South Asian Software Engineers: Coding Tasks for AI Evaluation
We're running a paid study on the effectiveness of coding evaluation harnesses used to test AI agents.
Hiring companyTerac
About the role
Our team is building a comprehensive suite of programming environments designed to measure agent performance accurately. This work ensures that AI coding assistants are evaluated against realistic, high-quality development scenarios.
You will walk through a series of proposed coding tasks and environments during an AI-moderated session. We will ask you to review the structure, difficulty, and realism of these programming challenges. You will provide technical feedback on the evaluation harnesses and suggest improvements to the test suites. The conversation will focus on ensuring these tasks accurately reflect real-world engineering requirements.
- You will be engaged as an independent contractor.
- Opportunities can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance.
- Your participation will not involve access to confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, or institution.
They will answer questions about their experience authoring coding tasks and evaluating AI agents.
Responsibilities
- Review proposed coding tasks and programming environments for realism.
- Provide technical feedback on the structure and difficulty of evaluation harnesses.
- Walk us through your approach to verifying complex code challenges.
- Suggest improvements to make the test suites more robust.
Experience and education
We are hiring experienced software engineers based in South Asia who have a strong background in building and reviewing complex codebases. We welcome backend developers, test automation engineers, and full-stack engineers who understand evaluation harnesses. Ideal candidates have hands-on experience verifying realistic programming tasks in professional environments.
- Professional software engineer based in South Asia.
- Experience building or reviewing realistic programming tasks.
- Familiarity with coding evaluation harnesses or test automation.
- Comfortable discussing technical workflows in an interview setting.
- Currently working as a Software Engineer (backend, full-stack, or frontend), ML / AI Engineer, or authoring coding tasks and environments for AI training/evaluation.
- Has more than 5 years of paid, full-time-equivalent experience writing production software.
- Has personally authored coding tasks with issue descriptions and test suites for AI training or evaluation.
Language requirements
- Must be 18+ years old and fluent in English.
Assessment requirements
You'll start with a short screening interview.
Schedule details
This is a fully remote opportunity that can be completed on your own schedule.
Can commit to 10 or more hours per week of work starting next week.
Eligibility
Work arrangement: Fully remote
Applicant eligibility: 5 eligible countries
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Eligible countries: India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, Philippines
- We are unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time.
- Located in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, or the Philippines.
Compensation details
$40 per hour.
- Payments are processed weekly based on services rendered.
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