Software Engineer

  • Palo Alto, California, United States
  • Full-Time
  • On-Site
  • 150,000-175,000 USD / Year

Job Description:

San Francisco, CA · Palo Alto, CA · On-site (remote for truly exceptional candidates) · Full-time

Compensation: $150,000–$175,000 + 0–1% equity

About the Company

An early-stage AI company building RL training data and task-construction infrastructure for frontier AI labs, and deploying custom AI agents for enterprises and health systems. The team is scaling both its task-generation pipeline and its agent-deployment business.

Founded 2025 · 1–10 people (Seed) · Industry: AI Tools

The Role

Accelerate task creation for the company's RL training pipeline — a specialist role at the intersection of engineering, task design, and system architecture.

What you'll be doing

  • Own task construction: design and build long-horizon, high-difficulty RL tasks that meet specifications within time constraints
  • Build internal tools and infrastructure to help contractors create tasks faster and at higher quality
  • Contribute to custom agent implementations for enterprise customers and health systems
  • Own one core technical domain deeply (DevOps, MLE, systems design, Rust, algorithms, or full-stack) and lead that division of engineering tasks
  • Ship and iterate on systems that power the core task-generation pipeline

Tech stack: Not specified.

Requirements

  • 1 to 5 years engineering experience, flexible for exceptional candidates
  • Deep specialization in one domain (DevOps, MLE, system design, Rust, algorithms, or equivalent)
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals alongside the specialization
  • Palo Alto/SF in-person preferred; remote open for truly exceptional candidates
  • Startup pace 9am–9pm, six days a week; high-ownership role reporting to CTO

Green Flags

  • Rare depth in one engineering area
  • Grit and execution velocity
  • Specialist who can also lead a division

Red Flags

  • No clear specialization or jack-of-all-trades only
  • Cannot articulate their specialization clearly

Why Join

  • Build the RL task infrastructure that trains and evaluates frontier models
  • Specialist, high-ownership seat reporting directly to the CTO, owning a full division of engineering work
  • Perks: 1% equity, lunch or dinner in office, health insurance, Bay Club or Equinox membership

Details

  • Location: San Francisco, CA · Palo Alto, CA
  • Work policy: In-person preferred; remote for truly exceptional candidates
  • Schedule: 9am–9pm, six days a week
  • Compensation: $150,000–$175,000 + equity
  • Visa sponsorship: H-1B, OPT
  • Employment type: Full-time