hillclimb

Training Data for Recursive Self-Improvement

Hiring — 4 openYC-F25B2B -> Engineering, Product and DesignEarly

What hillclimb does

We work with frontier AI labs to help train their agents to become AI research scientists

4 open roles

Member of Technical Staff, Research
San Francisco, CA, USFull-timeAny (new grads ok)$200K - $300K1.00% - 5.00% equityVisa: US citizen/visa only
What the role involves

About This Role: Hillclimb is looking for a research engineer to join the team to assist with the following objectives: Synthetic data generation pipelines to create RL environments. Creating pipelines to ensure quality on generated environments. Preferred Experience: Strong understanding of foundational NLP & RL Techniques. Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and system design. Proficiency in modern programming languages (Python, C++, or similar) on Linux systems, with experience building large-scale services, infrastructure tooling, or distributed systems. Ability to reason about trade-offs between performance, reliability, and maintainability. General SWE experiences and experience with LLM training is a bonus.

C++PythonLinuxDistributed SystemsReinforcement learning (RL)Natural Language Processing
Member of Technical Staff, SWE
San Francisco, CA, USFull-timeAny (new grads ok)$200K - $300K1.00% - 5.00% equityVisa: US citizen/visa only
What the role involves

About This Role: Hillclimb is looking for a data/software engineer to join the team to assist with the following objectives: Designing and curating data pipelines for RL environments Create infrastructure for Hillclimb’s data platform Preferred Experience: Strong software engineering fundamentals, with experience building production systems end to end Proficiency in Python, with experience designing clean APIs, services, and internal tools Experience with data pipelines, databases, object storage, and observability Experience with Docker, cloud infrastructure, CI, job orchestration, or distributed execution systems

PythonDocker
Research Engineer Intern
San Francisco, CA, USInternship$10K / monthlyVisa: US citizen/visa only
What the role involves

About This Role: Hillclimb is looking for a research engineer to join the team to assist with the following objectives: Synthetic data generation pipelines to create RL environments. Creating pipelines to ensure quality on generated environments. Preferred Experience: Strong understanding of foundational NLP & RL Techniques. Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and system design. Proficiency in modern programming languages (Python, C++, or similar) on Linux systems, with experience building large-scale services, infrastructure tooling, or distributed systems. Ability to reason about trade-offs between performance, reliability, and maintainability. General SWE experiences and experience with LLM training is a bonus.

C++PythonLinuxDistributed SystemsReinforcement learning (RL)Natural Language Processing
Software Engineer Intern
San Francisco, CA, USInternship$10K / monthlyVisa: US citizen/visa only
What the role involves

About This Role: Hillclimb is looking for a data/software engineer to join the team to assist with the following objectives: Designing and curating data pipelines for RL environments Create infrastructure for Hillclimb’s data platform Preferred Experience: Strong software engineering fundamentals, with experience building production systems end to end Proficiency in Python, with experience designing clean APIs, services, and internal tools Experience with data pipelines, databases, object storage, and observability Experience with Docker, cloud infrastructure, CI, job orchestration, or distributed execution systems

PythonDocker

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