Idler

Idler

Staff Software Engineer

San Francisco · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 251 days ago
TypeScriptReactNode.jsPostgreSQLRedisRESTAgentic AI

About the role

  • Our training environments are based on real-world coding scenarios that frontier models will actually encounter.
  • We've closed a multimillion-dollar contract with a leading foundation lab (the largest they've issued to date).
  • Most of your day will be spent designing these systems to be extremely sound.

Responsibilities

  • Build agentic systems that create and QA coding environments at scale.
  • Design and build scaleable systems that generate RL environments
  • Create automated QA systems to validate environment quality and fairness
  • Support new product lines as we expand beyond coding environments
  • Lead the process of identifying, specifying, and implementing core technology primitives that maximize the leverage of the rest of the team.
  • Understand and own the technology stack end-to-end.
  • Lead and mentor more junior members of the team.
  • Demand is outpacing our capacity to deliver, so we're scaling the team fast.

Skills

  • Typescript, React, NodeJS, Postgres, Redis, Vercel, Cursor

Benefits

  • Healthcare coverage, 401(k), and 15 days PTO.
  • Idler builds reinforcement learning environments that teach AI models to code like 0.01% engineers.

Company info

  • A big part of our work is thinking critically about what makes a coding environment and task "good" and "fair".

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