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No prior experience in AI is required — your domain knowledge is what matters.You'll create realistic, interesting, and challenging coding tasks for AI to solve involving feature implementation and bug fixes, and implement deterministic verifiers that accept reasonable valid solutions and reject everything else.We're looking for strong backend experience in Java, Node.js, Go, Rust, TypeScript, Python, C++, or similar, a track record building scalable services and APIs, comfort with debugging, performance work, and automated testing, and solid code review instincts.Preferred qualifications include proven experience in backend development, demonstrated success in identifying and resolving software bugs and system bottlenecks, experience with codebase refactoring and implementing complex features in large-scale applications, strong understanding of algorithms, data structures, and foundational computer science concepts, and excellent analytical, problem-solving, and technical communication skills.The scope of work includes contributing expert-level code samples, debugging strategies, and development insights in Python3, Java, Rust, Go, C++, or TypeScript, analyzing, troubleshooting, and resolving complex software defects and performance bottlenecks in diverse codebases, implementing robust new features, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and adherence to software best practices, refactoring and optimizing legacy code to improve clarity, efficiency, and long-term reliability, documenting technical reasoning, solution approaches, and code decisions to enhance AI training data quality, and reviewing and validating peer-contributed code and technical submissions for accuracy and clarity.The process includes applying to the role, filling out the screening questions, completing an AI interview, a technical assessment if required, and a hiring manager review.Compensation is output-based; experts are paid per task that meets the project specifications. 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