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idler

Hill-climb any benchmark, for any model, in any domain, using our RL environments.

🇺🇸 San Francisco · B2B · Summer 2025

Hill-climb any benchmark, for any model, in any domain.

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Y Combinator

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Open roles

4

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About idler

Idler is a frontier data research lab. We build the evals and environments that the world's leading frontier labs use to measure and train their models.

Open roles

4 listed · tech, AI & data
idlerEngineeringFunded

On-site · San Francisco

2+ yrs · $125K – $300K • 0.01% – 1% · 2mo ago

ReactTypeScriptNode.js+12 more
idlerEngineeringFunded

On-site · San Francisco

1–10 yrs · $125K – $400K • 0.01% – 1% · 1y ago

TypescriptReactNodeJS+13 more

Talent snapshot

Employee functions

Engineering9
Business Development5
Operations2
Information Technology1
Entrepreneurship1

Employee locations

United States14
California, United States11
San Francisco, CA11
San Francisco Bay Area11
Singapore1
Washington, United States1

Common skills

JavaScriptPython (Programming Language)JavaC++TeachingHTMLReact.jsPublic SpeakingProject ManagementTypeScriptGitLeadership