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title: 'Member of Technical Staff - Compute Platform at Prime Intellect'
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# Member of Technical Staff - Compute Platform at Prime Intellect

- **Company:** Prime Intellect
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-07-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/primeintellect/6d77793a-ee30-41ea-9e28-1f3f3eb9ceb9

## Job description

## OWN YOUR INTELLIGENCE

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.

Prime Intellect has raised $150M in total funding from Founders Fund, Radical Ventures, NVIDIA, and exceptional AI, infrastructure, and enterprise operators — including Andrej Karpathy, Dwarkesh Patel, and leaders and founders from Ramp, Perplexity, Harvey, Mercor, Zapier, Datadog, Cognition, OpenAI, Thinking Machines, Together AI, SemiAnalysis, LangChain, Browserbase, Cloudflare, Sierra, Databricks, Airbnb, OpenRouter, Standard Intelligence, Fleet, Core Auto, and more. We are looking for people who want to build at the intersection of frontier research, real infrastructure, and go-to-market for a category that does not fully exist yet.

## CORE TECHNICAL RESPONSIBILITIES

This hybrid role spans across our AI platform software engineering and infrastructure. You'll be instrumental in:

## PLATFORM DEVELOPMENT

- Build intuitive web interfaces for AI workload management and monitoring
- Develop REST APIs and backend services in Python
- Create real-time monitoring and debugging tools
- Implement user-facing features for resource management and job control

## INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT, AUTOMATION & RELIABILITY

- Design and implement distributed training infrastructure in Rust
- Build high-performance networking and coordination components
- Create infrastructure automation pipelines with Ansible
- Manage cloud resources and container orchestration
- Implement scheduling systems for heterogeneous hardware (CPU, GPU, TPU)

## BACKEND & FEATURE DEVELOPMENT

- New Feature Engineering: Collaborate with the engineering team to design and implement backend features.
- API and Service Development: Enhance our platform’s REST APIs and backend services to support new capabilities and improve overall performance.
- System Integration: Ensure seamless integration of new features into our existing infrastructure, maintaining high reliability and security standards.

Development & Infrastructure Skills

- Backend Engineering: Proficiency in Python for developing automation scripts, REST APIs, and backend support tools.
- Container & Cloud Technologies: Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and cloud platforms (GCP preferred).

## TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

Platform Skills

- Strong Python backend development (FastAPI, async)
- Modern frontend development (TypeScript, React/Next.js, Tailwind)
- Experience building developer tools and dashboards
- RESTful API design and implementation

Infrastructure Skills

- Systems programming experience with Rust
- Infrastructure automation (Ansible, Terraform)
- Container orchestration (Kubernetes)
- Cloud platform expertise (GCP preferred)
- Observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana)

## NICE TO HAVE

- Experience with GPU computing and ML infrastructure
- Knowledge of AI/ML model architecture and training
- High-performance networking implementation
- Open-source infrastructure contributions
- WebSocket/real-time systems experience

## GROWTH OPPORTUNITY

You'll join a team of experienced engineers and researchers working on cutting-edge problems in AI infrastructure. We believe in open development and encourage team members to contribute to the broader AI community through research and open-source contributions.

We value potential over perfection - if you're passionate about democratizing AI development and have experience in either platform or infrastructure development (ideally both), we want to talk to you.

## About Prime Intellect

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Prime Intellect provides an open, full-stack platform for companies to train, deploy, and continuously improve their own AI models through large-scale distributed reinforcement learning.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Vincent Weisser (CEO), Johannes Hagemann (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI infrastructure, open-source AI research, and agentic training platforms
- **Target customers**: B2B — enterprises and AI labs that want to train custom models without building their own infrastructure; also open-source community contributors
- **Mission**: Democratize frontier AI training by making it accessible to every company and collectively owning the resulting open innovations.

## Products & Services
- **Compute**: Access to GPU clusters (H100, H200, B200+) from 50+ providers, plus on-demand single GPU instances and reserved clusters with InfiniBand networking and SLURM/K8s orchestration.
- **Hosted Training (Lab)**: Managed large-scale reinforcement learning (RL) training without infrastructure overhead, including a 2,500+ environment hub and custom eval benchmarks.
- **Inference**: Serverless or dedicated inference for custom models, with native LoRA support and 1-click deployment.
- **Open-Source Libraries**: `prime-rl` (async RL framework), `verifiers` (environments & evals), and environment hub for collaborative development.
- **INTELLECT-3**: A 100B+ parameter Mixture-of-Experts model trained on their RL stack, achieving state-of-the-art performance for its size.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Total Funding**: $70.44M across multiple rounds (CBInsights, 2026); earlier reports indicated $20.5M in seed rounds, followed by a Series B round of $49.94M led by Founders Fund and other investors.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Founders Fund, CoinFund, Distributed Global, Radical Ventures, Andrej Karpathy, Clem Delangue (Hugging Face), Dylan Patel (SemiAnalysis), Tri Dao (Together AI).
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 128.6% YoY to 36 employees; 24 active job postings (monthly job growth +26.3%); launched INTELLECT-3 and SYNTHETIC-2 datasets; customers include Ramp and Zap; operates in 9 countries.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Full-stack integrated platform** – compute, post-training, evals, and inference in one place, reducing the fragmentation of building and maintaining AI workflows.
- **Large-scale distributed RL expertise** – proven ability to train 100B+ models across clusters (global training via their RL stack).
- **Open-source ethos** – models, datasets, and libraries are released openly, attracting a community of researchers and developers.
- **Founding team & research edge** – strong ties to frontier AI research, with contributions like prime-rl and self-improving agent loops.

## Strategic Focus
- **Self-improving agents** – building infrastructure that closes the loop from deployment back to training, enabling models to compound performance over time.
- **Scaling RL at extreme sizes** – recent research (RL at 1T Scale) shows commitment to massive-scale reinforcement learning.
- **Enterprise adoption** – adding dedicated solutions engineers and managed workflows for corporate customers.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Seeks “the most ambitious developers” and emphasizes cutting-edge research and engineering. The team includes former engineers from Together AI, Aleph Alpha, and Anyscale.
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Remote-friendly with HQ in San Francisco.
- **Growth trajectory**: Rapidly scaling company (headcount up 128% YoY) with multiple open roles across engineering, research, and go-to-market.
- **Tech stack**: Python, PyTorch, CUDA, Kubernetes, SLURM, Grafana, and a broad modern AI toolchain – opportunity to work on infrastructure-level challenges.

## Sources
1. [primeintellect.ai](https://www.primeintellect.ai/)
2. [linkedin.com/company/primeintellect-ai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/primeintellect-ai)
3. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/PrimeIntellect](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/primeintellect)
4. [cbinsights.com/company/prime-intellect](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/prime-intellect)
5. [docs.primeintellect.ai/introduction](https://docs.primeintellect.ai/introduction)

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