Software Engineer

Role Overview

Proximal is building the research systems needed to identify what models can't yet do, build the tasks required to teach them, measure whether those capabilities improve, and continuously produce the data that frontier models need. We work with frontier AI labs to provide the data and evaluations behind their most capable models.

Responsibilities

• Build the infrastructure to run hundreds of thousands of concurrent agents reliably for 24+ hours
• Build infrastructure to run ephemeral, production-like multi-node software systems as training environments, with a means of snapshotting and restoring progress
• Build training infrastructure to support the development of specialized internal models
• Build automated QA systems to adversarially evaluate tasks and agent outputs for correctness, fairness, and reward hacking
• Build systems to continuously index all code on the internet

Requirements

• Strong generalists who have designed and built systems from scratch where correctness, reliability, and performance mattered at scale
• Comfortable working in research-heavy environments; you have strong experimental instincts and can work through ambiguous technical problems to deliver concrete engineering outcomes
• Strong intuition for building automations and agentic systems; you can design and engineer reliable systems that solve complex tasks
• Excellent systems intuition and design judgment; you can reason through tradeoffs in performance, reliability, complexity, and cost
• Self-directed and relentless, you take ownership of problems end-to-end without heavy process or oversight
• Execution with excellence, even at high speed

Skills

• Python
• Distributed Systems
• LLMs
• Infrastructure Engineering
• Agentic Systems