# Applied Researcher - Chip Design at Primeintellect

- Company: Primeintellect
- What the company does: Train, deploy, and continuously improve your own models on an integrated compute, training, inference, and sandbox stack. Backed by Menlo.
- Company website: https://www.primeintellect.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-10-19
- Apply by: 2026-12-03
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/PrimeIntellect/9ed2340b-029e-4f58-82f5-0d55f09aad5b?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/primeintellect-applied-research-chip-design/

## About the role

Chip design is a natural fit for agentic reinforcement learning: long-horizon work, specialized tools, expensive mistakes, hard constraints, and objective feedback from simulation, verification, timing, power, and area. You will build agents, environments, evaluations, and post-training systems for real semiconductor design and verification workflows. The work is grounded in an external design workflow, with access to relevant domain experts and toolchains. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- We are looking first for depth in RL, agents, or post-training systems and the ability to become fluent in semiconductor workflows
- Prior work in design automation, compilers, formal methods, or ML for systems is useful but not required
- Hands-on experience building and debugging model-training, post-training, agent, evaluation, or closely adjacent experimental loops
- Strong experimental judgment: meaningful baselines, careful trace inspection, clear failure attribution, and a willingness to change direction when the evidence changes
- Strong Python and the ability to build artifacts that other researchers and engineers can run, inspect, and extend
- Comfort owning ambiguous problems and keeping partners and teammates current as you resolve them

Tags: Applied Research

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