Remote Software Engineer - Technical Advisor (Frontier ML)

Benner Solutions; United States; Remote; USD 124,000 - 207,000; Full time

Job summary

Benner Solutions is seeking a Software Engineer - Technical Advisor for a remote, six-month engagement in the United States. You will tackle hard problems in production-grade codebases and help define strong engineering standards.

The role centers on evaluating model-generated solutions, identifying failure modes, and collaborating with researchers to push the envelope of frontier-model testing. The ideal candidate brings deep production engineering experience, strong Python and TypeScript

Qualifications

• 8+ years of production engineering experience preferred.
• Backgrounds including Senior, Staff, or Principal Software Engineers, Tech Leads, or Open-Source Maintainers.
• Experience working in production codebases with a strict code review culture (startups, big tech, or open source are all acceptable).
• Polyglot adaptability: Heavy experience with Python and TypeScript is common, but must be comfortable dropping into unfamiliar languages weekly.
• Core Tooling: Demonstrated comfort using Docker, git, and the Command Line Interface (CLI) to reproduce, isolate, and debug results locally.
• Cross-Layer Fluency: Comfort working across backend, frontend, APIs, data, testing, or developer tooling.
• Strong written communication skills - able to articulate why code fails, not just how to fix it quickly.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate how coding agents behave over an entire coding session-what it investigates, verifies, assumes, and leaves undone.
• Identify where model-generated code fails across real, production-grade codebases and articulate precisely why.
• Work directly with researchers on problems they are actively investigating.
• Solve difficult engineering problems across real, production-grade codebases Identify where model-generated code fails, and articulate precisely why Work directly with the company's researchers on problems they are actively investigating.
• Hold a technical bar that others build on.

Skills

Production engineering

CI/CD

Python

TypeScript

Docker

Git

CLI

Code review

Tools

Docker

Git

CLI

Job description

Benner Solutions is seeking a Software Engineer - Technical Advisor for a remote, six-month engagement in the United States. You will tackle hard problems in production-grade codebases and help define strong engineering standards.

The role centers on evaluating model-generated solutions, identifying failure modes, and collaborating with researchers to push the envelope of frontier-model testing. The ideal candidate brings deep production engineering experience, strong Python and TypeScript