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Office hours, session 1
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Join and ask the team anything about the application, your task or your onboarding.
The Senior SWE application
One task between you and a fixed weekly contract.
Senior Software Engineer: AI Data
One task between you and a fixed weekly contract
Frontier AI labs are racing to build coding agents that can do real engineering work on their own. Before those agents launch, an expert has to test them on real codebases, catch them when they bluff, and tell the labs what broke and why.
- Fully remote
- Work from anywhere, any time
- 40 guaranteed hours a week
Seats on the team
15/ 500
15 contracts signed485 seats open
One fully approved task is the only way in. Live from the contract tracker.
What the contract is worth to you
What your offer adds up to
Your offer states a fixed weekly amount. Type it in.
$
50
—Per week
—Per month
—Per year
Hourly equivalent at 40 h: —
Hours above 40 are paid at the hourly equivalent only with written pre-approval from your program lead.
The path, in three phases
- 1 / 14
Accept your invitation
Open the project from your dashboard and accept. Your onboarding checklist appears.
Same day - 2 / 14
Terms and identity check
Accept the contractor terms for your country and complete the selfie verification.
A few minutes - 3 / 14
Read the application briefing
Two minutes on how the application works and the ground rules. Do it before the assessment.
2 min - 4 / 14
The CodeSignal assessment
Two hours, proctored, one attempt, 75 percent to pass. Your score is back in about two hours; proctoring confirms it within 24 to 48 hours. Submit within 24 hours of your invitation for the fast-start bonus.
2 h, verdict in 24–48 h+$75 fast-start bonusRead the CodeSignal assessment guide - 5 / 14
The knowledge check
Nineteen questions on this guide. Fourteen correct to pass, two attempts. Read the guide first.
About 1 h - 6 / 14
Connect GitHub
Your task repository invitation goes to the account you connect. Do it early.
2 min - 7 / 14
Fully onboarded
The checklist completes itself and your first task is claimed for you.
Day 2 to 3+$125 onboarding bonus
Invite to contract in under a week
Proctoring (24–48 h)Review 1Review 2Audit
Day 0Day 1Day 2Day 3Day 4Day 5Day 6
Drag along the bar to see what happens on each day
Typical pace when nothing is sent back. Proctoring is the longest wait; every review lands within 24 hours.
Money on the way in
Money lands five times on the way in
Bonuses are paid once proctoring confirms the pass or your checklist completes. Task pay follows the weekly payout cycle. Nothing stacks on the weekly contract once you sign.
What you earn at each stage of the application
Pick where you are. The total shows everything released by that point.
$
Your stage
Released so far$0
- Nothing released yet$0
Next release: CodeSignal passed within 24 h, +$75
Three ways to lose the contract
- 01
You fail either assessment
CodeSignal is one attempt at 75 percent. The knowledge check is two attempts at 14 of 19. Read this guide before you open either.
- 02
You cheat on either assessment
Both are proctored and screened for AI. One confirmed case ends the application, with no second strike.
- 03
Your task never crosses the finish line
Three review cycles per stage. A claim removed after the third rejection is not paid, and the offer waits on a task that reaches ready to deliver.
Proctored, checked, one strike
We care a lot about cheating. One confirmed case ends your application.
Every exam is proctored. The CodeSignal assessment records your screen and webcam, and a proctoring review decides whether a passing score counts. The knowledge check is screened for AI-written answers.
Using ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot or any other AI model or LLM on the assessment, the knowledge check, your brief, your prompts, your flag comments or your finish note is cheating.
A proctoring flag or AI-written text anywhere ends your application automatically. You are removed from the project and unpaid application pay and bonuses are forfeited. There is no second strike.
Your own wordsCasual prompts with typos are fine. Polished text that is not yours is not.
Evidence for every claimPoint to the test, the log line or the turn where it happened.
Honest hoursFixed pay means we trust you to work the hours. That trust starts here.
After you sign
Paid every weekA fixed amount for 40 guaranteed hours, issued weekly for the previous week's work, whether the queue was full or not.
Renews while you hold the barOutput and quality are tracked weekly. Your amount is reviewed at renewal and does not go down within a term.
Placed where you are neededThe role outlives any one project. Your program lead tells you before your placement changes.
Fully remote, any hoursWork from anywhere, at any time. No fixed shift and no office. Hours above 40 only with written approval.
Talk to the project leads
We know you have questions. The project leads host office hours every day, Monday through Friday. Join either session to ask the team anything.
Monday to Friday
Office hours, session 2
Every weekday
3:00 PM PST6:00 PM EST3:30 AM IST
Same team, later in the day. Pick whichever session fits your time zone.
Any time
Ask in Slack
Throughout your onboarding
#hertz-onboarding
Any further question during your onboarding, post it in the hertz-onboarding channel in the Handshake AI Slack workspace and a project lead will answer.
Before you start
Work through each item.
Application self-check
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