AI Evaluation Engineer — Create Realistic Dev Environments

Mindrift; Michigan; On-site; USD 41,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

Mindrift connects specialists with project-based AI opportunities for leading tech companies, focusing on testing, evaluating, and improving AI systems. This role involves creating realistic developer environments and designing tasks to evaluate AI coding agents, with emphasis on robust, flexible testing methods.

We are looking for someone with 5+ years in software development and a core stack including Python (FastAPI), JavaScript/TypeScript (React), Docker, Postgres, Kafka, and Redis, plus

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software development.
• Core stack: Python (FastAPI), JavaScript/TypeScript (React), Docker, Postgres, Kafka, Redis.
• Experience writing tests (functional, integration).
• English proficiency - B2+.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

Docker

Postgres

Kafka

Redis

Testing

English (B2+)

Job description

Mindrift connects specialists with project-based AI opportunities for leading tech companies, focusing on testing, evaluating, and improving AI systems. This role involves creating realistic developer environments and designing tasks to evaluate AI coding agents, with emphasis on robust, flexible testing methods.

We are looking for someone with 5+ years in software development and a core stack including Python (FastAPI), JavaScript/TypeScript (React), Docker, Postgres, Kafka, and Redis, plus