Research Engineer Intern

Hillclimb advances AGI by building math-focused reinforcement learning environments with top mathematicians for high-quality data.

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Research Engineer Intern · HILLCLIMB

Job title: Research Engineer Intern
Job location: San Francisco, CA, US
Job listing URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/hillclimb/jobs/bJrjQdO-research-engineer-intern
Job description: ### **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.

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Where this role is based

San Francisco, CA

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HILLCLIMB headquarters

Weatherly, PA

Company size

1–10 employees

Founded

2025

Total raised

$500,000

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