subtle correctness, concurrency, memory, and performance issues
• Excellent English communication skills (C1 or higher) with the ability to write structured technical explanations and evaluation rationales
• Previous experience with AI data training, RLHF, code evaluation, technical annotation, or AI-generated code review is strongly preferred
• Experience with performance-sensitive systems, distributed systems, game engines, networking, embedded systems, or low-latency applications is a strong plus