Member of Technical Staff - Platform Engineering

Location
Los Angeles, San Francisco +1
Workplace
On-site
Compensation
$200k – $250k + equity
Visa
Visa Sponsorship Available

About this role

Halluminate is looking to hire Founding Members of Technical Staff to own platform engineering, develop frontier long-horizon RL environments, and help build our engineering org from the ground up.

The responsibilities of this role include

Build our RL environment training/inference infrastructure to support customer usage at scale

Research and develop next-generation RL environments that are increasingly realistic, long-horizon, and difficult for frontier models.

Building software to 10-100x the quality and throughput of RL environment creation

Innovate on synthetic data pipelines to create realistic problems

Create platform analytics to track data on our RL environment costs, hours, bottlenecks, and subject matter expert management

Crafting domain-specific verifiers for financial services verticals and beyond (ex. verifiable rewards for powerpoint building, excel modeling, quantitative trading)

Establish engineering culture and practices from the ground up

Necessary Skills Include

Familiarity building evaluations / benchmarks / RL for AI agents

Startup Speed: Iterate quick, ask questions quick, respond to messages quick, make mistakes quick

Product / user ownership, ability to prioritize between a large roadmap of features

Client-facing capabilities - you need to be comfortable talking to users/customers/SMEs

Nice To Have

Research backgrounds (ex. training models, publishing papers)

Former founders / experience with early-stage startups

What happens next

Skip the application pile. I get you in front of the people who decide.

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

A meeting lands on your calendar

When the company wants to meet, I get the call on your calendar. You just show up.

Culture & values

We are a fast-moving, small team of 6.

We have a brand-new office located in Dogpatch, San Francisco.

Know someone who'd be great for this?