hillclimb

Training Data for Recursive Self-Improvement

Member of Technical Staff, Research

$200K - $300K1.00% - 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
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
Jun Park
Founder