Founding Member of Technical Staff - Platform Engineering
Halluminate — Data and RL environments to automate knowledge work
About the role
ABOUT HALLUMINATE
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.
THE ROLE
Base: $150–250k · Equity: 0.25–0.5% · Location: San Francisco, 5 days in office
Own platform engineering, develop frontier long-horizon RL environments, and help build our engineering org from the ground up.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Build our RL environment training and inference infrastructure to support customer usage at scale.
- Research and develop next-generation RL environments — increasingly realistic, long-horizon, and difficult for frontier models.
- Build software that 10–100x's the quality and throughput of RL environment creation.
- Innovate on synthetic data pipelines to create realistic problems.
- Build platform analytics for environment cost, hours, bottlenecks, and SME management.
- Craft domain-specific verifiers (verifiable rewards for decks, Excel modeling, quantitative trading, and beyond).
- Establish engineering culture and practices from the ground up.
YOU SHOULD HAVE
- Familiarity building evaluations, benchmarks, or RL for AI agents.
- Startup speed: iterate quick, ask quick, respond quick, make mistakes quick.
- Strong product and user ownership; ability to prioritize across a large roadmap.
- Client-facing comfort — you'll talk to users, customers, and SMEs.
NICE TO HAVE
- Research background (training models, publishing papers).
- Former founders or experience at early-stage startups.
WHAT WE OFFER
- 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.
What the index says about this role
- First seen by JobLarper — Aug 2, 2026, 6 days ago. Older postings collect hundreds of applicants — a tailored résumé matters more the longer a role has been live.
- Halluminate is hiring actively — 3 open roles indexed.
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