About the Role
SimpleClosure is seeking an AI/ML Engineer to transform real-world assets acquired from company shutdowns into high-value AI-training products. This role involves identifying opportunities within inventory, building derivative works like reinforcement-learning environments and training datasets, and collaborating with buyers to meet their needs.
Responsibilities
- Identify opportunities within real-world assets (production codebases, workspaces, databases) to create high-value AI-training products such as RL environments, agentic task suites, evals, verifiers, benchmarks, and datasets.
- Design and build pipelines for asset transformation, including repository ingestion, test harnessing, commit mining, Docker/sandbox reproducibility, verifier/reward scripting, and QA tooling.
- Wrap real data in interactive environments (sandboxed application state, MCP servers, browser/Playwright layers) for agent training and evaluation.
- Identify commercial opportunities within the inventory by mapping assets to current AI lab and RLE demand and maximizing derivative product value.
- Prototype quickly and harden successful ideas into repeatable, scalable pipelines.
- Partner with the Asset Hub buyer/BD team and technical stakeholders at labs and RLE buyers to align product development with training needs.
- Handle sensitive materials (codebases, workspace exports, proprietary datasets) with a focus on security, privacy, licensing, and PII.
- Write clean, well-tested code, utilize AI tooling for efficiency, and collaborate with product, engineering, and the GM of Asset Hub.
Requirements
- RL-environments / AI-training background: experience building RL environments and/or products for model training or evaluation.
- 4–8 years of engineering experience, with significant time in the RL-environments, AI-training-data, or model-evaluation ecosystem.
- Strong Python skills.
- Experience with containers (Docker).
- Experience with CI/test infrastructure.
- Comfort building reproducible sandboxes from real-world code and data.
- Familiarity with LLM evaluation and agent harnesses (e.g., SWE-bench-style setups, Verifiers, HUD).
- Experience with verifier/reward design, including resistance to reward hacking.
- Builder’s temperament: ability to take projects from concept to production, work scrappily, and thrive in ambiguity.
- Clear communication skills to serve as a credible technical contact for researchers.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience building and managing a team of engineers is a plus.
- Contributions to public benchmarks or eval frameworks are a plus.
- Experience with post-training / fine-tuning data is a plus.
- Simulation or frontend skills (MCP, Playwright) for world-building are a plus.
Skills
- Python
- Docker
- CI/test infrastructure
- RL environments
- AI training
- Model evaluation
- LLM evaluation
- Agent harnesses
- Verifier design
- Reward design
- Simulation
- Frontend development
- MCP
- Playwright
Location
- New York City Metro area
Work Type
- Hybrid
- 2 days per week in office
Experience Level
- 4-8 years engineering experience
- Meaningful time in RL-environments, AI-training-data, or model-evaluation ecosystem
Education Level
- Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field
- Equivalent practical experience
Salary/Compensations
- $140,000 - $200,000
Benefits
- Competitive equity package
- Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision)
- Life insurance
- Unlimited paid time off
- Two company-wide offsites each year
- 401(k) with Traditional and Roth options, with immediate eligibility
About the Company
- SimpleClosure is building the infrastructure to streamline the business dissolution process, addressing a massive, overlooked market where nearly 4 million companies shut down annually.
- The company has raised over $20M from leading VCs and is used by over 7,000 companies.
- SimpleClosure's Asset Hub helps companies sell remaining assets to return value to stakeholders.
- Buyers include top AI labs, RL environment providers, vertical and enterprise agent builders, VCs, and domain marketplaces.
- The company is defining a new category at the intersection of business dissolution and AI asset marketplaces.
Equal Opportunity
- SimpleClosure is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a work environment free of discrimination and harassment.
- Employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business need, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
- The company is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds.
- Reasonable accommodations are available during the application and interview process.
