The World’s Greatest Minds

Our mission is to raise AGI with the richness of human intelligence — curious, witty, imaginative, and full of unexpected brilliance.

Surge was founded by engineers and researchers who dreamed of building the next generation AI. We're building a platform that powers the most powerful models in the world in partnership with companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google.

At Surge, we believe the path to AGI isn't just about scaling compute—it's about embracing the unlimited ceiling of human intelligence and creativity in the data that shapes these systems. Our platform combines elite human expertise with cutting-edge tools for scalable oversight, from building rich RL environments to conducting rigorous evaluations that go beyond benchmarks. We've run a profitable business from day one without raising venture funding.

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As a CEO, you’ll bring strategic judgment, pattern recognition, and organizational insight shaped by real leadership experience. You’ll help design and review complex decision-making datasets that mirror the tradeoffs faced by senior executives — resource allocation, risk management, growth strategy, culture, and crisis response.

The work calls for clarity of thought under constraint. You’ll model how experienced leaders synthesize incomplete information, align stakeholders, and chart decisive paths through uncertainty. Your perspective will help train systems to think not just analytically, but executively — to reason in terms of impact, sequence, and consequence.

• Executive Leadership Experience – Former CEO, President, or equivalent senior executive at a VC-backed or bootstrapped startup (required)

• Strategic Acumen – Track record of navigating complex tradeoffs and setting organizational direction across competing priorities

• Operational Depth – Understanding of how strategy translates into execution, metrics, and accountability systems

• ‍ Communication Mastery – Ability to articulate decisions with clarity, empathy, and narrative coherence for diverse stakeholders

• Reviewing and refining strategic reasoning tasks to reflect how experienced executives make tradeoffs in real-world contexts

• Evaluating model-generated recommendations for clarity, realism, and operational soundness

• Contributing decision scenarios — mergers, pivots, org design, crisis management — and assessing reasoning quality

• Partnering with Surge researchers to define benchmarks for executive-level reasoning, prioritization, and judgment under pressure

Please email talent@surgehq.ai with your background and interest in collaborating with Surge. Please include the name of the role you’re applying for in the subject line or email body. We welcome personal projects and writings!

Our mission is to raise AGI with the richness of human intelligence — curious, witty, imaginative, and full of unexpected brilliance.

Surge was founded by engineers and researchers who dreamed of building the next generation AI. We're building a platform that powers the most powerful models in the world in partnership with companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google.

At Surge, we believe the path to AGI isn't just about scaling compute—it's about embracing the unlimited ceiling of human intelligence and creativity in the data that shapes these systems. Our platform combines elite human expertise with cutting-edge tools for scalable oversight, from building rich RL environments to conducting rigorous evaluations that go beyond benchmarks. We've run a profitable business from day one without raising venture funding.

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As an elite law contributor, you’ll bring the analytical discipline and interpretive judgment of high-stakes legal reasoning to the datasets that train advanced models. You’ll evaluate and construct arguments with precision — interpreting precedent, balancing principles, and reasoning from first principles through competing frameworks.

The role requires intellectual rigor and a deep sense of fairness. You’ll help define what “good reasoning” looks like when outcomes hinge on logic, language, and moral interpretation.

• Legal Excellence – Current or former Supreme Court clerk, appellate advocate, or senior counsel at a top law firm, government office, or legal nonprofit (required)

• Analytical Precision – Exceptional ability to parse argument structure, identify hidden assumptions, and reason from precedent

• Writing Mastery – Experience crafting persuasive, technically sound arguments for courts or policy audiences

• ‍ Integrity & Judgment – Commitment to principled reasoning and intellectual honesty

• Reviewing model arguments for logical consistency, interpretive accuracy, and clarity

• Drafting exemplar legal analyses that reflect real appellate reasoning

• Building datasets of structured argumentation to teach logical reasoning and counter-argument

• Partnering with Surge researchers to formalize frameworks for legal analysis and ethical decision-making

Please email talent@surgehq.ai with your background and interest in collaborating with Surge. Please include the name of the role you’re applying for in the subject line or email body. We welcome personal projects and writings!

Our mission is to raise AGI with the richness of human intelligence — curious, witty, imaginative, and full of unexpected brilliance.

Surge was founded by engineers and researchers who dreamed of building the next generation AI. We're building a platform that powers the most powerful models in the world in partnership with companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google.

At Surge, we believe the path to AGI isn't just about scaling compute—it's about embracing the unlimited ceiling of human intelligence and creativity in the data that shapes these systems. Our platform combines elite human expertise with cutting-edge tools for scalable oversight, from building rich RL environments to conducting rigorous evaluations that go beyond benchmarks. We've run a profitable business from day one without raising venture funding.

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As an elite author / journalist, you’ll bring narrative clarity, emotional intelligence, and a deep sense of human nuance to the data that trains frontier AI models. You’ll analyze and refine writing across styles — from investigative reporting to essayistic reflection — capturing what makes language vivid, persuasive, and true.

This work calls for judgment and craft: the ability to detect tone, tension, and rhythm, and to teach those patterns through clear, structured examples. You’ll help shape how models learn to think and write with insight, restraint, and narrative power.

• Recognized Excellence – Recipient of a Pulitzer, National Magazine Award, or equivalent literary/journalism honor, or long-form contributor to top outlets (e.g., The New Yorker, The Atlantic, NYT Magazine )

• Narrative Precision – Ability to edit and critique prose for structure, pacing, and argument

• Intellectual Range – Comfort engaging with topics across culture, politics, science, and ethics ‍

• Voice & Judgment – Sensitivity to tone, authenticity, and context in complex narratives

• Reviewing or rewriting long-form essays for coherence, structure, and style

• Evaluating model-generated writing for narrative flow, balance, and emotional truth

• Designing writing and reasoning prompts that capture real journalistic decision-making

• Partnering with Surge researchers to formalize narrative and rhetorical evaluation standards

Please email talent@surgehq.ai with your background and interest in collaborating with Surge. Please include the name of the role you’re applying for in the subject line or email body. We welcome personal projects and writings!

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Our mission is to raise AGI with the richness of human intelligence — curious, witty, imaginative, and full of unexpected brilliance.

Surge was founded by engineers and researchers who dreamed of building the next generation AI. We're building a platform that powers the most powerful models in the world in partnership with companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google.

At Surge, we believe the path to AGI isn't just about scaling compute—it's about embracing the unlimited ceiling of human intelligence and creativity in the data that shapes these systems. Our platform combines elite human expertise with cutting-edge tools for scalable oversight, from building rich RL environments to conducting rigorous evaluations that go beyond benchmarks. We've run a profitable business from day one without raising venture funding.

As a VC Partner, you’ll bring the judgment, pattern recognition, and analytical discipline that define world-class investing. You’ll evaluate and refine strategic reasoning tasks drawn from venture and company-building contexts — assessing market fit, founder quality, competitive advantage, and portfolio construction with the same rigor you apply in live investment settings.

This role calls for synthesis across ambiguity — the ability to weigh partial signals, think in scenarios, and distill conviction from incomplete information. Your perspective will help shape how models learn to reason about innovation, capital allocation, and long-term value creation.

• Venture Leadership Experience – Current or former Associate, Partner, General Partner, or Managing Director at a VC firm.

• Investment Judgment – Deep experience evaluating early- and growth-stage opportunities, with a strong sense of founder quality and market inflection

• Strategic and Analytical Clarity – Ability to dissect business models, identify defensibility, and assess upside and execution risk

• ‍ Communication and Narrative Skill – Facility in translating complex qualitative assessments into crisp, actionable reasoning

• Reviewing or rewriting model-generated investment analyses for clarity, judgment, and rigor

• Designing venture-style evaluation prompts that mirror live investment decision processes

• Analyzing reasoning quality in simulated pitch or diligence scenarios for depth and realism

• Partnering with Surge researchers to build datasets that capture authentic investor reasoning and risk assessment patterns

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Please email talent@surgehq.ai with your background and interest in collaborating with Surge. Please include the name of the role you’re applying for in the subject line or email body. We welcome personal projects and writings!

Our mission is to raise AGI with the richness of human intelligence — curious, witty, imaginative, and full of unexpected brilliance.

Surge was founded by engineers and researchers who dreamed of building the next generation AI. We're building a platform that powers the most powerful models in the world in partnership with companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google.

At Surge, we believe the path to AGI isn't just about scaling compute—it's about embracing the unlimited ceiling of human intelligence and creativity in the data that shapes these systems. Our platform combines elite human expertise with cutting-edge tools for scalable oversight, from building rich RL environments to conducting rigorous evaluations that go beyond benchmarks. We've run a profitable business from day one without raising venture funding.

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As a CEO, you’ll bring strategic judgment, pattern recognition, and organizational insight shaped by real leadership experience. You’ll help design and review complex decision-making datasets that mirror the tradeoffs faced by senior executives — resource allocation, risk management, growth strategy, culture, and crisis response.

The work calls for clarity of thought under constraint. You’ll model how experienced leaders synthesize incomplete information, align stakeholders, and chart decisive paths through uncertainty. Your perspective will help train systems to think not just analytically, but executively — to reason in terms of impact, sequence, and consequence.

• Executive Leadership Experience – Former CEO, President, or equivalent senior executive at a VC-backed or bootstrapped startup (required)

• Strategic Acumen – Track record of navigating complex tradeoffs and setting organizational direction across competing priorities

• Operational Depth – Understanding of how strategy translates into execution, metrics, and accountability systems

• ‍ Communication Mastery – Ability to articulate decisions with clarity, empathy, and narrative coherence for diverse stakeholders

• Reviewing and refining strategic reasoning tasks to reflect how experienced executives make tradeoffs in real-world contexts

• Evaluating model-generated recommendations for clarity, realism, and operational soundness

• Contributing decision scenarios — mergers, pivots, org design, crisis management — and assessing reasoning quality

• Partnering with Surge researchers to define benchmarks for executive-level reasoning, prioritization, and judgment under pressure

Please email talent@surgehq.ai with your background and interest in collaborating with Surge. Please include the name of the role you’re applying for in the subject line or email body. We welcome personal projects and writings!

Our mission is to raise AGI with the richness of human intelligence — curious, witty, imaginative, and full of unexpected brilliance.

Surge was founded by engineers and researchers who dreamed of building the next generation AI. We're building a platform that powers the most powerful models in the world in partnership with companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google.

At Surge, we believe the path to AGI isn't just about scaling compute—it's about embracing the unlimited ceiling of human intelligence and creativity in the data that shapes these systems. Our platform combines elite human expertise with cutting-edge tools for scalable oversight, from building rich RL environments to conducting rigorous evaluations that go beyond benchmarks. We've run a profitable business from day one without raising venture funding.

As a Management Consultant, you’ll bring the structured reasoning, synthesis, and executive judgment that define world-class consulting. You’ll help model how top partners approach unstructured business problems — framing ambiguous situations, developing hypotheses, pressure-testing data, and crafting compelling, insight-driven recommendations.

You won’t be running client engagements — you’ll be encoding the thinking systems behind them. This is a role for someone who thrives in ambiguity, combines analytical precision with narrative clarity, and can distill the rigor of elite consulting into reproducible examples that train frontier AI systems to reason strategically.

• Top-Tier Consulting Pedigree – Current or Former Partner, Principal, or Senior Engagement Manager at McKinsey, Bain, BCG, or an equivalent strategy firm

• Strategic Problem-Solving – Proven ability to break down complex, cross-functional challenges into structured, hypothesis-driven frameworks

• Executive Communication – Facility with board-level synthesis, storyline architecture, and succinct, persuasive recommendations ‍

• Quality Bar & Judgment – Deep sense of analytical rigor, prioritization, and what “great” looks like in client-ready insight generation

• Rewriting model-generated strategy analyses into consulting-grade narratives and frameworks

• Designing evaluation datasets that capture partner-level reasoning under uncertainty and constraint

• Reviewing outputs for logic gaps, synthesis quality, and executive readability

• Collaborating with Surge researchers to formalize consulting-style problem solving for model training and evaluation

Please email talent@surgehq.ai with your background and interest in collaborating with Surge. Please include the name of the role you’re applying for in the subject line or email body. We welcome personal projects and writings!

Our mission is to raise AGI with the richness of human intelligence — curious, witty, imaginative, and full of unexpected brilliance.

Surge was founded by engineers and researchers who dreamed of building the next generation AI. We're building a platform that powers the most powerful models in the world in partnership with companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google.

At Surge, we believe the path to AGI isn't just about scaling compute—it's about embracing the unlimited ceiling of human intelligence and creativity in the data that shapes these systems. Our platform combines elite human expertise with cutting-edge tools for scalable oversight, from building rich RL environments to conducting rigorous evaluations that go beyond benchmarks. We've run a profitable business from day one without raising venture funding.

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As an Investment Banker, you’ll translate real dealmaking rigor into high-fidelity datasets for training next-gen AI. You’ll structure complex, multi-constraint scenarios (M&A, financing, markets), craft evaluation rubrics that mirror client-ready deliverables, and rewrite model outputs to reflect how top bankers reason under pressure and incomplete information.

You won’t be pitching live deals — you’ll be encoding the judgment behind them. This is a role for someone who thrives on clarity under ambiguity, balances detail with narrative, and can turn messy business contexts into crisp analysis and decision frameworks.

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• Bulge-Bracket Background – Current or former banker at a top-tier firm (e.g., Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley; preferred) with exposure to M&A and capital market

• Analytical Communication – Ability to produce client-grade materials: tight comps, defensible assumptions, and clear recommendation path

• Process Discipline – Methodical approach to QA, source hygiene, and reproducibility within data-centric workflows

• Rewriting model analyses into banker-quality output: investment memos, board-level summaries, and sensitivity commentary

• Designing scenario banks that capture realistic constraints (valuation ranges, covenant limits, market windows) with transparent assumptions

• Reviewing outputs for reasoning gaps: mis-specified drivers, flawed comps selection, or inconsistent cash-flow logic

• Partnering with Surge researchers to build evaluation suites that test prioritization, trade-offs, and executive-ready recommendations

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Please email talent@surgehq.ai with your background and interest in collaborating with Surge. Please include the name of the role you’re applying for in the subject line or email body. We welcome personal projects and writings!

Our mission is to raise AGI with the richness of human intelligence — curious, witty, imaginative, and full of unexpected brilliance.

Surge was founded by engineers and researchers who dreamed of building the next generation AI. We're building a platform that powers the most powerful models in the world in partnership with companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google.

At Surge, we believe the path to AGI isn't just about scaling compute—it's about embracing the unlimited ceiling of human intelligence and creativity in the data that shapes these systems. Our platform combines elite human expertise with cutting-edge tools for scalable oversight, from building rich RL environments to conducting rigorous evaluations that go beyond benchmarks. We've run a profitable business from day one without raising venture funding.

Surge is seeking professors from top ranking institutions to help train the world’s greatest models. As an elite contributor from higher education, you’ll bring deep academic insight, research rigor, and conceptual clarity to these datasets. You’ll help transform raw model behavior into structured, teachable insights — writing, reviewing, and refining complex reasoning examples that reflect how experts think, argue, and communicate.

You will be shaping the model’s intellectual DNA, and working with other esteemed groups of Ivy League professors, researchers, and academics who share this mission. This is a role for someone who thrives on analytical precision, enjoys unpacking nuance, and finds satisfaction in translating scholarly judgment into clear, generalizable examples that raise the bar for machine reasoning.

• Academic Excellence – Current or former professor at a top-ranking institution or Ivy League university (preferred), with demonstrated expertise and published research in your field

• Scholarly Depth – Advanced domain knowledge in your academic field and the ability to explain complex concepts to an intelligent general audience

• Analytical Writing Skill – Comfort producing tightly reasoned, well-structured content that models high-level reasoning and conceptual synthesis ‍

• Commitment to Precision – A methodical, detail-oriented approach to annotation, critique, and quality review in a data-centric workflow

• Reviewing or rewriting model responses to ensure they reflect sound argumentation, conceptual clarity, and academic rigor

• Drafting prompts and exemplar answers that illustrate expert reasoning or interdisciplinary synthesis

• Conducting comparative evaluations of model outputs — identifying subtle reasoning flaws, gaps in evidence, or conceptual overreach

• Collaborating with Surge researchers to design datasets that capture authentic, expert-level cognitive patterns

Please email talent@surgehq.ai with your background and interest in collaborating with Surge. Please include the name of the role you’re applying for in the subject line or email body. We welcome personal projects and writings!

How to apply: email talent@surgehq.ai with your background and the role name.