AI Research Jobs in San Francisco
578 open roles across 107 AI companies, pulled live from career pages and refreshed daily.
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Infrastructure)
Perplexity · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026$220K – $405K • Offers Equity
Applied AI, Research Engineer
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · Late · raised 2026
Research & Education Sales Lead, Beneficial Deployments
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · Late · raised 2026
Member Of Technical Staff - Cloud Infrastructure
xAI · Palo Alto, CA · Late · raised 2026
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 - Mid-training
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 - Post-Training and RL
xAI · Palo Alto, CA · Late · raised 2026
Member of Technical Staff - RL Inference
xAI · Palo Alto, CA · Late · raised 2026
Member of Technical Staff - RL Training Framework
xAI · Palo Alto, CA · Late · raised 2026
Member of Technical Staff - Voice Product
xAI · Palo Alto, CA · Late · raised 2026
Research Engineer, Safety
Decagon · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026$200K – $400K • Offers Equity
Research Engineer, Audio and Speech
Decagon · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026$200K – $400K • Offers Equity
Senior Research Engineer, Safety
Decagon · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026$200K – $400K • Offers Equity
Engineering Manager, Research
Decagon · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026$280K – $430K • Offers Equity
Machine Learning Research Scientist, Agent Data Foundation - Enterprise GenAI
Scale AI · San Francisco, CA; New York, NY · Late
Machine Learning Research Scientist Agents - Enterprise GenAI
Scale AI · San Francisco, CA; New York, NY · Late
Machine Learning Systems Research Engineer/Scientist, Agent Post-training - Enterprise GenAI
Scale AI · San Francisco, CA; New York, NY · Late
Staff Machine Learning Research Scientist Agent Post-training - Enterprise GenAI
Scale AI · San Francisco, CA; New York, NY · Late
2027 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Quantitative UX Researcher, Growth/International Expansion
Waymo · San Francisco, California, United States · Late
Data Scientist
Waymo · Mountain View, California, United States · Late
People Partner, Research
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Late · raised 2026
Research Counsel
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · Late · raised 2026
Researcher, Agent Safety, Training and Evaluations
OpenAI · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026$380K – $500K • Offers Equity
Researcher, Agent Safety, Oversight and System Mitigations
OpenAI · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026$380K – $500K • Offers Equity
Research Engineer, ML Platform
Mistral AI · Palo Alto · LateRemote
Staff/Senior Machine Learning Research Engineer
Scale AI · San Francisco, CA; New York, NY · Late
Senior Data Scientist
Databricks · Mountain View, California; San Francisco, California · Late · raised 2026
Senior Technical Recruiter, AI/ML Research
Together AI · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026
Operations Data Scientist – Strategic Operations
Zipline · South San Francisco, California, USA
Senior Data Scientist
Zipline · South San Francisco, California, USA
Applied Scientist / Machine Learning Engineer
Wayve · Sunnyvale
Principal Research Scientist, Robot Foundation Model
Wayve · Sunnyvale
Research Scientist, Robot Foundation Model
Wayve · Sunnyvale
Research Scientist, Wayve Labs
Wayve · Sunnyvale
Senior Data Scientist
Wayve · Sunnyvale
Senior Data Scientist
Wayve · Sunnyvale
Senior Data Scientist
Wayve · London; Sunnyvale
Staff Data Scientist
Wayve · London; Sunnyvale
Senior Manager, Projects and Programs - Research
Xaira Therapeutics · South San Francisco, California, United States
Research Manager, Biological Safety
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Late · raised 2026
Member of Technical Staff (TPM, Inference)
Perplexity · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026$170K – $265K • Offers Equity
Principal Data Scientist
Databricks · Mountain View, California; San Francisco, California · Late · raised 2026
Data Scientist (Analytics)
Baseten · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026Remote$185K – $260K • Offers Equity
Applied Scientist, Prime Video - Generative AI (Video)
Amazon (AI roles) · Sunnyvale, California, USA · Public
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, RL for Autonomous Planning & World Modeling
Waymo · Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; New York City, 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 Product Data Scientist, Planning
Waymo · San Francisco, CA, USA; 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 Data Scientist, Weather
Waymo · Mountain View, California, USA; San Francisco, California, USA · Late
Staff ML Engineer, Perception Research
Waymo · Mountain View, CA, USA ; New York City, NY, USA ; Kirkland, WA, USA ; San Francisco, CA, USA · Late
Staff Product Data Scientist, Experimentation
Waymo · San Francisco, CA, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA · Late
Staff Product Data Scientist, Infrastructure
Waymo · Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA · Late
Staff Product Data Scientist, Paid Media
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
Staff Applied AI/ML Scientist
Faire · San Francisco, CA
Researcher, Alignment Interpretability
OpenAI · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026$295K – $500K • Offers Equity
Member of Technical Staff, Agentic Systems
Mercor · San Francisco · Late$130K – $500K • Offers Equity
ML Researcher - Image / Video Diffusion
Krea · San Francisco · Growth
ML Researcher - Posttraining
Krea · San Francisco · Growth
Senior / Staff Machine Learning Research Scientist, Agents
Scale AI · San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; New York, NY · Late
Member of Technical Staff
Eudia · Palo Alto, CA
Applied Scientist, Prime Video - Generative AI (Video)
Amazon (AI roles) · Sunnyvale, California, USA · Public
Sr. Applied Scientist (Lead), Prime Video - Generative AI (Video)
Amazon (AI roles) · Sunnyvale, California, USA · Public
AI Security & Control Researcher
Apollo Research · London & San Francisco
Research Program Manager
OpenAI · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026$239K – $328K • Offers Equity
People Research Data Scientist, AI Fairness & Bias
OpenAI · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026Remote$198K – $220K • Offers Equity
Software Engineer, Research Tools
Thinking Machines · San Francisco · LateRemote
Research Scientist - Frontier Benchmarks
Snorkel AI · New York City, NY (Hybrid); San Francisco, CA (Hybrid); United States (Remote) · LateRemote
Executive Researcher
CoreWeave · New York, NY / Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA · Public
Principal Associate Scientist, Bioanalytical Science
Xaira Therapeutics · South San Francisco, California, United States
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Acceleration)
Perplexity · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026$250K – $405K • Offers Equity
Scientist, Protein Design
Chai Discovery · San Francisco office
Member of Technical Staff, Product Engineering
SF Tensor · San Francisco$225K – $275K • Offers Equity
Member of Technical Staff, Sandbox Infrastructure
SF Tensor · San Francisco$275K – $315K • Offers Equity
Member of Technical Staff, Post-Training & Applied Research
SF Tensor · San Francisco$275K – $315K • Offers Equity
Member of Technical Staff, GPU Kernels
SF Tensor · San Francisco$285K – $315K • Offers Equity
Member of Technical Staff, GPU Compiler
SF Tensor · San Francisco$285K – $315K • Offers Equity
Member of Technical Staff, AI-Driven Compilation
SF Tensor · San Francisco$275K – $315K • Offers Equity
Research Partnerships Lead
LatchBio · San Francisco
Marketing Scientist
OpenAI · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026Remote$234K – $260K • Offers Equity
Product & Research Operations Manager, Human Data
Cartesia · *HQ - San Francisco, CA$160K – $225K • Offers Equity
AI Security Researcher
Apollo Research · London & San Francisco
AI Scientist Intern, Computational Protein Design
Xaira Therapeutics · Seattle, Washington, United States; South San Francisco, California, United States
Staff+ Research Engineer, RL Data Platform
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · Late · raised 2026
Research, General Agents
Thinking Machines · San Francisco · LateRemote
Research, Post-Training Evals
Thinking Machines · San Francisco · LateRemote
Research, Coding Agents
Thinking Machines · San Francisco · LateRemote
Member of Technical Staff - Engineering Lead, Data Platform
Reflection AI · San Francisco, CA · Late · raised 2026
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Multimodal)
Perplexity · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026$220K – $405K • Offers Equity
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, API Platform)
Perplexity · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026$220K – $405K • Offers Equity
Member of Technical Staff (Secure Intelligence Institute)
Perplexity · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026$220K – $405K • Offers Equity
Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Agents)
Perplexity · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026$220K – $405K • Offers Equity
Senior Data Scientist, Growth
Glean · Mountain View, CA · Late
Senior Data Scientist, Growth
Glean · San Francisco, CA · Late
Research Scientist, APEX Benchmarks
Mercor · San Francisco · Late$200K – $500K • Offers Equity
Member of Technical Staff, Agentic Release Engineer
Vapi · San FranciscoRemote$235K – $264K • Offers Equity
Research Engineer
AfterQuery · San Francisco$210K – $450K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus • $250k-450k total compensation + equity
Research Technical Program Manager
AfterQuery · San Francisco$210K – $450K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus • $250k-450k total compensation + equity
Senior Scientist, Biology
Xaira Therapeutics · South San Francisco, California, United States
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Desktop Apps)
Perplexity · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026Remote$200K – $400K
Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Model Platform)
Perplexity · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026$220K – $405K • Offers Equity
Senior / Staff Data Scientist, Trust & Safety
Suno · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026$220K – $320K • Offers Equity
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
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 Product Manager
David AI · San Francisco$190K – $260K • Offers Equity
Senior Scientist
Tabula Bio · San Francisco office
Research Scientist
Idler · San Francisco$200K – $500K • 0.5% – 1.5%
People Research Scientist
OpenAI · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026$198K – $220K • Offers Equity
Member of Technical Staff (AI Researcher)
Perplexity · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026$220K – $485K • Offers Equity
Research Engineer / Scientist (3D Tech Lead)
World Labs · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026
Research Engineer / Scientist (Robot Learning)
World Labs · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026
Research Engineer / Scientist (SLAM)
World Labs · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026
Research Scientist (Generative Modeling)
World Labs · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026
Applied Research Scientist, AI Research
Descript · San Francisco, CA or Remote, US · GrowthRemote
Member of Technical Staff, Agentic Developer Experience
Vapi · San FranciscoRemote
Member of Technical Staff, Experimental Biology
Radical Numerics · San Francisco
Applied Scientist, Prime Video - Generative AI (Video)
Amazon (AI roles) · Sunnyvale, California, USA · Public
Applied Scientist, Prime Video - Generative AI (Video)
Amazon (AI roles) · Sunnyvale, California, USA · Public
Sr. Applied Scientist, Prime Video - Generative AI (Video)
Amazon (AI roles) · Sunnyvale, California, USA · Public
Data Scientist, Product
Anthropic · New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA · Late · raised 2026
Research, Safety
Thinking Machines · San Francisco · LateRemote
Director, Research - Evaluation & Training
Snorkel AI · New York City, NY (Hybrid); San Francisco, CA (Hybrid); United States (Remote) · LateRemote
Research Scientist
Snorkel AI · New York City, NY (Hybrid); San Francisco, CA (Hybrid); United States (Remote) · LateRemote
Applied Scientist, Navigation
Amazon (AI roles) · San Francisco, California, USA · Public
Applied Scientist, Prime Video - Generative AI (Video)
Amazon (AI roles) · Sunnyvale, California, USA · Public
Applied Scientist, Prime Video - Generative AI (Video)
Amazon (AI roles) · Sunnyvale, California, USA · Public
Mercor Research Fellowship — APEX
Mercor · San Francisco · LateRemote$40K – $80K once • Multiple Ranges
Data Scientist, Developer Productivity
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · Late · raised 2026
Data Scientist, GTM
Anthropic · New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · Late · raised 2026
Data Scientist, Marketing
Anthropic · New York City, NY | Seattle, WA; San Francisco, CA · Late · raised 2026
Data Scientist, Policy
Anthropic · New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY; Washington, DC · Late · raised 2026
Data Scientist, Safeguards
Anthropic · New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA · Late · raised 2026
Engineering Manager, Research Data Platform
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · Late · raised 2026
Engineering Manager, Research Productivity
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · Late · raised 2026
[Expression of Interest] Research Manager, Interpretability
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Late · raised 2026
Lead Data Scientist, Platform Product
Anthropic · New York City, NY | Seattle, WA; San Francisco, CA · Late · raised 2026
Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer, Safeguards Research
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · Late · raised 2026
ML/Research Engineer, Safeguards
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · Late · raised 2026
People Research Scientist, Recruiting
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA · Late · raised 2026
Product Management, Research
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · Late · raised 2026
Product Manager, Research (Code)
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · Late · raised 2026
Recruiter, AI Research
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA · Late · raised 2026
Research Economist, Economic Research
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Late · raised 2026
Research Engineer, Chip Design RL (Reinforcement Learning)
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · Late · raised 2026
Research Engineer, Code RL (Reinforcement Learning)
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · Late · raised 2026
Research Engineer, Computer Use
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA · Late · raised 2026
Research Engineer, Cybersecurity RL (Reinforcement Learning)
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · Late · raised 2026
Research Engineer, Discovery
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Late · raised 2026
Research Engineer, Domain Scaling
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA · Late · raised 2026
Research Engineer, Economic Research Data Platform
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Late · raised 2026
Research Engineer, Interpretability
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Late · raised 2026
Research Engineer, Knowledge Team
Anthropic · Remote-Friendly (Travel-Required) | San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA | New York City, NY · Late · raised 2026Remote
Research Engineer, Life Sciences
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Late · raised 2026
Research Engineer, Machine Learning (Reinforcement Learning)
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · Late · raised 2026
Research Engineer, Machine Learning (RL Velocity)
Anthropic · Remote-Friendly (Travel-Required) | San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · Late · raised 2026Remote
Research Engineer, Model Evaluations
Anthropic · Remote-Friendly (Travel-Required) | San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · Late · raised 2026Remote
Research Engineer, Performance RL (Reinforcement Learning)
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Late · raised 2026
Research Engineer, Pretraining Scaling
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Late · raised 2026
Research Engineer, Production Model Post-Training
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA · Late · raised 2026
Research Engineer/Research Scientist, Pre-training
Anthropic · Remote-Friendly (Travel-Required) | San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA | New York City, NY · Late · raised 2026Remote
Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Tokens
Anthropic · New York City, NY; New York City, NY | Seattle, WA; San Francisco, CA · Late · raised 2026
Research Engineer, RL Engineering
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA · Late · raised 2026
Research Engineer / Scientist, Alignment
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Late · raised 2026
Research Engineer, Universes
Anthropic · Remote-Friendly (Travel-Required) | San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA | New York City, NY · Late · raised 2026Remote
Research Engineer, Visual Knowledge Work
Anthropic · New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA · Late · raised 2026
Research Product Manager, Labs
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · Late · raised 2026
Research Scientist/Engineer, Biological Safety
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Late · raised 2026
Research Scientist, Interpretability
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Late · raised 2026
Research Scientist, Life Sciences
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Late · raised 2026
Research Scientist, Life Sciences (Chemistry)
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Late · raised 2026
Research Scientist, Life Sciences (Computational)
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Late · raised 2026
Software Engineer, Research Data Platform
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · Late · raised 2026
Software Engineer, Research Tools
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA · Late · raised 2026
Staff Research Engineer, Discovery Team
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Late · raised 2026
Staff+ Researcher, Cybersecurity Products
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Late · raised 2026
Technical Program Manager, Research
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · Late · raised 2026
Technical Program Manager, RL Research
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · Late · raised 2026
Transformative AI Research Economist, Economic Research
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Late · raised 2026
Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Health
OpenAI · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026$380K – $500K • Offers Equity
Research, RL Scaling
Thinking Machines · San Francisco · LateRemote
Member of Technical Staff, Mercor Enterprise Platform
Mercor · San Francisco · Late$130K – $500K • Offers Equity
Lead Data Scientist, Product
Descript · San Francisco, CA or Remote, US · GrowthRemote
Senior Data Scientist - Product
Paraform · San Francisco$150K – $250K • Offers Equity
Data Scientist, Real Estate & Workplace
OpenAI · San Francisco · Late · raised 2026Remote$266K – $385K • Offers Equity