Strategic Project Lead at Halluminate
Halluminate is hiring a Strategic Project Lead in San Francisco, CA, US. On-site. Pay: USD 150k-225k/yr.
About Halluminate
Halluminate builds reinforcement learning (RL) environments for financial services. The environments are computer-use and tool-use gyms used to train AI agents on real financial workflows such as Excel modeling, pitch decks, and tasks in investment banking, private equity, and consulting. The company works with frontier AI labs and is backed by Y Combinator.
Strategic Project Lead job description
About Halluminate
Halluminate is an applied AI and data company building computer-use and tool-use RL gyms to train AI agents on real financial services work — Excel modeling, pitch decks, and everything investment banking, private equity, and hedge funds rely on. We work with frontier labs, graduated from Y Combinator (S25), and raised a seed round to scale the team.
The role
Base: $150–225k · Equity: 0.15–0.30% · Location: San Francisco, in-person
Own and lead the development of frontier training gyms for finance verticals. Ideal for finance analysts or associates with deep interest or expertise in AI/ML.
Responsibilities
Define and prioritize the training-gym roadmap based on real-world finance experience.
Build end-to-end systems and processes from scratch to support $MMs in revenue this year.
Own delivery and quality criteria for data and environments shipped to customers.
Recruit and train our contractor finance staff.
Create training materials for AI systems (modeling exercises, pitch decks, etc.).
Partner with frontier engineering and research teams to implement and deliver gyms.
You should have
Experience teaching and giving feedback on modeling, decks, or client deliverables.
A track record of owning end-to-end deliverables for live deals.
Experience leading large teams and owning deadlines for big projects.
An ability to learn deeply technical concepts in ML, AI, data, and engineering.
Comfort using coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code) to build platforms and speed up processes.
Nice to have
Engineering background (e.g. CS).
Experience with early-stage startups.
What we offer
Healthcare — Fully covered medical, dental, and vision for you. Subsidized for dependents.
Relocation — $10k+ relocation stipend to help you get to San Francisco.
401(k) — Up to 4% employer match.
Food — Free breakfast, lunch, and dinner while working.
Health — Free gym membership.
Transportation — Free Ubers and Waymo rides to and from the office.
Visa sponsorship — We sponsor visas, including H-1B.
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