Remote contract opportunity for experienced PHP, Fortran, and Slang engineers to evaluate advanced AI systems on real-world tasks.
Silver Software Engineer
Remote (Global)
$75/task
May 12, 2026
Job description
This is a remote, project-based opportunity for software engineers with at least 1–3 years of professional experience.
Contributors will author SWE-bench-style coding tasks against real private repositories used for AI evaluation and training.
Experts on Project Silver are compensated per:
- Approved task
- Approved repository
- Referral bonuses
- Speed bonuses
Work involves tasks spanning:
- Software development
- Debugging
- Code review
- Technical implementation
- Test creation
- Repository analysis
This role offers strong compensation, exposure to real-world engineering challenges, and portfolio-building opportunities.
Why Apply
Flexible Time Commitment
Work on your own schedule while contributing to meaningful engineering challenges.
Startup Exposure
Collaborate with a YC-backed AI research company working with leading AI labs.
Exceptional Pay
Performance-based compensation structure with additional bonuses.
Portfolio Building
Gain experience solving real-world engineering problems across diverse codebases and technology stacks.
Professional Growth
Improve engineering skills through challenging development and evaluation tasks across multiple domains.
Responsibilities
- Author SWE-bench-style coding tasks
- Work with real private repositories and production-style codebases
- Create technically realistic debugging and implementation scenarios
- Read, analyze, and extend existing codebases
- Write tests and validate technical correctness
- Contribute engineering tasks used for frontier AI model evaluation
Required Qualifications
1–3 years of production software engineering experience
Comfortable:
- Writing tests
- Reading large codebases
- Working across existing software architectures
Strong software engineering fundamentals and practical coding experience
About AfterQuery
AfterQuery is a research lab exploring the boundaries of artificial intelligence through novel datasets and experimentation.
The company is backed by investors including:
- Y Combinator
- Box Group
AfterQuery supports leading AI labs through advanced AI training and evaluation initiatives.
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