About the role
Opportunity Overview
Handshake is looking for experienced senior software engineers to support AI research for a 1 week contract (40 hrs) with potential for extension. This is not a traditional job — you'll draw on your hands-on experience building and reasoning about production systems and software architecture to evaluate AI-generated content and provide feedback that helps AI reason like a practicing software engineer.
What You'll Do
- Use your domain expertise to create expert-level software engineering problems and scenarios grounded in real system design, architecture, and implementation work
- Review and evaluate AI-generated responses for technical accuracy, practical feasibility, and alignment with how the work is actually done
- Provide structured written feedback to help improve AI model performance
- Complete tasks at your own pace with no set schedule or minimum hour requirement
Qualifications
Ideal candidates meet all three of the following:
- Industry/research experience — 3+ years of professional, direct hands-on work as a software engineer
- Degree — Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
- Sub-domain depth — demonstrated expertise in one of the following areas:
- Backend systems and distributed architecture
- Infrastructure, cloud platforms, and DevOps
- Systems programming and performance engineering
Additional qualifications (not required, but strengthen your application)
- Experience at a recognized, top-tier tech company
Required for all applicants
- Must have US work authorization
- Strong written communication and attention to detail
- Ability to explain complex software engineering concepts clearly
- Ability to work independently in a remote, asynchronous environment
Selection Process
Our interview process has three stages:
- CodeSignal assessment: Take a coding assessment to show us your engineering skills.
- Complete a sample task: If you pass the assessment, you’ll try out the real project.
- Join the project: Candidates who pass the sample task are placed on the project.
As an incentive, you’ll get compensated for each step that you pass.
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