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Senior Python Engineer - AI Coding Agent Evaluation (Freelance)
United States, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, South Africa, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Singapore, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, India, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Armenia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Oman, Serbia, Cyprus, Malta, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lithuania, Latvia, Romania, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Portugal, Greece, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Austria, Belgium, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Jamaica, Spain, France, Germany, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom
$100 – $200/hr
July 22, 2026
Job description
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:
- Build realistic developer environments - a virtual company with codebase, infrastructure, and context (tickets, docs, conversations) that forms a believable development history
- 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
- Write tests that verify agent solutions - accept all valid approaches and reject incorrect ones, neither too strict nor too lenient
- 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:
- Not data labeling
- Not prompt engineering
- Not writing code from scratch - the agent writes most of the code; you guide and evaluate
What we look for:
- 8+ years in software development
- Core stack: Python (FastAPI), JavaScript/TypeScript (React), Docker, Postgres, Kafka, Redis
- Experience writing tests (functional, integration)
- 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 → Get paidEffort estimate
Tasks for this project are estimated to take 30 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.
Compensation:
Up to $200/hr equivalent, depending on level and pace. Tasks are estimated at ~30 hours each; you set your own schedule.
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Senior AI Interaction Evaluator (Codex / Claude Code) Contract | $50-200/hr | 10+ hrs/week | Project-based Roles open on a rolling basis - apply to join the talent bench and we’ll reach out when one matches.
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.
What We're Researching We are running a paid project focused on creating and validating complex coding tasks for AI systems. The goal is to build realistic, self-contained software engineering problems that push the boundaries of automated coding agents.