Research Engineer - Reinforcement Learning

AI infrastructure company providing an integrated stack for training, evaluating, deploying, and continuously improving agentic models.

Series ARecently funded34 current maintainers27 active leads7 new active leads9 lead step-downsTeam intelligence

Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026

San Francisco, United States
About Prime Intellect

Prime Intellect, Inc. operates AI infrastructure spanning RL environments, hosted training and evaluations, inference, secure sandboxes, and globally sourced GPU compute.

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About the Role

Lead research on large-scale synthetic data generation and orchestration, optimize AI inference performance and resource utilization, develop open-source synthetic data and distributed reinforcement learning frameworks, publish research, and communicate technical outcomes through accessible technical writing.

Requirements

  • Strong AI/ML engineering background with experience designing and implementing end-to-end pipelines for inference or training of large-scale AI models
  • Deep expertise in distributed inference techniques and frameworks such as vLLM and SGLang
  • Understanding of MLOps practices including model versioning, experiment tracking, and CI/CD pipelines
  • Passion for advancing reasoning and democratizing access to AI capabilities

Responsibilities

  • Lead and participate in novel research to build a large-scale synthetic data generation pipeline and orchestration solution
  • Optimize the performance, cost, and resource utilization of AI inference workloads
  • Contribute to open-source libraries and frameworks for synthetic data generation and distributed reinforcement learning
  • Publish research in top-tier AI conferences such as ICML and NeurIPS
  • Explain technical project outcomes through accessible technical blogs for customers and developers
  • Track advances in AI/ML infrastructure, tools, and synthetic data research and identify platform improvements

Benefits

  • Equity incentives
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Remote or in-person work options
  • Visa sponsorship
  • Relocation assistance
  • Quarterly team off-sites
  • Hackathons
  • Conferences
  • Learning opportunities