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?