Software Engineer, RL Environments Engineering · · San Francisco Apply →

Anysphere; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Anysphere is building the next generation of AI-assisted coding tools. We are seeking a Software Engineer for the RL Environments team at SpaceXAI to turn real-world data into training-ready environments and tasks for reinforcement learning.

You will own platforms and quality layers, collaborate with ML Platform and research teams, and help us ship faster with trustworthy data at scale.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience with data platforms, developer tools, distributed systems, or ML infrastructure.
• Ability to turn data into training-ready environments and tasks.
• Experience building end-to-end platforms for RL environments.
• Collaborate with ML Platform, research teams, and external contributors.

Responsibilities

• Build platforms for complex, realistic RL environments at scale.
• Own end-to-end data-to-environment pipelines and quality checks.
• Create self-serve APIs and tooling for internal and external users.
• Collaborate across research, platform, and external teams to meet model-capability goals.
• Define and apply consistent quality standards across data sources.

Skills

Software engineering fundamentals

Data platforms

Distributed systems

ML infrastructure

Job description

Our mission is to automate coding. The first step in our journey is to build the best tool for professional programmers, using a combination of inventive research, design, and engineering. Our organization is very flat, and our team is small and talent dense. We particularly like people who are truth-seeking, passionate, and creative. We enjoy spirited debate, crazy ideas, and shipping code.

About the Role

One of our north stars is a future where teams can hire Grok as a remote colleague. Reaching that future requires training our models in realistic, diverse environments that support complex, end-to-end work across domains.

As a Software Engineer on the RL Environments team at SpaceXAI, you’ll build the systems that turn real-world data into high-quality environments and tasks for reinforcement learning. You’ll create dramatically more realistic training environments while owning the shared platforms and quality layers that help us produce trustworthy data quickly and at scale.

This role sits at the intersection of research, data, and engineering. You’ll work closely with ML Platform and research teams to turn company data, Grok Bot interactions, vendor-built tasks, tutor data, acquired data, and synthetic data into training-ready environments. Your work will make high-quality RL data easier to create, validate, discover, and use across our model-training efforts.

What you’ll work on

Building platforms that allows us to build complex, realistic, and diverse RL environments at scale, that support end-to-end tasks across knowledge-work domains.

Designing end-to-end factory that turns massive raw data into useful and realistic environments.

Defining and applying consistent quality standards across vendor, tutor, acquired, and synthetic data.

Creating self-serve APIs and tooling that accelerate task and environment development for internal teams and external contributors.

Partnering across research, platform, and external teams to translate model-capability goals into effective training tasks and environments.

You may be a fit if

You have strong software engineering fundamentals and experience with data platforms, developer tools, distributed systems, or ML infrastructure.

You can turn ambiguous quality standards into concrete, automated checks.

You’re comfortable building repeatable pipelines from messy, heterogeneous data.

You care about model behavior and can translate capability goals into tasks and experiments.

You collaborate well across disciplines and own open-ended problems end to end.

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