Founding Research Engineer

San Francisco 26 days agoFull-time External
2.1k - 2.8k / yr
About The LLM Data Company The LLM Data Company (YC X25) provides post-training data and RL environments to foundation model labs and frontier applied AI companies. We have raised $3.6m from Tier 1 VCs and are growing 200%+ month-over-month. Responsibilities • Design and implement scalable RL recipes for post-training task-specific models • Develop modular environments, reward functions, and evaluator scaffolds for internal and customer-facing tasks • Drive research at the intersection of scalable infra and modern RL frameworks to enable RL-as-a-service • Drive foundational research to publish open source environments and training data • Build data generation and curation pipelines to support frontier post-training • Collaborate with product teams to deliver a user friendly interface for non-technical users to generate data Qualifications • Bachelor or Master in Computer Science or related field • Comfort with core tooling (verl, PyTorch, etc.) • Familiarity with modern post-training techniques (GRPO, etc.) • Experience with evaluations and reward engineering • Published in top journals (ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML, etc.) Why you should join • Cutting-edge research: Work on unpublished, novel training environments • Direct lab exposure: Projects that labs actually use and validate in production • High autonomy: Wide design space to propose and run experiments with minimal oversight • Early team member: Join as one of the first 10 people with significant equity upside