Staff Software Engineer (AI Evals)

Staff Software Engineer (AI Evals)Contract | $100–$200/hour | 20-40 hrs/week | Start ASAP We’re looking for highly experienced software engineer to help evaluate the quality of interactions with modern coding agents such

• Staff Software Engineer (AI Evals)
• Contract | $100–$200/hour | 20-40 hrs/week | Start ASAP
• We’re looking for highly experienced software engineer 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 Is
• You 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 — not syntax correctness.
• What You’ll Be Doing
• Evaluate AI-generated coding interactions end-to-end
• Judge whether outputs are:
• Useful
• Correct (at a high level)
• Aligned with how a strong engineer would think
• Assess the quality of explanations and reasoning , not just code
• Distinguish between different levels of response quality (e.g. what makes something a 2 vs 4 )
• Provide clear, opinionated feedback on:
• What worked
• What didn’t
• What felt “off” or misleading
• Help define what great looks like when interacting with tools like Cursor
• What We Mean by “Taste”
• We’re specifically 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 .
• Who You Are
• Staff / Principal-level engineer (or equivalent experience)
• Strong background in one of the below:
• Go
• Python
• Rust
• TypeScript / JavaScript