Applied AI Researcher: RL & Deployment Impact

Prime Intellect AI; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 150,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Cash Compensation Range of $150-300k +

Equity incentives

Flexible Work (San Francisco, New York

Visa Sponsorship & relocation support

Professional Development budget

Team Off-sites & conference attendance

Job summary

Prime Intellect AI seeks a hands-on Applied Researcher to own RL programs from initial customer problem through deployed improvements. You will define environments, baselines, and evaluation strategies, then run post-training experiments and deploy successful results.

You will work closely with customer researchers, engineers, and leaders, ensuring research translates into practical, scalable capabilities. You will own technical and business discovery, conduct RL and distillation experiments,

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building and debugging model-training, post-training, agent, evaluation loops.
• Ability to connect experimental evidence to business decisions without lowering scientific rigor.
• Strong Python and automation skills for running reproducible experiments.
• Experience working with senior external teams and customers.
• Comfort with ambiguous problems and resolving them with partners.

Responsibilities

• Own applied RL programs from ambiguous customer problem to deployed improvement loop.
• Design environments, baselines, and evaluations aligned with business goals.
• Run post-training experiments and deploy results, shaping reusable artifacts.
• Collaborate with customer researchers, engineers, and leaders; ensure practical impact.

Skills

Python programming

Experimentation

External collaboration

Post-training ML

Research engineering

Customer-facing support

Job description

Prime Intellect AI seeks a hands-on Applied Researcher to own RL programs from initial customer problem through deployed improvements. You will define environments, baselines, and evaluation strategies, then run post-training experiments and deploy successful results.

You will work closely with customer researchers, engineers, and leaders, ensuring research translates into practical, scalable capabilities. You will own technical and business discovery, conduct RL and distillation experiments,