Jobs at Idler

Special Projects Operators at idler are responsible for managing the relationships and operations connecting experts to data production. This role involves recruiting, onboarding, and managing experts, as well as building systems and tooling to automate these processes, blending project management with engineering.

As a Design Engineer at idler, you will be responsible for the visual design and user experience of customer-facing and internal applications. This role involves creating beautiful and user-friendly interfaces, interactions, and marketing materials for novel RL environments, requiring a blend of high-level thinking, design taste, and engineering precision.

Research Scientist at idler responsible for measuring and improving how models learn from tasks. This role involves collaborating with frontier labs to validate data quality, identify areas for improvement, and create new datasets, with a focus on maximizing learning signal per unit of time.

Forward Deployed Engineer at Idler, a frontier data research lab. This role involves being a customer-facing technical expert who owns the system for turning partner work into evals and RL environments. Responsibilities include working with AI labs to understand their needs, building infrastructure to model workflows, and managing partnerships.

Software Engineer at idler, a frontier data research lab. This role involves designing and building scalable systems for RL environments, creating agentic QA systems, handling petabyte-scale ETL, and orchestrating millions of concurrent jobs. The focus is on systems-level thinking, performance, scale, and simplicity in the era of AI-coding.