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Research Engineer - RL Infrastructure

Prime Intellect · San Francisco · Remote

Infrastructureremote$150k–$350k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build infrastructure powering large-scale RL and distributed training workloads.
  • Shape architecture of async rollout and post-training systems at frontier scale.
  • Contribute to open-source stack for training open frontier AI models.

What they offer

  • Equity incentives
  • Flexible work arrangements with remote or in-person option
  • Visa sponsorship and relocation assistance
  • Quarterly team off-sites, hackathons, conferences and learning opportunities

Ideal candidate

Systems-minded engineer who thrives on ambiguous, high-ownership infrastructure problems and loves squeezing performance from large-scale training systems to advance open frontier AI.

Requirements

  • Strong systems engineering experience in AI/ML infrastructure, especially around large-scale model training or inference
  • Deep familiarity with PyTorch and distributed training frameworks such as PyTorch Distributed, DeepSpeed, FSDP, Megatron, vLLM, Ray, or related tooling
  • Experience optimizing training performance across kernels, memory movement, communication overhead, or parallelization strategy
  • Hands-on experience with large-scale training techniques including data parallelism, tensor parallelism, and pipeline parallelism
  • Strong understanding of GPU architecture, profiling, and performance debugging
  • Ability to identify bottlenecks across the stack and drive improvements from first principles
  • Comfort working in a fast-moving environment with ambiguous problems and high ownership
remote policy
Remote work option available
visa sponsorship
Visa sponsorship and relocation assistance 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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