Applied Researcher - Frontier AI Systems

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

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work location

Visa sponsorship & relocation support

Professional development budget

Team off-sites & conference attendance

Job summary

Prime Intellect is building the open frontier AI stack, enabling a new class of autonomous, research-driven workflows for chip design and verification. You will develop interactive environments, evaluators, and long-horizon agents that operate with EDA toolchains and real design data.

We value publications and open‑source work; expect to collaborate with customers and researchers while driving practical, battle-tested systems for post-training AI in semiconductor workflows.

Qualifications

• Depth in RL, agents, or post-training systems.
• Experience in design automation, compilers, formal methods or ML for systems is useful but not required.
• Hands-on experience building and debugging model-training, post-training, agent, evaluation loops.

Responsibilities

• Own interactive environments where agents use EDA tools to modify designs, debug failures, and plan multi-step work.
• Design verifiers and rewards grounded in tests, simulation, formal methods, design rules, and engineering outcomes.
• Run experiments on credit assignment when feedback arrives late and multiple tools contribute.

Skills

RL research

Agent development

Post-training systems

Python

Experimental judgement

Model debugging

Job description

Prime Intellect is building the open frontier AI stack, enabling a new class of autonomous, research-driven workflows for chip design and verification. You will develop interactive environments, evaluators, and long-horizon agents that operate with EDA toolchains and real design data.

We value publications and open‑source work; expect to collaborate with customers and researchers while driving practical, battle-tested systems for post-training AI in semiconductor workflows.