Competitive Programming Expert Trainer
A technology company connects specialists with project-based AI opportunities for leading tech companies, focused on testing, evaluating, and improving AI systems. Participation is project-based. We are building competitive-programming problems and their automatic graders (test cases + checkers) used to train advanced AI coding models. You'll create problems, write both correct and deliberately-wrong solutions, and design the tough test cases that catch subtly-broken code.
Your work is what makes the training signal trustworthy.
What you will do.
- Write original algorithmic problems — clear statement, sound constraints, an intended solution
- Write correct solutions in C++ and Python
- Write realistic wrong solutions (common mistakes) to test against
- Build and harden test cases: generators, edge cases, stress and "hacking" tests
- Write checkers/interactors (testlib) for problems with more than one valid answer
- Confirm the quality bar: correct solutions pass, wrong ones fail, within time limits
What they ask
- Strong competitive programming background, shown by a public profile — a Codeforces rating OR an IOI / ICPC / national-olympiad record
- Fluent contest C++ (STL, complexity); comfortable writing Python
- Can explain why a solution is wrong and build an input that breaks it
- Strong written English (C1+)
Profile
- Associate — 1700–2100 (Expert / Candidate Master): easier problems
- Expert — 2200–2600 (Master / Grandmaster): harder problems
- Senior / Reviewer — 2600+ (Int'l Grandmaster) or IOI/ICPC medalist: hardest problems + quality review
Nice to have.
- IOI / ICPC alumni and top competitive programmers especially encouraged to apply
- Experience setting or testing problems for real contests (Codeforces rounds, ICPC, national olympiads, online judges)
- Testlib experience (checkers, validators, generators)
- Experience creating data for LLM code benchmarks or similar RL / evaluation datasets
Practical
- Participation is project-based.
- Tasks must be submitted by the deadline and meet the listed acceptance criteria to be accepted.
- Paid per accepted task. Your rate depends on the qualification tier you reach and how efficiently you complete tasks — up to the equivalent of $90/hr.
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