Open Source GitHub Maintainer

Role Type: Contractor (15 hrs a week)

Location: Remote, Open Globally

Schedule: Flexible, any hours/days of the week. As long as there is constant activity.

micro1 is engaging expert Senior Software Engineers to support a customer’s innovative project. In this role, you'll apply your expertise to help train next-generation AI systems. Your work will shape how models learn, reason, and perform through high-quality, real-world input. No prior experience in AI is required — your domain knowledge is what matters.

As a subject-matter expert, you'll review code patches generated by an LLM for the repository (or repositories) you maintain, and provide your professional assessment of each one.

Applicants must have clear open source contributions and profiles to showcase it like GitHub or GitLab.

Scope of Work

1. Evaluate code patches generated by LLMs and offer detailed feedback on each one
2. Provide written justification to support your assessments
3. Conduct peer reviews of work submitted by other subject-matter experts

Preferred Qualifications

1. Experience maintaining an open source repository.
2. Experience reviewing code from contributors

Process:

1. Apply to the role, filling out the screening questions
2. Complete AI interview (aprox. 10 minutes)
3. Hiring Manager review

Compensation Structure

Compensation is output-based; experts are paid per task that meets the project specifications. The time required to complete work may vary depending on the expert’s experience and workflow. Minimum submission requirements apply. Experts must submit a minimum of tasks per week.

Start Timeline & Availability

We typically fill roles within 48 hours and are looking for experts ready to jump in right away. If selected, we expect you to start your first tasks within 24–48 hours of completing onboarding.

About micro1

micro1 is the leading AI data lab for training frontier models and evaluating AI agents. Experts contribute their diverse subject matter knowledge across domains such as finance, healthcare, STEM engineering, and more. micro1 transforms that real-world expertise into high-quality training data, evaluations, and feedback loops that improve how AI systems learn, reason, and perform.Our platform identifies and vets top talent through an AI recruiter, enabling high-quality expert contributions at scale. We aim to enable 1 billion people to do meaningful work by applying their expertise to AI. As our global expert network grows, micro1 is building the human intelligence layer for frontier AI.

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