EXPERTISE · RL ENVIRONMENTS

RL environment and verifier authors.

People who build the places where models learn. An environment is only as good as its verifier, so they think about shortcuts as hard as they think about tasks.

THE WORK

What these contributors do.

Environment and task authoring

Tasks with a clear goal, realistic state and a single defensible answer or an outcome a program can check.

Verifier and grader design

Checks that reward the right behaviour and reject near misses, written so they hold up when a model probes them.

Reward-hacking checks

Trying to pass each task without solving it, and closing every shortcut that works.

Difficulty calibration

Running current models against tasks and tuning them so they measure something, not too easy and not impossible.

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How we assess for this area

Evaluated on the work itself.

Contributors build a small task and its verifier in their own area. A reviewer then tries to break the verifier and reads how they handled shortcuts. This is the work Blackdrome does in its own research.

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For contributors

Who we are looking for.

Engineers and researchers who have built benchmarks, test harnesses, simulators or graders, and who like finding the hole in a check. Joining is free, and we never charge contributors a fee.

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