Research Engineer - Reinforcement Learning
AI infrastructure company providing an integrated stack for training, evaluating, deploying, and continuously improving agentic models.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
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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
