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San Francisco, CAFull-time$120–180K/yrSeen todayStill listed today

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Compensation
$120–180K/yr
Location
San Francisco, CA
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Litmus is building a founding engineering team across infrastructure, product engineering, and AI research. The role may involve scaling its hiring and evaluation platform, delivering product features, or developing evaluation and research infrastructure for humans and agents. The engineer will work alongside the founders and help shape product and technical direction.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Python, requiredJavaScript, requiredTypeScript, requiredNode.js, requiredProduction Systems, requiredDistributed Systems, nice to haveCloud Infrastructure, nice to haveAWS, nice to haveGCP, nice to haveServerless Architectures, nice to haveData Pipelines, nice to haveDistributed Data Processing, nice to haveML Infrastructure, nice to haveReinforcement Learning, nice to haveLLM Fine-Tuning, nice to havePost-Training, nice to haveProblem Solving, requiredIndependent Judgment, requiredOwnership, requiredLearning Agility, requiredFeedback Incorporation, required

Qualifications

Production Systems or Early-Stage Team Experience, requiredEx-Founder, nice to have

Full job description

We're building a founding engineering team with complementary strengths across infrastructure, product engineering, and AI research. Depending on your expertise, your work could involve: Platform & infrastructure

  • Architect, build, and scale reliable infrastructure that powers our hiring and evaluation platform
  • Own technical decisions across distributed systems and platform infrastructure, supporting high-throughput workloads

Product engineering

  • Own product features end-to-end, from technical design through deployment and iteration
  • Work closely with engineering and talent leaders at frontier technical teams and turn recurring customer needs into reusable platform capabilities

AI evaluation & research infrastructure

  • Design RL environments, evaluation rubrics, and reward signals that expose meaningful limits in neo-human systems.
  • Develop experiment orchestration and tracking systems for reproducible evaluations across humans and agents.
  • Build meta-optimization systems that use evaluation results, human and agent trajectories, and failure analysis to iteratively improve evaluation design.

What we look for Required qualifications

  • Proficiency in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Node.js.
  • A track record of building, shipping, and operating production systems OR experience in an early stage team
  • Ability to break down ambiguous problems and move quickly from ideas to execution
  • Strong independent judgment, with a willingness to challenge assumptions and take ownership of decisions
  • Ability to learn quickly, incorporate feedback, and improve based on evidence

High signals

  • Ex-founder
  • Experience operating distributed systems, cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), or serverless architectures
  • Experience building high-throughput data pipelines and distributed data processing systems
  • Experience with production-quality ML training, evaluation, or research infrastructure
  • Hands-on experience with reinforcement learning, LLM fine-tuning, or post-training

You’ll work directly alongside the founders, shaping product and technical direction. If you have deep expertise in one or more of these areas and are passionate about the mission, you’d be a good fit at Litmus. Equity offered for in-person roles.

How this job compares

Set against the 38,407 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 15, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$120–180K/yr
  • California median$162–243K/yr6,866 salary ranges
  • US median$132–214K/yr31,279 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $150K, is 27% below the California median midpoint ($205K) — in the lowest quarter of Software Engineer salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 8,445 open Software Engineer jobs in California and 38,407 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for no prior experience — less than three in four Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 31,783 postings).
Education
11,740 of the 38,407 open Software Engineer jobs (31%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Pay, requirements and demand for Software Engineer jobs

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 15, 2026. Figures based on too few postings are left out.

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