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Founding Research Engineer

The LLM Data Company (YC X25)

The LLM Data Company (YC X25)

San Francisco, CA, USA
USD 150k-200k / year + Equity
Posted on Dec 17, 2025

Location

San Francisco

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

On-site

Department

Engineering

Compensation

  • $150K – $200K • 0.5% – 1%

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

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  • Cutting-edge research: Work on unpublished, novel training environments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

Compensation Range: $150K - $200K