Member of Technical Staff, Software Engineer

Plato

$130K — $180K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in software development with a focus on product engineering.
  • Strong understanding of backend systems and data pipelines.
  • Experience building user interfaces for technical workflows.
  • Proficient in creating robust, reusable software from ambiguous requirements.
  • Knowledgeable in software usability, observability, and iterative development.

Responsibilities

  • Develop user interfaces for researchers and customers to interact with generated environments.
  • Build backend systems for data ingestion and environment generation.
  • Create internal tools to enhance research productivity and analysis.
  • Transform customer workflows into scalable software systems across multiple deployments.
  • Deliver high-quality software in a fast-paced, technical environment.

Benefits

  • Flexible working hours to promote work-life balance.
  • Opportunities to collaborate directly with cutting-edge AI research.
  • Access to a dynamic team environment that encourages innovation.
  • Professional growth opportunities through continuous learning and development.
Full Job Description
Role Description

You will work across backend systems, product surfaces, data pipelines, internal tools, evaluation workflows, and customer-facing prototypes.

You might build Forge, the platform that imports traces, logs, recordings, and schemas; the interfaces that let humans tune scenarios, perturbations, and rewards; the services that turn raw streams into executable environments; or the tools researchers use to inspect rollouts and model failures.

This is not conventional product engineering. You will be building software in the middle of a fast-moving research loop, where the product surface, backend systems, data model, and customer workflow often evolve together.

You Will Work On
  • Develop product surfaces for researchers, domain experts, and customer teams to inspect, tune, replay, and validate generated environments.
  • Build backend systems for trace ingestion, schema handling, environment generation, task generation, scoring, and telemetry.
  • Create internal tools that help researchers move faster across evals, rollouts, verifiers, rewards, and failure analysis.
  • Turn customer workflows into robust software systems that can be reused across frontier labs and enterprise deployments.
  • Ship pragmatic, high-quality software in a fast-moving, deeply technical team.


What We're Looking For

We're looking for someone who is excited to build software at the boundary of product, infrastructure, and AI research.

You may be a strong fit if you:
  • Have strong product engineering taste and can build clear interfaces for complex technical workflows.
  • Are comfortable working across backend systems, data pipelines, product surfaces, and internal tools.
  • Can turn ambiguous customer or research workflows into robust, reusable software.
  • Care about correctness, usability, observability, and iteration speed.
  • Want to build systems that are part of the core training loop, not a wrapper around it.

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