Member of Technical Staff, Software Engineer

Job overview

The Member of Technical Staff, Software Engineer role is onsite in San Francisco, CA. Compensation is $180,000–$350,000 per year. Plato is an applied research lab building infrastructure to train specialized AI agents. The engineer builds product and platform software that turns research and infrastructure into a usable reinforcement-learning pipeline. The work spans backend systems, data pipelines, product interfaces, internal tools, evaluation workflows, and customer-facing prototypes, supporting researchers and customers working with generated environments and model behavior.

What you'll do

• Develop product interfaces for researchers, domain experts, and customer teams to inspect, tune, replay, and validate generated environments
• build backend systems for trace ingestion, schema handling, environment and task generation, scoring, and telemetry
• create internal tools for evaluations, rollouts, verifiers, rewards, and failure analysis
• turn customer workflows into reusable software
• ship pragmatic, high-quality software.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

full-time

software engineer

ai research

reinforcement learning

backend systems

data pipelines

product engineering

san francisco ca

plato

$180k–$350k/year

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Work at the intersection of product engineering, infrastructure, and AI research, with access to large compute budgets for experiments.

About the employer

Plato is hiring for this role. Industry: Custom Computer Programming Services. Sector: 54.