RL Environments Engineer to $20000

We’re hiring RL Environments Engineers to design and build MLE/SWE environments that deliver high-quality, diverse tasks with minimal supervision. You will target a specific language model, meet a defined difficulty distribution, and deliver about one task every 10 hours. This is a remote contractor role with ≥4 hours overlap to PST and advanced English (C1/C2) required.

Responsibilities

• Design and build MLE/SWE environments and diverse tasks.
• Target a specified language model and satisfy the required difficulty distribution.
• Deliver ~1 task per 8-10 hours once onboarded.
• Edit tasks within 24 hours based on customer feedback.
• Onboard quickly and start delivering on day one with minimal supervision.
  
   

Requirements

What we’re looking for (must-haves)

• Strong Python (engineering-quality, not notebook-only).
• Hands-on LLM/GenAI work in production: you’ve shipped and operated real systems (not “wrapped an API and called it AI”).
• Strong product/engineering ownership: comfortable building, fixing, and scaling end-to-end pipelines.
• Docker + production mindset (debugging, reliability, iteration speed).
• ≥4 hours PST overlap and advanced English (C1/C2) for specs, reviews, and feedback.
• Ability to meet throughput expectations and respond quickly to feedback.
   

Strong signals (nice-to-have, big plus)

• Experience designing environments/tasks for RL and/or evaluations.
• Experience in high-stakes or regulated domains (e.g., healthcare, finance, fraud/risk, safety-critical systems).
• ML systems experience: CI/CD, monitoring, evaluation harnesses, MLOps, scalable pipelines.
• Systems depth: C++/Rust/Scala/Java, performance/infra optimization, distributed systems.
• Exposure to RL / bandits / agentic systems (not required, but a strong signal).
   

Not a fit if

• You’re primarily a prompt engineer without strong ML/engineering foundations.
• You’re a research-only / academic-only profile with little or no shipping/production ownership.
• You’ve only built in notebooks or rely heavily on managed AutoML tools.
  
   

Working Conditions

• Remote, independent contractor engagement.
   
• 40 hours/week - full time - need 4 hours overlap in the working hours with the team in Pacific time zone;
• Deliverables-driven; begin shipping on day one.

Conversion & relocation: Potential path to FTE and relocation to the Bay Area if performance and mutual fit align.