# Applied Researcher - Scientific AI 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/7f41cc90-9bf1-49a8-9285-3838033e627d?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/primeintellect-applied-research-scientific-ai/

## About the role

Every Applied Research role is externally facing. Most researchers work directly with customers, users, or research partners while maintaining a substantive research agenda. Prime's autonomous-research study used multi-day nanoGPT optimization tasks to examine how agents measure noise, revisit earlier experiments, and verify improvements. You will build similar experimental loops for scientific tools and datasets. 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 acquire the relevant scientific context
- Prior work in autonomous research, ML for science, scientific computing, or reproducible computational research 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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