We are looking for AI Trainer (SWE) candidates for a project delivered through the hiring partner.
What you'll do
- Create challenging technical tasks.
- Evaluate model-generated code.
- Identify failures.
- Establish objective standards for correct solutions.
- Create realistic software engineering tasks that challenge advanced AI models.
- Develop task instructions, reproducible environments, reference solutions, tests, and evaluation criteria.
- Evaluate model-generated code and technical deliverables for correctness, robustness, and completeness.
- Identify issues involving implementation, debugging, dependencies, performance, testing, or reproducibility.
What you need
- Prior paid experience training, evaluating, benchmarking, or improving AI systems.
- Strong practical proficiency with Python.
- Professional experience with at least one additional programming language, such as Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Rust, C++, C#, or Go.
- Strong knowledge of software design, debugging, testing, version control, and dependency management.
- Provide evidence such as substantial GitHub or GitLab repositories, meaningful open-source contributions, maintainer or core-contributor responsibilities, Codeforces, ICPC, Olympiad, or other programming-competition results, public developer tools, libraries, systems, or technical projects, or technical publications, benchmarks, or engineering write-ups.
Nice to have
- Experience creating AI-training tasks, reference solutions, tests, graders, or benchmark problems.
- Experience reviewing other AI trainers’ technical submissions.
- Codeforces rating of approximately 1900 or higher, or strong results in another programming competition.
- Experience with Linux, Docker, CI/CD, command-line tools, or sandboxed environments.
- Prior experience with long-horizon or agentic coding evaluations.
- Availability to begin immediately.
Expertise
Who you work with
Project and contracting process: the hiring partner. Applications continue on the provider's website.
Pay and hours
This role pays $60–$120/hr, for 15 h/week. The work is remote. That is about 13% above the $80 an hour median for software roles open now.
Who can apply from where
The provider lists this role as open worldwide. With a profile, Tier1 checks your country and languages against this role and every other before you apply.

