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Halluminate (YC S25) · 3 weeks ago

Founding Member of Technical Staff

positionSan Francisco, CA
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
seniorityLead/Staff
money$150K/yr - $250K/yr

Halluminate is an applied AI and data company focused on training Financial Services Super Intelligence. They are looking for a Founding Member of Technical Staff to own platform engineering and develop advanced RL environments while building the engineering organization from the ground up.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Information TechnologySoftware

Responsibilities

Building software to 10-100x the quality and throughput of RL environment creation
Create platform analytics to track data on our RL environment costs, hours, bottlenecks, and subject matter expert management
Crafting domain-specific verifiers for financial services verticals and beyond (ex. verifiable rewards for powerpoint building, excel modeling, quantitative trading)
Research and develop next-generation RL environments that are increasingly realistic, long-horizon, and difficult for frontier models
Establish engineering culture and practices from the ground up

Qualification

Reinforcement LearningAI coding toolsProduct ownershipClient-facing capabilitiesStartup experienceResearch backgroundData company experienceSide projects in AI

Required

Familiarity building evaluation / benchmark / RL for AI agents
Smart usage of AI coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, etc. while also implementing best practice testing / code quality attention to detail
Startup Speed: Iterate quick, ask questions quick, respond to messages quick, make mistakes quick
Product / user ownership, ability to prioritize between a large roadmap of features
Client-facing capabilities - you need to be comfortable talking to users/customers

Preferred

Research backgrounds (ex. training models, publishing papers)
Experience with early-stage startups
Previous experience working with data companies (ex. Surge, Mercor, Handshake)
Side projects involving AI Agents / RL

Benefits

Fully covered healthcare coverage for yourself and dependents (Medical, Dental, Vision)
Relocation Stipend ($10k)

Company

Halluminate (YC S25)

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Halluminate provides fully managed environments and benchmarks so teams can train computer agents with superhuman capabilities.
dateFounded in 2024
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size2-10 employees
web-link
https://halluminate.ai

Funding

Current Stage
Early Stage
Total Funding
$0.5M
Key Investors
Y Combinator
2025-09-09Pre Seed· $0.5M
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