Software Engineer

Crossing Hurdles

is a global recruitment firm partnering with a cutting-edge AI infrastructure company pushing the frontier of LLM evaluation and agentic workflows.

Quick Snapshot

Role:

Software Engineer (SWE)

Compensation:

$180K – $220K base (OTE: $410K – $480K) \+ equity

Location:

On-site (San Francisco, CA)

Experience:

1–3 years (full-stack)

Focus:

RL environments, AI infrastructure, LLM evaluation.

What Will You Be Doing

• Build and scale systems across RL environments, APIs, and human-in-the-loop platforms
• Prototype and deploy AI experiments, including distributed systems on Kubernetes
• Develop full-stack applications (Next.js dashboards, analytics pipelines)
• Collaborate closely with research, product, and design to ship quickly
• Solve complex scalability, reliability, and data infrastructure challenges
• Contribute to core systems powering frontier AI labs

Why You Should Consider

• High ownership –

End-to-end ownership across diverse, high-impact projects

• Frontier AI exposure –

Work with leading AI labs on cutting-edge problems

• Massive upside –

Uncapped bonus tied to contract value (avg $8M deals)

• Elite team –

Founders from Citadel, Google, Meta, Morgan Stanley, and more

• High-growth environment –

Early-stage startup with strong traction