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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.

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.

$150,000–$350,000/yr
Global

  • Build inference systems powering RL research, scaling toward 1–3T parameter models on NVL72 clusters.
  • Optimize rollout throughput, multi-node MoE inference, and weight-update overhead for long-horizon agents.
  • Collaborate with model researchers on architecture choices balancing model quality and execution cost.

Prime Intellect is building the open superintelligence stack, unifying compute, environments, and deployment for frontier-scale AI post-training. Backed by $150M in funding, the team is mission-driven and hard-working, focused on accelerating open AI research.

$150,000–$350,000/yr
Global

  • Build and extend pretraining code to scale experiments into full training runs.
  • Evaluate model architecture changes and optimize training throughput and resilience.
  • Run controlled ablations and collaborate with data and evaluation researchers.

Prime Intellect is building an open superintelligence stack, providing the infrastructure and platform for frontier AI training and deployment. The company has raised $150M from top investors and boasts a mission-driven team working to decentralize AI.

$130,000–$200,000/yr
US

  • Develop and improve AI methods, algorithms, and systems across the lifecycle of reliable AI agents.
  • Create new approaches for simulating, evaluating, and optimizing agent behavior in real-world settings.
  • Turn research ideas into working systems, prototypes, and production-facing capabilities.

The company builds infrastructure that helps enterprises make AI agents more reliable in production. It is a technical and research-focused team working on AI methods and practical systems.

$130,000–$200,000/yr
US

  • Develop and improve AI methods, algorithms, and systems across the lifecycle of reliable agents.
  • Create new approaches for simulating, evaluating, and optimizing agent behavior in real-world settings.
  • Turn research ideas into working systems, prototypes, and production-facing capabilities.

The company is a research-focused team developing methods and systems to make AI agents more reliable in production. It operates as a small team with a culture of original research, experimentation, and close collaboration with product and engineering.

Global

  • Build the RL post-training stack end-to-end: rollout ingestion, reward computation, policy updates, and returning updated weights to the network.
  • Invent algorithms for asynchronous, high-latency, partially trusted generation, including staleness tolerance and off-policy corrections.
  • Ship the first decentralized post-trained models, building evals and taking the release from run to public artifact.

Pluralis Research is developing Protocol Learning, a decentralized approach to training and serving large models on consumer devices. We are a small, deeply technical team backed by Union Square Ventures, with a remote-first culture and team members spread globally.

Global 6w PTO 26w maternity 26w paternity

  • Design, run, and analyse large-scale RL post-training experiments such as RLHF and RL from verifiable rewards.
  • Research and develop methods that improve out-of-distribution generalization, including reward design, task diversity, and regularization.
  • Build held-out evaluations to measure generalization and catch reward hacking, and turn successful research into production training recipes.

Cohere is a leading security-first enterprise AI company building cutting-edge foundation models and end-to-end products for businesses. We are a global team of researchers, engineers, and designers passionate about their craft, headquartered in Toronto with offices worldwide.

US

  • Build, train, and evaluate machine learning models end to end, from data and experiment design through training and reporting.
  • Design reinforcement learning environments, reward functions, and verifiers, and fine-tune language models using methods like PPO, DPO, and GRPO.
  • Collaborate with domain experts, analyze datasets, and present findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

EnableComp provides specialty revenue cycle management solutions for healthcare organizations using its unified E360 RCM platform. It is a multi-year Top Workplaces recipient and has been named to the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies for eleven years.

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.

$225,000–$250,000/yr
US

  • Design and implement state-of-the-art ML models and training pipelines for robotics.
  • Develop efficient data/training strategies and evaluation frameworks for rapid experimentation.
  • Collaborate with engineering to optimize training infrastructure and deployment.

We're revolutionizing real-world automation by making robotic systems accessible to everyone. Our AI-powered platform brings software automation to physical spaces, and we're a small startup team working across the stack to solve customer problems.

$150,000–$350,000/yr
Global

  • Find, evaluate, and collect valuable training data from web, code, and technical sources.
  • Build scalable pipelines that turn raw data into training-ready corpora through extraction, cleaning, deduplication, and filtering.
  • Work with researchers on data mixtures and sampling strategies for pretraining and midtraining.

Prime Intellect builds the open superintelligence stack, offering a full-stack platform for post-training frontier AI models. Backed by $150M in funding, it is a mission-driven team focused on accelerating science and AI.

US

  • Develop and train ML models for learned behavior systems using imitation and reinforcement learning.
  • Write production-quality ML code for training, evaluation, and inference in the autonomy stack.
  • Collaborate with teams to test and integrate learned behavior models across diverse driving environments.

Torc is an autonomous vehicle technology company that develops software for automated trucks, with a goal to transform freight movement. Now a part of the Daimler family, the company fosters a collaborative, energetic, and team-focused culture.

Global

  • Distributed pretraining: Implement and optimize model-parallel training on heterogeneous GPUs under low-bandwidth, high-latency links.
  • Performance optimization: Apply techniques that reduce communication overhead while maintaining model convergence in challenging network environments.
  • Elasticity and fault tolerance: Build robust checkpointing and recovery so runs survive node churn as participants join and leave.

Pluralis Research is a decentralized AI research company developing Protocol Learning to train large models on consumer devices across the internet. The team is world-class and deeply technical, backed by tier-1 investors, with a remote-first culture.

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.

US Unlimited PTO

  • Build the component layer around our layout synthesis engine, including API contracts, services, and evaluation gates.
  • Turn model retraining into a one-command job with built-in benchmarks and readable results for the whole team.
  • Own latency and cost budgets for learned capabilities and partner with infrastructure engineers on MLOps and deployment.

Higharc is a VC-backed startup that is changing how new homes are designed and built using spatial AI and generative floor plan technology. The company is fully remote, has raised over $175M, and values flexibility, collaboration, and asynchronous deep work.

US

  • Develop deep learning models for feature matching, depth estimation, pose estimation, and image-to-map localization.
  • Own data preparation and supervision strategies, including dataset curation, labeling workflows, and quality checks.
  • Collaborate with state estimation and deployment engineers to integrate learned measurements into VIO and terrain-relative navigation systems.

This company builds autonomous systems that can understand motion and localize themselves when GPS is unavailable. Its engineering team works remotely, collaborating across deep learning, computer vision, and state estimation.

Asia

  • Design and execute experiments in reasoning model training, post-training alignment, test-time scaling, and systematic model evaluation for crypto-native applications.
  • Review and synthesize recent academic literature from NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, and ACL to inform ongoing research directions in reasoning, alignment, and agentic AI.
  • Implement model variants and evaluation protocols using PyTorch and the Hugging Face ecosystem, tracking experiments with Weights & Biases.

Binance is a leading global blockchain ecosystem behind the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume and registered users. Trusted by 300+ million people in 100+ countries, the company has a flat, results-driven culture and focuses on increasing the freedom of money and financial access worldwide.

$160,000–$190,000/yr
US

  • Own end-to-end ML systems from data and training to evaluation, inference, and deployment.
  • Build and evolve training, fine-tuning, and inference infrastructure for large models.
  • Partner with research and application engineering to turn model capabilities into product improvements.

Next Step Systems is an IT recruiting and staffing agency that connects companies with machine learning and technology talent. They specialize in placing candidates in remote and on-site roles across the United States and emphasize a fast-paced, results-oriented culture.

US

  • Build and ship LLM-powered applications and AI agent workflows.
  • Design systems for reasoning, planning, memory, tool use, and multi-step execution.
  • Optimize AI systems for quality, latency, and cost, and establish production practices for observability and evaluation.

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