HackerEarth Hiring Technical Engineer - Problem Setter Internship 2025

Roles and Responsibilities

• Problem setting team at HackerEarth creates new questions for public/private hackathons/challenges and for our technical assessment product.
• Create problems around data structures, algorithms, and maths across various difficulty levels.
• Create real-life programming questions and test problems created by other problem setters.
• Test problems created by other problem setters.
• Review HackerEarth's existing question bank for technical errors (if any) and ensure that they follow suitable guidelines.
• Add code stubs (partial codes) to the code editor of the problems, which helps candidates focus on writing the logic part for solving that particular problem rather than syntax.
• Respond to queries/suggestions/issues from candidates solving problems on the HackerEarth platform.
• Work closely with the tech doc team to remove context or grammar ambiguities from questions.

Required Skills

• Excellent knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and maths.
• Excellent profile on some of the online judges (HackerEarth, HackerRank, Codeforces, Codechef, SPOJ, etc.).
• Candidates with experience in creating or testing problems for online judges will be preferred.