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ARC Prize Foundation

AI benchmarks that measure general intelligence and inspire new ideas

Platform Engineer - Benchmark Lead

$150K - $250K*US / Remote (US)
Job type
Full-time
Role
Engineering, Full stack
Experience
6+ years
Visa
US citizen/visa only
Skills
Distributed Systems, Software Architecture
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Greg Kamradt
Greg Kamradt
President
Greg Kamradt
Greg Kamradt
President

About the role

A senior engineer to own and evolve the platform behind ARC-AGI
series of benchmarks. This person will act as the technical owner and
architect of our benchmark infrastructure, from stabilizing the
current system to laying the foundation for future versions. This is
a remote, full-time role.

What You'll Do:

  * Stabilize and extend the V3 backend and infrastructure - Own
    performance to keep the current benchmark platform reliable
  * Build the verification and testing layer - Automated model runs,
    scoring, reproducible eval pipelines, and systems for capturing
    and querying data exhaust so the team can do deeper model
    analysis
  * Support early ARC-AGI-4 implementation by building the backend
    and platform pieces needed for new environments, human data
    collection, scoring, and deployment
  * Set the early technical foundation for ARC-AGI-5

What We're Looking For:

  * Strong backend engineering with Python, plus distributed systems,
    SQL, cloud infrastructure, and production reliability experience
  * Experience building evaluation harnesses, testing pipelines,
    experiment/data logging, and analysis workflows - ideally for AI/
    ML systems or other high-volume technical platforms
  * Senior enough to act as a technical owner and architect of the
    benchmark platform (we have a high agency team)

About ARC Prize Foundation

ARC Prize Foundation
ARC Prize Foundation
Founded:2024
Batch:W26
Team Size:4
Status:
Active
  
 
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