Liftoff Jobs

A curated index of open roles at top-tier AI companies.

Research jobs at AI companies

255 open research roles at 44 AI companies, updated daily. Scientists and research engineers training, evaluating and publishing models.

255 open

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  1. Talent Researcher — Reflection AI · London, UK · yesterdaynew
  2. Research Engineer, Data Infrastructure (Language Modeling) — Cartesia · San Francisco, CA · $200K–350K · yesterdaynew
  3. Web Crawling - Research Engineer — Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA · yesterdaynew
  4. Member of Technical Staff (Machine Learning Research Engineer) — Perplexity · Berlin, DE · 2 days agonew
  5. Research Operations, Reinforcement Learning — Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $210K–260K · 3 days agonew
  6. Model Safety Contractor — Elorian AI · Palo Alto, CA · USD 75–125/hour · 3 days agonew
  7. Research, Mid Training — Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA · 4 days agonew
  8. Research Engineer - Environments, Data and Post-Training — Mercor · San Francisco, CA · $250K–500K · 6 days agonew
  9. Applied Scientist (Internship in Paris or London) — Mistral AI · Seoul, KR · last week
  10. Research Intern, Frontier Agents (Summer 2027) — Together AI · San Francisco, CA · USD 58–70/hour · last week
  11. Research Intern, Frontier Agents (Winter 2027) — Together AI · San Francisco, CA · USD 58–70/hour · last week
  12. Systems Research Engineer Intern - GPU Programming (Winter 2027) — Together AI · San Francisco, CA · USD 58–70/hour · last week
  13. Systems Research Engineer Intern - GPU Programming (Summer 2027) — Together AI · San Francisco, CA · USD 58–70/hour · last week
  14. Research Intern, Model Shaping (Winter 2027) — Together AI · San Francisco, CA · USD 58–70/hour · last week
  15. Research Intern, Model Shaping (Summer 2027) — Together AI · San Francisco, CA · USD 58–70/hour · last week
  16. Research Intern, Inference (Winter 2027) — Together AI · San Francisco, CA · USD 58–70/hour · last week
  17. Research Intern, Inference (Summer 2027) — Together AI · San Francisco, CA · USD 58–70/hour · last week
  18. Perplexity Research Fellowship — Perplexity · San Francisco, CA · $180K–220K · 5 days agonew
  19. Research, Finetuning Science — Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA · last week
  20. Research Lead, Tinker, Fine-tuning Science — Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA · last week
  21. Research, Tinker, RL Systems — Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA · last week
  22. Researcher, Safety Training, National Security — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $380K–500K · last week
  23. Research Engineer, AI for Chip Design — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $380K–500K · last week
  24. Research Software Engineer, Post Training — Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA · 2 weeks ago
  25. Member of Technical Staff, Research (2026 PhD New Grad) — Fireworks AI · San Mateo, CA · $200K–300K · 2 weeks ago
  26. Research Engineer, Takeoff Intel — Anthropic · Travel Required · Remote · $350K–850K · 2 weeks ago
  27. Member of Technical Staff, Research Engineer — xDOF · San Francisco, CA · 2 weeks ago
  28. Foundation Models — Genesis AI · London, UK · 2 weeks ago
  29. Research Engineer, Cybersecurity RL (Reinforcement Learning) — Anthropic · Zurich, CH · 2 weeks ago
  30. Research Engineer, Full Stack — Mistral AI · Palo Alto, CA · 2 weeks ago
  31. Research Engineer, Forge — Mistral AI · Paris, FR · 3 weeks ago
  32. AI Tutor - Design — xAI · International · Remote · 3 weeks ago
  33. AI Tutor - Humanities — xAI · International · Remote · 3 weeks ago
  34. Researcher, Agent Safety, Oversight and System Mitigations — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $380K–500K · 3 weeks ago
  35. Researcher, Agent Safety, Training and Evaluations — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $380K–500K · 3 weeks ago
  36. Research Scientist: Post-Training — Generalist AI · San Francisco Bay Area Boston · $240K–350K · 3 weeks ago
  37. Research Manager, Biological Safety — Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $405K–485K · 3 weeks ago
  38. Researcher, Alignment Interpretability — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $295K–500K · 3 weeks ago
  39. Research Leader / Senior Scientist (Computational Drug Design), Cambridge, MA — Isomorphic Laboratories · Cambridge, MA · 4 weeks ago
  40. Research, General Agents — Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA · 4 weeks ago
  41. Research, Coding Agents — Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA · 4 weeks ago
  42. Research Scientist, APEX Benchmarks — Mercor · San Francisco, CA · $200K–500K · 4 weeks ago
  43. Staff+ Research Engineer, RL Data Platform — Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $500K–850K · 4 weeks ago
  44. Research, Post-Training Evals — Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA · 4 weeks ago
  45. Member of Technical Staff (AI Researcher) — Perplexity · San Francisco, CA · $220K–485K · 4 weeks ago
  46. Research, Safety — Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA · 4 weeks ago
  47. Member of Technical Staff, Frontier RL Environments — Hark AI · San Jose, CA · $180K–450K · 4 weeks ago
  48. Mercor Research Fellowship — APEX — Mercor · San Francisco, CA · USD 40,000–80,000 · 4 weeks ago
  49. Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Health — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $380K–500K · 5 weeks ago
  50. Research, RL Scaling — Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA · 5 weeks ago
  51. RE/RS, Data Understanding - Foundations — OpenAI · Zurich, CH · 5 weeks ago
  52. AI Scientist - Physics Models — Mistral AI · Paris, FR · 3 weeks ago
  53. AI Scientist - Agentic Engineering — Mistral AI · Paris, FR · 3 weeks ago
  54. Research Engineer – Benchmarking — Mercor · San Francisco, CA · $180K–500K · 5 weeks ago
  55. AI Research Engineer — Traversal · New York, NY · 5 weeks ago
  56. Research Engineer, Lab Automation — Periodic Labs · Menlo Park, CA · 5 weeks ago
  57. Staff+ Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Interpretability — Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $405K–485K · 6 weeks ago
  58. Research Scientist/Engineer — Periodic Labs · Menlo Park, CA · 6 weeks ago
  59. Staff+ Researcher, Cybersecurity Products — Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $405K–485K · 6 weeks ago
  60. Research Analyst — xAI · New York, NY · $130K–158K · 6 weeks ago
  61. Member of Technical Staff - Post-Training — Reflection AI · San Francisco, CA · 6 weeks ago
  62. Researcher, Frontier Risk Mitigations — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $380K–500K · 6 weeks ago
  63. Researcher, Recursive Self-Improvement Safety — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $380K–500K · 7 weeks ago
  64. Research Scientist (London) — Goodfire · London, UK · GBP 150,000–300,000/year · 7 weeks ago
  65. Research Engineer / Research Scientist / AI Systems Engineer, RSI — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $295K–445K · 7 weeks ago
  66. Researcher, Alignment CoT Monitorability — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $295K–500K · 7 weeks ago
  67. Research Engineer, Code Agents Infra — Mistral AI · Palo Alto, CA · 7 weeks ago
  68. Research, Post-Training — Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA · 7 weeks ago
  69. Research, Pre-Training Data — Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA · 7 weeks ago
  70. Research Scientist, Simulation — Dyna Robotics · Redwood City, CA · 7 weeks ago
  71. Research, Audio Expertise — Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA · 7 weeks ago
  72. Research, Vision Expertise — Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA · 7 weeks ago
  73. Member of Technical Staff, Research — Fireworks AI · San Mateo, CA · $210K–320K · 7 weeks ago
  74. Researcher, Frontier Cybersecurity Risks — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $380K–500K · 7 weeks ago
  75. Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Personalization — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $380K–500K · 7 weeks ago
  76. Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Memory — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $380K–500K · 7 weeks ago
  77. Applied Scientist — Mistral AI · Palo Alto, CA · 7 weeks ago
  78. Researcher, Multimodal Safety — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $380K–500K · 7 weeks ago
  79. Member of Technical Staff (Model Behavior) — Perplexity · San Francisco, CA · $200K–330K · 8 weeks ago
  80. Research Engineer, Large-Scale Training — Together AI · San Francisco, CA · $200K–290K · 8 weeks ago
  81. Member of Technical Staff - ML Scientist, Japanese Multimodal — Liquid AI · Tokyo, JP · 8 weeks ago
  82. Applied Scientist, EMEA — Mistral AI · Paris, FR · 8 weeks ago
  83. ML Research Intern — Modal · New York, NY · USD 15,000/month · 8 weeks ago
  84. Research Engineer / Scientist (Robot Learning) — World Labs · San Francisco, CA · $250K–350K · 8 weeks ago
  85. Member of Technical Staff - Research Software Engineer - Safety Evaluations Infrastructure — Reflection AI · New York, NY · 2 months ago
  86. Research Scientist, Data — Periodic Labs · Menlo Park, CA · 2 months ago
  87. Research Engineer, Real Environments — Mercor · San Francisco, CA · $160K–500K · 2 months ago
  88. Research Engineer/Research Scientist- Personal AGI, Model Experience — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $380K–500K · 2 months ago
  89. Member of Technical Staff (Secure Intelligence Institute) — Perplexity · San Francisco, CA · $220K–405K · 4 weeks ago
  90. Applied Researcher - Deployment Intelligence — Dyna Robotics · Redwood City, CA · 2 months ago
  91. Applied Researcher, Audio Post-Training — Cartesia · San Francisco, CA · $200K–350K · 2 months ago
  92. Research Lead, Training — Goodfire · San Francisco, CA · $400K–600K · 2 months ago
  93. Research Scientist, Life Sciences (Computational) — Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $300K–320K · 2 months ago
  94. Research Scientist — Sesame AI · San Francisco, CA · $190K–320K · 2 months ago
  95. Research Engineer, Privacy — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $0–500K · 2 months ago
  96. Research Scientist — OpenRouter · Remote (US) · $250K–285K · 2 months ago
  97. Research Engineer, Chip Design RL (Reinforcement Learning) — Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $500K–850K · 2 months ago
  98. AI Scientist — Mistral AI · Paris, FR · 3 months ago
  99. AI Scientist — Mistral AI · Zurich, CH · 3 months ago
  100. Lead Applied Scientist, South Korea — Mistral AI · Seoul, KR · 3 months ago

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