Elite CP Problem Setter & Tester

Dorado; United States; Remote; USD 82,656,000 - 123,984,000; Full time

Job summary

Mindrift connects specialists with project-based AI opportunities for leading tech companies, focusing on testing, evaluating, and improving AI systems. Participation is project-based, not permanent employment.

We are building competitive-programming problems and their graders, writing correct and wrong solutions, and crafting test cases that catch subtly-broken code. You will design checkers for multi-solution problems and ensure high-quality training signals.

Qualifications

• Strong competitive programming background with public profile or IOI/ICPC achievement.
• Fluent contest C++ (STL) and comfortable Python.
• Ability to explain why a solution is wrong and craft inputs that break it.
• Strong written English (C1+).

Responsibilities

• Write original algorithmic problems with clear statements and sound constraints.
• Write correct solutions in C++ and Python.
• Create realistic wrong solutions to test against.
• Build and harden test cases including edge, stress and hacking tests.
• Write checkers/interactors (testlib) for multi-solution problems.
• Ensure the quality bar: correct solutions pass and wrong ones fail within time limits.

Skills

Competitive programming

C++ (STL)

Python

Public profile (Codeforces/IOI/ICPC)

English proficiency (C1+)

Tools

Testlib

Job description

Mindrift connects specialists with project-based AI opportunities for leading tech companies, focusing on testing, evaluating, and improving AI systems. Participation is project-based, not permanent employment.

We are building competitive-programming problems and their graders, writing correct and wrong solutions, and crafting test cases that catch subtly-broken code. You will design checkers for multi-solution problems and ensure high-quality training signals.