SWE-Bench Task Auditor
Remote — United StatesRemotehourlyPosted August 28, 2026
$70–$90/hr
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Evaluate the quality, correctness, and reproducibility of software-engineering benchmark tasks used to train and evaluate a frontier AI lab's models. You'll assess repository-level tasks, reference patches, test harnesses, and grading integrity — and provide clear, rubric-based written feedback.
Basic Qualifications
- 3+ years professional software engineering
- Real open-source contribution or maintainer experience (merged PRs, committer / maintainer roles)
- Strong ability to audit reference patches, test runners, and Docker isolation, and to detect answer leakage / reward hacking
- Fluency across common ecosystems (Python and at least one of Java / Go / TypeScript / C++)
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with SWE-Bench (Verified) or similar repository benchmarks
- Maintainer history on major Python OSS (Django, Flask, scikit-learn, sympy, pytest, etc.)
- Prior code-review or task-grading experience