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Light Heart Labs
lightheartlabs.com · Philadelphia, United States, USA
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Upwork lists Light Heart Labs at $50k in client spend.

$49,940 in published client spend across 11 contracts. The full read below — free.

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Total Upwork spend
$50k
$49,940
Top category
Devops Infra Security
6 of 12 contracts
Hiring status
Actively hiring
6 of 11 contracts in progress
Contracts on record
11
$18–100/hr listed
The company

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Light Heart Labs
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Rate X-Ray

What the blended average hides

Money is bifurcated: the headline engineering roles pay strong hourly rates (~$75–100/hr) and capture most of the budget, while a sizable volume of work is commodity testing at ~$18–36/hr — don’t expect the average rate to apply uniformly across roles; price infra engineering and QA scopes separately.

Every listed hourly rate · 11 of 11 contracts
median $35/hr · avg ~$51/hr
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6
2
2
$0$40$80$120$160$200
median $35/hr avg ~$51/hr — dragged up by two $190–200 contracts
Budget · 7 contracts $18–36
Mid-tier · 2 contracts $75–75
Premium · 2 contracts $100–100
What they hire for

Where the work actually is

All 11 contracts by category. Devops Infra Security leads with 6 of 12 contracts.

Devops Infra Security 6
QA & testing 5
AI Ml Dev 1
Hiring activity

Hiring right now, not last year.

When the contracts on record started — and how they're structured. 6 of 11 are still in progress.

Contracts started, by month
11
Mar 2026
Status
6in progress · 5completed
Contract type
11hourly · 0fixed-price
Open roles

Jobs they've posted publicly

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Senior Windows Desktop Engineer: Bring ODS to Native Windows (No Docker or WSL) Oct 21, 2026·More than 6 months↗ Community & Growth Lead for Open-Source Local AI Project (Dream Server) Jun 7, 2026·More than 6 months↗ Dream Server – Install Tester & Bug Reporter Mar 20, 2026·More than 6 months↗ Infrastructure Contributor – Open Source Local AI (Dream Server) Mar 9, 2026·More than 6 months↗ Infrastructure Contributor – Open Source Local AI (Dream Server) Mar 8, 2026·More than 6 months↗ Local AI Infrastructure Engineer — Multi-GPU, Inference Optimization, Hardware-Level Mar 6, 2026·1 to 3 months↗ Software Tester for Open Source AI Project Mar 5, 2026·1 to 3 months↗
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Every contract on record — all 11

Freelancer names removed · roles only
RoleRateBilled
Infrastructure Contributor – Open Source Local AI (Dream Server)$75/hr$21,666
Local AI Infrastructure Engineer — Multi-GPU, Inference Optimization, Hardware-Level$75/hr$15,642
Dream Server – Install Tester & Bug Reporter$18.15/hr$3,513
Infrastructure Contributor – Open Source Local AI (Dream Server)$35/hr$3,299
Infrastructure Contributor – Open Source Local AI (Dream Server)$35/hr$2,803
Infrastructure Contributor – Open Source Local AI (Dream Server)$100/hr$1,322
Infrastructure Contributor – Open Source Local AI (Dream Server)$100/hr$1,095
Dream Server – Install Tester & Bug Reporter$35/hr$532
Dream Server – Install Tester & Bug Reporter$36.3/hr$257
Dream Server – Install Tester & Bug Reporter$30/hr$131
Software Tester for Open Source AI Project$20/hr—
"—" = no rate or billed amount listed (fixed-price or open). Billed is what Upwork shows to date.
Treatment verdict

How they hire, and how they treat people

Early-stage open-source Local AI maintainer hiring a mix of infra engineers and short-term testers for a public project.

Reputation
High. Consistently supportive and responsive, giving clear, timely feedback and making time to review work while expressing strong commitment to the project's mission.
How they engage
Runs both multi-month engineering contracts and many brief testing gigs, often running several contributors concurrently rather than single long retainers.
Working style
Hands-on and communicative with regular reviews and clear feedback, running collaborative workflows that still allow freelancers autonomy to implement solutions.
Who wins the work
Freelancers who succeed are comfortable with open-source collaboration and autonomous infra work (for higher rates) or who can execute quick, scoped install/test tasks reliably (for lower-rate work).
Worth knowing
The hiring is centered on a public open-source project (Dream Server / ODS), so work includes community-facing deliverables and likely public repo collaboration.

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