AI Evaluation Engineer

Please submit your CV in English and indicate your level of English proficiency.

Mindrift 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.

What This Opportunity Involves

We'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:

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Build realistic developer environments - a virtual company with codebase, infrastructure, and context (tickets, docs, conversations) that forms a believable development history

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Design tasks from intermediate states of these environments - craft the prompt, define what "solved" means, and ensure the task is solvable by an AI agent

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Write tests that verify agent solutions - accept all valid approaches and reject incorrect ones, neither too strict nor too lenient

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Iterate on tasks and tests based on QA feedback - review agent solutions, analyze failures, and refine until the evaluation is fair and robust

What This Is Not

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Not data labeling

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Not prompt engineering

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Not writing code from scratch - the agent writes most of the code; you guide and evaluate

What We Look For

? 5+ years in software development

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Core stack: Python (FastAPI), JavaScript/TypeScript (React), Docker, Postgres, Kafka, Redis

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Experience writing tests (functional, integration)

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English proficiency - B2+

Why This Is Hard

Frontier 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 Works

Apply, pass qualification(s), join a project, complete tasks, and get paid.

Compensation

Up to $50/hr equivalent, depending on level and pace. Tasks are estimated at approximately 20 hours each; you set your own schedule.