Senior Software Engineer - AI Data (USA)

Handshake·Remote (USA)·Remote·Posted 10 November 2026

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ABOUT THE ROLE Frontier AI labs are building coding agents that do real engineering work. Before these coding agents ship, Senior Engineers have to work a real problem from a codebase they know, step by step, to identify where a frontier model goes wrong then correct it. Not just anyone can do this. It takes a select group of engineers with experience and taste. Engineers who qualify join a fixed-pay contract: earn $6,000/wk for 40hrs of work ($150/hr). Work on your own schedule, paid weekly. What you'll do - Judge the AI's work. Give an agent a real ticket, then review its output like a teammate's pull request: run it, evaluate it. - Pair with the AI on your own task. Work a real problem from a codebase you know, step by step, and flag where the model goes wrong. What's in it for you - Senior-engineer pay. A weekly contract paying $6,000 for a 40-hour week. Work from anywhere, any time. - Work that lasts. This is not a two-week gig. The work is here month after month, and the 40 hours are yours every week you're on the team. - An elite, hand-picked team. You’ll have priority access to the projects frontier labs trust us with, the ones every engineer wants a…

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