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AI research jobs in San Francisco

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209 open AI research roles at 37 AI companies in San Francisco, including OpenAI, Anthropic and Thinking Machines Lab. Updated daily; 9 were posted this week.

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  1. Applied Scientist, Product Policy Research & Measurement — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $347K–385K · todaynew
  2. Policy Researcher — Thinking Machines Lab · Seed · San Francisco, CA · 4 days agonew
  3. Research Engineer, Real Environments — Mercor · Series B · San Francisco, CA · $160K–500K · 4 days agonew
  4. Member of Technical Staff - Evaluations — Liquid AI · Seed · San Francisco, CA · 4 days agonew
  5. Member of Technical Staff, Multimodal Pretraining Data — Hark AI · San Jose, CA · $180K–450K · 5 days agonew
  6. Member of Technical Staff, Pretraining Evaluations — Hark AI · San Jose, CA · $180K–450K · 5 days agonew
  7. Research Resident — Generalist AI · San Mateo, CA · 5 days agonew
  8. Novel Abuse Red Teamer — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $158K–320K · 5 days agonew
  9. Research Engineer, Cybersecurity RL — Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $500K–850K · 6 days agonew
  10. Research Scientist — Latent Labs · Series A · San Francisco, CA · last week
  11. Research Engineer, Cybersecurity RL (Reinforcement Learning) — Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · last week
  12. Member of Technical Staff, Pretraining Architecture and Scaling — Hark AI · San Jose, CA · $180K–450K · last week
  13. Member of Technical Staff, Post-Training — Ricursive Intelligence · Series A · Palo Alto, CA · last week
  14. Research Scientist, Discovery (Engineering & Applied Sciences) — Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $500K–850K · last week
  15. Applied Scientist, Engineering — Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $320K–405K · last week
  16. Research Scientist, Pre-training Research — Chai Discovery · Series C · San Francisco, CA · last week
  17. Research Scientist, Applied Research — Chai Discovery · Series C · San Francisco, CA · last week
  18. Research Scientist – Multimodal Foundation Models & Visual Reasoning — Elorian AI · Seed · Palo Alto, CA · last week
  19. Agent Behavior Specialist — Hark AI · San Jose, CA · $150K–250K · last week
  20. Research Intern — Sierra · Late Stage · San Francisco, CA · 2 weeks ago
  21. Member of Technical Staff (Secure Intelligence Institute) — Perplexity · Series C · San Francisco, CA · $220K–405K · 2 weeks ago
  22. Research Engineer – Robotics & Embodied AI — Elorian AI · Seed · Palo Alto, CA · 2 weeks ago
  23. Member of Technical Staff - ML Research Engineer, Pre-Training Data — Liquid AI · Seed · San Francisco, CA · 2 weeks ago
  24. Senior Engineer, Bioinformatics — Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $300K–320K · 2 weeks ago
  25. Anthropic Research Resident — Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $350K–500K · 2 weeks ago
  26. Applied Scientist — Generalist AI · San Mateo, CA · 2 weeks ago
  27. Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Human Flourishing — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $380K–500K · 2 weeks ago
  28. Research Engineer, Intern – Benchmarking — Mercor · Series B · San Francisco, CA · USD 70/hour · 2 weeks ago
  29. Research Engineer Intern - Environments, Data and Post-Training — Mercor · Series B · San Francisco, CA · USD 70/hour · 2 weeks ago
  30. Research Scientist, Life Sciences (Computational Chemistry) — Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $300K–320K · 2 weeks ago
  31. Member of Technical Staff, Vision/Language Research — xDOF · Series B · San Francisco, CA · $200K–330K · 3 weeks ago
  32. Researcher, Misalignment Monitoring Lead — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $380K–500K · 3 weeks ago
  33. Research Scientist / Research Engineer, Safety + Alignment, Search — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $380K–850K · 3 weeks ago
  34. Research Scientist / Research Engineer - Web Understanding and Structured Retrieval, Search — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $380K–850K · 3 weeks ago
  35. Research Engineer, Chip Design RL — Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $500K–850K · 3 weeks ago
  36. Research Engineer, RL Frontiers — Etched · Seed · San Jose, CA · 3 weeks ago
  37. Security Engineer / Research Engineer, RL Security — Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $320K–405K · 3 weeks ago
  38. Mercor AI Research Fund Grants: Economics of AI — Mercor · Series B · San Francisco, CA · 3 weeks ago
  39. Research, Tinker, RL Systems — Thinking Machines Lab · Seed · San Francisco, CA · 3 weeks ago
  40. Agent Post-Training, Computer Use Research — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $380K–500K · 3 weeks ago
  41. Applied Researcher - Scientific AI — Prime Intellect · Series A · San Francisco, CA · 3 weeks ago
  42. Applied Researcher - Sovereign AI — Prime Intellect · Series A · San Francisco, CA · 3 weeks ago
  43. Applied Researcher - Robotics — Prime Intellect · Series A · San Francisco, CA · 3 weeks ago
  44. Applied Researcher - Quantitative Finance — Prime Intellect · Series A · San Francisco, CA · 3 weeks ago
  45. Lead Applied Researcher — Prime Intellect · Series A · San Francisco, CA · 3 weeks ago
  46. Applied Researcher - Forward-Deployed RL — Prime Intellect · Series A · San Francisco, CA · 3 weeks ago
  47. Applied Researcher - Ecosystem & Product — Prime Intellect · Series A · San Francisco, CA · 3 weeks ago
  48. Applied Researcher - Continual Learning — Prime Intellect · Series A · San Francisco, CA · 3 weeks ago
  49. Applied Researcher - Agentic RL — Prime Intellect · Series A · San Francisco, CA · 3 weeks ago
  50. Research Engineer - RL Infrastructure — Prime Intellect · Series A · San Francisco, CA · 3 weeks ago

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