diff --git a/career-lane/apply-queue-2026-10-13.md b/career-lane/apply-queue-2026-10-13.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ce72f51 --- /dev/null +++ b/career-lane/apply-queue-2026-10-13.md @@ -0,0 +1,205 @@ +# APPLY QUEUE — 2026-10-13 (for Timmy to queue, Alexander submits) + +**Authority:** Alexander asked Zeph to send Timmy "everything I can apply for +today" and have Timmy queue it for Alexander's own submission. +**Rules:** Timmy queues only — never submits, never creates accounts, never +contacts anyone on Alexander's behalf. Materials below are public-safe +(professional name only; no email, phone, or private facts). +Compiled by Zephyrus Sparkborn, 2026-10-13 ~13:35Z. Liveness verified from a +clean external network unless marked otherwise. + +## Queue order (by conversion speed) + +### 1. Turing — "Senior Python Engineer - AI Agents Evaluation" ✅ APPLY-READY +- URL: https://work.turing.com/r/HI7GzvKjPF (200/43,820 B, surfaced <24h, + verified 2026-10-13) +- Terms: full-time contractual, remote, 40h/wk global overlap, 1-month, + ~25min AI interview. +- Pay: UNVERIFIED (none stated on page). +- Friction: LOW — Alexander already has a Turing account (Oct-3 interview). +- Materials: adapt the item-2 pitch below (same skill family). +- Missing from Alexander: rate number if the form asks. + +### 2. Turing — "Senior SWE – Python (LLM Evaluation & Repository Validation)" ⚠️ GATED +- URL: https://work.turing.com/r/C94ooVlx1g (200/49,847 B, verified live + 2026-10-13 ~09:28 ET and re-verified by Zeph ~13:30Z) +- Terms: contractor (no benefits), ≥4h/day, min 20h/wk, 4h PST overlap, + **duration 4–8 weeks** (not 3 months — corrected 2026-10-13), + expected start next week. Evaluation: profile/delivery review + 45–60 min + delivery interview. +- Pay: UNVERIFIED (none stated on page). +- **Gates on the live listing (verbatim, lines 47–49):** "Bachelor's or + Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline" + and "Minimum 8 years of hands-on software engineering experience in + leading product companies or technology startups." Whether either is a + hard filter is UNVERIFIED. Alexander's pitch narrative runs ~7 years; + flag candidly, his call. +- Geo: no geographic-eligibility copy on the page. A same-title sibling + posting (pLkv7ld46e) was killed 2026-10-13 for non-US locations + (India/Pakistan/Nigeria) — surviving posting implies US fine; Alexander + is a US citizen. Eligibility risk LOW, not proven. +- Friction: LOW (Turing account exists). +- Materials: paste-ready pitch DONE (below). Screening answers DONE (below). +- Missing from Alexander: (a) go/no-go given the gates; (b) rate number if + the form asks (Oct-1 Turing inbound was $100–150/hr — his call, do not + invent). + +**Pitch (paste-ready, ~120 words, his voice):** +> I'm Alexander Payne, a senior backend engineer (Python) working as an +> independent contractor. For the last two years my day job has been +> directing and evaluating AI coding agents end to end on real repositories: +> setting acceptance criteria, reviewing agent behavior and tool use at the +> diff level, and making release decisions on their output. Underneath that, +> 5+ years of production Python — Django, Flask, REST APIs, PostgreSQL, +> Docker, CI/CD — so I judge generated and human code the way someone who +> has shipped it does: by running it, reading the tests, and checking +> coverage, not by skimming the output. +> +> Recent work includes line-level audits of public codebases (a 121-entry +> ledger audit where every outbound source was fetched and tested, and a +> 30-entry clause-grading sweep with 129 verified rows). I'm comfortable +> cloning an unfamiliar repo, Dockerizing it, getting its suite green, and +> saying exactly where the tests are thin. Remote, US citizen, available to +> start immediately, fine with PST overlap. + +**Screening answers (first passes — his words to confirm):** +- *Why this role:* "The role's core loop — triage real GitHub issues, stand + up repos with Docker, evaluate unit-test coverage and quality, then run + modified codebases locally to see how an LLM handles bug-fixing — is what + I've done for two years evaluating AI coding agents, plus five years of + production Python before that." +- *Python/Docker:* "5+ years production Python (Django, Flask, REST, + PostgreSQL); Docker and CI/CD are standard in my workflow — + containerizing unfamiliar repos and getting their test suites running is + routine. I navigate large unfamiliar codebases by reading tests first, + then tracing call paths from failing or thin-covered areas." +- *LLM evaluation:* "Two years directing and evaluating AI coding agents + end to end: defining acceptance criteria, reviewing agent behavior and + tool use, grading outputs against rubrics, and making release decisions. + I run my own AI lab, so evaluating model output on real code is the day + job." +- *Team-lead angle:* "I've scoped and directed agent-assisted engineering + work end to end — goals, constraints, acceptance criteria, release + calls — which is the same shape as leading a small team against a + quality bar." +- *Availability/auth:* "Available to start immediately. US citizen, + authorized to work in the US, no sponsorship needed now or in the future. + 20 hrs/wk with PST overlap works." +- *Rate:* [ALEXANDER'S NUMBER — do not invent.] + +**Honesty ledger (what this draft does NOT claim):** no invented OSS +contributions or repo names; the "public codebase audit" lines describe his +real Stackchain archive/forge audit work (evaluation, not authorship); no +Go/Rust/React/AWS/K8s claims; no degree claim; no Staff-scope claim; no +invented pay expectation. + +**Direct-lane door (Alexander sends himself — Timmy does not):** +Jonathan Siddharth, co-founder & CEO, Turing (X: @jonsidd — handle from +public podcast description, NOT live-confirmed in-app; verify @jonsidd +inside the app before sending): +> Hi Jonathan — I'm Alexander Payne, a senior backend engineer (Python) +> contracting independently. For two years my day job has been directing +> and evaluating AI coding agents end to end on real repos — acceptance +> criteria, diff-level behavior review, release decisions on their output — +> on top of 5+ years of production Python. Your LLM Evaluation & Repository +> Validation posting (benchmark tasks, utility + safety evaluators, +> reference solutions) is squarely what I do. Happy to share background or +> run your eval process — available to start next week. — Alexander + +### 3. Turing — "Senior SWE – LLM Evaluation (US/Canada/WEU based)" +- URL: https://work.turing.com/r/alSSk0vX2k (200/46,602 B, verified + 2026-10-13; watch→verified upgrade from 10-12, not a duplicate) +- Terms: part-time contractor, remote, 1 month + extensions. +- Pay: UNVERIFIED. +- Friction: LOW (Turing account exists). +- Materials: adapt item-2 pitch. + +### 4. OpenTrain — "Agentic AI Software Engineer" +- URL: https://www.opentrain.ai/jobs/agentic-ai-software-engineer--cmv0u6ybv000m06i05anl5nt2/ + (200/193,284 B, Apply-now CTA, verified 2026-10-13) +- Terms: contract part-time, remote worldwide, 20+ h/wk, posted Oct 9; MCP + tools, AI coding-assistant workflows. +- Pay: UNVERIFIED. Entry-tier watch flag (experience-tier badge below + senior on 2026-10-10 review) — flagged, not disqualified. +- Flow: OpenTrain board application (account creation expected; same board + family as item 7). + +### 5. OpenTrain — "Secure Coding-Agent Benchmark Engineer" +- URL: https://www.opentrain.ai/jobs/secure-software-coding-agent-benchmark-engineer--cmv0u6y87000k06i0ytsnui5a/ + (200/196,144 B, Apply-now CTA, verified 2026-10-13) +- Terms: contract part-time, remote worldwide, ≥20 h/wk, posted Oct 9; + coding-agent benchmarks, security tests, eval tooling. +- Pay: UNVERIFIED. Same entry-tier watch flag as item 4. + +### 6. micro1 — "Senior Software Engineer" $245–280/hr (second door) +- URL: https://jobs.micro1.ai/post/3d79ba82-926b-48c0-9d15-8791a364ea81 + (verified LIVE 2026-10-12 ~09:30 ET, logged-out guest browser) +- Terms: remote, contractor, AI code evaluation / model review (evaluate + AI-generated code; write coding problems, reference solutions, test + cases; review model reasoning). Board card: "Senior Software Engineer", + $245–280/hr, Remote, Contractor, board date Aug 27 2026. +- Pay: $245–280/hr (board-stated). +- Flow: "Apply now" → email then Continue, or Continue with Google / + LinkedIn; creates a candidate account ("talent dashboard"). Screening per + their own words: "Take the AI interview" (Apply → AI interview → + onboarded → start earning), plus skill-based assessments and + certification. No proctored desktop-sharing/monitoring software mentioned + on the pages checked. +- Friction: MEDIUM — new account + heavier screening than OpenTrain. +- **Needs Alexander's authorization before any application is started** + (new auth — do not submit without it). +- Uncertainties: minor title mismatch (card shows "Senior Software + Engineer", not the longer mirror title); "~100 openings" mirror claim + unverifiable; the Oct-4 desktop-sharing red flag was a DIFFERENT micro1 + role (Code Generation Research Engineer $50–100/hr), not this listing. +- LinkedIn hard rule: OAuth on LinkedIn's own page is fine; never type a + LinkedIn password into a third-party form. + +### 7. OpenTrain — "Senior Software Engineer – Remote" $245–280/hr ⚠️ EXPIRING +- URL: https://www.opentrain.ai/jobs/software-engineering-ai-code-evaluator--cmtc1224000320ajcwfjzt792/ +- Terms: remote contractor, AI code evaluation. +- Pay: $245–280/hr (board-stated). +- **Status 2026-10-13: DELISTED from employer boards.** Canonical page + still serves 200 but is orphaned — treat as expiring. Item 6 (micro1) + is the live door to the same project family. +- Application flow is PARKED at Cloudflare "verify you are human" + checkbox (nothing submitted, no account created). Alexander authorized + "Submit for me" 2026-10-10; the checkbox choice is still his. + +## Carry (not re-verified this morning — confirm liveness before queueing) + +### 8. Vettedlance — "Senior SWE, Agentic Coding Evaluation" +- URL: https://vettedlance.com/jobs/senior-software-engineer-agentic-coding-eval +- Pay: $80–120/hr (employer-stated). "Hiring now." +- Flow: AI interview → ID check → paid assessment before matching. +- Last verified 2026-10-12. + +### 9. AuraOne — "AI/ML Engineer, Internal Platforms" +- URL: https://auraone.ai/public/ai-labs/jobs/ai-ml-engineer-internal-platforms-aoj-1a84624291bf77ae5b/ +- Terms: remote, US-eligible, 10+ hrs/week, posted 2026-10-11. +- Pay: $130/hr (aggregator-stated — UNVERIFIED). +- 2026-10-13 note: visible on aitrainer.jobs mirror 15h ago; employer role + copy not capturable (JS shell). Confirm before queueing. +- Direct-lane contact: Gurbaksh Chahal, Founder & CEO (auraone.ai/company/about). + +## What Timmy should do with this + +1. Order the queue as above; mark per-item status: + READY (1, 3 — adapt pitch; 2 — pitch done) / + NEEDS-ALEXANDER (2: go/no-go + rate; 6: apply authorization; + 7: checkbox decision — expiring) / + DRAFT-NEEDED (3, 4, 5: role-specific pitch from item-2 materials). +2. Draft role-specific pitches for items 3, 4, 5 from the item-2 + materials + honesty ledger; post drafts back to the pipe for + Alexander's approval — never final. +3. Track Alexander's answers (rate number, go/no-go, authorizations) as + they come in; update statuses. +4. Do NOT submit, create accounts, or contact anyone. + +## Standing rules (unchanged) + +- Free-tier evaluation only — never pay a vendor (Alexander, 2026-10-06). +- Truthful, resume-grounded answers only; never invent experience, rates, + degrees, employers, or other facts. +- Never type a LinkedIn password into a third-party site (Terac rule). +- Contact details stay off the public pipe.