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AI Evaluation Infrastructure Engineer
Block INC · 🇺🇸 Bay Area, CA, United States of America
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 111 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 120 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Block INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles13 certified filings for “Software Engineer” (Software Developers) in CA: $209k–$270k, median $225k. Most were filed at wage level IV (82%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 111 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 120 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
It all started with an idea at Block in 2013. Initially built to take the pain out of peer-to-peer payments, Cash App has gone from a simple product with a single purpose to a dynamic ecosystem, developing unique financial products, including Afterpay/Clearpay, to provide a better way to send, spend, invest, borrow and save to our 50+ million monthly active customers. We want to redefine the world’s relationship with money to make it more relatable, instantly available, and universally accessible. Today, Cash App has thousands of employees working globally across office and remote locations, with a culture geared toward innovation, collaboration and impact. We’ve been a distributed team since day one, and many of our roles can be done remotely from the countries where Cash App operates. No matter the location, we tailor our experience to ensure our employees are creative, productive, and happy. The Role We build AI products, and the quality of our evaluations sets the ceiling for how good those products can be. The speed of our evaluations determines how quickly we can improve them. We are looking for an engineer to build the infrastructure and tooling that make high-quality AI evaluation possible at Block's scale. You will help teams understand whether a model or product change is actually better, whether a result is statistically meaningful, and whether offline evaluation is predicting what happens with real users. Our evaluation approach combines offline evals that encode our definition of a good response, online evals that show how people actually respond, and a feedback loop that keeps the two converging. Your work will turn that approach into systems that product teams can use quickly, reliably, and with confidence. This is a high-impact, early-stage area with broad surface area. You will help decide what to build first, then build the platform that helps teams ship better AI products faster. You Will • Build an execution engine that can score candidate versions against task sets in minutes, not hours. • Create task set tooling that samples from production logs and validates tasks before they are admitted into an evaluation set. • Build grader infrastructure across ground truth checks, rubrics, and LLM-as-judge approaches. • Develop tooling that helps human reviewers calibrate judges, measure judge-to-human agreement, and monitor drift over time. • Build leaderboards and reporting systems that include sample size, confidence intervals, and run-to-run variance, so teams can distinguish real improvements from noise. • Support in-product side-by-side serving, feedback capture, and implicit signal extraction from real conversations. • Build the loop that compares offline scores with online outcomes, identifies eval sets that have stopped predicting reality, and helps teams improve them. • Partner with product, engineering, data, and ML teams to make evaluation workflows fast enough and trustworthy enough to become part of everyday development. You Have • Experience building production platforms or infrastructure, including distributed batch execution, data pipelines, or systems that process production logs. • Strong statistical literacy, including comfort with confidence intervals, variance, power, and multiple comparisons. • The judgment to identify when a result is meaningful and when it is noise. • Experience evaluating LLM or ML systems, or deep systems engineering experience with a strong interest in AI evaluation. • Product instinct for internal tools. You understand that leaderboards, annotation tools, and workflows only matter if teams actually use them. • A bias toward building reliable, observable systems that other engineers can trust. • Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work across