Software Engineer - Technical Advisor

About the role

HireArt is helping our client find exceptional Software Engineer - Technical Advisors who want to spend a focused period doing something most engineers never get to do: find out exactly where frontier models break on real engineering work. You will take on hard problems across production-grade codebases, then work out precisely where and why model-generated solutions fall short. You will also build the hard problems those models are tested on. Your judgment about what separates good engineering from plausible engineering is the entire point of the role.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate how coding agents behave over an entire coding session—what it investigates, verifies, assumes, and leaves undone.
• Identify where model-generated code fails across real, production-grade codebases and articulate precisely why.
• Work directly with researchers on problems they are actively investigating.

Requirements

• Deep, demonstrated expertise as a software engineer, including extensive code review.
• Technical judgment and ability to write code that other strong engineers learn from.
• Comfort with dropping into unfamiliar codebases and languages.
• An interest in why a solution is right (versus just shipping it quickly) and the ability to explain your reasoning.
• Comfortable with containers and reproducing results locally.
• Desire to spend a focused period on this work rather than committing to a permanent role.

Schedule

This is a part-time, 6-month contract position. The role is remote and available to U.S.-based candidates.

Pay

Expected compensation: 150.00 USD per hour.