Head of Compute
Prime Intellect provides an open superintelligence stack for training, evaluating, deploying, and continuously improving AI agents and models. Its platform combines RL environments, hosted training, inference, GPU compute, secure sandboxes, and open-source research tooling for researchers, startups, and enterprises.
Maintainer signals as of 8/23/2026
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About Prime Intellect, Inc.
Prime Intellect operates an integrated AI infrastructure platform spanning Lab, hosted reinforcement-learning training, evaluations, environments, inference, secure sandboxes, and on-demand or reserved GPU compute. It also develops open-source tools including Verifiers, prime-rl, and Prime Agent, supporting workflows from environment creation and model evaluation through post-training and production deployment. The company serves researchers, startups, enterprises, and teams building agentic AI systems, with customer examples including Ramp and Zapier.
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About the Role
Own the sourcing, economics, contracting, and strategic positioning of GPU supply powering Prime Intellect's training, serving, and products. The role spans global capacity procurement, major commercial agreements, accelerator access, provider qualification, research and engineering collaboration, and leadership advice on market and capital decisions.
Requirements
- Strong business and financial instincts
- Deep fluency in the global AI compute market
- Technical understanding of cluster topology and goodput
- Ability to discuss workload requirements with researchers
- Experience negotiating and closing significant contracts
- Understanding of deal structure and downstream economics
- Ability to operate across finance, commercial, product, and engineering
- High ownership
- Experience using LLMs, automation, and programmatic tools
Responsibilities
- Own compute economics across contracts, training products, and inference products
- Partner with finance and leadership on capital strategy
- Build frameworks connecting supply decisions to financial outcomes
- Shape the commercial architecture of the open compute ecosystem
- Own global GPU capacity procurement
- Negotiate reserved capacity, spot, burst, MSA, DPA, and order-form agreements
- Secure early access to new accelerator generations
- Maintain senior provider relationships
- Translate training roadmaps and research workloads into compute requirements
- Partner with engineering on acceptance testing and provider qualification
- Track global compute pricing, availability, and provider dynamics
- Advise leadership on accelerators, providers, geographies, and contract structures
Benefits
- Competitive cash compensation
- Meaningful equity
- Flexible work
- Visa sponsorship
- Relocation support
- Professional development budget
- Team off-sites
- Conferences
- Opportunity to build infrastructure for open AI
