Senior AI Coding Agent Evaluator (Contract)

About the Role

We are seeking highly experienced Senior, Staff, or Principal-level engineers (or equivalent experience) to 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. Instead, you’ll assess whether these AI models exhibit the thinking patterns of a strong 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 (e.g., what makes something a 2 vs a 4)

• Provide clear, opinionated feedback in writing on what worked, what didn’t, and what felt off or misleading

• Help define what great engineering looks like when working with tools like Cursor, Codex, and Claude Code.

What We Mean by “Taste”

You’ll need to 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 development 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.

• 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