About the role
Contract | Remote, worldwide | $100-$200/hour depending on experience and location | 10-20 hrs/week
Please note that eligibility may vary depending on your location, as some regions may not be supported by the client.
Check out this Loom video for more details:
We're looking for highly experienced software engineer (SR+) to help evaluate the quality of interactions with modern coding agents such as OpenAI Codex and Claude Code.
This is not a traditional engineering role. You won't be writing production code. You'll be evaluating something harder: whether the model thinks like a great engineer.
What this role actually is
You will assess how AI coding agents behave in real-world scenarios, focusing on:
• Whether the response makes sense
* Whether the preamble and reasoning are useful * Whether the output reflects strong engineering judgment * Whether the interaction feels right to an experienced developer
This role is about engineering taste. Syntax correctness is the easy part.
What you'll be doing
* Evaluate AI-generated coding interactions end to end * Judge whether outputs are useful, correct at a high level, and aligned with how a strong engineer would think * Assess the quality of explanations and reasoning, not just the code * Distinguish between levels of response quality (what makes something a 2 vs a 4) * Give clear, opinionated feedback in writing on what worked, what didn't, and what felt off or misleading * Help define what great looks like when working with tools like Cursor, Codex and Claude Code
What we mean by "taste"
We're looking for engineers who can answer questions like:
* Does this feel like something a strong engineer would actually say? * Is this explanation helpful, or just technically correct? * Is the model guiding the user well, or just dumping output? * Would this interaction build or erode trust?
You should be comfortable making subjective but rigorous judgments, and explaining them clearly.
Who you are
* Senior, Staff or Principal-level engineer (or equivalent experience) * Strong background in TypeScript/JavaScript or Python * Hands-on experience with at least one of OpenAI Codex, Claude Code or Cursor * Deep familiarity with modern AI-assisted dev workflows * Able to evaluate code without executing it or reviewing every line * Strong written and spoken English (B2 or above). You'll be writing detailed feedback and recording short video explanations, so this is a hard requirement * Comfortable giving direct, opinionated feedback * High bar for what good engineering looks like
Nice to have
* Prior exposure to prompt design or evaluation workflows * Experience mentoring senior engineers or defining engineering standards
Engagement details
* Rate: $100-$200/hour depending on experience and location
• Hours: 10-20 hours/week, flexible
* Duration: ongoing. Projects run from about two weeks to a few months each, and we offer new ones to evaluators who do well * Start: as soon as you clear the take-home and a project has an open seat * Process: one take-home evaluation exercise with a recorded Loom walkthrough. No interview
Originally posted on Himalayas