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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.

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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.

$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.

$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.

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.

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.

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.

$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

  • 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 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 4w PTO

  • Build and ship AI methods for federal research data with LLMs, NLP, RAG, knowledge graphs.
  • Benchmark AI against baselines and human reviewers to prove gains in accuracy, reliability, efficiency, cost.
  • Set standards for trustworthy AI and mentor data scientists through code review and guidance.

ARI builds AI methods for federal research-funding and administrative data, with clients including the NIH. It is a small multidisciplinary team of scientists, analysts, economists, and data scientists experienced with NIH data.

$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.

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.

US Unlimited PTO

  • Own the vision for applied AI solutions across Reddit's business and technical functions.
  • Build AI applications, agents, and automations that solve real business problems.
  • Mentor engineers and set technical direction for AI-native workflows.

Reddit is a community of communities, hosting open and authentic conversations on the internet. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, it is one of the internet's largest sources of information.

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.

$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.

A rapidly growing, venture-backed AI company building human intelligence infrastructure for the AI economy. Backed by $40M+ in funding, they connect global experts with high-impact AI projects through a proprietary talent-matching platform.

$150,000–$250,000/yr
Global 5w PTO

  • Lead and accelerate the Applied White-Box Methods team's research agenda on AI safety.
  • Develop and evaluate white-box methods on realistic large-scale agentic coding tasks.
  • Publish findings and engage with the AI alignment community and external partners.

FAR.AI is a non-profit AI research institute dedicated to ensuring advanced AI is safe and beneficial for everyone. Since its founding in July 2022, it has grown to 50+ staff, published 40+ academic papers, and convened leading AI safety events.

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

  • 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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