Task Development Engineer

METR

Remote regions

Global

Salary range

$150–$300/hr

Benefits

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Primary Responsibilities:

  • Develop difficult, novel tasks for models, ensuring they remain challenging as time horizons expand.
  • Perform quality assurance on existing tasks, verifying solvability and proper information provision.
  • Baseline and score tasks to support evaluation methodology and improve processes.

Skills and Experience:

  • Several years of software engineering experience with complex projects and codebases.
  • Experience building challenging AI evaluations, ideally agent-based, using frameworks like Inspect.
  • High attention to detail for spotting misspecifications and ensuring precision.

Work Details:

  • Remote worldwide with flexible 20-40 hours per week and at least 1 hour overlap with Pacific Coast Time.
  • Contract/freelance employment with compensation of $150-300/hour, top range for exceptional candidates.

METR

METR is a nonprofit research organization developing scientific methods to assess AI capabilities, risks, and mitigations, focusing on catastrophic AI risk evaluations. It is a mission-driven, tight-knit team with a low-ego, collaborative culture committed to high-quality, trustworthy science.

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