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Research Engineer / Scientist - Reinforcement Learning

Prime Intellect · San Francisco · Remote

Infrastructureremote$150k–$350k
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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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