Founding Senior Research Engineer at The LLM Data Company (X25)
$200K - $275K  •  0.50% - 2.00%
Post-training Data Research
San Francisco
Full-time
US citizen/visa only
3+ years
About The LLM Data Company

The LLM Data Company is a YC X25 company creating post-training data and RL environments for AI labs and applied AI companies. We have raised $3.6m from Tier 1 VCs and are growing 200%+ month-over-month.

About the role
Skills: Python, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Reinforcement learning (RL)

About The LLM Data Company

The LLM Data Company (YC X25) provides post-training data and RL environments to foundation model labs and frontier applied AI companies. We have raised $3.6m from Tier 1 VCs and are growing 200%+ month-over-month.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement scalable RL recipes for post-training task-specific models

  • Develop modular environments, reward functions, and evaluator scaffolds for internal and customer-facing tasks

  • Drive research at the intersection of scalable infra and modern RL frameworks to enable RL-as-a-service

  • Drive foundational research to publish open source environments and training data

  • Build data generation and curation pipelines to support frontier post-training

  • Collaborate with product teams to deliver a user friendly interface for non-technical users to generate data

Qualifications

  • Master or PhD in Computer Science or related field

  • Comfort with core tooling (verl, PyTorch, etc.)

  • Familiarity with modern post-training techniques (GRPO, etc.)

  • Experience with evaluations and reward engineering

  • Published in top journals (ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML, etc.)

Why you should join

  • Cutting-edge research : Work on unpublished, novel training environments

  • Direct lab exposure : Projects that labs actually use and validate in production

  • High autonomy : Wide design space to propose and run experiments with minimal oversight

  • Early team member : Join as one of the first 10 people with significant equity upside

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