Member of Technical Staff - Platform Engineering
$215k - $275k • San Francisco • FullTime
Posted 3mo ago
Job Location
San Francisco
Tech Stack
Remote Work Policy
On-site
Employment Type
FullTime
Categories
AI Agent Engineer
About the job
Halluminate is a data research lab focused on building benchmarks and RL environments to advance AI in knowledge work, initially concentrating on economically valuable workflows in financial services and consulting, with plans for rapid expansion. This role involves owning platform engineering, developing advanced long-horizon RL environments, and contributing to the foundational growth of the engineering organization.
Responsibilities
- Build RL environment training and inference infrastructure for scalable customer usage.
- Research and develop next-generation RL environments that are realistic, long-horizon, and challenging for frontier models.
- Develop software to significantly improve the quality and throughput of RL environment creation.
- Innovate on synthetic data pipelines for generating realistic problems.
- Build platform analytics to track environment cost, hours, bottlenecks, and SME management.
- Create domain-specific verifiers for rewards in areas like decks, Excel modeling, and quantitative trading.
- Establish engineering culture and practices from the ground up.
Requirements
- Familiarity with building evaluations, benchmarks, or RL for AI agents.
- Ability to iterate, ask questions, respond, and make mistakes quickly, characteristic of startup environments.
- Strong product and user ownership with the ability to prioritize a broad roadmap.
- Comfort with client-facing interactions, including discussions with users, customers, and SMEs.
- Research background, including model training and paper publication.
- Experience as a founder or in early-stage startups.
Benefits
- Fully covered medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees, with subsidized coverage for dependents.
- $10k+ relocation stipend for moving to San Francisco.
- Up to 4% employer match for 401(k) contributions.
- Provided breakfast, lunch, and dinner while working.
- Free gym membership.
- Complimentary Ubers and Waymo rides to and from the office.
- Visa sponsorship, including H-1B.