Staff Software Engineer, RL Environments
Scale AI · San Francisco, CA; New York, NY · San Francisco, CA
CHECKED 15H AGO
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At a glance
Highlights
- Own the platform for building and running RL environments at scale.
- Design verifiers and reward signals that survive adversarial agents.
- Turn real applications into training worlds for frontier models.
Ideal candidate
A hands-on systems builder who thrives in ambiguity and cares about trustworthy training signals. You enjoy owning complex platforms end-to-end while aligning engineers and researchers.
Requirements
- 8+ years software engineering experience with strong fundamentals in distributed systems, system design, data structures and algorithms
- Strong Python skills with track record of shipping production software and comfort in TypeScript/React, Go, Rust or similar
- Deep experience with containerization and sandboxed execution including Docker, VMs, gVisor/Firecracker, Kubernetes or equivalent
- Experience building or operating high-throughput backend systems with orchestration, scheduling, queuing and data pipelines
- Hands-on experience building with LLMs including agent loops, tool calling, MCP or eval harnesses
- Demonstrated ability to own ambiguous problems end-to-end to a shipped system
- Excellent written and verbal communication with ability to align engineers, researchers and partners
Lab profile
About Scale AI
AI data foundry providing high-quality data for training, fine-tuning, and evaluating AI systems.
What they build
- Training, fine-tuning, and evaluation data for frontier models
- Multimodal and coding data for audio, image, video and world models
- Custom AI applications for enterprise and global public sector
Known for
- Leading data partner for frontier model developers
- Trusted across enterprise, defense and public sector
- Depth in multimodal, coding and physical AI
- End-to-end capability from strategy to delivery and evaluation
Key facts
- Founded in 2016
- Headquartered in San Francisco, California
- Private company backed by Accel, Founders Fund, Index Ventures, Nvidia and Meta