{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"f22848c085ac336d09afbd76","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/f22848c085ac336d09afbd76","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/f22848c085ac336d09afbd76","title":"Senior Software Engineer - AI Coding Agents (Remote)","description":"Mindrift AI Coding Agent Evaluation SpecialistMindrift connects specialists with project-based AI opportunities for leading tech companies, focused on testing, evaluating, and improving AI systems. Participation is project-based.What this opportunity involvesWe're building a dataset to evaluate AI coding agents - how well a model handles real-world developer tasks.You'll create challenging tasks and evaluation criteria within realistic simulated environments:Build realistic developer environments - a virtual company with codebase, infrastructure, and context (tickets, docs, conversations) that forms a believable development historyDesign tasks from intermediate states of these environments - craft the prompt, define what \"solved\" means, and ensure the task is solvable by an AI agentWrite tests that verify agent solutions - accept all valid approaches and reject incorrect ones, neither too strict nor too lenientIterate on tasks and tests based on QA feedback - review agent solutions, analyze failures, and refine until the evaluation is fair and robustWhat this is NOTNot data labelingNot prompt engineeringNot writing code from scratch - the agent writes most of the code; you guide and evaluateWhat we look for5+ years in software developmentCore stack: Python (FastAPI), JavaScript/TypeScript (React), Docker, Postgres, Kafka, RedisExperience writing tests (functional, integration)English proficiency - B2+Why this is hardFrontier 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.How it worksApply → Pass qualification(s) → Join a project → Complete tasks → Get paidEffort estimateTasks for this project are estimated to take 20 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.CompensationUp to $40/hr equivalent, depending on level and pace. 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