Applied AI Researcher — Remote & Impact at Frontier AI

Prime Intellect, Inc.; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Cash compensation $150-300k + equity

Flexible work locations

Visa sponsorship & relocation

Professional development budget

Team off-sites & conference attendance

Job summary

Prime Intellect, Inc. seeks an Applied Research engineer to own RL programs from initial customer problem to deployed improvements. You will craft environments, evaluations, and baselines while collaborating with researchers, engineers, and customers to ensure measurable impact.

You will deliver post-training experiments, distinguish model from data or infrastructure contributions, and build reusable artifacts for Prime's broader stack and products.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building and debugging model-training, post-training, agent, evaluation loops.
• Strong Python and the ability to build artifacts that others can run, inspect, and extend.
• Comfort owning ambiguous problems and keeping partners updated as you resolve them.

Responsibilities

• Define and own applied RL programs from customer problem to deployed improvement loop.
• Work with customer researchers, engineers, and leaders to ensure practical impact.
• Develop environments, evaluations, baselines, and reusable research artifacts.

Skills

Python

Experimentation

Research tooling

Tools

Post-training RL tools

Job description

Prime Intellect, Inc. seeks an Applied Research engineer to own RL programs from initial customer problem to deployed improvements. You will craft environments, evaluations, and baselines while collaborating with researchers, engineers, and customers to ensure measurable impact.

You will deliver post-training experiments, distinguish model from data or infrastructure contributions, and build reusable artifacts for Prime's broader stack and products.