# Applied Researcher - Forward-Deployed RL 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/af2f419f-6596-4805-8e83-9cee5016aa1a?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/primeintellect-applied-research-forward-deployed-rl/

## About the role

You will own applied RL programs from the first ambiguous customer problem through a deployed improvement loop. You will understand the workflow and business stakes, decide what can be measured and learned, build the environment and evaluation, run post-training experiments, deploy the result, and determine what should generalize into Prime's shared stack. The majority of your work will be organized around external programs. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Relevant experience: customer-embedded technical work, research engineering, technical founding experience, applied ML consulting with real build ownership, or end-to-end post-training programs
- You should be comfortable with senior external teams and able to connect experimental evidence to business decisions without lowering the research bar
- 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

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/primeintellect-applied-research-forward-deployed-rl/