AI Research Resident - Open Source AGI

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Collaborate with leading experts in AI, distributed systems, and protocols to develop state-of-the-art open language models, coding agents, and scientific discovery models
• ▹Contribute to projects focused on democratizing AI and making it universally accessible through the Prime Intellect platform
• ▹Gain practical experience developing and deploying large-scale AI models using novel architectures and distributed training techniques across thousands of GPUs and smaller clusters
• ▹Publish research papers and present findings at top-tier AI conferences
• ▹Develop a strong network within the decentralized AI community
• ▹Work on one or more focus areas: distributed AI infrastructure, open language models, coding agents, scientific discovery

Requirements

• ▹PhD students or postdoctoral researchers in computer science, mathematics, physics, neuroscience, or related fields
• ▹Experienced software engineers with a strong interest in transitioning to AI research
• ▹Self-taught individuals with a proven track record of exceptional technical contributions
• ▹Experience in machine learning, distributed systems, or protocols

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Flexible work arrangements, with the option to work remotely or in-person in San Francisco or Berlin
• ▹Visa sponsorship and relocation assistance for international candidates
• ▹Quarterly team off-sites, hackathons, conferences, and learning opportunities
• ▹Opportunity to work with a talented, hard-working, mission-driven team

About the company

Prime Intellect is building the open superintelligence stack: the infrastructure frontier AI labs build internally, made available to every ambitious AI team. Its platform, Lab, unifies compute, environments, evaluations, secure sandboxes, high-performance training, and deployment into one full-stack system. The company is backed by leading investors including Founders Fund, Radical Ventures, and NVIDIA. The company recently closed $15mm in new funding (totaling $20mm raised), led by Founders Fund, with participation from Menlo Ventures and prominent angels including Andrej Karpathy and Tri Dao.