Idler

Forward Deployed Engineer

Idler
Apply
2 hours ago

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end product pipeline, including modeling customer demand and partnership opportunities and shaping the product roadmap.
  • Work directly with AI researchers and organizational leaders to understand workflows, identify model capability gaps, and propose what to build next.
  • Build reusable, robust technical infrastructure that precisely models entire organizational workflows as evaluation datasets and reinforcement learning environments.
  • Manage the technical and relational sides of customer and partner lifecycles.
  • Create tooling and systems that make each customer or partner onboarding process more repeatable and efficient.
  • Advocate for customer and partner needs across the team and take ownership of outcomes.

Requirements

  • Strong engineering foundation from a rigorous technical environment.
  • Advanced proficiency in at least one modern programming language, such as Python or TypeScript, with experience writing and debugging production systems.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to work with senior researchers and non-technical executives.
  • Track record of exceptional performance in academic, athletic, professional, or entrepreneurial pursuits.
  • Comfort with ambiguity, intensity, and sustained effort when required.
  • Willingness to travel.

Benefits

  • In-person role in San Francisco.
  • Competitive salary and meaningful equity.
  • Free meals in the office.
  • Healthcare benefits.
  • 401(k).
  • 15 days of paid time off per year.
  • Relocation assistance.
  • Opportunity to join a small, ambitious founding team.

Categories

Forward Deployed
Idler

About Idler

1-10 employees

Idler builds reinforcement learning environments that teach AI models to code at expert human levels. We create training environments based on real-world coding scenarios that prepare models for the complex challenges they'll face in production.

Contact me