Mercor
SWE-Bench Task Auditor
- Pay
- $70–90/hr
- Type
- Hourly
- Location
- Remote
- Who can apply
- USA only
- Posted
- Aug 28, 2026
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About this role
Evaluate the quality, correctness, and reproducibility of software-engineering benchmark tasks used to train and evaluate a frontier AI lab's models. You'll assess repository-level tasks, reference patches, test harnesses, and grading integrity — and provide clear, rubric-based written feedback. Basic Qualifications 3+ years professional software engineering Real open-source contribution or maintainer experience (merged PRs, committer / maintainer roles) Strong ability to audit reference patches, test runners, and Docker isolation, and to detect answer leakage / reward hacking Fluency across common ecosystems (Python and at least one of Java / Go / TypeScript / C++) Preferred Qualifications 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…
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