Frontier AI Applied Researcher (Remote)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Cash compensation

Flexible work locations

Visa sponsorship & relocation

Professional development

Team off-sites & conferences

Job summary

Prime Intellect AI is hiring for Applied Research roles focused on multimodal agents and post-training evaluation. You will build environments and reward signals from real workflows, run experiments against baselines, and deploy effective capabilities for browser, desktop, and cross-application tasks.

You will work with customers and partners, maintaining a substantive research agenda while advancing open frontier AI platforms. Remote-friendly with options in SF, NY, London, or remote.

Qualifications

• Multimodal agents and long-horizon evaluation experience.
• Hands-on experience building and debugging model-training, post-training, agent, evaluation loops.
• Strong Python and the ability to build artifacts others can run, inspect, and extend.

Responsibilities

• Turn real workflows into tasks, environments, evaluations, and rewards.
• Run post-training experiments against baselines and deploy what works.
• Collaborate with customers, users, or research partners while maintaining a research agenda.

Skills

Multimodal agents

Automation experience

Reinforcement learning

Imitation learning

Python proficiency

Tools

Experimentation tooling

Debugging pipelines

Job description

Prime Intellect AI is hiring for Applied Research roles focused on multimodal agents and post-training evaluation. You will build environments and reward signals from real workflows, run experiments against baselines, and deploy effective capabilities for browser, desktop, and cross-application tasks.

You will work with customers and partners, maintaining a substantive research agenda while advancing open frontier AI platforms. Remote-friendly with options in SF, NY, London, or remote.