Member of Technical Staff - Platform Engineering
About the 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
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.)
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Job details
Salary
$200,000 - $250,000
Equity
0.15% - 0.3%
Location
San Francisco, United States
Experience
3+ 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.
