About the role
About This Role:
Hillclimb is looking for a research engineer to join the team to assist with the following objectives:
- Synthetic data generation pipelines to create RL environments.
- Creating pipelines to ensure quality on generated environments.
Preferred Experience:
- Strong understanding of foundational NLP & RL Techniques.
- Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and system design.
- Proficiency in modern programming languages (Python, C++, or similar) on Linux systems, with experience building large-scale services, infrastructure tooling, or distributed systems.
- Ability to reason about trade-offs between performance, reliability, and maintainability.
- General SWE experiences and experience with LLM training is a bonus.
About hillclimb
Training Data for Recursive Self-Improvement
Required skills
C++
Python
Linux
Distributed Systems
Reinforcement learning (RL)
Natural Language Processing
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Job details
Salary
$10,000 - $10,000
Location
San Francisco, CA
Funding
Total raised
$500K
Last stage
Seed
Investors
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
01
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
02
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
03
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.