Lead Applied Researcher - New York
Prime Intellect, New York
What you will do
- A small number of the hardest New York partner and customer research programs.
- Recruiting and development of the founding New York Applied Research group.
- Technical standards for environments, evaluations, post-training experiments, failure analysis, and deployed results.
- Meaningful personal research, cross-program technical direction, and decisions about what becomes shared research or product capability as the team grows.
What you need
- 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.
