SWE Task Evaluator - Fully Remote | Upto $90/hr at mercor

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About the job Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark , General Catalyst , Peter Thiel , Adam D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey . Position: SWE-Bench Task Auditor Type: Contract Compensation: $70–$90/hour Location: Remote Role
Evaluate the quality, correctness, and reproducibility of software-engineering benchmark tasks .
Assess repository-level tasks, reference patches, test harnesses, and grading integrity.
Provide clear, rubric-based written feedback to improve AI model training .
Audit reference patches, test runners, and Docker isolation to detect answer leakage and reward hacking.
Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines and enhance AI model performance .
Qualifications Must-Have
3+ years professional software engineering experience.
Real open-source contribution or maintainer experience (merged PRs, committer/maintainer roles).
Strong ability to audit reference patches, test runners, and Docker isolation.
Fluency across common ecosystems ( Python and at least one of Java / Go / TypeScript / C++ ).
Preferred
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.
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