Special Projects Operator
San Francisco$125k - $400k + equityFull-timePosted 1mo ago
About the role
Special Projects Operators connect our network of experts to data production, recruiting, onboarding, and managing experts while building tooling to automate recruitment and management processes. A hybrid of project management and engineering in a fast-growing YC-funded startup.
Responsibilities
- Recruit experts into our network — find the communities they belong to, build relationships within those communities, and bring the best people on board.
- Design our expert hiring process — work with our research team to build the screening rubric for each new domain, run it, and automate as much of it as you can.
- Run the network day to day — onboard experts, schedule them onto projects, fill gaps when someone drops out, check the quality of their work, run the payment cycle, and answer the support inbox.
- Build the tooling the network runs on — replace the manual steps in applications, qualification, scheduling, scoring, payments, and reporting, and improve how our team and our experts communicate.
- Keep the paperwork organized — run payroll tasks, file compliance documents, and provision and remove accounts.
Qualifications
- One to four years in an operationally intense environment, or an exceptional record as a new graduate.
- Ability (and enthusiasm) to build your own tools with AI assistance. A professional engineering background is not required, but you must be able to read the documentation and get something working unaided.
- Extraordinary literacy, as evidenced by written and verbal communication.
- A high tolerance for ambiguity, intensity, and sustained effort when the problem demands it.
Skills
Required:Recruiting and relationship-buildingHiring process design and automationProject coordination and operations managementTooling and automationCommunication and written skills
Benefits
- Competitive salary + meaningful equity
- Free meals in office
- Healthcare, 401(k)
- 15 days of PTO per year
- Relocation assistance
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Idler
Scale AI for reinforcement learning environments.
Idler builds reinforcement learning environments that teach AI models to code at expert human levels. We create training environments based on real-world coding scenarios that prepare models for the complex challenges they'll face in production.
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