AI Research Jobs in San Francisco
590 open roles across 112 AI companies, pulled live from career pages and refreshed daily.
Member of Technical Staff - Engineering Lead, Data Acquisition
Reflection AI · San Francisco, CA · Late · raised 2026
Data Scientist, Growth
Anthropic · New York City, NY | Seattle, WA; San Francisco, CA · Late · raised 2026
[Expression of Interest] Research Manager, Interpretability
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Late · raised 2026
Research Engineer, Cybersecurity RL (Reinforcement Learning)
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · Late · raised 2026
Research Engineer, Interpretability
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Late · raised 2026
Research Scientist, Interpretability
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Late · raised 2026
Security Engineer / Research Engineer, RL Security
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA · Late · raised 2026
Product Data Scientist - Youth, Families and Learning
OpenAI · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026Remote$401K – $510K • Offers Equity
Software Engineer, Research Tooling
Cursor · Palo Alto, CA · Late
Senior Data Scientist, Growth
Glean · Mountain View, CA; San Francisco, CA · Late
Senior/Staff Applied Scientist
Glean · Mountain View, CA; San Francisco, CA · Late
Machine Learning Research Intern (Summer 2027)
Scale AI · New York, NY; San Francisco, CA · Late
2027 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Research, Perception Foundation Models
Waymo · Mountain View, CA, USA · Late
2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Machine Learning Research, Planning/Prediction
Waymo · Mountain View, CA, USA · Late
2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Research, AV Planning
Waymo · Mountain View, CA, USA · Late
2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Research, Behavior Post-training
Waymo · Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA · Late
2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Research, Perception Foundation Models
Waymo · Mountain View, CA, USA · Late
2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Research, Post Training
Waymo · Mountain View, CA, USA: San Francisco, CA, USA · Late
2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Research Scientist, Visual Reasoning
Waymo · Mountain View, CA, USA · Late
2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Research, VLM Harnesses for AV Planning
Waymo · Mountain View, CA, USA · Late
2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Research, World Action Model
Waymo · Mountain View, CA, USA · Late
2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Research, World Modeling Evaluation
Waymo · Mountain View, CA, USA · Late
2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Safety Research, Human Behavior Analytics
Waymo · Mountain View, CA, USA · Late
Data Scientist
Waymo · Mountain View, California, USA; San Francisco, California, USA · Late
Machine Learning Engineer / Applied Scientist, Prediction & Planning
Waymo · Mountain View, CA USA; San Francisco, CA USA · Late
Research Scientist, Map Scalability
Waymo · Mountain View, CA, U.S.A ; San Francisco, CA, U.S.A ; New York City, NY, U.S.A · Late
Research Scientist, RL for Autonomous Planning & World Modeling
Waymo · Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; New York City, NY, USA · Late
Research Scientist, World Model Post-Training
Waymo · Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA · Late
Safety Case Research - Product Development Lead
Waymo · Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA · Late
Senior Data Scientist
Waymo · Mountain View, California, USA; San Francisco, California, USA · Late
Senior Data Scientist, Simulation Capacity Optimization
Waymo · Mountain View, CA, USA · Late
Senior Research Scientist, Perception
Waymo · Mountain View, CA, USA ; San Francisco, CA, USA ; Kirkland, WA, USA ; New York City, NY, USA · Late
Staff Data Scientist
Waymo · Mountain View, California, USA; San Francisco, California, USA · Late
Staff Product Data Scientist, Infrastructure
Waymo · Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA · Late
Staff Research Scientist, Foundation Models Recipes
Waymo · Mountain View, CA, US; San Francisco, CA, US; Kirkland, WA, US · Late
Staff Research Scientist, Perception
Waymo · Mountain View, CA, USA ; San Francisco, CA, USA ; Kirkland, WA, USA ; New York City, NY, USA · Late
Agent Post-Training, Computer Use Research
OpenAI · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026$380K – $500K
Research, Tinker, RL Systems
Thinking Machines · San Francisco · Late
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Enterprise Agent Evals & Efficiency)
Perplexity · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026$220K – $405K • Offers Equity
Mercor AI Research Fund Grants: Economics of AI
Mercor · San Francisco · Late$5M
Member of Technical Staff, Health Systems
OpenEvidence · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026
Product and Research Operations Manager, Voices
Cartesia · *HQ - San Francisco, CA$160K – $225K • Offers Equity
Member of Technical Staff (Android Engineer, Computer Growth)
Perplexity · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026Remote$220K – $405K • Offers Equity
Member of Technical Staff (iOS Engineer, Computer Growth)
Perplexity · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026$220K – $405K • Offers Equity
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Enterprise Trust & Governance)
Perplexity · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026$220K – $405K • Offers Equity
Forward Deployed Researcher - Data as a Service
Snorkel AI · New York City, NY (Hybrid); San Francisco, CA (Hybrid); United States (Remote) · LateRemote
Member of Technical Staff, Backend
LlamaIndex · San Francisco · EarlyRemote$180K – $250K • Offers Equity
Research Intern, Frontier Speculative Decoding (Summer 2027)
Together AI · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026
Research Intern, Frontier Speculative Decoding (Winter 2027)
Together AI · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026
Software Engineer, Research Productivity
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · Late · raised 2026
Member of Technical Staff, Intern
Abridge · SF Office · Late · raised 2026$40 per hour
General Manager, Research Operations
Physical Intelligence · San Francisco · Late
Senior Data Scientist
Zipline · South San Francisco, California, USA
Principal Scientist, Target Discovery & Portfolio Strategy
Xaira Therapeutics · South San Francisco, California, United States
Applied Scientist, Amazon Ads
Amazon (AI roles) · San Francisco, California, USA · Public
Senior Data Scientist, AI Product Insights
Mixpanel · San Francisco, US (Hybrid)
Senior Data Scientist
Probably Genetic · San FranciscoRemote$180K – $230K • Offers Equity • Multiple Ranges
Research & Education Sales Lead, Beneficial Deployments
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · Late · raised 2026
Researcher, Safety - Frontier Assurance
OpenAI · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026$380K – $500K • Offers Equity
Member of Technical Staff - Grok Product
xAI · Palo Alto, CA · Late · raised 2026
Member of Technical Staff - Imagine Model
xAI · Palo Alto, CA · Late · raised 2026
Member of Technical Staff - Imagine Product
xAI · Palo Alto, CA · Late · raised 2026
Member of Technical Staff - Imagine Safety
xAI · Palo Alto, CA · Late · raised 2026
Member of Technical Staff - Model Training
xAI · Palo Alto, CA; Austin, TX; New York, NY; Seattle, WA · Late · raised 2026
Member of Technical Staff - Multimodal Understanding
xAI · Palo Alto, CA · Late · raised 2026
Member of Technical Staff - Voice Product
xAI · Palo Alto, CA · Late · raised 2026
Member of Technical Staff
Eudia · Palo Alto, CA
Offensive Security RL Researcher
Idler · San Francisco$200K – $500K • Offers Equity
AI Neuroscientist
LatchBio · San Francisco or RemoteRemote
Machine Learning Research Scientist, Evaluations
Scale AI · San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; New York, NY · Late
Machine Learning Research Scientist, Post-Training
Scale AI · San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; New York, NY · Late
ML Research Engineer, ML Systems
Scale AI · San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; New York, NY · Late
Research Scientist, Agent Robustness
Scale AI · San Francisco, CA; New York, NY · Late
Research Scientist, AI Controls and Monitoring
Scale AI · San Francisco, CA; New York, NY · Late
Research Scientist, Frontier Risk Evaluations
Scale AI · San Francisco, CA; New York, NY · Late
Research Scientist, Safety Post Training
Scale AI · San Francisco, CA; New York, NY · Late
Senior Manager, Research Scientist
Scale AI · San Francisco, CA; New York, NY · Late
Senior/Staff Machine Learning Research Engineer, General Agents, Enterprise GenAI
Scale AI · San Francisco, CA; New York, NY · Late
Senior / Staff Machine Learning Research Scientist, Agents
Scale AI · San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; New York, NY · Late
Staff/Senior Machine Learning Research Engineer, Intelligent Systems
Scale AI · San Francisco, CA; New York, NY · Late
VP, Research
Scale AI · San Francisco, CA; New York, NY · Late
Executive Researcher
CoreWeave · New York, NY / Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA · Public
Software Engineer, Developer & Research Platform
Chai Discovery · San Francisco office
Market Research Lead, ChatGPT
OpenAI · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026Remote$240K – $300K • Offers Equity
Research Engineer, Safety & Alignment
Cognition · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026
Research Fellow
Snorkel AI · New York City, NY (Hybrid); San Francisco, CA (Hybrid); United States (Remote) · LateRemote
PhD GenAI Research Scientist Intern
Databricks · San Francisco, California · Late · raised 2026
Applied AI Researcher, Agent Systems & Evaluation
Nuro · Mountain View, California (HQ)
Machine Learning Research Scientist, Behavior Planning and Prediction
Nuro · Mountain View, California (HQ)
Machine Learning Research Scientist: Generative Modeling for Planning
Nuro · Mountain View, California (HQ)
ML Research Scientist, Prediction & Smart Agents
Nuro · Mountain View, California (HQ)
Senior/Staff Machine Learning Research Scientist: Generative Modeling for Planning
Nuro · Mountain View, California (HQ)
Research Program Manager
AfterQuery · San Francisco$175K – $191K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus
Applied AI/ML Scientist, Intern
Faire · San Francisco, CA
AI Scientist, BioMedical AI
Xaira Therapeutics · South San Francisco, California, United States
AI Scientist - Biomedical Multimodal Modeling
Xaira Therapeutics · South San Francisco, California, United States
AI Scientist, Computational Protein Design
Xaira Therapeutics · South San Francisco, California, United States
AI Scientist Intern, Computational Protein Design
Xaira Therapeutics · Seattle, Washington, United States; South San Francisco, California, United States
BioMedical AI Research Engineer
Xaira Therapeutics · South San Francisco, California, United States
Principal Scientist, Biology
Xaira Therapeutics · South San Francisco, California, United States
Principal Scientist, Protein Engineering
Xaira Therapeutics · South San Francisco, California, United States
Research Associate / Senior Research Associate, Genomic Core
Xaira Therapeutics · South San Francisco, California, United States
Scientist II, Antibody Discovery (Phage Display)
Xaira Therapeutics · South San Francisco, California, United States
Scientist II, High Throughput Biology
Xaira Therapeutics · South San Francisco, California, United States
Scientist I/II, Functional Genomics
Xaira Therapeutics · South San Francisco, California, United States
Senior Scientist, Antibody Characterization
Xaira Therapeutics · South San Francisco, California, United States
Senior Scientist, Biology
Xaira Therapeutics · South San Francisco, California, United States
Senior Software Engineer, X-Scientist
Xaira Therapeutics · South San Francisco, California, United States
Senior/ Staff AI Research Engineer
Xaira Therapeutics · Seattle, Washington, United States; South San Francisco, California, United States
Data Scientist, FinEng
OpenAI · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026Remote$293K – $515K • Offers Equity
Post-Training Applied Researcher
Baseten · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026Remote$200K – $275K • Offers Equity
Applied Research Scientist, AI Research
Descript · San Francisco, CA or Remote, US · GrowthRemote
Lead Data Scientist, Product
Descript · San Francisco, CA or Remote, US · GrowthRemote
Applied Scientist, Amazon Robotics
Amazon (AI roles) · Sunnyvale, California, USA · Public
Lead Technical Recruiter - Research
Harvey · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026Remote$163.9K – $245.9K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus
Research Scientist
Snorkel AI · New York City, NY (Hybrid); San Francisco, CA (Hybrid); United States (Remote) · LateRemote
Research Scientist - Human-AI Systems
Snorkel AI · New York City, NY (Hybrid); San Francisco, CA (Hybrid); United States (Remote) · LateRemote
Applied Scientist, AWS Neuron Science - Core Algorithm, AWS Neuron Science - Core Algorithm
Amazon (AI roles) · Cupertino, California, USA · Public
Member of Technical Staff
Capy · SF$200K – $300K • 0.5% – 1.5%
Research Engineer, Applied Research
Sierra · San Francisco, CA · Late · raised 2026
Research Intern
Mercor · San Francisco · Late$80 per hour
Member of Technical Staff - Inference Runtime
Modal · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026$220K – $300K • Offers Equity
Policy Advocacy - Political Research
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Late · raised 2026
Staff Research Engineer, Multi-Agent Scaling
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA · Late · raised 2026
Director, Research - Evaluation & Training
Snorkel AI · New York City, NY (Hybrid); San Francisco, CA (Hybrid); United States (Remote) · LateRemote
Research Scientist - Frontier Benchmarks
Snorkel AI · New York City, NY (Hybrid); San Francisco, CA (Hybrid); United States (Remote) · LateRemote
Research Engineer , Quick Science
Amazon (AI roles) · San Francisco, California, USA · Public
Senior Data Scientist - Manufacturing Data (US)
Gauss Labs · Palo Alto, CA
Research Engineer, Robotics Evals
HUD · San Francisco$100K – $230K
Research Engineer, RL Engineering
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA · Late · raised 2026
Research Engineer, Content Understanding
Exa · San Francisco, California · Growth · raised 2026$180K – $350K
Research Engineer, Index Intelligence
Exa · San Francisco, California · Growth · raised 2026$180K – $350K
Data Scientist II, Applied ML
Brex · San Francisco, California, United States
Data Scientist, B2B Strategy & Intelligence
OpenAI · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026Remote$347K – $510K • Offers Equity
Member of Technical Staff - Engineering Lead, Compute Platform
Reflection AI · San Francisco, CA · Late · raised 2026
Member of Technical Staff - Engineering Lead, Data Platform
Reflection AI · San Francisco, CA · Late · raised 2026
Senior Instrument Scientist, Calibration Testing
Muon Space · Mountain View, CA
Research Engineer / Performance Engineer, RL Distributed Systems
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA · Late · raised 2026
Research Engineer / Research Scientist, RL Frontiers
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA · Late · raised 2026
Member of Technical Staff (New Grad)
Perplexity · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026
Sr. Applied Scientist, Frontier AI Assets
Amazon (AI roles) · Sunnyvale, California, USA · Public
Senior Applied AI/ML Scientist - Search Ranking
Faire · San Francisco, CA
Research Lead, Policy Communications
OpenAI · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026Remote$347K – $385K • Offers Equity
Research Engineer, Robotics Data
HUD · San Francisco$100K – $230K
Research Engineer, Post-Training Model Evaluations
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA · Late · raised 2026
Investor Relations Manager, Capital Markets & Strategic Research
Higgsfield · San Francisco Bay Area, USA · Late · raised 2026Remote$175K – $220K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus
Senior Research Manager
HUD · San Francisco$120K – $295K
Research Counsel
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · Late · raised 2026
Senior Applied AI/ML Scientist - Listing Quality
Faire · San Francisco, CA
Senior Applied AI/ML Scientist - Marketplace Quality
Faire · San Francisco, CA
Staff+ Research Scientist, Multi-Agent
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA · Late · raised 2026
Research Engineer, Web Crawling
Thinking Machines · San Francisco · Late
Research Engineer, Data Infrastructure (Language Modeling)
Cartesia · *HQ - San Francisco, CA$200K – $350K • Offers Equity
Research Engineer, Auto Research
Chai Discovery · San Francisco office
Research Engineer, ML Infrastructure
Chai Discovery · San Francisco office
Research Engineer
Assort Health · San FranciscoRemote$190K – $240K • Offers Equity
Member of Technical Staff, AI Products (Early Career - Industry)
Perplexity · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026$180K – $270K • Offers Equity
Research Engineer, Large-Scale Training
Together AI · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026
Research Engineer, Post-Training Inference
Together AI · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026
Research Intern, Frontier Agents (Summer 2027)
Together AI · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026
Research Intern, Frontier Agents (Winter 2027)
Together AI · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026
Research Intern, Inference (Summer 2027)
Together AI · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026
Research Intern, Inference (Winter 2027)
Together AI · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026
Research Intern, Model Shaping (Summer 2027)
Together AI · San Francisco, Amsterdam · Late · raised 2026
Research Intern, Model Shaping (Winter 2027)
Together AI · San Francisco, Amsterdam · Late · raised 2026
Senior Technical Recruiter, AI/ML Research
Together AI · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026
Systems Research Engineer, GPU Programming
Together AI · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026
Systems Research Engineer Intern - GPU Programming (Summer 2027)
Together AI · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026
Systems Research Engineer Intern - GPU Programming (Winter 2027)
Together AI · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026
Senior Applied AI/ML Scientist - Brand Growth
Faire · San Francisco, CA
Senior Applied AI/ML Scientist - Retailer Growth
Faire · San Francisco, CA
Research Engineer, Visual Knowledge Work
Anthropic · New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA · Late · raised 2026
Research Operations, Reinforcement Learning
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Late · raised 2026
Research Scientist, Life Sciences (Experimental Biology)
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Late · raised 2026
Research Program Manager, Frontier Assurance
OpenAI · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026Remote$239K – $328K • Offers Equity
Internal Communications, Research and Product
OpenAI · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026Remote$171K – $190K • Offers Equity
Mercor AI Research Fund Grants: Benchmarks
Mercor · San Francisco · LateRemote$5M
AI research scientist
Writer · San Francisco, CA · GrowthRemote$199K – $325K • Offers Equity
Director, Forward Deployed Researcher - Data as a Service
Snorkel AI · New York City, NY (Hybrid); San Francisco, CA (Hybrid); United States (Remote) · LateRemote
Member of Technical Staff - Storage
Modal · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026$250K – $300K
Member of Technical Staff - Machines
Modal · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026$250K – $300K
Member of Technical Staff, Agentic Release Engineer
Vapi · San FranciscoRemote$235K – $264K • Offers Equity
Research, Mid Training
Thinking Machines · San Francisco · Late
Principal AI Research Scientist, Research Director - AI Scaling
Databricks · Mountain View, California; San Francisco, California · Late · raised 2026
Principal Research Scientist – Scaling
Databricks · San Francisco, California · Late · raised 2026
Senior Data Scientist
Databricks · Mountain View, California; San Francisco, California · Late · raised 2026
Staff Data Scientist
Databricks · San Francisco, California · Late · raised 2026
Staff Data Scientist - Infrastructure
Databricks · Mountain View, California · Late · raised 2026
Staff Data Scientist - Trust and Safety
Databricks · San Francisco, California · Late · raised 2026
Staff Software Engineer - AI Research Infrastructure
Databricks · New York City, New York; San Francisco, California · Late · raised 2026
Staff Software Engineer - AI Research Infrastructure
Databricks · New York City, New York; San Francisco, California · Late · raised 2026
Applied Scientist, Amazon Ads, Forecasting, Insights and Guidance (FIG)
Amazon (AI roles) · Palo Alto, California, USA · Public
Perplexity Research Fellowship
Perplexity · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026$180K – $220K
Talent Acquisition, Research - North America
Mistral AI · Palo Alto · LateRemote
Research Scientist - Environments, Data and Post-Training
Mercor · San Francisco · Late$250K – $500K • Offers Equity
Physical Scientist / Test Engineer
Midjourney · San Francisco Bay Area Hybrid · LateRemote$146K – $154K
MTS, IT Engineer
Reflection AI · San Francisco, CA · Late · raised 2026
Research Lead, Tinker, Fine-tuning Science
Thinking Machines · San Francisco · Late
Research, Finetuning Science
Thinking Machines · San Francisco · Late
Forward Deployed Data Scientist
Intercom · San Francisco, California