Software Engineer - Benchmark Auditor

Job Description

Job Description

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark , General Catalyst , Peter Thiel , Adam D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey .

Position: SWE-Bench Task Auditor
Type: Contract
Compensation: $70–$90/hour
Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Evaluate the quality, correctness, and reproducibility of software-engineering benchmark tasks .
• Assess repository-level tasks, reference patches, test harnesses, and grading integrity.
• Provide clear, rubric-based written feedback to improve AI model training .
• Audit reference patches, test runners, and Docker isolation to detect answer leakage and reward hacking.
• Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines and enhance AI model performance .

Qualifications

Must-Have

• 3+ years professional software engineering experience.
• Real open-source contribution or maintainer experience (merged PRs, committer/maintainer roles).
• Strong ability to audit reference patches, test runners, and Docker isolation.
• Fluency across common ecosystems ( Python and at least one of Java / Go / TypeScript / C++).

Preferred

• Familiarity with SWE-Bench (Verified) or similar repository benchmarks.
• Maintainer history on major Python OSS ( Django , Flask , scikit-learn , sympy , pytest , etc.).
• Prior code-review or task-grading experience.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form

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