Applied Research

1 week ago

San Francisco, CA, United States Prime Intellect Full time
Building Open Superintelligence Infrastructure
Prime Intellect is building the open superintelligence stack - from frontier agentic models to the infra that enables anyone to create, train, and deploy them. We aggregate and orchestrate global compute into a single control plane and pair it with the full rl post-training stack: environments, secure sandboxes, verifiable evals, and our async RL trainer. We enable researchers, startups and enterprises to run end-to-end reinforcement learning at frontier scale, adapting models to real tools, workflows, and deployment contexts.

We recently raised $15mm in funding (total of $20mm raised) led by Founders Fund, with participation from Menlo Ventures and prominent angels including Andrej Karpathy (Eureka AI, Tesla, OpenAI), Tri Dao (Chief Scientific Officer of Together AI), Dylan Patel (SemiAnalysis), Clem Delangue (Huggingface), Emad Mostaque (Stability AI) and many others.
Role Impact

This is a customer facing role at the intersection of cutting-edge RL/post-training methods and applied agent systems. You'll have a direct impact on shaping how advanced models are aligned, deployed, and used in the real world by:
  • Advancing Agent Capabilities: Designing and iterating on next-generation AI agents that tackle real workloads-workflow automation, reasoning-intensive tasks, and decision-making at scale.
  • Building Robust Infrastructure: Developing the distributed systems and coordination frameworks that enable these agents to operate reliably, efficiently, and at massive scale.
  • Bridge Between Customers & Research: Translate customer needs into clear technical requirements that guide product and research priorities.
  • Prototype in the Field: Rapidly design and deploy agents, evals, and harnesses alongside customers to validate solutions.
Customer-Facing Engineering
  • Work side-by-side with customers to deeply understand workflows and bottlenecks.
  • Prototype agents and eval harnesses tailored to real use cases, then hand off hardened systems to core teams.
  • Translate customer insights into roadmap and research direction.
Post-training & Reinforcement Learning
  • Design and implement novel RL and post-training methods (RLHF, RLVR, GRPO, etc.) to align large models with domain-specific tasks.
  • Build evaluation harnesses and verifiers to measure reasoning, robustness, and agentic behavior in real-world workflows.
  • Prototype multi-agent and memory-augmented systems to expand capabilities for customer-facing solutions.
Agent Development & Infrastructure
  • Rapidly prototype and iterate on AI agents for automation, workflow orchestration, and decision-making.
  • Extend and integrate with agent frameworks to support evolving feature requests and performance requirements.
  • Architect and maintain distributed training/inference pipelines, ensuring scalability and cost efficiency.
  • Develop observability and monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, tracing) to ensure reliability and performance in production deployments..
Requirements
  • Strong background in machine learning engineering, with experience in post-training, RL, or large-scale model alignment.
  • Deep expertise in distributed training/inference frameworks (e.g., vLLM, sglang, Ray, Accelerate).
  • Experience deploying containerized systems at scale (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform).
  • Track record of research contributions (publications, open-source contributions, benchmarks) in ML/RL.
  • Passion for advancing the state-of-the-art in reasoning and building practical, agentic AI systems.
What We Offer
  • Competitive Compensation + equity incentives
  • Flexible Work (remote or San Francisco)
  • Visa Sponsorship & relocation support
  • Professional Development budget
  • Team Off-sites & conference attendance
Growth Opportunity

You'll join a mission-driven team working at the frontier of open, superintelligence infra. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to:
  • Shape the evolution of agent-driven solutions-from research breakthroughs to production systems used by real customers.
  • Collaborate with leading researchers, engineers, and partners pushing the boundaries of RL and post-training.
  • Grow with a fast-moving organization where your contributions directly influence both the technical direction and the broader AI ecosystem.

If you're excited to move fast, build boldly, and help define how agentic AI is developed and deployed, we'd love to hear from you.

Ready to build the open superintelligence infrastructure of tomorrow?
Apply now to help us make powerful, open AGI accessible to everyone.

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