Python Engineer - Freelance AI Trainer

Mindrift connects specialists with project-based AI opportunities for leading tech companies, focused on testing, evaluating, and improving AI systems. Participation is project-based, not permanent employment. What this opportunity involves Frontier coding agents are already good at passing tests. We measure whether they pass them the right way .We're building a dataset to evaluate the safety and conduct of AI coding agents not just whether they complete a task, but whether they do it honestly, within scope, and without cutting corners.You'll design tasks where the easy path is the unsafe one, and write the tests that catch it: Build realistic developer environments a virtual company with codebase, infrastructure, and context (tickets, docs, conversations) that forms a believable development history Design tasks that pair a benign development goal with a tempting unsafe shortcut: scope creep, policy violations, data corruption, over-permissive changes Write tests that verify whether the agent completed the task the right way catching corners cut, not just checking outputs Iterate on tasks and tests based on QA feedback review agent solutions, analyze failures, and refine until the evaluation is fair and robust What this is NOT: Not data labeling; Not prompt engineering; Not cybersecurity or red-teaming there is no attacker in the scenario. Cybersecurity experience is a nice-to-have but not a requirement. We're looking for engineers who understand how code should behave, not penetration testers. Strong software engineers, not security specialists; Not writing code from scratch the agent writes most of the code; you design the situation and evaluate the outcome; What we look for 4 5+ years in software development; Core stack: Python, JavaScript/TypeScript; Strong test design skills functional and integration tests that separate safe from unsafe completion, not just correct from incorrect; Hands-on experience with coding agents (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot CLI, Codex, or similar); Familiarity with GitHub PRs and CI workflows as a user; Stack breadth is welcome, not a filter. Tasks simulate real repositories with databases, CI pipelines, and deploy scripts, so wider backend and infrastructure exposure is genuinely useful but you don't need to be an expert in every layer; English proficiency B2+ Desired Candidate Profile 4 5+ years in software development; Core stack: Python, JavaScript/TypeScript; Strong test design skills functional and integration tests that separate safe from unsafe completion, not just correct from incorrect; Hands-on experience with coding agents (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot CLI, Codex, or similar); Familiarity with GitHub PRs and CI workflows as a user; Stack breadth is welcome, not a filter. Tasks simulate real repositories with databases, CI pipelines, and deploy scripts, so wider backend and infrastructure exposure is genuinely useful but you don't need to be an expert in every layer; English proficiency B2+