Software Engineer - Technical Advisor (Remote in U.S.)

JOB SUMMARY

We are helping our client find exceptional Software Engineer - Technical Advisors who want to spend a focused period doing something most engineers never get to do: find out exactly where frontier models break on real engineering work.

You will take on hard problems across production-grade codebases, then work out precisely where and why model-generated solutions fall short. You will also build the hard problems those models are tested on. Your judgment about what separates good engineering from plausible engineering is the entire point of the role.

Job type: 6-month contract, possibility to extend afterwards.

Work Location: Remote.

Pay rate: up to $150/hour.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Evaluate how coding agents behave over an entire coding session–what it investigates, verifies, assumes, and leaves undone.

• Identify where model-generated code fails across real, production-grade codebases and articulate precisely why.

• Work directly with researchers on problems they are actively investigating.

• Solve difficult engineering problems across real, production-grade codebases Identify where model-generated code fails, and articulate precisely why Work directly with the company's researchers on problems they are actively investigating.

• Hold a technical bar that others build on.

SKILLS

• Have deep, demonstrated expertise as a software engineer - we care about the depth of your judgment, not your years.

• Write code that other strong engineers learn from.

• Have reviewed a lot of other people's code, and are known for catching what CI and the author both missed

REQUIREMENTS

• 8+ years of production engineering experience preferred.

• Backgrounds including Senior, Staff, or Principal Software Engineers, Tech Leads, or Open-Source Maintainers.

• Experience working in production codebases with a strict code review culture (startups, big tech, or open source are all acceptable).

• Polyglot adaptability: Heavy experience with Python and TypeScript is common, but must be comfortable dropping into unfamiliar languages weekly.

• Core Tooling: Demonstrated comfort using Docker, git, and the Command Line Interface (CLI) to reproduce, isolate, and debug results locally.

• Cross-Layer Fluency: Comfort working across backend, frontend, APIs, data, testing, or developer tooling.

• Strong written communication skills - able to articulate why code fails, not just how to fix it quickly.

IDEAL PROFILE

• Comfortable dropping into unfamiliar codebases and languages you don't use every day - the repos change weekly.

• Comfortable with containers and reproducing results locally.

• Can explain your reasoning as clearly as you can write the solution.

• More interested in why a solution is right than in shipping it quickly.

• Want to spend a focused period on this rather than committing to a permanent role.

To apply, please send the updated resume to hello@benner-solutions.com.