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Member of Technical Staff - Platform Engineering

Halluminate · San Francisco · On-site

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About Halluminate

Halluminate builds RL environments for financial services — computer-use and tool-use gyms that train frontier AI models on real investment banking, private equity, and consulting work. Backed by Y Combinator and Alchemist.

About the role

Base: $200–275k · Equity: 0.15–0.30% · Location: San Francisco, 5 days in office Own platform engineering, develop frontier long-horizon RL environments, and help build our engineering org from the ground up.

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Halluminate is an applied AI and data company building computer-use and tool-use RL gyms to train AI agents on real financial services work — Excel modeling, pitch decks, and everything investment banking, private equity, and hedge funds rely on. We work with frontier labs, graduated from Y Combinator (S25), and raised a seed round to scale the team.

Base: $200–275k · Equity: 0.15–0.30% · Location: San Francisco, 5 days in office

Own platform engineering, develop frontier long-horizon RL environments, and help build our engineering org from the ground up.

Build our RL environment training and inference infrastructure to support customer usage at scale.

Research and develop next-generation RL environments — increasingly realistic, long-horizon, and difficult for frontier models.

Build software that 10–100x's the quality and throughput of RL environment creation.

Innovate on synthetic data pipelines to create realistic problems.

Build platform analytics for environment cost, hours, bottlenecks, and SME management.

Craft domain-specific verifiers (verifiable rewards for decks, Excel modeling, quantitative trading, and beyond).

Establish engineering culture and practices from the...

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