Software Engineering Evaluation Specialist

Mindrift
Austin, TX
Remote
Job Description
Role Overview

You'll design coding tasks that challenge frontier AI coding agents. Each task is a self-contained Docker environment with a broken piece of software; an AI agent attempts the fix; automated tests verify the outcome.

What You Will Do

Invent a realistic developer scenario, build a reproducible Docker environment, write a pytest, create an instruction.md, and write a reference solve.sh. Calibrate difficulty so current state-of-the-art agents solve the task 20–60% of the time.

Why It Might Be a Fit

You have 3+ years of production software development in one backend stack, Python + pytest fluency, Docker authoring, and AI coding agent experience. You're a good fit if you have domain depth in Security, System Administration, Scientific Computing, DevOps, or Git internals.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of production software development in one backend stack — Python, Go, Node.js, Java, or Rust
  • Python + pytest fluency
  • Docker authoring
  • AI coding agent experience — Claude Code, Cursor, Roo Code, or similar, on non-trivial work
  • English — B2+ written

Benefits

  • Paid contributions, rates up to $35/hour
  • Task-based compensation equivalent to hourly rate, depending on performance and volume
  • Some projects include incentive payments
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