Senior Python Engineer

Employment; Bahrain; On-site; BHD 21,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Mindrift is building a dataset to evaluate AI coding agents by creating realistic developer environments and evaluation tasks. You design prompts, define success criteria, and write tests that accommodate multiple correct approaches.

This role focuses on guiding task quality, not writing full code from scratch, with engagement-based compensation. The project requires 8+ years in software development and experience writing tests, plus the ability to craft fair, robust evaluation scenarios and

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software development.
• Experience writing tests (functional, integration).

Responsibilities

• Design tasks and evaluation criteria for AI coding agents.
• Write tests that accept multiple valid solutions.
• Iterate on tasks based on QA feedback.
• Coordinate with project team to ensure fairness.

Skills

8+ years software development

Testing experience

Job description

Industry Information Technology Enabled Services (ITES)

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:

We’re building a dataset to evaluate AI coding agents - how well a model handles real-world developer tasks.

You’ll create challenging tasks and evaluation criteria within realistic simulated environments:

• Build realistic developer environments - a virtual company with codebase, infrastructure, and context (tickets, docs, conversations) that forms a believable development history
• Design tasks from intermediate states of these environments - craft the prompt, define what \"solved\" means, and ensure the task is solvable by an AI agent
• Write tests that verify agent solutions - accept all valid approaches and reject incorrect ones, neither too strict nor too lenient
• Iterate on tasks and tests based on QA feedback - review agent solutions, analyze failures, and refine until the evaluation is fair and robust

What this is not:

• Not writing code from scratch - the agent writes most of the code; you guide and evaluate

What we look for:

• 8+ years in software development
• Experience writing tests (functional, integration)

Why this is hard:

Frontier models are already good at coding. Creating a task that genuinely challenges the best models is non-trivial. You need to deeply understand where models fail and what scenarios reveal the difference between a good and a bad solution. Tasks have many valid solutions - writing tests that accept all correct solutions and reject incorrect ones is harder than it sounds.

How it works

Tasks for this project are estimated to take 30 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.

Compensation

Compensation details are provided upon engagement. Tasks are estimated at approximately 30 hours each; you set your own schedule.