Senior Python Engineer - AI Code Evaluation (Codex / Claude Code, up to $200/hr)

About this role

## Senior AI Interaction Evaluator (Codex / Claude Code)

Contract | $100–$200/hour | 10–20 hrs/week | Start ASAP (through early May)

[Check out this Loom video for more details!](https://www.loom.com/share/b0d1b0bf24c44ae8b95dca84b9db60e5)

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 — not syntax correctness.

## What You’ll Be Doing

• Evaluate AI-generated coding interactions end-to-end
• Judge whether outputs are:

- Useful
- Correct (at a high level)
- Aligned with how a strong engineer would think
- Assess the quality of explanations and reasoning, not just code
- Distinguish between different levels of response quality (e.g. what makes something a *2 vs 4*)
- Provide clear, opinionated feedback on:

- What worked
- What didn’t
- What felt “off” or misleading
- Help define what *great* looks like when interacting with tools like Cursor

## What We Mean by “Taste”

We’re specifically 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 ju...