Applied Research — Forward-Deployed

Prime Intellect, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Prime Intellect, Inc. is seeking a Forward-Deployed (Applied Research) specialist to serve as the primary technical interface between Prime Intellect and its key customers—AI companies, research labs, and enterprises running post-training and agentic RL on the platform.

Location is San Francisco with some remote flexibility. You will embed with customers to translate their models and goals into concrete training runs, environment designs, evaluation harnesses, and deployment recipes using the

Responsibilities

• Embed with customers to understand their models and goals, then translate those into concrete training runs, environment designs, evaluation harnesses, and deployment recipes using the Lab stack.
• Feed field insights back to research, product, and infra teams.

Job description

Forward-Deployed (Applied Research) role serving as the primary technical interface between Prime Intellect and its most important customers — AI companies, research labs, and enterprises running post-training and agentic RL on the platform. You embed with customers to understand their models and goals, then translate those into concrete training runs, environment designs, evaluation harnesses, and deployment recipes using the Lab stack, feeding field insights back to research, product, and infra teams. San Francisco, with some remote flexibility. Sourced via the Plank FDE census (CC BY 4.0).

The rare FDE seat where the deliverable isn't inference but training itself — embed with AI labs and enterprises to design their post-training runs, RL environments, and eval harnesses on Prime Intellect's Lab stack. Backed by Founders Fund with Andrej Karpathy angel'd in; the $150K floor-to-$300K ceiling spread means they'll level you on research chops, not tenure.

Applied Research — Forward-Deployed at Prime Intellect. Location: San Francisco. Compensation: $150K–$300K. Posted July 21, 2026.