# Applied Researcher - Quantitative Finance 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/e6430d82-f266-475e-a273-255c5b2bd521?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/primeintellect-applied-research-quantitative-finance/

## About the role

Quantitative finance is a demanding setting for agentic reinforcement learning: observations are noisy and non-stationary, actions have delayed and path-dependent consequences, naive objectives invite exploitation, and a convincing historical result can disappear under costs, constraints, or a new regime. You will build environments, evaluations, agents, and post-training methods for quantitative research and systematic decision-making. We have active programs with quantitative funds and other finance teams. 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 quantitative research
- Prior work in systematic trading, market microstructure, time-series modeling, econometrics, or financial simulation 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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