Surge AI
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51 to 200 Employees · New York, US
Hiring: Engineering
What employees say
+ Good Work Life balance, especially for a data ops company
− Can feel a bit isolated at times
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Job description
Overview
Surge AI partners with the world's leading AI labs to build the benchmarks and RL environments that train and evaluate frontier models. Most benchmarks cut corners because expert humans are expensive. Our model is the opposite: we pay experts enough that we don't have to.
Qualifications
- Professional software engineering experience shipping real, scaled production systems
- Expertise in at least one common tech stack (TypeScript, Python, Ruby, PHP, Java, Rust, Go, or C++)
- Strong judgment about what "good code" and a "meaningful model failure" look like
- Comfort working independently, and giving direct, code-review-style feedback
- Availability for a meaningful commitment (most contributors work 20 to 40+ hours per week)
- No managers, 1:1s, OKR ceremonies, or Jira backlog grooming
- You choose when and where you work
- You are judged on the quality of what you produce, not speed
- Coding capability screen (replaces a multi-round interview loop)
- ID verification
- Background check
- Paid first real task. Do well, and you're on the team.
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