Software Engineer, AI Coding Tasks

Role Description

We're looking for experienced software engineers to build AI coding tasks from a codebase they know well. US$1,000 per task, and you can do as many tasks as you want.

• You turn a real change from a repository you know into a task that today's best AI coding models struggle with: hard for the models, but fair for a skilled engineer.
• Your tasks are used to measure and train AI coding models.
• Remote, any location. US$1,000 per task that passes review. Minimum of one task a week, about 10 hours a week.

How it works

• Apply. Complete a short screener interview and upload your resume.
• Propose. Once you're selected, pick a change from a repository you know and submit a short proposal. We approve it or suggest a better candidate.
• Build. In our platform, set up the repository as it was before the change, then write the brief, the correct solution and the grading checks.
• Stress-test. Try lazy, incorrect and shortcut solutions and make sure your checks catch them.
• Model testing. Run your task against leading AI models until strong models often fail but a skilled engineer can clearly solve it.
• Review. A reviewer checks your task and you revise it. Most tasks take more than one round.
• Next task. Once your task is accepted, start another.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional software engineering.
• Code merged into a public open-source repository, ideally one you know well. A private codebase you own may also qualify (not employer or client code).
• Strong in at least one of Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java or C++.
• Solid with Docker, Linux, Git and automated testing.
• Regular use of an AI coding tool.
• Experience writing tests, rubrics or evaluation criteria, ideally for AI models.
• You can explain a change clearly and concisely, in your own words.
• At least 10 hours a week, starting now.
• A secure personal or work computer (no public or shared machines).

Requirements

• Deep expertise in one area, such as databases, compilers, distributed systems, security or infrastructure (nice to have).
• Experience building agent tasks or RL environments (nice to have).

Benefits

• US$1,000 for each task that passes our quality review, paid directly to you.
• Once your proposal is qualified, you sign Askable's contract and accept its terms.
• The work is used for AI training. The change and your solution must be your own, and you must be free to license them to us.
• Don't publish the work anywhere: no public pull request or public fork.

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