Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Surge AI partners with the world's leading AI labs to build the benchmarks and RL environments that train and evaluate frontier models. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build coding RL environments and benchmarks, design tasks, and provide feedback to improve model outputs.
Responsibilities
- Build coding RL environments and benchmarks that test how agents perform on realistic software engineering tasks
- Design tasks based on real engineering work
- Review and red-team model output to surface meaningful failures
- Write the tests, rubrics, and success criteria that separate good work from slop
- Give structured feedback that improves future models
Skills
- Professional software engineering experience shipping real, scaled production systems
- Expertise in at least one common tech stack (TypeScript, Python, Ruby, PHP, Java, Rust, Go, or C++)
- Strong judgment about what 'good code' and a 'meaningful model failure' look like
- Comfort working independently, and giving direct, code-review-style feedback
- Availability for a meaningful commitment (most contributors work 20 to 40+ hours per week)
Benefits
- Paid first real task. Do well, and you're on the team.
- Fully remote, any time zone
- You choose when and where you work
- No managers, 1:1s, OKR ceremonies, or Jira backlog grooming
- You are judged on the quality of what you produce, not speed
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