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IdlerIdlerSan Francisco, CA

Staff Software Engineer

Designs and builds scalable agentic systems for generating and QA'ing reinforcement learning environments that teach AI models to code. Leads core technology primitives, owns full stack, and mentors juniors with 8+ years experience.

300k – 400k/yr
On-site8+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Build agentic systems that create and QA coding environments at scale
  • Design these systems to be extremely sound
  • Think critically about what makes a coding environment and task "good" and "fair"
  • Design and build scalable systems that generate RL environments
  • Create automated QA systems to validate environment quality and fairness
  • Work directly with AI researchers at leading labs to understand what makes training data effective
  • Support new product lines as we expand beyond coding environments

Staff Engineer Responsibilities & Requirements

  • 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

Tech Stack

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • NodeJS
  • Postgres
  • Redis
  • Vercel
  • Cursor

Benefits

  • Healthcare coverage
  • 401(k)
  • 15 days PTO
  • Meals, coffee, and snacks covered during working days
  • Latest MacBook Pro and equipment
  • Relocation assistance available
  • Team offsites and events

Skills

TypeScriptReactNode.jsPostgresRedisVercelCursorReinforcement LearningRl EnvironmentsAutomated Qa Systems
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