Halluminate is an applied AI and data company building computer-use and tool-use RL gyms to train AI agents on real financial services work — Excel modeling, pitch decks, and everything investment banking, private equity, and hedge funds rely on. We work with frontier labs, graduated from Y Combinator (S25), and raised a seed round to scale the team.
Base: $150–225k · Equity: 0.15–0.30% · Location: San Francisco, in-person
Own and lead the development of frontier training gyms for finance verticals. Ideal for finance analysts or associates with deep interest or expertise in AI/ML.
Define and prioritize the training-gym roadmap based on real-world finance experience.
Build end-to-end systems and processes from scratch to support $MMs in revenue this year.
Own delivery and quality criteria for data and environments shipped to customers.
Recruit and train our contractor finance staff.
Create training materials for AI systems (modeling exercises, pitch decks, etc.).
Partner with frontier engineering and research teams to implement and deliver gyms.
Experience teaching and giving feedback on modeling, decks, or client deliverables.
A track record of owning end-to-end deliverables for live deals.
Experience leading large teams and owning deadlines for big projects.
An ability to learn deeply technical concepts in ML, AI, data, and engineering.
Comfort using coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code) to build platforms and speed up processes.
Engineering background (e.g. CS).
Experience with early-stage startups.
Healthcare — Fully covered medical, dental, and vision for you. Subsidized for dependents.
Relocation — $10k+ relocation stipend to help you get to San Francisco.
401(k) — Up to 4% employer match.
Food — Free breakfast, lunch, and dinner while working.
Health — Free gym membership.
Transportation — Free Ubers and Waymo rides to and from the office.
Visa sponsorship — We sponsor visas, including H-1B.
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.)
Senior Recruiter
Member of Technical Staff - Forward Deployed Engineer
People Platform Lead
Member of Technical Staff - Research / Post-Training
Member of Technical Staff - Platform Engineering
Salary
$150,000 - $225,000
Equity
0.15% - 0.3%
Location
San Francisco
Experience
5+ years
Total raised
$530K
Last stage
Seed
Investors
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.