Senior C Engineer | $50/hr Remote

Senior C Engineer Work Snapshot

• Job Type: Contract
• Location: Remote
• Compensation: Up to $50 per hour
• Level: Middle to Senior Level

Roles & Responsibilities

• Review AI-generated C code, low-level systems designs, and technical explanations for correctness, safety, performance, and systems-level reliability
• Evaluate systems-programming and embedded-development solutions involving memory management, pointers, concurrency, operating systems, hardware interaction, and performance optimization
• Identify errors in logic, memory handling, undefined behavior, concurrency control, synchronization, debugging workflows, and low-level implementation details
• Analyze C implementations for readability, maintainability, efficiency, coding-standard compliance, and adherence to production-grade engineering practices
• Generate high-quality reference implementations, debugging analyses, architectural explanations, and structured reasoning workflows demonstrating correct systems-level programming techniques
• Compare and rank multiple AI-generated responses based on technical correctness, memory safety, algorithmic efficiency, and reasoning quality
• Fact-check systems-programming concepts, compiler behavior, low-level debugging techniques, concurrency handling, and performance-critical implementation strategies
• Evaluate build systems, linker behavior, compiler interactions, debugging tools, CI/CD workflows, and automated testing processes used in C development
• Work with low-level systems concepts including operating systems, embedded systems, threading models, synchronization primitives, and hardware-oriented programming patterns
• Support AI model improvement through annotation workflows, technical evaluations, code-review QA processes, and structured engineering documentation

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor s degree or higher in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a closely related technical field
• Minimum 4+ years of professional experience developing production software in C for systems, embedded, or performance-critical environments
• Expert-level proficiency in C including deep understanding of pointers, memory allocation, undefined behavior, low-level debugging, and systems architecture
• Strong background in systems programming concepts such as concurrency, operating systems, hardware interaction, synchronization, and performance optimization
• Hands-on experience with compilers, build systems, linkers, debugging tools, CI/CD workflows, and automated testing for C-based projects
• Proven ability to conduct detailed code reviews and enforce coding standards for safety, maintainability, and reliability in low-level codebases
• Strong analytical and debugging skills with the ability to identify subtle systems-level bugs, race conditions, memory leaks, and performance bottlenecks
• Excellent English writing and communication skills with Minimum C1 English proficiency required
• Comfortable explaining low-level programming concepts, debugging logic, concurrency issues, and systems-level trade-offs clearly in written form
• Significant experience using AI coding assistants or LLMs for debugging, systems analysis, code review, or software design evaluation strongly preferred
• Previous experience with AI data training, annotation workflows, large-scale code review, or evaluation of AI-generated technical content is strongly preferred
• Highly detail-oriented and methodical when evaluating reasoning quality, memory safety, concurrency correctness, and low-level implementation accuracy