Staff Software Engineer, RL Environments is open at Scale AI in San Francisco, CA; New York, NY. The posting gives a salary of $252K - $315K. Posted on Sep 2, 2026, and still on Scale AI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
As a Staff Software Engineer, RL Environments, you'll own the technical foundation for how Scale builds, runs, verifies, and delivers RL environments at scale. An RL environment is a real piece of software: a containerized world with real dependencies, real state, real tools, and a grader that has to be correct even when the agent is creative about breaking it. Building one is a full-stack engineering problem…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Scale AI’s careers page.
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