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Member of Technical Staff - Research

hillclimb

San Francisco, California, United StatesFull TimeResearch$150K - $200K
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Posted October 15, 2026

About Hillclimb

Hillclimb's mission is to improve agent capabilities towards recursive self-improvement. To do so, we work on creating environments and evals that test and push frontier models' ability to ideate, experiment, and produce impactful research.

We're a founding team of former DeepMind & quant researchers, backed by Tier 1 VCs, Jeff Dean, Paul Graham, Amjad Masad, and angel investors from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, xAI & Meta Superintelligence Labs.

 

About this role:

Your work will consist of the following and many more:

  • Turn ML research problems into environments that reward a model for real progress and good research taste

  • Test whether each environment's reward is repeatable and tracks the quality of the work it scores

  • Build systems that create environments at scale and catch broken ones before they reach training

  • Run post-training experiments to find which environments are trainable

     

Preferred Experience:

  • Prior experience with LLMs, RL, RLHF/RLAIF, RLVR, post-training, evals, graders, synthetic data, model training, or coding agents at a frontier/data lab

  • Understanding of what makes a reward evaluation trustworthy, and how models exploit one that is not

  • Background in designing automated systems for building, validating, and quality checking environments.

     

Benefits:

  • Health, dental, vision insurance

  • Competitive 401k match

  • Free lunch & dinner

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