Founding Member of Technical Staff - Research / Post-Training

Halluminate

  • San Francisco, California
  • 30+ days ago

    Highlights

    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. Contribute to core platform engineering as needed — AI tooling, data collection pipelines, partnering with environment and reward designers.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationSan Francisco, California
    Websitehttps://www.halluminate.ai/

    Description

    About Halluminate

    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.

    The role

    Base: $200–275k · Equity: 0.25–0.5% · Location: San Francisco, in-person

    Lead our in-house research and post-training efforts.

    Responsibilities

    • Train open-source frontier models on our in-house environments to validate quality and build research insights.

    • Lead our public-facing benchmark and leaderboard efforts for frontier models.

    • Publish findings in blogs and papers to share with the broader research community.

    • Contribute to core platform engineering as needed — AI tooling, data collection pipelines, partnering with environment and reward designers.

    • Build our engineering team culture from the ground up.

    You should have

    • Experience in model post-training.

    • Experience publishing papers and sharing open research.

    • Familiarity building evaluations, benchmarks, or RL for AI agents.

    • Startup speed: iterate quick, ask quick, respond quick.

    • Strong product and user ownership.

    • Client-facing comfort — you'll talk to users, customers, and SMEs.

    Nice to have

    • Former founders or experience at early-stage startups.

    What we offer

    • Healthcare — Fully covered medical, dental, and vision for you. Subsidized for dependents.

    • Relocation — $10k+ relocation stipend to help you get to San Francisco.

    • 401(k) — Up to 4% employer match.

    • Food — Free breakfast, lunch, and dinner while working.

    • Health — Free gym membership.

    • Transportation — Free Ubers and Waymo rides to and from the office.

    • Visa sponsorship — We sponsor visas, including H-1B.

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