Member of Technical Staff - Platform Engineering

San Francisco, United States
Full-time
Visa Sponsorship

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.)

Required skills

Python
TypeScript
Docker
AWS
AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor)
LLM tooling (LangGraph, Mastra, Agents SDK)

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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

NameHalluminate
Industryai, data, finance, financial_services, enterprise
Team Size10

Funding

Total raised

$530K

Last stage

Seed

Investors

Y Combinator
AAntigravity Capital

Founders

SS

Suchintan Singh

Research Lead

Jerry Wu

Jerry Wu

LinkedIn
Wyatt Marshall

Wyatt Marshall

LinkedIn

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.