[Hiring] Freelance AI Evaluation Engineer @Mindrift

Role Description

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:

• Create challenging coding test cases that push AI coding systems to their limits.
• Review and refine realistic coding tasks based on provided production codebases with realistic scope, requirements, and information sources.
• Write comprehensive functional tests that validate actual end-to-end behavior and edge-cases, not just superficial checks.
• Craft “fair but hard” challenges where the AI has all the context it needs, but has to work for it (information scattered across files and external sources, complex reasoning required).
• Analyze AI failures to understand what the model struggles with vs. what it masters.
• Iterate based on feedback from expert QA reviewers who score your work on 7 quality criteria.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related fields.
• 5+ years in software development, primarily Python (pytest, async/await, subprocess, file operations).
• Background in Full-Stack development, with an equal focus on building React-based interfaces and robust Back-end systems.
• Experience writing tests (functional, integration – not just running them).
• Docker containers (running evaluations locally in containers).
• CI/CD understanding (GitHub Actions as a user: triggers, labels, reading results).
• English proficiency - B2.

Requirements

• This opportunity is a good fit for experienced developers, software engineers, and/or test automation specialists open to part-time, non-permanent projects.

Benefits

• On this project, contributors can earn up to $50 per hour equivalent, depending on their level and pace of contribution.
• Compensation varies across projects depending on scope, complexity, and required expertise.
• Please note that other projects on the platform may offer different earning levels based on their requirements.

How it works

• Apply → Pass qualification(s) → Join a project → Complete tasks → Get paid.

Effort estimate

• Tasks for this project are estimated to take 20 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.