{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"7ddd689c9542730bafd6c843","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/7ddd689c9542730bafd6c843","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/7ddd689c9542730bafd6c843","title":"Senior Python Engineer - AI Coding Agent Evaluation (Freelance)","description":"Please submit your CV in English and indicate your level of English proficiency.\r\nMindrift connects specialists with project-based AI opportunities for leading tech companies, focused on testing, evaluating, and improving AI systems. Participation is project-based, not permanent employment.\r\nWhat this opportunity involves\r\nWe're building a dataset to evaluate AI coding agents - how well a model handles real-world developer tasks.\r\nYou'll create challenging tasks and evaluation criteria within realistic simulated environments:\r\nBuild realistic developer environments - a virtual company with codebase, infrastructure, and context (tickets, docs, conversations) that forms a believable development history\r\nDesign tasks from intermediate states of these environments - craft the prompt, define what \"solved\" means, and ensure the task is solvable by an AI agent\r\nWrite tests that verify agent solutions - accept all valid approaches and reject incorrect ones, neither too strict nor too lenient\r\nIterate on tasks and tests based on QA feedback - review agent solutions, analyze failures, and refine until the evaluation is fair and robust\r\nWhat this is NOT\r\nNot data labeling\r\nNot prompt engineering\r\nNot writing code from scratch - the agent writes most of the code; you guide and evaluate\r\nWhat we look for\r\n8+ years in software development\r\nCore stack: Python (FastAPI), JavaScript/TypeScript (React), Docker, Postgres, Kafka, Redis\r\nExperience writing tests (functional, integration)\r\nEnglish proficiency - B2+\r\nWhy this is hard\r\nFrontier models are already good at coding. Creating a task that genuinely challenges the best models is non-trivial. You need to deeply understand where models fail and what scenarios reveal the difference between a good and a bad solution. Tasks have many valid solutions - writing tests that accept all correct solutions and reject incorrect ones is harder than it sounds.\r\nHow It Works\r\nApply -> Pass qualification(s) -> Join a project -> Complete tasks -> Get paid\r\nEffort estimate\r\nTasks for this project are estimated to take 30 hours to complete, depending on complexity. This is an estimate and not a schedule requirement; you choose when and how to work. Tasks must be submitted by the deadline and meet the listed acceptance criteria to be accepted.\r\nCompensation\r\nUp to $200/hr equivalent, depending on level and pace. 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