About Us: Deccan AI Experts is a pioneering company founded by IIT Bombay and IIM Ahmedabad alumni, with a strong founding team from IITs, NITs, and BITS. We specialize in delivering high-quality human-curated data, AI-first scaled operations services, and more. Based in SF and Hyderabad, we are a young, fast-moving team on a mission to build AI for Good, driving innovation and positive societal impact.
About the Role
We are looking for experienced Ruby on Rails Developers to contribute to annotation and RLHF initiatives focused on web applications, backend services, and API-driven systems. In this role, you will review and annotate real-world Ruby on Rails codebases, analyze pull requests and feature implementations, execute and interpret test suites, and provide structured human feedback on application logic, performance, security, and framework best practices. Your expertise will help train AI models to reason accurately about Rails conventions, architectural patterns, and production-grade backend development.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Review, analyze, and annotate Ruby and Ruby on Rails code, patches, and pull requests for RLHF and AI training datasets
- Evaluate application logic, business workflows, and API behavior for correctness and edge cases
- Annotate differences between correct and incorrect implementations, identifying bugs, anti-patterns, and design issues
- Review Rails-specific components including models, controllers, services, jobs, and concerns
- Analyze database interactions using ActiveRecord, migrations, validations, and associations
- Ensure annotations are accurate, consistent, and aligned with defined quality and reasoning guidelines
- Collaborate asynchronously with AI researchers and data teams to continuously improve dataset quality
Required Skills & Experience
- 17 years of hands-on experience with Ruby on Rails in production environments
- Strong knowledge of Ruby fundamentals and Rails conventions and architecture
- Experience building RESTful APIs and backend services using Rails
- Solid understanding of ActiveRecord, SQL databases, and schema design
- Familiarity with testing frameworks such as RSpec and Minites
- Strong analytical, reasoning, and written communication skills for producing high-quality annotations
- Experience with system design, scalability, or security best practices is a plus.
Why Join Us
- Work on high-impact projects that contribute to building AI for Good.
- Collaborate with top-tier engineers and domain experts from IITs, NITs, and BITS.
- Opportunity to grow in a fast-paced, innovation-driven environment.
NOTE: This will be a flexible freelancing opportunity. Pay will vary by project and typically is up to 1500 per hour.
