Senior Software Engineer, (OpenAI Codex, Claude Code or Cursor)✦ anywhere

Contract | Remote, worldwide | $100-$200/hour depending on experience and location | 10-20 hrs/week

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