HackerRank helps companies like NVIDIA, Amazon, and Microsoft hire and upskill the next generation of developers based on skills, not pedigree. Our platform is trusted by over 2,500 of the world’s most innovative companies to build robust engineering teams ready for what’s next.

Software has entered an era where humans and AI build side by side. As this shift accelerates, the definition of strong technical talent is changing. We give companies better ways to identify and invest in next-generation skills.

People at HackerRank care deeply about the impact of their work and sweat the small details so our customers can be wildly successful with products they genuinely love to use. We move with urgency and believe great outcomes come from high standards.

About The Role
How do you know if a candidate is doing well when there is no right answer?

For twenty years, code evaluation was deterministic. A solution passed a test case or it did not. That world is over. Candidates today work alongside AI assistants, engage in multi-turn conversations,



and produce outputs that blend human and machine reasoning. The evaluation signal is now qualitative, contextual, and deeply subjective.

What Goldman Sachs considers a strong candidate looks different from what a Series B startup considers one. What looks like a correct answer in a Python interview looks different when a transcript is in the mix. And without a rigorous methodology for defining "good," any evaluation system we build risks embedding bias we cannot see and cannot defend.

This role exists to solve that. Not as a support function. As the foundational research layer that everything else depends on.

What You Will Do
- Design and execute research studies to define what "good performance" means across different job contexts, industries, and candidate types.
- Build the datasets, annotation frameworks, and ground truth labels that ML models on the Evaluation team learn from.
- Own the bias audit process: identify where o

📌 AI Researcher (Bengaluru East)
🏢 HackerRank
📍 Bengaluru East