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APPLY QUEUE — 2026-10-22 (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. Escalation path: Zeph → Timmy (pipe) → Alexander (Telegram); Zeph never relays decisions and raises nothing in chat. Rules: Timmy queues only — never submits, never creates accounts, never contacts anyone on Alexander's behalf. He carries the open questions below to Alexander DIRECTLY via Telegram. Materials are public-safe (professional name only; no email, phone, or private facts). Supersedes apply-queue-2026-10-21.md. Compiled by Zephyrus Sparkborn, 2026-10-22 ~13:15Z. Liveness verified from a clean external network unless marked otherwise.

Corrections folded into the body this tick (append-only history preserved in daily-2026-10-21.md's corrections section; reply-80 year fix logged 2026-10-22): N5 Alignerr pay is $60–80/hr on the page header (my 10-20/10-21 "unstated" was wrong; third-party $60–120 range dropped); the six corroborated Turing doors now carry their page-title labels (reply-78 table), not feed labels — HI7GzvKjPF is "Senior Python Engineer – AI Agents Evaluation" (not "GenAI Security"); Xqiv8zPNaw is the actual GenAI Security door.

Pipeline tally

11 submitted / 2 interviews / 0 offers / 2 rejections. No door closed, no new submissions, no ATS drift.

Queue order (by conversion speed)

1. "Senior Software Engineer – AI Evaluation / Coding Agents" — TURING DOOR ONLY ⭐ APPLY-READY, best-structured interview this month

  • URL: https://work.turing.com/r/bs71Txx0ar (LIVE, full copy re-read 2026-10-22)
  • The 24-MAG careers-page door is CLOSED (genuine 404, two hosts, 10-21). The project is the same one (word-for-word dedupe verified by Timmy); only the Turing door remains.
  • Terms: freelance/contract, remote North America only, 20–40 hrs/week with ≥6 hrs/day PT overlap (~3–9pm ET — lifestyle call), ~3-month project, start ASAP. Pay: $100–150/hr — the form asks for a specific rate expectation, so the number is a concrete decision.
  • Work: review AI-generated code, design rubrics and acceptance criteria, repo-level analysis, eval-infrastructure pipelines. Two years of Alexander's daily Q-audit work, nearly verbatim.
  • Interview (three stages, from the live page): ~25-min AI interview → ~30-min practical (reviewing AI-generated code, not algorithms) → ~20-min hiring-manager chat.
  • Gates: 5+ years hands-on SE, Python listed FIRST among languages (no React/Node hard requirement), code review, written communication, modern LLM tooling; "LLM evaluation or coding-agent experience is advantageous." No degree requirement anywhere. Named gap (not hidden): the 24-MAG page's "GitHub-based development workflows" line — his public review work lives on Gitea; name it in the application, don't hide it. Five of six gates clear.
  • Caveats: the page mentions TypeScript/JavaScript, Go, Java among skills — none is a hard requirement, but Alexander knows his denialist lines. First stage is an AI interview, so the standing rule applies: pause ALL Mac automations before it (pre-flight procedure: interview-preflight-24mag.md).
  • Paste-ready pitch (public-safe):

I'm Alexander Payne, a senior backend engineer (Python) contracting independently. For the last two years my day job has been directing and evaluating AI coding agents end to end on real repositories: reviewing generated implementations for correctness, robustness, and maintainability; designing the acceptance criteria and rubrics the evaluations run on; and making release decisions on agent output at the diff level. Underneath that, 5+ years of production Python — Django, Flask, REST APIs, PostgreSQL, Docker, CI/CD — so I judge generated code the way someone who has shipped it does: by reading it, running it, and checking the tests. I'm comfortable cloning an unfamiliar repo, reading its architecture cold, and writing up exactly where the model went wrong and why. Remote, US-based, available to start immediately, fine with the PT overlap.

  • OPEN FOR ALEXANDER (Timmy to ask directly): go or no-go on the Turing door, and his rate inside $100–150.

2. Data Annotation — "Software Engineer"

  • URL: https://dataannotation.tech/job-board/software-engineer (LIVE 2026-10-22, 200 after redirect)
  • Terms: remote, weekly payouts. Pay: Up to $150+/hr depending on task difficulty and specialization. No degree required.
  • Work: run agentic coding sessions on real engineering tasks, analyze what the models produce, red-team them until they fail in interesting ways. Distinct door from the Backend Engineer track.

3. OpenTrain — "Backend Coding Task & Verifier Specialist"

4. Terac — "Software Engineers: Paid Code Review for AI Agent Evaluation"

  • URL: https://terac.com/opportunities/XJ4I47Bp6ExVHmNY (LIVE, full copy re-rendered 2026-10-22; published 2026-10-02)
  • Terms: remote, hourly. Pay: $65/hr (Timmy's on-page read 10-21, Documented). "15 spots left" badge remains client-side-only — carried as my live-browser read, not a verified count.
  • NEW named contact: Zachary "Zac" Baker, Co-Founder & CEO (co-founded 2025 with Jack Blair; source: greenbook.org/company/Terac directory; public business line +1 (703) 405-1525; careers@terac.com held). He reaches out.

5. micro1 — Senior SWE ($245–280/hr)

6. Vettedlance — "Senior SWE, Agentic Coding Evaluation"

7. Askable — "Software Engineer, AI Coding Tasks"

  • URL: https://www.askable.com/experts/roles/senior-software-engineer (LIVE 2026-10-22, 200)
  • Terms: contract after paid technical task; remote, any location; ≥10 h/wk.
  • Pay: US$1,000 per accepted task (not hourly).
  • Gate: code you own merged into a public open-source repository (employer/client code excluded). OPEN FOR ALEXANDER: does he have qualifying OSS work?
  • NEW named contact: John Goleby, Co-Founder & CEO of Askable (Brisbane; US/UK/Chicago offices; $22M AirTree-led Series A Dec 2024 — sources: devopsdigest.com/askable-joins-vendor-forum, thebusinessfrontier.com, cmotech.uk; the year is 2024 per PRNewswire's "CHICAGO, Dec. 13, 2024" dateline, Askable's own blog, Business Insider — my "all 2026" was wrong, fixed 2026-10-22 per reply 80). The funnel is self-serve, but he can go direct on the OSS-gate question. He reaches out.

8. Turing M2 — "Senior SWE – Python (LLM Evaluation & Repository Validation)"

  • URL: https://work.turing.com/r/C94ooVlx1g (LIVE, full copy re-read 2026-10-22)
  • Terms: contractor, remote, 4–8 weeks, ≥4 h/day (20 h/wk) with 4 h PST overlap.
  • Gates verbatim: degree line, "Minimum 8 years … in leading product companies or technology startups", Python mandatory + Java/Go/C++. OPEN FOR ALEXANDER: go/no-go + rate.

9. Turing N2 — "Senior SWE – LLM Evaluation (US-based)"

  • URL: https://work.turing.com/r/b9OgTSjjGs (LIVE, full copy re-read 2026-10-22)
  • Terms: contractor (no medical/paid leave), US-based required, 10–40 h/wk flexible, 1 month (+ext). AI video interview required.
  • Fit: code curation "primarily in Python", agent/verification-tooling work, 3+ yrs. Caveat: additional work in JavaScript (incl. ReactJS), C/C++, Java, Rust, Go (on-page) — denialist risk.
  • New on-page data point (10-22): "Ideal Background" section names frontier-AI employers (OpenAI/NVIDIA/Databricks/Palantir/Snowflake) and "especially welcome" CS programs (UW/UIUC/UT Austin/Michigan/Purdue) — "though exceptional experience and skill always take precedence over pedigree." Flagged as a funnel signal, not a hard gate.
  • OPEN FOR ALEXANDER: take or pass.

10. micro1 — "Junior SWE" ($150–200/hr) — NEW LEAD 2026-10-21

  • URL: https://jobs.micro1.ai/post/29ba0d51-2d9f-412e-ad19-5f28a76ca96e (LIVE, detail page read 10-21)
  • Terms: contractor, remote (no country restriction stated), top-band pay $150–200/hr.
  • Work: evaluate AI-generated code; write challenging coding problems, reference solutions, test cases; review model reasoning; technical feedback. In-lane.
  • Gates: "Junior" is platform wallpaper (Oct-15 OpenTrain precedent); preferred quals (1+ yr SWE at top tech co, English-speaking-country base, clear written communication) — all cleared by Alexander; no degree gate on page. Output-based per-task pay with minimum weekly submissions may apply — treat the band as nominal until the application page is read.
  • OPEN FOR ALEXANDER: queue-add his call.

11. Alignerr N5 — "Senior Machine Learning Engineer" ($60–80/hr ON PAGE)

  • URL: https://www.alignerr.com/jobs/20c08939-56c2-4351-a47a-efcdf022eca5 (LIVE; pay Documented from the page header by Timmy 10-21: "Senior Machine Learning Engineer $60-80/hr Remote Freelance CODING")
  • Terms: hourly contract, remote, 10–40 h/wk, fully async.
  • Work: LLM training/eval data authoring — reasoning traces, model-failure analysis; adjacent to the AI-eval seat. No LinkedIn/degree required per listing.
  • Caveats: framed for ML practitioners; pay below the top band.
  • OPEN FOR ALEXANDER: take or pass.
  • Direct lane stays weak (self-serve funnel; Labelbox CEO Manu Sharma named-only).

12. Terac — "Part-Time Full-Stack Engineers: Farm-Data Platform Development" ($39/hr)

  • URL: https://terac.com/opportunities/EW5rvZqnDf0sO6qQ (carried-live from 10-21; pay Documented $39/hr on page)
  • Terms: independent contractor, remote any timezone, ~15 h/wk, 1+ year engagement, weekly pay.
  • Work: production backend/data-platform delivery. Caveat: below band; agritech; Terac apply flow includes "Connect your profiles" + ID verification — LinkedIn may be requested at signup.
  • OPEN FOR ALEXANDER: take or pass.

13. micro1 — "Open Source Contributor (GitHub)" ($100–150/hr)

  • URL: https://jobs.micro1.ai/post/18a809aa-0b7f-4523-ac0e-508c9f0f6f66 (LIVE canonical 10-22 on two hosts — Timmy's reply 81 + this host: 200 / 42,473 B, title "Open Source Contributor (GitHub)", ideal_hourly_rate $100–150, published 2026-09-16).
  • Corroborated LIVE 10-21 via six mirrors (canonical URL malformed; true UUID unresolved) — struck 10-23: the full UUID sat in micro1-oss-maintainer-2026-10-20.md line 39 all along; the truncation was mine at write time (reply 81).
  • Terms: global remote contractor, ~15 h/wk, flexible; ~100 openings.
  • Gates: public/verifiable GitHub profile with meaningful ownership; Alexander's public review work lives on Gitea — the standing GitHub gate gap. Compensation per-task with minimum weekly submissions — treat band as nominal.
  • OPEN FOR ALEXANDER: queue-add his call (pending the GitHub-gate honest read).

14. Corroborated Turing doors — all LIVE (Timmy's host, reply 78, 10-21) — weighable now

  • r/Y74n4sPVv9 — Senior Software Engineer – LLM Evaluation: 10–40 h/wk, contractor, 1 mo, partial PST overlap. No $ on page.
  • r/HI7GzvKjPF — Senior Python Engineer – AI Agents Evaluation: full-time contractual, 40 h/wk, 1 mo, remote. No $ on page. (Label corrected — not GenAI Security.)
  • r/CUZsKnwt7P — Agentic Coding Evaluation Specialist (Contract): "Compensation: $75/hour", ~2–4 weeks (+ ext).
  • r/JHrOLgPhXZ — Senior Backend Engineer (Python/FastAPI) – AI Evaluation (US-based): 10–40 h/wk, contractor, 1 mo. No $ on page.
  • r/Xqiv8zPNaw — GenAI Security Evaluation Engineer: "Pay up to $150/hr depending on internal evaluation and location", freelance/remote/contractor, up to 2 weeks. (The actual GenAI-Security door.)
  • r/alSSk0vX2k — Senior Software Engineer – LLM Evaluation (US/Canada/WEU): 10–40 h/wk, contractor, 1 mo. No $ on page.
  • Four doors state no figure — weigh on fit, not pay.

UNVERIFIED this tick (hold, do not queue)

  • micro1 Senior Platform Engineer re-post: still absent from the board (JS shell; mirrors only) — stays dropped, watching for a re-post.

DROPPED

  • 24-MAG careers-page door — CLOSED 2026-10-21 (live-browser 404 + Timmy's host 404). The project continues via item 1 (Turing door).

Open decisions (for Alexander, via Timmy on Telegram — NOT via Zeph)

  1. Item 1 (Turing door, $100–150/hr project): go/no-go + his rate number.
  2. Item 8 (Turing M2): go/no-go + rate (carried from 10-13 — still unanswered).
  3. Item 9 (N2): take or pass (React caveat + new pedigree-language note).
  4. Item 5 (micro1 $245–280/hr): authorization to start the candidate account + AI interview + skill assessments.
  5. Item 7 (Askable): does he have qualifying OSS-merged work — and whether to go direct via John Goleby.
  6. Item 11 (N5 Alignerr MLE, $60–80/hr on page): take or pass.
  7. Item 4 (Terac $65/hr): window open — and whether to go direct via Zachary Baker.
  8. Item 10 (micro1 "Junior SWE" $150–200/hr): queue-add his call.
  9. Item 12 (Terac $39/hr farm-data): take or pass (below band).
  10. Item 13 (micro1 OSS Contributor $100–150/hr): queue-add his call (GitHub-gate honest read).
  11. Item 14 (six corroborated doors): weigh on fit now that liveness is Documented.

New lead-grade items 10-22 (scout + corroborated top two by my reads)

15. Surge AI — "Senior Software Engineer: Agentic Coding RL Environments" ($100–150+/hour) ⭐ NEW TOP FIND

  • URL: https://surgehq.ai/swe (LIVE, full copy re-read by me 2026-10-22; scout instrument corroborates)
  • Terms: fully remote contractor, 20–40+ hrs/week, choose-your-schedule, async Slack, own equipment.
  • Pay: $100–$150+/hour on page ("Pay scales with your expertise"; "Some projects go well past the top of that range"; header "Make $200–300k+/year").
  • Work: build coding RL environments and benchmarks for frontier labs; review & red-team model output; write tests, rubrics, success criteria; structured feedback that improves future models.
  • Gates: professional SWE experience shipping scaled production systems; strong judgment about good code and model failures; expertise in at least one common stack incl. Python; no AI/ML background required, no degree, no LinkedIn.
  • Process: 2-hour coding capability screen → ID verification → paid first task.
  • Fit: near-perfect lane match — his 2-year agent-directing/eval background maps 1:1 (this is the work he does daily on the archive audits).
  • OPEN FOR ALEXANDER: go or no-go + whether to start the 2-hour coding screen.

16. workfindy.com — "Senior AI Engineer (Contract)" ($100–150/hr)

  • URL: https://workfindy.com/jobs/8f257919-3692-4422-ba07-60e05805ce8a (LIVE, full copy re-read by me 2026-10-22)
  • Terms: contractor, remote US/Canada, ≥20 h/wk + 4 h PT overlap, 3-month contract, start soon; no medical/paid leave.
  • Pay: $100–$150/hr USD (on-page).
  • Work: build data pipelines, review AI outputs, develop quality criteria; "a significant part of the role is being able to explain why one response is better than another."
  • Gates: 5+ yrs Python/TS/JS/Go; hands-on AI preference data or eval rubrics; US/Canada-based; no LinkedIn, no pay-to-evaluate. Published 2026-10-05T16:44:58Z.
  • Caveat: employer unnamed — apply by "DM the poster" (conversion risk).
  • OPEN FOR ALEXANDER: take or pass.

17. Turing — "Senior Python Engineer – LLM Evaluation" (US-based) (L2)

  • URL: https://work.turing.com/r/HfWfAxm6VX (rendered open today, scout instrument)
  • Terms: remote contractor, US-based, 10–40 h/wk, 1 mo +ext; pay not stated.
  • Work: Python-primary eval + verification tooling; 3+ yrs SWE; AI video interview required.
  • OPEN FOR ALEXANDER: take or pass.

18. Turing — "Software Engineer – AI Research & Evaluation" (US-based) (L3)

19. Turing — "Senior Python Engineer – LLM Evaluation" (systems emphasis) (L4)

  • URL: https://work.turing.com/r/3tkNgppkIt (rendered open today, scout instrument)
  • Terms: same engagement shape; pay not stated; systems/infra bent — Go/Rust/C++ named but Python first, no hard ownership demanded.
  • OPEN FOR ALEXANDER: take or pass.

20. Alignerr — "Senior SWE — Agentic Coding" (L6)

21. Alignerr — "Senior SWE — AI Evaluation & Benchmarks" (L7)

22. Alignerr — "Software Engineer - Python (Advanced)" (L8)

23. Handshake AI — AI Trainer (filler-hours track) (L9)

  • URL: https://joinhandshake.com/ai/opportunities (canonical program page rendered open today, scout instrument)
  • Terms: independent contractor (not FT), fully remote, ~5–20 h/wk when assigned, year-round; pay not stated. 4+ yrs SWE, US-eligible, no LinkedIn/degree mandate.
  • OPEN FOR ALEXANDER: worth a profile, his call.

24. micro1 — "Open Source GitHub Maintainer" ($150–300/hr) — NEW NUMBERED ITEM 2026-10-23 (row verified 10-20; promoted from supplement per reply 81)

  • URL: https://jobs.micro1.ai/post/51a65c2c-07dd-4307-aba6-f7c4af17311c (LIVE — canonical detail page read 2026-10-20; "Apply now" renders; published 2026-08-14)
  • Terms: contractor, remote global, 15 h/wk, flexible; minimum weekly task submissions; "typically fill roles within 48 hours." Pay $150–300/hr, output-based per accepted task (pace-dependent — treat as nominal).
  • Work: review LLM-generated code patches for the repository the expert maintains; detailed written justifications; peer-review other experts' submissions. In-lane (diff-level review + written justification — Alexander's daily shape).
  • Gates: "Applicants must have clear open source contributions and profiles to showcase it like GitHub or GitLab" (page-verbatim). Same Gitea-gap as item 13: name the forge profile in the application, don't hide it. Preferred: OSS-maintenance experience; contributor-code review experience.
  • Process: screening questions → ~10-min AI interview → hiring-manager review. (Mac-automation pause before the AI interview.)
  • OPEN FOR ALEXANDER: queue-add his call. (Top-band micro1 family — weigh alongside items 5 and 10, not only in micro1-oss-maintainer-2026-10-20.md.)

Corrections log (append-only)

  • 2026-10-23, reply 81: item 13 body corrected in place (per Q3 rule): canonical URL https://jobs.micro1.ai/post/18a809aa-0b7f-4523-ac0e-508c9f0f6f66 is LIVE — independently read from two hosts (Timmy 10-22 + this host 10-23: 200 / 42,473 B, title "Open Source Contributor (GitHub)", ideal_hourly_rate $100–150, published 2026-09-16). The "canonical URL malformed; true UUID unresolved" line is struck; the full UUID was in micro1-oss-maintainer-2026-10-20.md line 39 — the truncation was my write-time error. Verdict now Documented (canonical), GitHub-gate caveat unchanged.
  • 2026-10-23, reply 81: OSS-maintainer promoted to numbered item 24 — https://jobs.micro1.ai/post/51a65c2c-07dd-4307-aba6-f7c4af17311c, LIVE (canonical read 10-20), $150–300/hr, published 2026-08-14, top-band micro1 family alongside items 5 and 10; OPEN FOR ALEXANDER: queue-add his call (via Timmy, not Zeph's relay).
  • 2026-10-22, reply 80: Askable's Series A year corrected in the body (2026 → Dec 2024). The round is real — AU$22M Airtree-led — but it closed Dec 13, 2024 (PRNewswire: "CHICAGO, Dec. 13, 2024"; Askable's own blog and Business Insider carry the same). My "sources … all 2026" line (from the 10-21 scout read) was the error source; disambiguation kept: Askable is Brisbane-founded, Goleby's own public profile is SF Bay Area — both true, no edit owed. Daily-2026-10-22.md carries the same error in its §7 line; it is append-only dated record — correction note appended there at the foot, living index here corrected in place per the Q3 rule.
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