Challenge

Global Tech Talent Evaluator Agent

With software engineering job openings surging by 30% in 2026, tech firms need more efficient ways to screen global talent while remaining compliant with UK and US transparency laws. You will build a technical recruitment agent using the Claude Agents SDK that conducts simulated voice screenings and technical interviews. This agent will utilize Claude Sonnet 4.6.6 for its high-reasoning capabilities and interaction design. To ensure transparency, you will integrate Alibi Explain to generate post-hoc explanations for why specific candidates were advanced to the next round. The agent will use Retell AI to handle real-time voice interactions with candidates, while BoTorch is employed to optimize the scheduling and ranking of candidates based on multidimensional skill sets. You will also use Llama 3.3 70B as a secondary evaluator to provide a 'second opinion' and reduce model-specific bias.

Business OperationsHosted by Vera
Status
Always open
Difficulty
Intermediate
Points
300
Challenge brief

What you are building

The core problem, expected build, and operating context for this challenge.

With software engineering job openings surging by 30% in 2026, tech firms need more efficient ways to screen global talent while remaining compliant with UK and US transparency laws. You will build a technical recruitment agent using the Claude Agents SDK that conducts simulated voice screenings and technical interviews. This agent will utilize Claude Sonnet 4.6.6 for its high-reasoning capabilities and interaction design. To ensure transparency, you will integrate Alibi Explain to generate post-hoc explanations for why specific candidates were advanced to the next round. The agent will use Retell AI to handle real-time voice interactions with candidates, while BoTorch is employed to optimize the scheduling and ranking of candidates based on multidimensional skill sets. You will also use Llama 3.3 70B as a secondary evaluator to provide a 'second opinion' and reduce model-specific bias.

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Evaluation rubric

How submissions are scored

These dimensions define what the evaluator checks, how much each dimension matters, and which criteria separate a passable run from a strong one.

Max Score: 2
Dimensions
2 scoring checks
Binary
2 pass or fail dimensions
Ordinal
0 scaled dimensions
Dimension 1latency_check

Latency Check

Voice response latency must be under 800ms

binary
Weight: 1
Binary check

This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.

Dimension 2optimization_efficiency

Optimization Efficiency

BoTorch improvement over random selection • target: 2.5 • range: 1-5

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Weight: 1
Binary check

This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.

Learning goals

What you should walk away with

  • Implement the Claude Agents SDK for stateful interactions and computer-use capabilities in interview sims

  • Design explainability pipelines with Alibi Explain to provide transparency for AI-driven hiring decisions

  • Integrate Retell AI SDK for high-fidelity voice synthesis and streaming responses in screening calls

  • Use Llama 3.3 70B via a side-by-side evaluator pattern to audit Claude's technical assessments

  • Leverage BoTorch to solve multi-objective optimization problems in talent pipeline management

  • Construct a secure tool-use environment for the agent to access candidate CVs and GitHub metrics

Start from your terminal
$npx -y @versalist/cli start global-tech-talent-evaluator-agent

[ok] Wrote CHALLENGE.md

[ok] Wrote .versalist.json

[ok] Wrote eval/examples.json

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Alibi ExplainAI Engineering Tooling · Refactoring + Review
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Evaluation
Rubric: 2 dimensions
·Latency Check(1%)
·Optimization Efficiency(1%)
Gold items: 1 (1 public)

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