Junior Software Engineer - AI Quality & Testing

$30 - $42/hourpay

Required Skills

Typescript
Quality Engineering
Video Generator

Job Description

Job Title: Junior Software Engineer - AI Quality & Testing


Job Type: Contractor


Location: Remote


Job Summary:

Join our customer's team as a Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI Quality & Testing. In this impactful role, you'll leverage your TypeScript expertise to test, improve, and build AI-driven video generation products. This opportunity is perfect for detail-oriented engineers with a passion for quality and a strong portfolio of project work.


Key Responsibilities:

  1. Test and evaluate AI-powered web and mobile products, focusing on video generation tools.
  2. Write comprehensive test cases and clearly document bugs, edge cases, and product issues.
  3. Contribute code enhancements and fixes to TypeScript-based projects.
  4. Analyze user feedback from social channels to help drive product improvements.
  5. Collaborate with cross-functional teams across product, engineering, and operations workflows.
  6. Apply engineering rigor to quality processes, always seeking innovative ways to break and improve features.
  7. Maintain and expand an organized repository of test documentation and engineering insights.


Required Skills and Qualifications:

  1. Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent project-based experience.
  2. Proficiency in TypeScript, with experience shipping code in production environments.
  3. Mandatory portfolio of self-built projects, including personal or side projects.
  4. Demonstrated ability to read, navigate, and contribute to complex codebases.
  5. 1-3 years of experience in software engineering roles.
  6. Innate curiosity and detail orientation, with a passion for discovering how AI products break and can be improved.
  7. Prior hands-on exposure to AI tools or video generator platforms.


Preferred Qualifications:

  1. Experience with testing frameworks such as Cypress, Playwright, or Jest.
  2. Background in QA processes, bug reporting, or user testing.
  3. Direct involvement with AI-driven video generator technologies.


Additional Info:

To excel in this role, you must demonstrate a track record of building and shipping code, validated through a portfolio of work. We are seeking candidates with a creative, engineering-first mindset—pure manual QA testers or those lacking a technical portfolio will not be considered. This expert-level contractor position offers a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of software engineering, AI quality, and cutting-edge video technology as part of our customer's innovative team.

About micro1
micro1 is a data engine that helps AI labs train foundational models and enterprises build AI agents. We provide frontier evaluations and reinforcement learning environments used to improve LLM capabilities, as well as contextual evaluations used to monitor and improve AI agents in enterprise settings. Our data engine includes an AI recruiter agent that sources and vets domain experts, a data platform that enables rapid production of high-quality training data, and a pipeline performance system that ensures both quality and velocity.
Our goal is to have 1 billion people doing meaningful work by contributing their expertise to the development of frontier AI models. We’ve raised $40M+ in funding, and our AI recruiter has powered more than 1 million AI-led interviews as our global network of experts expands to form the human intelligence layer for AGI.

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