Idler
Software Engineer
San Francisco · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 282 days ago
TypeScriptReactNode.jsBackend DevelopmentPostgreSQLRedisAgentic AIDesign SystemsTest Automation
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).
- We're a tight-knit founding team and we play to win.
Responsibilities
- Build UI components and backend services for environment generation and validation
- Implement automated testing and QA workflows
- The founding team, a founding engineer, and a small group of engineers (we're hiring quickly). You'll learn directly from people building at the cutting edge of AI training.
- Build features and tooling for our agentic systems that create and QA coding environments.
- You'll learn directly from people building at the cutting edge of AI training.
- 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
- You'll work alongside senior engineers and the founding team, learning how to design systems that are both technically sound and philosophically robust.
- 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 "good" and "fair".
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