Lead Applied Researcher - New York

Prime Intellect is building the open superintelligence stack. This is a New York leadership role within Prime's broader Applied Research function, requiring research taste, technical depth, customer and partner judgment, exceptional recruiting, and the willingness to remain a builder.

Responsibilities

Turn a workflow into tasks, environments, evaluations, and reward signals, run post-training experiments against real baselines, and deploy what works; Work directly with customers, users, or research partners while maintaining a substantive research agenda; Turn the first portfolio of New York field programs into research agendas with strong owners, comparable evidence, and explicit paths from domain result to shared capability; Personally lead high-stakes programs through environment design, baseline, post-training, evaluation, and deployment; Recruit the founding New York researchers and establish a working rhythm that keeps review rigorous; Own technical standards for environments, evaluations, post-training experiments, failure analysis, and deployed results; Set research direction and technical and experimental standards for the New York group as it grows

Requirements

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

Benefits

Cash compensation range of $150-300k + equity incentives; Full-time, in-person work from the New York City office; Visa sponsorship & relocation support; Professional development budget; Team off-sites & conference attendance