AI Trainer (SWE) - Remote

AI TRAINER (SWE) - REMOTE

Location: Global, Fully Remote
Employment Type: Contractor
Time Commitment: 15+ hours per week
Schedule: Flexible
Compensation: $60–$120/hour equivalent, paid per accepted task

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are seeking Software Engineers with prior professional AI-training or model-evaluation experience to support a project focused on improving advanced AI systems.

You will apply your software engineering expertise to create challenging technical tasks, evaluate model-generated code, identify failures, and establish objective standards for correct solutions. This role is intended for candidates with substantive hands-on AI-training experience.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Create realistic software engineering tasks that challenge advanced AI models.

• Develop task instructions, reproducible environments, reference solutions, tests, and evaluation criteria.

• Evaluate model-generated code and technical deliverables for correctness, robustness, and completeness.

• Identify issues involving implementation, debugging, dependencies, performance, testing, and reproducibility.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Prior paid experience training, evaluating, benchmarking, or improving AI systems.

• Strong practical proficiency in Python.

• Professional experience with at least one additional programming language, such as Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Rust, C++, C#, or Go.

• Strong knowledge of software design, debugging, testing, version control, and dependency management.

PUBLIC PROOF OF SKILL

Applicants should provide verifiable evidence of their expertise, such as:

• Substantial GitHub or GitLab repositories.

• Meaningful open-source contributions.

• Maintainer or core-contributor responsibilities.

• Codeforces, ICPC, Olympiad, or other programming competition results.

• Public developer tools, libraries, systems, or technical projects.

• Technical publications, benchmarks, or engineering write-ups.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience creating AI-training tasks, reference solutions, tests, graders, or benchmark problems.

• Experience reviewing technical submissions from other AI trainers.

• Codeforces rating of approximately 1900 or higher, or strong results in another programming competition.

• Experience with Linux, Docker, CI/CD, command-line tools, or sandboxed environments.

• Experience with long-horizon or agentic coding evaluations.

• Availability to begin immediately.

APPLICATION PROCESS

1. Submit your application, AI-training experience, and public technical evidence.

2. Complete an AI interview covering technical and integrity checks.

3. Undergo a hiring-manager review.

4. Complete project onboarding and begin your first assigned task if selected.

COMPENSATION AND WORK ARRANGEMENT

Compensation is output-based, with an estimated equivalent of $60–$120 per hour. Payment is made for tasks that meet project specifications and quality requirements. Task availability and completion time may vary.

This is a global, fully remote contractor opportunity with a flexible schedule and a minimum commitment of 15 hours per week.