# Lead Applied Researcher - New York 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: Senior
- Location: New York
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-10-19
- Apply by: 2026-12-03
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/PrimeIntellect/d63b3277-651e-4a81-85d8-888f0aef14f5?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/primeintellect-applied-research-lead-new-york/

## About the role

We are looking for a senior regional player-coach who can establish that group through personally led research and field programs. You will begin close to the work: shape consequential external problems into coherent research programs, lead the hardest early experiments and deployments, and recruit exceptional researchers who want the same combination of frontier methods and real-world responsibility. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- A track record leading high-performing applied-research or research-engineering teams, deep credibility in RL/post-training/agents/evaluation/ML systems, exceptional recruiting judgment, and experience with demanding external technical stakeholders
- 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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