Security Software Engineer - Python & AI Evaluation
Quick facts
- Pay
- $75–90 / hour
- Type
- Contract
- Location
- Remote
- Hours
- 20+ hours / week
- Skills
- Python
- Platform
- BrainTrust — 146 open jobs
- Typical pay at BrainTrust
- $13–100/hour · median $30 (100 jobs on our site)
- Apply
- Free to apply — never pay to get AI training work
- Rate: $75 – $90/hr
- Hours: 20 hours / week
- Experience: 5 - 10 years
- Location: United States | Canada + 21 more
Help a top AI lab evaluate and improve large language models through security-focused coding tasks. Bring your software-engineering judgment and hands-on security experience to work involving vulnerabilities, exploit verification and security patches.
This is a contracting engagement, with potential for a longer-term engagement. Remote candidates in the selected countries are elegible.
What you will do
- Evaluate coding tasks involving software vulnerabilities, exploit verification and security patches.
- Create high-quality coding prompts and reference answers for benchmark-style problems.
- Evaluate model outputs for code generation, refactoring, debugging and implementation.
- Identify and document model failures, edge cases and reasoning gaps.
- Compare private language models with leading external models.
- Build or configure coding environments for evaluation and reinforcement learning.
- Follow detailed annotation and evaluation guidelines consistently.
What you bring
- At least five years of professional software-development experience and strong Python skills.
- Hands-on experience with vulnerability research, exploit reproduction or verification, or implementing, backporting or validating security patches.
- The ability to apply structured evaluation criteria and write clear technical feedback.
- Fluency in written and spoken English.
Helpful, not required
- Professional code review, coding annotation, LLM/code evaluation or benchmark design.
- Knowledge of another programming language.
- Team leadership or mentoring experience.
Company: Leading AI Lab
About BrainTrust
Braintrust is a talent network that matches freelancers and professionals with companies, including AI labs that need experts for training and evaluation work. Its AI recruiter handles screening.