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Founding Engineer, Environments + Data

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Founding Engineer, Environments + Data in USA

  • San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

  • Design synthetic company environments with realistic email, records, and files for AI agents.
  • Build graders and evaluation systems for assessing agent performance, including performance beyond human reviewers' expertise.
  • Develop benchmarks reflecting real-world production performance.
  • Identify and fix evaluation failures, reward hacking, and benchmark gaming.
  • Simulate software tools such as inboxes and CRMs to support realistic agent interactions at scale.

Requirements

  • Experience building environments or benchmarks used by frontier AI labs to train or evaluate agents.
  • Hands-on experience designing and implementing AI agent graders or evaluation systems.
  • Experience simulating software systems that withstand agent tool use and building synthetic environments for production-like evaluation.
  • Track record of identifying flaws in widely used benchmarks and detecting and fixing reward hacking in graders.
  • Startup or early-stage company experience and strong competitive problem-solving experience in areas such as math, programming, debate, or games.
  • Collaborative approach to ambiguous, fast-paced work and strong conviction in AI agents' potential to perform computer-based work.

Benefits

  • Meaningful founding equity.
  • On-site five days a week in San Francisco, California.
  • Visa sponsorship availability requires confirmation because the supplied details differ.

Salary: $150k - $300k/yr

Clera

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