Senior Python Engineer

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Job summary

Mindrift seeks a seasoned software developer to help build a dataset for evaluating AI coding agents. You will craft realistic developer environments, formulate tasks from evolving codebases, and define rigorous, fair tests for agent solutions.

Required are 8+ years in software development and strong skills in Python (FastAPI), React/TypeScript, Docker, Postgres, Kafka, and Redis, plus experience writing tests and strong English proficiency (B2+).

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development experience.
• Proficiency with Python (FastAPI), JavaScript/TypeScript (React), Docker, Postgres, Kafka and Redis.
• Experience writing functional and integration tests and English proficiency (B2+).

Responsibilities

• Create realistic developer environments and a believable development history for AI evaluation tasks.
• Design tasks from intermediate states, define success criteria, and ensure solvability by AI agents.
• Write tests that verify agent solutions, accepting all valid approaches and rejecting incorrect ones.
• Iterate on tasks and tests based on QA feedback to keep evaluations fair and robust.

Skills

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

Docker

Postgres

Kafka

Redis

Testing

Tools

FastAPI

React

Docker

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Redis

Job description

Opportunity overview

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 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, Postgres, 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.

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.