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Help us train financial superintelligence.

Halluminate is an applied AI and data company building computer-use and tool-use RL gyms to train AI agents on real financial services work — Excel modeling, pitch decks, and everything investment banking, private equity, and hedge funds rely on. We work with frontier labs, graduated from Y Combinator (S25), and raised a seed round to scale the team.

San Francisco · Full-time, in-person · Visa sponsorship available

Strategic Project Lead

Financial Services

  • Base $150–225k
  • Equity 0.25–0.5%
  • Location SF, in-person

Own and lead the development of frontier training gyms for finance verticals. Ideal for finance analysts or associates with deep interest or expertise in AI/ML.

Responsibilities

  • Define and prioritize the training-gym roadmap based on real-world finance experience.
  • Build end-to-end systems and processes from scratch to support $MMs in revenue this year.
  • Own delivery and quality criteria for data and environments shipped to customers.
  • Recruit and train our contractor finance staff.
  • Create training materials for AI systems (modeling exercises, pitch decks, etc.).
  • Partner with frontier engineering and research teams to implement and deliver gyms.

You should have

  • Experience teaching and giving feedback on modeling, decks, or client deliverables.
  • A track record of owning end-to-end deliverables for live deals.
  • Experience leading large teams and owning deadlines for big projects.
  • An ability to learn deeply technical concepts in ML, AI, data, and engineering.
  • Comfort using coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code) to build platforms and speed up processes.

Nice to have

  • Engineering background (e.g. CS).
  • Experience with early-stage startups.
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Founding Member of Technical Staff

Platform Engineering

  • Base $150–250k
  • Equity 0.25–0.5%
  • Location SF, 5 days in office

Own platform engineering, develop frontier long-horizon RL environments, and help build our engineering org from the ground up.

Responsibilities

  • Build our RL environment training and inference infrastructure to support customer usage at scale.
  • Research and develop next-generation RL environments — increasingly realistic, long-horizon, and difficult for frontier models.
  • Build software that 10–100x's the quality and throughput of RL environment creation.
  • Innovate on synthetic data pipelines to create realistic problems.
  • Build platform analytics for environment cost, hours, bottlenecks, and SME management.
  • Craft domain-specific verifiers (verifiable rewards for decks, Excel modeling, quantitative trading, and beyond).
  • Establish engineering culture and practices from the ground up.

You should have

  • Familiarity building evaluations, benchmarks, or RL for AI agents.
  • Startup speed: iterate quick, ask quick, respond quick, make mistakes quick.
  • Strong product and user ownership; ability to prioritize across a large roadmap.
  • Client-facing comfort — you'll talk to users, customers, and SMEs.

Nice to have

  • Research background (training models, publishing papers).
  • Former founders or experience at early-stage startups.
Apply via email

Founding Member of Technical Staff

Research / Post-Training

  • Base $200–275k
  • Equity 0.25–0.5%
  • Location SF, in-person

Lead our in-house research and post-training efforts.

Responsibilities

  • Train open-source frontier models on our in-house environments to validate quality and build research insights.
  • Lead our public-facing benchmark and leaderboard efforts for frontier models.
  • Publish findings in blogs and papers to share with the broader research community.
  • Contribute to core platform engineering as needed — AI tooling, data collection pipelines, partnering with environment and reward designers.
  • Build our engineering team culture from the ground up.

You should have

  • Experience in model post-training.
  • Experience publishing papers and sharing open research.
  • Familiarity building evaluations, benchmarks, or RL for AI agents.
  • Startup speed: iterate quick, ask quick, respond quick.
  • Strong product and user ownership.
  • Client-facing comfort — you'll talk to users, customers, and SMEs.

Nice to have

  • Former founders or experience at early-stage startups.
Apply via email

Benefits

What we offer.

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