Member of Technical Staff – Coding Research | Remote
Crossing Hurdles · United States · 6 days ago
RemoteRemoteEngineering$220k–$500k/yrContract
Role Responsibilities
- Design and own evaluation frameworks for coding agents, including benchmark specifications, scoring methodologies, rubrics, and quality standards.
- Lead end-to-end research initiatives focused on measuring and improving coding model performance across diverse software engineering tasks.
- Develop high-quality datasets, golden examples, and evaluation protocols that enable reliable assessment of frontier coding systems.
- Analyze model behavior and failure modes, identifying systematic weaknesses and translating findings into actionable improvements for training and evaluation.
- Build tooling and infrastructure that support large-scale experimentation, data generation, review workflows, and evaluation pipelines.
- Establish best practices for coding-agent assessment, ensuring methodological rigor, reproducibility, and measurement quality.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering background with expertise in Python, C++, or comparable programming languages.
- Strong relevant experience in software engineering, machine learning, AI research, evaluation, or related technical disciplines.
- Experience designing, reviewing, or validating technical assessments, benchmarks, coding tasks, or evaluation methodologies.
- Familiarity with large language models, coding agents, reinforcement learning, model evaluation, or related AI systems.
- Proven ability to build tooling, automate workflows, and improve technical processes through systematic experimentation.