Software Engineer, Evals

SOFTWARE ENGINEER, EVALS

The evals team creates and executes instruments for measuring model capabilities and behaviors. These instruments are used to clean datasets, provide feedback for experiments, and track growth throughout training. The evals team also diagnoses why agents fail and how to make improvements both short and long term. We manage the execution infrastructure, design data sets and grading schemes. You will own and elevate our mission-critical research platform that directly accelerates SpaceXSI's frontier work.

You will design, build, and ship delightful and bulletproof systems that engineers love to use every day. This role values a strong attention to details, first principles reasoning, and great taste.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

3+ years of experience actively writing code

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

A track record of shipping high quality projects and a strong sense of urgency

Exceptional product taste -  you have a sharp sense for what “good” looks like in outputs, and you can translate fuzzy notions of quality, helpfulness, truthfulness, and safety into concrete, measurable criteria

Strong attention to detail

Previously founded a startup or joined a fast-growing early-stage startup

Familiarity with AI/ML workflows, annotation tools, or evals

Experience creating and maintaining component libraries, design systems, or internal tools

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:

$175,000 - $275,000 USD

Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at SpaceXSI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.