Widgetfactory
Widget Factory Ambassador
5mo ago
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Campus Ambassador role focused on recruiting and referral for QA technical work.
Responsibilities
- Join Widget Factory's Campus Ambassador Program and help build the team reviewing high-quality coding datasets for training next-generation AI systems. As a QA Ambassador, you'll connect your peers with flexible, well-paid technical work while developing recruiting and network-building skills.
- This is a flexible, commission-based role - work on your own schedule, earn $50 per successful referral.
- Share opportunities : Post Widget Factory openings in CS department Slacks, club Discord servers, and class group chats
- Connect qualified peers : Identify classmates who are strong engineers, want part-time income, and want flexible work
- Answer questions : Help peers understand the role, workload, and technical requirements (optional but appreciated)
- Track referrals : Use your unique referral link to ensure you get credit for successful hires
- Build your network : Develop relationships with technically skilled peers across campus
Conditions
- $50 for getting first 10 people to apply (and pass resume screening)
- $50 per referral who gets hired and completes 10 hours of QA work
- +$50 bonus if your referral is promoted to manager
- Free merch (premium hoodie, t-shirt, stickers) for active ambassadors
- Potential earnings: $150-500+/month with 3-5 successful referrals per month
How to apply
- Step 1: Fill out the 5-minute application attached.
- Step 2: We'll review and respond within 3-5 business days
- Step 3: If accepted, you'll receive:
- Your unique referral tracking link
- Pre-written job posting templates
- Suggested campus channels to target
- Ambassador onboarding guide
Other
- Current students in CS, Engineering, or related technical fields
- Well-connected in campus technical communities (clubs, business or engineering fraternities, department channels, research groups)
- Passionate about AI/ML and excited to help peers find quality work
- Comfortable with asynchronous communication and self-directed work
- Time commitment: ~2-5 hours/month (highly flexible)
- Widget Factory is a special, quality-focused division of Idler (a YC S25 company). Idler creates coding reinforcement learning environments, which are used to train and evaluate the performance of world-class frontier AI coding models.
- Widget Factory’s team of technical part-timers (including both students and professionals from MIT, CMU, Cornell, UPenn, Citadel, and Microsoft) reviews AI-generated code to ensure training data quality.
- $40/hour for technical assessment work
- Fully remote - work from anywhere
- Flexible scheduling - take on work on your own time
- Real AI impact - your work trains production AI systems
- Technical growth - exposure to diverse codebases and engineering challenges
- A: 2-5 hours/month on average. Most ambassadors post once at the start of semester, then share again mid-semester. The rest is answering occasional peer questions.
- A: No problem! You only get paid when referrals are hired AND complete their first problems successfully. There's no penalty for unsuccessful referrals.
- A: We'll provide you with a unique link. Every application that comes through your link is automatically tracked. You'll receive updates when your referrals hit payment milestones.
- A: No limit! Refer as many qualified peers as you'd like. Top ambassadors at some companies earn $1000+ per semester through active referrals.
- A: Strong CS fundamentals, attention to detail, available for ~5-10 hours/week, and interested in AI/ML. Junior/senior undergrads, Master's students, and PhD students tend to be the best-suited applicants, but anybody is invited to apply.