Java Software Engineer

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Handshake

Handshake is a digital college career network with over 200,000 employers, 475 schools and 8 million students. Handshake helps students get access to various job opportunities. Read More United States $65 / hour Backend Mid-level Remote 501-1,000 Employees 2+ years of experience

Job Description

Handshake is seeking motivated Software Engineers to evaluate Large Language Models (LLMs) in collaboration with top AI labs. As a Java Software Engineer, you will contribute to high-impact research collaborations focused on enhancing AI systems. This involves identifying gaps in modern LLMs and explaining how models fail. You will work with coding benchmarks that reflect real-world development across diverse languages and domains using Java. Handshake AI projects are remote and part-time opportunities. Must be located in the US and have proper work authorization (OPT and H-1B not supported). Key responsibilities include:

• Developing and validating coding benchmarks by curating issues, solutions, and test suites from real-world repositories
• Ensuring comprehensive unit and integration tests for solution verification
• Maintaining the consistency and scalability of benchmark task distribution
• Providing structured feedback on solution quality
• Debugging and optimizing benchmark code
• Documenting processes for reproducibility

Shape the future of AI while building skills and confidence to navigate an AI-driven job market. This role will leverage your engineering expertise in a flexible environment, but you must be able to commit 15+ hours/week. Pay starts at $65/hour, plus bonuses for task completion.

Visa Policy

Handshake isn't offering any visa sponsorship support at this time.

Handshake

Handshake is a digital college career network with over 200,000 employers, 475 schools and 8 million students. Handshake helps students get access to various job opportunities. United States $65 / hour Backend Mid-level Remote 501-1,000 Employees 2+ years of experience