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Applied Research Lead - New York

Prime Intellect· Applied Research
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New York$150k - $300kFull-timePosted 5d ago

About the role

Prime Intellect is building the open superintelligence stack and seeks a senior leader to establish and grow a New York Applied Research group that combines frontier methods with real-world infrastructure and external partnerships.

Responsibilities

  • Applied Research at Prime: turn workflows into tasks, environments, evaluations, and reward signals; run post-training experiments against real baselines; deploy what works; determine whether gains come from the model, data, harness, inference, or infrastructure; share reusable parts as research, open-source systems, and product capabilities.
  • Role scope: New York leadership role within Prime's Applied Research function; involve external program teams while leading technical work, recruiting, and developing the New York group.
  • Representative early problems: turn the first portfolio of New York field programs into research agendas with owners and evidence; lead a high-stakes program through environment design, baseline, post-training, evaluation, and deployment; recruit founding New York researchers and establish a working rhythm.
  • What you will own: a small number of the hardest New York partner and customer research programs; recruiting and development of the founding New York Applied Research group; technical standards for environments, evaluations, post-training experiments, failure analysis, and deployed results; meaningful personal research and cross-program technical direction.

Qualifications

  • A track record leading high-performing applied-research or research-engineering teams with credibility in RL/post-training/agents/evaluation/ML systems; exceptional recruiting judgment; experience with demanding external technical stakeholders.
  • Hands-on experience building and debugging model-training, post-training, agent, evaluation, or closely adjacent experimental loops.
  • Strong experimental judgment: baselines, trace inspection, failure attribution, and willingness to pivot with evidence.
  • Strong Python and ability to build artifacts that others can run, inspect, and extend.
  • Comfort owning ambiguous problems and keeping partners and teammates current as issues are resolved.

Skills

Required:Applied Research leadershipRL/post-training/agents/evaluationRecruiting and team developmentPython

Benefits

  • Cash Compensation Range of $150-300k + equity incentives
  • Full-time, in-person work from our New York City office
  • Visa Sponsorship & relocation support
  • Professional Development budget
  • Team Off-sites & conference attendance
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Prime Intellect

Commoditizing Compute & Intelligence

Prime Intellect democratizes AI development at scale. Our platform makes it easy to find global compute resources and train state-of-the-art models through distributed training across clusters. Collectively own the resulting open AI innovations, from language models to scientific breakthroughs.

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