C Team Lead

About this role

In this hourly, remote contractor role, you will work as a C Quality Assurance Lead (QAL) to oversee quality, consistency, and trainer performance across C programming AI training projects. You will review AI-generated C code and trainer/QA work, evaluate output quality against project guidelines, provide precise written feedback, and ensure contributors follow expected quality standards.

C, Pointers, Memory Management

Responsibilities

• Quality monitoring: Spot-check C items, identify quality issues, provide feedback through DMs, and escalate recurring or critical issues.
• Code review: Evaluate AI-generated C code, debugging responses, pointer/memory examples, algorithmic solutions, tests, and technical explanations.
• Trainer/QA communication: Update contributors on Discord about guideline changes, workflow updates, and C-specific review standards.
• Question handling: Respond to questions around pointers, memory allocation, compilation, UB, and embedded constraints.
• Activation management: DM inactive contributors, track follow-ups, and flag availability issues.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
• Strong grasp of English to follow guidelines and provide clear technical feedback.
• 3+ years of professional experience in C programming, systems programming, embedded development, firmware, operating systems, performance engineering, code review, QA, or technical mentoring.
• Strong understanding of pointers, arrays, memory allocation, structs, function pointers, preprocessor macros, header files, compilation/linking, undefined behavior, file I/O, bitwise operations, and portability.
• Ability to identify issues such as buffer overflows, memory leaks, use-after-free, undefined behavior, invalid pointer arithmetic, or race conditions.