Applied RL Quant Finance Researcher (Remote)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work options

Visa sponsorship

Relocation support

Dev budget

Job summary

Prime Intellect AI is building the open frontier AI stack, combining data, environments, evaluations, and secure sandboxes for frontier-scale post-training in finance and research. The candidate will develop quantitative environments, evaluators, and agent pipelines to enable robust, long-horizon decision-making across markets and assets.

The role is externally facing, collaborating with customers and research partners, with opportunities to contribute to open-source systems and production

Qualifications

• Depth in RL, agents, or post-training systems.
• Strong Python and ability to build artifacts.

Responsibilities

• Turn workflows into tasks, environments, evaluations, and rewards.
• Run post-training experiments against baselines and deploy successful results.
• Collaborate with customers, users, or research partners while maintaining a research agenda.
• Own environments grounded in realistic market mechanics and data.

Skills

Reinforcement learning

Agents

Post-training systems

Python

Tools

Post-training tools

Job description

Prime Intellect AI is building the open frontier AI stack, combining data, environments, evaluations, and secure sandboxes for frontier-scale post-training in finance and research. The candidate will develop quantitative environments, evaluators, and agent pipelines to enable robust, long-horizon decision-making across markets and assets.

The role is externally facing, collaborating with customers and research partners, with opportunities to contribute to open-source systems and production