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Software Engineer, RL Data

San Francisco💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-27 → 2026-09-26

Core

Designing tasks, rewards, and environments to train frontier coding agents using reinforcement learning on real user data.

Role type

Software Engineer (RL Data)

Builds

Training datasets, task sets, reward systems, and evaluation environments for coding agents.

Domain

AI/ML, Reinforcement Learning, Software Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Software engineering fundamentals, distributed systems, data engineering, task design, failure mode analysis, data quality improvement

Preferred skills

Reinforcement learning experience, research partnership

Technologies

N/A

Responsibilities

Designing task sets to teach specific agent capabilities, analyzing agent traces to identify failure modes, building systems to surface specific behaviors, converting one-off recipes into reusable tools, partnering with research on dataset effectiveness

Seniority

Mid-level, hands-on IC

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