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Senior Coding, ML & Security Experts - AI Benchmarking
@ Outlier
Canada
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Overview
Outlier is hiring senior coding, machine learning or cybersecurity experts to write difficult, clearly defined tasks for an AI benchmark. The work is project-based, paid per task, and runs for the next several weeks, with onboarding courses and a live webinar first. Pay is up to $1,350 per task, with higher rates possible for quality and volume.
Responsibilities:
- Identify difficult problems in your field of expertise
- Translate problems into tasks solvable in a Linux terminal
- Design challenges that expose limitations of advanced AI agents
- Test each task against three leading models with three attempts each
Requirements summary:
- At least 8 years of relevant professional experience in coding, ML or cybersecurity
- Completed master's degree or higher, or bachelor's with 10 years of experience and a publication
- At least one academic or professional publication
- Practical comfort working in a Linux terminal
- Current residence in one of the listed countries
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- 2026-11-14
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- 2026-11-14
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Experience | 8+ years |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Home |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
| Education | Master’s degree (required) |
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Outlier
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 5 |
Job description
Bring your expertise to the problems today’s most advanced AI agents still struggle to solve.
We’re looking for experienced coding, machine learning or cybersecurity professionals to develop challenging tasks for an AI benchmark. You’ll draw on problems from your own field and turn them into clearly defined challenges that an AI agent must solve from scratch in a Linux terminal.
What you’ll do
Earn up to $1,350 per task, with opportunities for higher rates based on task quality and submission volume. Tasks take six to seven hours on average, although initial tasks may take longer as you get familiar with the process.
We’re looking for experienced coding, machine learning or cybersecurity professionals to develop challenging tasks for an AI benchmark. You’ll draw on problems from your own field and turn them into clearly defined challenges that an AI agent must solve from scratch in a Linux terminal.
What you’ll do
- Identify difficult, meaningful problems in your area of expertise.
- Translate those problems into tasks that can be solved in a Linux terminal.
- Design challenges that expose limitations in advanced AI agents. Each task is tested against three leading models, with three attempts per model, and must prove difficult enough that the models mostly fail.
- At least 8 years of relevant professional experience in coding, machine learning or cybersecurity.
- A completed master’s degree or higher. Candidates with a completed bachelor’s degree, at least 10 years of relevant professional experience and a publication may also be considered.
- Applicants must have completed their degrees and must not currently be enrolled in a degree program.
- At least one academic or professional publication.
- Practical comfort working in a Linux terminal.
- Current residence in Argentina, Mexico, Puerto Rico, New Zealand, Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Peru, Colombia, Austria, Ireland, Spain, Luxembourg, Italy, France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Singapore, Denmark, Norway and Switzerland.
- Task-based project expected to run for the next weeks.
- Onboarding includes two courses and a graded assessment, taking approximately 90 minutes.
- A live onboarding webinar is also required before moving to tasking.
Earn up to $1,350 per task, with opportunities for higher rates based on task quality and submission volume. Tasks take six to seven hours on average, although initial tasks may take longer as you get familiar with the process.
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