Senior Software Engineer, AI Training - United States
$100.00 - $200.00 per hour
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$100.00 - $200.00 per hour
About the role
- Contract | Remote, worldwide | $100-$200/hour depending on experience and location | 10-20 hrs/week
- Please note that eligibility may vary depending on your location, as some regions may not be supported by the client.
- Check out this Loom video for more details: https://www.loom.com/share/b0d1b0bf24c44ae8b95dca84b9db60e5We're looking for highly experienced software engineer (SR+) to help evaluate the quality of interactions with modern coding agents such as OpenAI Codex and Claude Code.
- This is not a traditional engineering role. You won't be writing production code. You'll be evaluating something harder: whether the model thinks like a great engineer.
- What this role actually isYou will assess how AI coding agents behave in real-world scenarios, focusing on:
- Whether the response makes sense
- Whether the preamble and reasoning are useful
- Whether the output reflects strong engineering judgment
- Whether the interaction feels right to an experienced developer
- This role is about engineering taste. Syntax correctness is the easy part.
- Evaluate AI-generated coding interactions end to end
- Judge whether outputs are useful, correct at a high level, and aligned with how a strong engineer would think
- Assess the quality of explanations and reasoning, not just the code
- Distinguish between levels of response quality (what makes something a 2 vs a 4)
- Give clear, opinionated feedback in writing on what worked, what didn't, and what felt off or misleading
- Help define what great looks like when working with tools like Cursor, Codex and Claude CodeWhat we mean by "taste"We're looking for engineers who can answer questions like:
- Does this feel like something a strong engineer would actually say?
- Is this explanation helpful, or just technically correct?
- Is the model guiding the user well, or just dumping output?
- Would this interaction build or erode trust?
- You should be comfortable making subjective but rigorous judgments, and explaining them clearly.
- Senior, Staff or Principal-level engineer (or equivalent experience)
- Hands-on experience with at least one of OpenAI Codex, Claude Code or CursorDeep familiarity with modern AI-assisted dev workflows
- Able to evaluate code without executing it or reviewing every line
- Strong written and spoken English (B2 or above). You'll be writing detailed feedback and recording short video explanations, so this is a hard requirement
- Comfortable giving direct, opinionated feedback
- High bar for what good engineering looks like
Before you apply
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A number in mind
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Your notice period
Employers plan around it, and it's the question that stalls offers most often.
Once you apply, someone reads it and calls you before anything reaches the employer — usually within two working days.
