Member of Technical Staff - Forward Deployed Engineer
About the role
We are looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer with 1-5 years of experience to serve as the technical bridge between frontier AI labs (Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, Google) and our internal platform team. You'll sit in weekly meetings with researchers at the world's top labs, translate their requirements into RL training environments, and ship software that directly drives multi-million dollar projects at a YC-backed company that's grown from $0 to $42M ARR in under 8 months.
What will you be doing?
- Sitting in customer meetings with researchers at frontier AI labs to understand their RL environment requirements and translate them into technical specs
- Building 0→1 prototypes and custom environments/tooling for specific customer engagements before they become platform features
- Working in pods with Strategic Project Leads (SPLs) — owning the technical quality, engineering, and productionization of project requirements
- Enforcing quality standards for RL tasks and ensuring training environments meet the bar for frontier model improvement
- Unblocking delivery through integration work, technical debugging, and making design choices for custom projects without breaking the core platform
About Halluminate
Halluminate provides fully managed environments and benchmarks so teams can train computer agents with superhuman capabilities.
We're working with frontier labs to train the Financial Services Super Intelligence. We do this by building high quality computer and tool-use RL gyms to train AI agents that do work across financial services verticals. (ex. excel modeling, powerpoint creation and more in Investment Banking, Private Equity, Hedge Funds, etc.)
Required skills
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Job details
Salary
$200,000 - $275,000
Equity
0.15% - 0.3%
Location
San Francisco, United States
Experience
1+ years
Company
Funding
Total raised
$530K
Last stage
Seed
Investors
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
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
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.