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South Asian Software Engineers: Coding Tasks for AI Evaluation

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Professional software engineer based in South Asia
  • Experience building or reviewing realistic programming tasks
  • Familiarity with coding evaluation harnesses or test automation
  • Comfortable discussing technical workflows in an interview setting

Responsibilities

  • Review proposed coding tasks and programming environments for realism
  • Provide technical feedback on the structure and difficulty of evaluation harnesses
  • Walk us through your approach to verifying complex code challenges
  • Suggest improvements to make the test suites more robust

Key facts

Hard skills

About the company

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Terac

  • Market Research
  • 11–50
Terac is an AI‑native research platform that sources participants, conducts human‑like interviews at scale, analyzes results, and pays out participants - delivering actionable insights in hours, not weeks. Product teams use Terac to run voice, video, and text interviews, concept and usability tests, and to build a living research repository they can query anytime. Our in‑house participant panel, quality controls, and self‑serve workflow mean faster cycles, higher‑quality participants, and insights that move the roadmap now, not next quarter.

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Job description

What We're Researching

We're running a paid study on the effectiveness of coding evaluation harnesses used to test AI agents. Our team is building a comprehensive suite of programming environments designed to measure agent performance accurately. This work ensures that AI coding assistants are evaluated against realistic, high-quality development scenarios.

How It Works

You will walk through a series of proposed coding tasks and environments during an AI-moderated session. We will ask you to review the structure, difficulty, and realism of these programming challenges. You will provide technical feedback on the evaluation harnesses and suggest improvements to the test suites. The conversation will focus on ensuring these tasks accurately reflect real-world engineering requirements.

Who This Is For

We are hiring experienced software engineers based in South Asia who have a strong background in building and reviewing complex codebases. We welcome backend developers, test automation engineers, and full-stack engineers who understand evaluation harnesses. Ideal candidates have hands-on experience verifying realistic programming tasks in professional environments.

What You'll Do

  • Review proposed coding tasks and programming environments for realism

  • Provide technical feedback on the structure and difficulty of evaluation harnesses

  • Walk us through your approach to verifying complex code challenges

  • Suggest improvements to make the test suites more robust

Who Should Apply

  • Professional software engineer based in South Asia

  • Experience building or reviewing realistic programming tasks

  • Familiarity with coding evaluation harnesses or test automation

  • Comfortable discussing technical workflows in an interview setting

Compensation

$35 per hour

 

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About Terac

Terac is building the world's largest pool of vetted human experts for AI. Researchers, AI labs, and product teams use Terac to recruit, screen, and pay study participants across industries, languages, and skill sets.

 

Learn more at terac.com or on YouTube at @jointerac.

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