Software Engineer (SWE)
AI Talent Now job # ZR_98_JOB
One week you might prototype a new RL environment from a research paper, the next you’ll be deploying distributed experiments on Kubernetes, and the week after you’ll be improving the reliability of our Next.js dashboards or building a Kafka pipeline for annotator analytics.
What You’ll Do
Design and build scalable systems: RL environments, APIs, and human-in-the-loop platforms.
Collaborate across research, product, and design to ship features quickly.
Write clean, maintainable code and contribute to documentation.
Participate in code reviews and design discussions
Solve real-world scalability and reliability challenges.
Contribute to the core infrastructure powering data and evaluation for leading AI labs.
Requirements
1 - 4 years of experience as a fullstack SWE
Experience at S-tier VC-backed startup, reputable trading firm, or founding engineer at company that has raised $2.5M+. If big tech only, must have CS degree from top-10 CS program (e.g., Berkeley, CMU).
If candidate comes from a startup, startup MUST be HIGH GROWTH
Experience at human data AI company (e.g., Surge AI, Snorkel AI, Micro1, Mercor).
Degree from top-30 school (US/CA/EUR only).
Fullstack capability: Next.js/React, Node.js/Python, Kubernetes
Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch
Experience building something end-to-end with a bias towards ownership
Ability to be "client facing" with AI lab researchers
Willing to work 5 days a week (M-F) in our FiDi (SF) office. Flexible working hours (e.g., can come in whenever preferred).
Benefits
This company is collaborating with all 5 leading AI labs
Candidates will recommend data and infrastructure that shapes next-generation agentic workflows, focusing on the hardest, most advanced problems to solve (not commodity)
Work at a larger scale than most AI companies: Currently 8 figure revenue with hockey-stick growth trajectory
Candidates will have outsized impact, shaping core systems from day 1
Talent dense team with founders from top quantitative finance (Citadel Securities) and IB/PE (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Silver Lake)
YC Winter 2025: $3M raised, $40M cap, expecting $20-30M Series A shortly
Fast-paced culture with open-communication and quick iteration and a tight-knit team that likes each other