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Staff Software Engineer, RL Environments

Scale AI · San Francisco, CA; New York, NY · San Francisco, CA

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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
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