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hillclimb
Training Data for Recursive Self-Improvement
Member of Technical Staff, Research
$200K - $300K
•
1.00% - 5.00%
•
San Francisco, CA, US
Job type
Full-time
Role
Engineering, Machine learning
Experience
Any (new grads ok)
Visa
US citizen/visa only
Skills
C++, Python, Linux, Distributed Systems, Reinforcement learning (RL), Natural Language Processing
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Jun Park
Founder
About the role
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.
About hillclimb
hillclimb
Founded:
2025
Batch:
F25
Team Size:
4
Status:
Active
Location:
San Francisco
Founders
Jun Park
Founder
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