Software Engineer (Foundational)

Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge GenAI team to be at the core of the AI revolution, where your expertise fuels the development of the most advanced Large Language Models.

Overview

Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge GenAI team and help build foundational AI models from the ground up. We're seeking talented Software Engineers with hands-on expertise in production software engineering across Python and at least one systems or backend language (Java, C++, Go or Rust) to bring rigorous engineering judgment and elevate the quality of our AI training data.

This is a W-2 employment position with Cincinnatus LLC, with the opportunity to be placed at a leading AI Lab as part of their extended workforce.

Key Responsibilities

• Guide research and engineering teams to close knowledge gaps and improve AI model performance in software engineering, algorithms and data structures, and backend and systems design topics.
• Design challenging, domain-relevant tasks, and write accurate and well-structured solutions to software engineering problems.
• Evaluate software engineering tasks and solutions and provide clear, written technical feedback.
• Write, review and debug realistic multi-file coding tasks, including unit tests and reference solutions that run cleanly.
• Develop rubrics to assess code correctness, readability, test coverage and design tradeoffs in model-generated code.
• Collaborate with other subject matter experts to ensure consistency and accuracy in training data.