Senior Software Engineer, Technical Code Evaluation and Root Cause Analysis

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗷𝗼𝗯. 𝗜𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗷𝘂𝗱𝗴𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗷𝗼𝗯. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲.You will read what a coding agent did across an entire session on a real production codebase, work out exactly where its solution falls short, and write up why. To do that you need years of hands-on engineering behind you. The deliverable is your analysis, not your commits.𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗖𝗟𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗧Pave Talent is hiring on behalf of a frontier artificial intelligence (AI) research lab. This is a contract engagement through their staffing partner.𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗞- Review a coding agent's full session, not the final diff. What it investigated, what it verified, what it assumed, what it left undone- Locate where model-generated code breaks and explain precisely why, in writing a researcher can act on- Build the evaluation problems these models get tested against- Reproduce builds and failures locally in containers- Work directly with researchers on questions they are investigating right now𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗖𝗛𝗘𝗗𝗨𝗟𝗘, 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗪𝗛𝗬 𝗣𝗘𝗢𝗣𝗟𝗘 𝗧𝗔𝗞𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦30 to 40 hours a week, and you choose when. Weekday evenings. Weekends. A standard Monday to Friday week if you prefer. Some people on this project keep their full-time job and run this alongside it. Others do it as a straight 40-hour week. Both work.𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗪𝗘 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗟𝗢𝗢𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗙𝗢𝗥- 6+ years writing production code, hands-on. Not managing people who write it- Heavy code review history. You are the person on your team who catches what continuous integration (CI) and the author both missed- Comfort in unfamiliar repos and languages outside your daily stack. The codebases rotate weekly- Working fluency with Docker or equivalent, reproducing builds and failures locally- You write clearly. If you cannot explain why a solution is wrong, the analysis has no value- United States work authorization, no sponsorship𝗗𝗢 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗟𝗬 𝗜𝗙 𝗔𝗡𝗬 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗦𝗘 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗘We would rather say this plainly than waste your time or ours.- You have not written production code in the last two years- You are not willing to sit a proctored coding assessment with one attempt- You are not willing to verify your identity on video before submission- You need someone else to interview or work on your behalf- You are outside the United States𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗪𝗘 𝗦𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗡Three steps, in this order, and no exceptions for anyone.1. Technical video screening with us2. Identity verification. You record a brief video holding a government photo ID. You may mask everything except your photo and name3. A CodeSignal Industry Coding Assessment. One attempt, roughly 90 minutes to 2 hours, minimum score 500. We send prep material in advanceAfter onboarding there are two further assessments the lab built, over about two weeks, that determine whether you continue on the project.𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗠𝗦𝗣𝗮𝘆: $150 per hour, W-2. No corp-to-corp, no 1099𝗛𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀: 30 to 40 per week, scheduled by you𝗟𝗲𝗻𝗴𝘁𝗵: 6-month contract. Conversion to a permanent role is unlikely, and you should hear that now𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: Fully remote, United States onlyApply through LinkedIn. Answer the screening questions honestly. Every answer gets verified.𝗣𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁 | 𝗛𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗥𝗲𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱