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About the Role
This is a full-time W-2 opportunity with Cincinnatus LLC. As part of this role, you may be staffed as a contractor with a leading technology company. Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge GenAI team to be at the core of the AI revolution, where your expertise fuels the development of the most advanced AI models.
What You'll Do
Design tasks: Create realistic, multi-step software engineering challenges - the kind of work you'd actually do on the job - that push the limits of today's best AI coding agents.
Build reference solutions: Solve your own tasks in Python, with the setup and checks needed so each task has a clear, verifiable answer.
Work with AI tools: Use AI coding assistants as part of your everyday workflow, and observe where they help and where they fall short.
Review and refine: Look over tasks built by fellow experts and share feedback on clarity, correctness, and difficulty.
Independent contractor engagement, fully remote. Mercor pays weekly via Stripe or Wise.
Common Questions
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$60-$90/h - Independent contractor engagement, fully remote. Mercor pays weekly via Stripe or Wise.
Design tasks: Create realistic, multi-step software engineering challenges - the kind of work you'd actually do on the job - that push the limits of today's best AI coding agents. Build reference solutions: Solve your own tasks in Python, with the setup and checks needed so each task has a clear, verifiable answer. Work with AI tools: Use AI coding assistants as part of your everyday workflow, and observe where they help and where they fall short.
