Surge AI (https://surgehq.ai/careers)
Software Engineers (full-stack / product) and Strategic Project Lead, and many more https://surgehq.ai/careers | Full-time
hn · Software Engineers (full-stack / product) and Strategic Project Lead, and many more https://surgehq.ai/careers
Jose is a founding engineer with proven ability to ship AI products end-to-end, particularly in real-time voice and LLM agents—directly aligned with Surge's focus on RL environments and agentic systems. His experience building infrastructure, handling complex systems under production constraints, and working with cutting-edge AI tools (LangGraph, OpenAI APIs) matches the senior engineering bar. The main gap is no explicit background in reinforcement learning or human-in-the-loop data collection platforms, though his full-stack depth and AI fundamentals provide a strong foundation to learn these quickly.
Hook: Your founding engineer background shipping real-time AI products and LLM agents across production systems is exactly the senior engineering DNA Surge needs to scale its human data platform for agentic AI.
Missing: reinforcement learning systems, human-in-the-loop annotation platforms, large-scale data labeling infrastructure, RL environment design
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Surge AI (https://surgehq.ai/careers) | Software Engineers (full-stack / product) and Strategic Project Lead, and many more https://surgehq.ai/careers | Full-time | ONSITE SF or NYC | Remote Our mission at Surge is to build the human infrastructure behind the next generation of models. We operate the largest human data platform in the industry and power the AI teams at all of the top AI labs. Our current focus is RL environments to help our clients ship agents that interact with the world. Here are some examples of our past work: - GDP.pdf from the Fable model card: https://surgehq.ai/blog/gdp-pdf-can-100b-ai-models-master-th... - Building EnterpriseBench: https://surgehq.ai/blog/enterprisebench-corecraft - RL Environments and the Hierarchy of Agentic Capabilities: https://surgehq.ai/blog/rl-envs-real-world You’d be joining a rapidly growing team of former founders, engineering leaders and AI researchers from Google, Meta, Twitter, and Airbnb. We work in small groups, ship quickly, and value autonomy and ownership. No previous AI experience is required, if you have the engineering skills you can learn what you need on the job. We're looking for senior engineers to work out of our offices in SF or NYC, or remotely. Please reach out to us at careers@surgehq.ai with a resume and 2-3 sentences describing your interest. Excited to hear from you!