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# Member of Technical Staff, Platform Engineering at Abundant

- **Company:** Abundant
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/abundant/5304659b-c31f-409a-84a1-0c6fca69f18a

## Job description

## ABOUT ABUNDANT

As the need for scaling data becomes the core bottleneck to progress, moving from general knowledge to domain expertise, and from chatbots to agents. Abundant is solving this by designing and operating simulation infrastructure where next-generation models learn to reason and solve complex problems. Our team is composed of high-impact former founders, ML engineers, roboticists, and data leads from companies like Waymo and Google, with experience deploying models at 1B user scale. We partner with a majority of the top AI labs, frontier startups, and F500 enterprises to enable AGI, ASI, and physical intelligence.

## THE ROLE

As a Member of Technical Staff, you will work directly with the Head of Engineering to build, scale, and deploy projects. You'll be expected to transition seamlessly between customer-facing products and our internal infrastructure.

## WHAT YOU’LL DO

In your first 30 days, you will take over key parts of the core simulation engine, adding new features or improving performance, driving key metrics such as throughput and cost. You'll be responsible for making sure our software can scale to 10B+ events and tens of thousands of monthly users (both human and virtual). You'll be responsible for establishing our engineering culture as we continue to scale our technical team.

## WHO YOU ARE

- Technically fluent: Deep understanding of evaluations, RL, and how LLMs and Agents work.
- Research-oriented — Able to read papers and keep up with SOTA literature.
- Extreme owner — You have extreme agency and a founder mentality; you are resourceful and scrappy.
- Creative problem solver — You leverage creativity and research skills to design projects from the ground up.
- Must be highly proficient with coding agents such as Codex or Claude Code.

## About Abundant

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Abundant provides reinforcement learning environments and high-quality training datasets for the world’s leading AI labs and enterprises, aiming to become the core infrastructure for AGI data.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Pre-Seed; Y Combinator Fall 2024 batch)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Jesse Hu, Ke Huang, Meji Abidoye

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Artificial Intelligence (Training Data Infrastructure), Reinforcement Learning, Simulation
- **Target customers**: B2B – Top global AI labs (3 of the top 6), Fortune 500 enterprises, and robotics/AI startups
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Working towards an abundant future—one where everyone has access to infinite intelligence, services and goods.”

## Products & Services
- **RL Environments & Datasets**: Custom simulation environments and curated datasets designed for reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and safe AI alignment. Used by leading labs to train agents and handle edge cases.
- **API-based Workforce**: An on-demand, global network of over 500 domain experts accessible via API to generate training data at scale, ensuring 100% reliability.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $500,000 (Pre-Seed round led by Y Combinator, December 2024)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (lead investor)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew ~775% year-over-year to 20 employees (LinkedIn, as of mid-2025)
  - Generating billions of training tokens per month with 2x month-over-month growth
  - Already powering 3 of the top 6 global AI labs and multiple Fortune 500 enterprises
  - Talent sourced from top tech firms (e.g., Waymo, Google, Meta, AWS)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep domain expertise**: Founding team includes former ML engineers from Waymo, Google, Meta, and AWS with direct experience in self-driving, human computation, and large-scale data pipelines.
- **Exclusive expert network**: Proprietary network of 500+ domain specialists allows rapid creation of high-quality, rare datasets that are difficult to replicate.
- **Positioning as “NVIDIA of training data”**: Addresses the emerging bottleneck of data scarcity for RL and physical AI, a market with massive asymmetric upside.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling data for RL and agentic AI**: Moving beyond supervised fine-tuning (SFT) to “learning from experience” using reinforcement learning, synthetic data, and imitation learning.
- **Enabling AGI and physical AI**: Current priorities include expanding datasets for robotics, multimodal models, and autonomous systems to bridge the gap between digital chatbots and real-world agents.

## Why Work Here
- **High-impact, early-stage environment**: Small team (20 people) with flat structure, offering significant ownership over projects that directly shape AGI infrastructure.
- **Culture**: Described as “make shit happen” – action-oriented, with a focus on good food and good company. Remote-friendly (San Francisco / Remote US).
- **Technical focus**: Heavy emphasis on RL research, platform engineering, and product management roles – ideal for engineers who want to solve the core data bottleneck in AI.
- **Career growth**: Rapidly scaling company with strong YC backing; employees can accelerate into leadership or future founder roles (one job posting is titled “Chief of Staff (Future Founder/VC)”).

## Sources
1. [Abundant.ai – Official Website](https://www.abundant.ai/)
2. [Y Combinator – Abundant Company Page](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/abundant)
3. [LinkedIn – Abundant Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/abundant-ai)
4. [Startuply.vc – Abundant Profile](https://startuply.vc/startup/abundant-1g8r98)
5. [Abundant Careers – Jobs Portal](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/abundant)

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