Applied Researcher - Scientific AI
Prime Intellect · San Francisco · New York · Remote · Berlin · London
Infrastructureremote$150k–$300k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build agents for scientific research that search literature and run code tools.
- Design long-horizon environments with verifiers for novelty and reproducibility.
- Develop RL and multi-agent methods to propose and critique hypotheses.
What they offer
- Equity incentives
- Professional development budget
- Team off-sites and conference attendance
Ideal candidate
Experimental researcher who thrives on ambiguous, partner-facing problems and turning messy scientific workflows into rigorous, reproducible agent loops. Motivated by open frontier AI and building systems others can run and extend.
Requirements
- Depth in RL, agents, or post-training systems with ability to acquire scientific context
- Hands-on experience building and debugging training, post-training, agent or evaluation loops
- Strong experimental judgment with meaningful baselines and clear failure attribution
- Strong Python and ability to build artifacts others can run, inspect and extend
- Comfort owning ambiguous problems and keeping partners and teammates updated
- remote policy
- remote allowed
- visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship and relocation support available
Lab profile
About Prime Intellect
Building the open superintelligence stack for post-training frontier AI at scale
What they build
- Lab platform
- Compute and environments
- Evaluations
Known for
- Post-training at frontier scale
- SFT and RL
- Tool use and agent workflows
- High-performance training infrastructure
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