Senior Python Engineer - AI Coding Agent Evaluation (Freelance)

Mindrift; India; On-site; INR 7,955,341 - 13,258,902; Full time

Job summary

Mindrift is seeking contributors to create realistic developer environments and evaluation tasks for AI coding agents. You will craft scenarios, define what constitutes a solved task, and write tests that validate multiple correct approaches while filtering incorrect ones.

The role emphasizes deep problem understanding, robust test design, and iterative refinement based on QA feedback to ensure fair and robust evaluation. English proficiency at B2+ is required.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software development and proficiency in English (B2+).
• Core stack: Python (FastAPI), JavaScript/TypeScript (React), Docker, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis.
• Experience writing functional and integration tests.
• Strong ability to design tasks and evaluation criteria for AI agents.

Responsibilities

• Build realistic developer environments with codebase, infra, tickets, and docs.
• Design tasks from intermediate states that are solvable by AI agents.
• Write tests that accept all valid solutions and reject incorrect ones.
• Iterate on tasks and tests based on QA feedback to ensure fairness.

Skills

8+ years in software development

English proficiency (B2+)

Tools

Python (FastAPI)

JavaScript/TypeScript (React)

Docker

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Redis

Job description

Please submit your CV in English and indicate your level of English proficiency.

What this opportunity involves

We are 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 data labeling.
• Not prompt engineering.
• 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.
• Core stack: Python (FastAPI), JavaScript/TypeScript (React), Docker, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis.
• Experience writing tests (functional, integration).
• English proficiency - B2+.

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

Apply -> Pass qualification(s) -> Join a project -> Complete tasks -> Get paid

Effort estimate

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

Up to $100/hr equivalent, depending on level and pace. Tasks are estimated at ~30 hours each; you set your own schedule.