Founding RL Engineer
True Talent Solutions Partners · Posted Nov 9, 2026
- San Francisco, California, United States
- On-site
- Full-time
- $125K–$200K per year
- 3+ years
First engineering hire at an early-stage AI company, building reinforcement learning environments and AI agents.
Compensation
Base salary is $125,000 to $200,000 annually. OTE (on-target earnings, base plus variable) is $225,000 to $400,000.
Responsibilities
- Build reinforcement learning environments and tasks using voice and enterprise data.
- Develop and deploy AI agents for enterprise customers.
- Partner with the co-founders on technical direction and product roadmaps.
- Lead engineering as the team grows, balancing fast delivery with high-quality work.
Requirements
- Related degree
- Nice to have: mobile development
- Nice to have: distributed training
- Nice to have: GPU infrastructure
- Nice to have: LLM post-training