6 days ago
Remote, EMEASenior
Responsibilities
- Write original competitive-programming problems with clear statements, sound constraints, and intended solutions.
- Implement correct and deliberately wrong solutions in C++ and Python.
- Create generators, edge cases, stress tests, and hacking tests that expose incorrect solutions.
- Write checkers and interactors using testlib for problems with multiple valid answers.
- Validate that correct solutions pass and wrong solutions fail within time limits.
- Complete accepted project tasks by their deadlines.
Requirements
- Strong competitive-programming background demonstrated by a public profile, qualifying Codeforces rating, or IOI, ICPC, or national-olympiad achievement.
- Fluent contest C++ skills, including STL and complexity analysis.
- Comfort writing Python.
- Ability to explain why a solution is incorrect and construct an input that breaks it.
- Strong written English at C1+ level.
- Applicants should provide competitive-programming handles and current or peak ratings, problem-setting experience, and IOI/ICPC/olympiad history.
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement.
- Part-time project-based freelance participation rather than permanent employment.
- Estimated workload of approximately 10–20 hours per week during active project phases.
- Paid per accepted task, with rates based on qualification tier and efficiency, up to the equivalent of $90/hr.
- Opportunity to work on AI coding-model training, evaluation, and improvement projects.
