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Research Engineer - Reinforcement Learning

United States, San Francisco · Job Posted February 21, 2026
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Building Open Superintelligence Infrastructure. Prime Intellect is building the open superintelligence stack - from frontier agentic models to the infra that enables anyone to create, train, and deploy them. We aggregate and orchestrate global compute into a single control plane and pair it with the full rl post-training stack: environments, secure sandboxes, verifiable evals, and our async RL trainer. We enable researchers, startups and enterprises to run end-to-end reinforcement learning at frontier scale, adapting models to real tools, workflows, and deployment contexts. As a Research Engineer in our Reasoning team, you'll play a crucial role in shaping our technological direction, focusing on our test-time compute scaling research ideas. If you love working with synthetic data and teach LLMs reasoning abilities, this role is for you.

Job Responsibility

  • Lead and participate in novel research to build a massive scale synthetic data generation pipeline and orchestration solution
  • Optimize the performance, cost, and resource utilization of AI inference workloads by leveraging the most recent advances for compute & memory optimization techniques
  • Contribute to the development of our open-source libraries and frameworks for synthetic data generation and distributed RL frameworks
  • Publish research in top-tier AI conferences such as ICML & NeurIPS
  • Distill highly technical project outcomes in layman approachable technical blogs to our customers and developers
  • Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in AI/ML infrastructure and tools, synthetic data gen research and proactively identify opportunities to enhance our platform's capabilities and user experience

Requirements

  • Strong background in AI/ML engineering, with extensive experience in designing and implementing end-to-end pipelines for the inference or training of large-scale AI models
  • Deep expertise in distributed inference techniques and frameworks (e.g. vllm, sglang) for optimizing the performance and scalability of AI workloads
  • Solid understanding of MLOps best practices, including model versioning, experiment tracking, and continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD) pipelines
  • Passion for advancing the state-of-the-art in reasoning and democratizing access to AI capabilities for researchers, developers, and businesses worldwide

What we offer

  • Competitive compensation, including equity incentives, aligning your success with the growth and impact of Prime Intellect
  • Flexible work arrangements, with the option to work remotely or in-person at our offices in San Francisco
  • Visa sponsorship and relocation assistance for international candidates
  • Quarterly team off-sites, hackathons, conferences and learning opportunities
  • Opportunity to work with a talented, hard-working and mission-driven team, united by a shared passion for leveraging technology to accelerate science and AI

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