CareerPlan

Founding Engineer, Environments + Data

San FranciscoFull-time$200k–$300k2026-11-05 → 2026-11-09
On-siteVisa sponsorship offered

Core

Design synthetic company environments, build graders and evaluation systems, and develop benchmarks to measure AI agent performance against real-world tasks.

Role type

Founding engineer specializing in AI agent evaluation environments and benchmarks

Builds

Synthetic evaluation environments, graders, and benchmarks for AI agents

Domain

Frontier AI / Agent Evaluation

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Synthetic data pipelines, benchmark design, evaluation system implementation, reward hacking detection, software system simulation, model post-training

Preferred skills

High-level competition experience in mathematics, programming, debate, or games

Technologies

Synthetic data pipelines, evaluation systems, software simulation tools

Responsibilities

Design synthetic company environments with realistic data, build graders for advanced agents, develop benchmarks correlating with production performance, identify and fix evaluation failure modes, simulate software tools for agent interactions

Seniority

Founding, hands-on IC