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Research Engineer - Distributed Training

Primeintellect · San Francisco · On-site

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About Primeintellect

Train, deploy, and continuously improve your own models on an integrated compute, training, inference, and sandbox stack. Backed by Menlo.

About the role

Build and optimize the distributed training infrastructure behind our pre-training and large-scale RL training workloads by contributing to our prime-rl framework. Improve end-to-end training efficiency across compute, memory, networking, and scheduling layers.

What they're looking for

  • Strong systems engineering experience in AI/ML infrastructure, especially around large-scale model training or inference
  • Deep familiarity with PyTorch and distributed training frameworks such as PyTorch Distributed, DeepSpeed, FSDP, Megatron, vLLM, Ray, or related tooling
  • Experience optimizing training performance across kernels, memory movement, communication overhead, or parallelization strategy
  • Hands-on experience with large-scale training techniques including data parallelism, tensor parallelism, and pipeline parallelism
  • Strong understanding of GPU architecture, profiling, and performance debugging
  • Ability to identify bottlenecks across the stack and drive improvements from first principles
More about this role

Prime Intellect is building the open superintelligence stack: the infrastructure frontier AI labs build internally, made available to every ambitious AI team.

Our platform, Lab, unifies compute, environments, evaluations, secure sandboxes, high-performance training, and deployment into one full-stack system for post-training at frontier scale - from SFT and RL to tool use, agent workflows, and continuously improving production models. We are building open frontier AI: open-source models trained end to end for long-horizon tasks like autonomous research, and the full-stack platform our own research team uses to build them. The next generation of AI companies, enterprises, and research teams do not just need more GPUs. They need the ability to turn their own workflows, tools, data, and feedback loops into superintelligence they own.

We train open frontier models and ship the same stack to our customers. Its spans the full stack of training, deploying and continuously improving models — compute, large-scale RL, environments, sandboxes, evals, and deployment.

Prime Intellect has raised $150M in total funding from Founders Fund, Radical Ventures, NVIDIA, and exceptional AI,...

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