AI Evaluation Engineer (Python, QA or Security)

Mindrift; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 55,000 - 69,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible schedule

Remote-friendly

Job summary

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.

We are building a dataset to evaluate AI coding agents and you will design tasks, write tests, and iterate on evaluation criteria in realistic simulated environments. Compensation is up to $50/hr and you set your own schedule.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software development.
• Proficient with Python (FastAPI) and React.
• Experience with Docker, Postgres, Kafka and Redis.
• Experience writing functional and integration tests.
• English proficiency at B2+.

Responsibilities

• Create challenging tasks and evaluation criteria within simulated environments.
• Build realistic developer environments: codebases, infra, tickets and docs.
• Write tests that verify agent solutions and accept all valid approaches.
• Iterate on tasks and tests based on QA feedback to ensure fairness.

Skills

Software development

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

Docker

Postgres

Kafka

Redis

Testing

English proficiency

Job 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

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

• 5+ 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.

Compensation

Up to $50/hr equivalent, depending on level and pace. Tasks are estimated at ~20 hours each; you set your own schedule.