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$250,000–$350,000/yr
US

  • Define and lead the Physical AI research agenda spanning robotics, learning, data, evaluation, and automation.
  • Build and mentor a world-class research team while partnering with leading AI and robotics labs.
  • Advance general-purpose robot learning and scalable data systems, bridging simulation and reality.

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$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.

$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

  • 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.

$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 AI methods and algorithms for reliable agents.
  • Design simulations and evaluations for agent behavior.
  • Partner with product and engineering to ship research.

The company builds an AI agent platform focused on making agents reliable in production. It is a research-driven environment with a collaborative, startup-oriented culture.

US Unlimited PTO

  • Train models and evaluate AI systems to deliver world-class AI to the warfighter.
  • Run experiments in reinforcement learning, pretraining, multimodal training, and related areas.
  • Work as a self-starter in a fast-paced Series-A startup, interacting with customers and owning projects.

EdgeRunner AI builds secure, edge-deployed AI that helps American warfighters make faster decisions and interact with robotic platforms using natural language. It's a Series-A startup with a remote-first culture and a team of researchers and ML engineers.

Global

  • Design, build, and maintain robotic platforms, including sensor integration, calibration, and actuator control.
  • Develop the robotics software stack for perception, state estimation, motion planning, and control, plus simulation environments.
  • Deploy and optimize learned models on hardware with attention to latency, safety, and reliability.

Metacognition builds intelligent systems capable of learning, remembering, and reasoning over time. It is an early-stage startup with a highly collaborative, fast-moving environment where employees have meaningful ownership.

$130,000–$180,000/yr
US

  • Coordinate real-time robot software, motion planning systems, and machine learning pipelines across multiple platforms.
  • Build and maintain data-labeling tools, perception systems, and compilers for robotics applications.
  • Deploy software in customer facilities and improve performance based on real-world operation.

They build software for AI-driven robots in production environments. As a Series A company, they maintain an early-stage culture that values ownership and adaptability.

$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.

US

  • Drive end-to-end program management for complex, cross-functional AI and autonomy initiatives with engineering teams and external partners.
  • Act as a technical thought partner, translating between business stakeholders, R&D engineers, and partner teams on AI systems, LLMs, and agentic frameworks.
  • Establish success criteria, manage risks, and optimize processes to deliver measurable program value across the AI & Autonomy function.

Rockwell Automation is a global technology leader in industrial automation and digital transformation, helping manufacturers be more productive and sustainable. With approximately 28,000 employees across more than 100 countries, they foster a culture of problem solvers and forward thinkers.

$150,000–$180,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Oversee onsite testing and preparation of robot fleets.
  • Coordinate cross-functional teams to define project scope, milestones, and deliverables.
  • Lead project planning, resource allocation, and scheduling for timely deployment.

Collaborative Robotics develops collaborative robots to redefine human-robot interaction, aiming to make robots a trusted extension of their surroundings. As a team of innovators and builders, they foster a fast-paced, collaborative culture focused on pushing technological boundaries.

$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.

US Unlimited PTO 12w maternity 12w paternity

  • Research, develop, and maintain production-quality machine learning code for materials science problems.
  • Collaborate with product, engineering, and research teams to transform AI ideas into scalable, customer-ready capabilities.
  • Evaluate and improve model performance, reliability, and interpretability across the full feature lifecycle.

The company develops materials-aware AI capabilities for scientific and industrial applications. They value autonomy, collaboration, and continuous learning in a remote environment.

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 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.