Prime Intellect
1 open Forward Deployed Engineer role at Prime Intellect. Curated with comp bands.
Comp on the board: $150K–$300K.
On the board since Jul 2026 · still hiring
Our take
Why Prime Intellect
The rare FDE seat where the deliverable is training itself — embed with labs to design their post-training and RL runs.
- FDE type
- True forward-deployed
- Travel
- Medium
- Comp
- Competitive
- Stage
- Growth-stage
A good fit if you're…
- Research engineers who want to ship training, not just inference
- People fluent in RL environments and eval harnesses
- Candidates who want lab-facing work over enterprise IT
What they do
Prime Intellect builds infrastructure for decentralized and large-scale training, and the forward-deployed applied-research seat embeds with AI labs and enterprises to design post-training runs, RL environments, and eval harnesses on its Lab stack.
What “forward deployed” means here
Unusually technical for an FDE role: the customer engagement is a training run, not a dashboard. You are forward-deployed into a lab's research loop, standing up RL environments and post-training pipelines rather than integrating an API into someone's product.
Comp & leveling
The $150K–$300K band is wide and research-weighted, spanning strong applied engineer to research-engineer leveling. Backed by Founders Fund with Andrej Karpathy angel'd in — the cap table is the signal that the technical bar is real.
Growth signals
Founders Fund backing plus a marquee angel, and a product aimed at the training layer, put Prime Intellect upstream of most FDE shops — closer to the model than to the deployment surface.
Analysis updated 2026-09-04
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