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$150,000–$300,000/yr
Global

  • Building agents, environments, and post-training systems for real semiconductor design and verification workflows.
  • Designing rewards and evaluations that combine functional correctness with tool efficiency, robustness, and performance/power/area constraints.
  • Owning interactive environments where agents use EDA tools to modify designs, debug failures, and plan multi-step work.

Python Reinforcement Learning Evaluation

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Global

  • Own applied RL programs from ambiguous customer problem to deployed improvement loop.
  • Understand workflows, build environments and evaluations, run post-training experiments, and deploy results.
  • Work directly with customer researchers, engineers, and leaders, accountable for research result and practical impact.

Prime Intellect builds the open superintelligence stack, providing a full-stack platform for frontier-scale post-training of AI models. The company has raised $150M from top investors and is seeking builders who want to work at the intersection of frontier research, real infrastructure, and go-to-market.

$150,000–$300,000/yr
Global

  • Build and post-train agents for scientific research, including literature search, code execution, and domain tool use.
  • Develop RL and multi-agent methods for proposing, testing, and critiquing hypotheses, with strong baselines and evaluation.
  • Design verifiers, reward signals, and reproducible experimental loops for scientific workflows, ensuring evidence-based improvements.

Prime Intellect builds the open superintelligence stack, providing infrastructure for frontier AI labs to train, evaluate, and deploy models at scale. The company has raised $150M from top investors and operators, and is building a culture focused on frontier research, real infrastructure, and go-to-market for a new category.

$150,000–$300,000/yr
Global

  • Build post-training and evaluation systems for multimodal agents operating browsers and desktops.
  • Turn real workflows into environments, rewards, and experiments that drive reliable agent improvement.
  • Work directly with customers and research partners while maintaining a substantive research agenda.

Prime Intellect is building the open superintelligence stack, providing infrastructure for post-training frontier AI models. The company has raised $150M in funding and fosters a culture of ownership and collaboration for ambitious AI teams.

Global

  • Build the Learning Gym, a sandboxed environment for training and evaluating AI agents on real Niural workflows with ground-truth reward signals.
  • Engineer verifiers, run reinforcement learning loops, and establish honest baselines to prove agent improvements generalize.
  • Write first-author research papers and internal technical reports, and represent the work externally through preprints and talks.

Niural is a global payroll, Employer of Record (EOR), Agent of Record (AOR), and Contractor Management platform. It is a relentlessly ambitious team focused on building foundational internet infrastructure for the AI era.

Global

  • Build quantitative-research environments, agents, and post-training methods for systematic decision-making.
  • Turn workflows into tasks, run experiments against real baselines, and deploy what works.
  • Work directly with customers and quantitative funds while maintaining a substantive research agenda.

Prime Intellect builds the open superintelligence stack for post-training AI, unifying compute, environments, evaluations, and deployment. They have raised $150M from top investors and are building a culture of ambitious, externally-facing applied research.

Global

  • Design and build challenging evaluations and executable environments for coding and long-horizon agents.
  • Develop scoring logic and verifiers to detect reward hacks and trace failures through model outputs and harness code.
  • Build and scale RL data pipelines for generating and curating challenging coding and agentic tasks.

Prime Intellect is building the open superintelligence stack, providing infrastructure for post-training frontier AI models and open-source models trained for long-horizon tasks. The company has raised $150M from top investors and is a mission-driven team passionate about accelerating science and AI.

Global

  • Develop RL algorithms for reasoning, coding, and long-horizon tasks.
  • Design and run scaling experiments to improve training recipes across model sizes.
  • Extend RL training frameworks for asynchronous workflows and reliability.

Prime Intellect builds the open superintelligence stack, offering a platform that unifies compute, training, and deployment for frontier AI teams. With $150M in funding and a mission-driven culture, they focus on open-source AI research and real infrastructure.

$150,000–$300,000/yr
Global

  • Build simulation and real-world environments for training and evaluating embodied agents.
  • Train long-horizon robots with RL, imitation learning, and world models under hardware constraints.
  • Run post-training experiments to find what works and share reusable open-source systems.

Prime Intellect builds the open superintelligence stack, making frontier AI infrastructure available to ambitious AI teams. With $150M in funding from top investors, they are a well-funded startup focused on open-source AI and decentralized training.

$200,000–$290,000/yr
US

  • Drive all aspects of chip design, including Functional Specification, Micro-architecture, RTL development, and Synthesis.
  • Work closely with PD, DV, and software teams to achieve PPA goals, functional coverage, and optimal performance.
  • Debug silicon-level functional, timing, and power issues during bring up.

Cerebras Systems builds the world's largest AI chip, 56 times larger than GPUs, delivering industry-leading training and inference speeds. It works with leading model labs and global enterprises, with recent partnerships including OpenAI, and fosters a simple, non-corporate culture that values individual beliefs.

Global

  • Build and optimize RL infrastructure for large-scale training.
  • Improve efficiency across compute, memory, networking, and scheduling.
  • Design low-level optimizations, from kernels to runtime.

Prime Intellect builds the open superintelligence stack, providing full-stack infrastructure for frontier-scale AI post-training and deployment. The company has raised $150M from top investors and is mission-driven, focused on open-source AI and accelerating science.

India

  • Build reinforcement learning and agent environments for real customer and Frontier lab use cases, including task specifications, scoring, and evaluation.
  • Develop benchmarks and evaluation harnesses to measure model and data quality across accuracy, robustness, safety, latency, and cost.
  • Run fine-tuning, adapter, and other model experiments to evaluate how data and methods influence model behavior, and deploy local or self-hosted models for evaluation and inference.

Appen has been a leader in AI training data for over 30 years, specializing in human-generated data to train, fine-tune, and evaluate models across generative AI, LLMs, computer vision, and speech recognition. They support model development through an AI-assisted data annotation platform and a global crowd of over 1 million contributors in more than 200 countries, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and humility over ego.

Global

  • Own the path from emerging research artifact to excellent open-source and product experience.
  • Build core open-source systems and shape researcher-facing features in our training platform.
  • Work with external researchers and contributors to turn fast-moving abstractions into stable public interfaces.

Prime Intellect is building the open superintelligence stack, providing infrastructure and a full-stack platform for post-training frontier AI models. The company has raised $150M in funding from prominent investors and aims to make open-source AI research fully reproducible and accessible.