Research Engineer / Scientist - Reinforcement Learning
Prime Intellect · San Francisco · Remote
Infrastructureremote$150k–$350k
At a glance
Highlights
- Develop RL methods for reasoning, coding, and long-horizon tasks.
- Design experiments on how RL scales with size, compute, and horizon.
- Turn experimental findings into training recipes for larger models.
What they offer
- Equity incentives
- Flexible work arrangements with remote or in-person options in San Francisco
- Visa sponsorship and relocation assistance
- Quarterly team off-sites, hackathons, conferences and learning opportunities
Ideal candidate
A curious RL researcher or engineer who loves running controlled experiments, debugging unstable training, and turning insights into robust recipes to advance open frontier models.
Requirements
- Demonstrated depth in RL algorithms, empirical research on model training, or distributed ML systems
- Strong programming skills in Python and experience with PyTorch or comparable ML framework
- Ability to design controlled experiments, interpret results, and debug model or system behavior
- Experience taking research ideas or systems changes through implementation, testing, and evaluation
- remote policy
- Flexible work arrangements with option to work remotely
- 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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