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200 open AI research roles at 33 AI companies in San Francisco, including OpenAI, Anthropic and Thinking Machines Lab. Updated daily; 8 were posted this week.

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  1. Research, Post-Training Evals — Thinking Machines Lab · Seed · San Francisco, CA · todaynew
  2. Site Reliability Engineer, RL Infra — Thinking Machines Lab · Seed · San Francisco, CA · todaynew
  3. Member of Technical Staff (AI Researcher) — Perplexity · Series C · San Francisco, CA · $220K–485K · yesterdaynew
  4. People Research Scientist — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $198K–220K · 2 days agonew
  5. Member of Technical Staff, Frontier RL Environments — Hark AI · San Jose, CA · $180K–450K · 2 days agonew
  6. Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Health — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $295K–555K · 5 days agonew
  7. Research, RL Scaling — Thinking Machines Lab · Seed · San Francisco, CA · 5 days agonew
  8. Data Scientist, Real Estate & Workplace — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $230K–342K · 6 days agonew
  9. Research Engineer – Benchmarking — Mercor · Series B · San Francisco, CA · $180K–500K · last week
  10. Fullstack Engineer, RL Environments — Mercor · Series B · San Francisco, CA · $130K–500K · last week
  11. Research Engineer, Lab Automation — Periodic Labs · Seed · Menlo Park, CA · last week
  12. Research Scientist, Life Sciences (Chemistry) — Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $300K–320K · last week
  13. Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Interpretability — Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $320K–485K · 2 weeks ago
  14. Machine Learning Data Scientist, Forecasting — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $230K–385K · 2 weeks ago
  15. Research Engineer - Midtraining — Periodic Labs · Seed · Menlo Park, CA · 2 weeks ago
  16. Staff+ Researcher, Cybersecurity Products — Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $405K–485K · 2 weeks ago
  17. Member of Technical Staff - Post-Training — Reflection AI · Series B · San Francisco, CA · 2 weeks ago
  18. Researcher, Frontier Risk Mitigations — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $295K–445K · 2 weeks ago
  19. Research Engineer, Semiconductor — Periodic Labs · Seed · Menlo Park, CA · 2 weeks ago
  20. Researcher, Recursive Self-Improvement Safety — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $295K–445K · 2 weeks ago
  21. Data Scientist, B2B Demand Generation, Growth & Measurement — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $293K–385K · 2 weeks ago
  22. Technical Program Manager, RL Research — Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $365K–435K · 3 weeks ago
  23. Research Engineer / Research Scientist / AI Systems Engineer, RSI — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $295K–445K · 3 weeks ago
  24. Researcher, Alignment CoT Monitorability — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $250K–445K · 3 weeks ago
  25. Research Engineer, Code Agents Infra — Mistral AI · Series C · Palo Alto, CA · 3 weeks ago
  26. Research, Post-Training — Thinking Machines Lab · Seed · San Francisco, CA · 3 weeks ago
  27. Research Engineer, Infrastructure, Inference — Thinking Machines Lab · Seed · San Francisco, CA · 3 weeks ago
  28. Research, Pre-Training Data — Thinking Machines Lab · Seed · San Francisco, CA · 3 weeks ago
  29. Research Engineer/Scientist, Simulation — Dyna Robotics · Series A · Redwood City, CA · 3 weeks ago
  30. Research, Pre-Training Science — Thinking Machines Lab · Seed · San Francisco, CA · 3 weeks ago
  31. Research Engineer, Infrastructure, Numerics — Thinking Machines Lab · Seed · San Francisco, CA · 3 weeks ago
  32. Research Engineer, Infrastructure, RL Systems — Thinking Machines Lab · Seed · San Francisco, CA · 3 weeks ago
  33. Research Engineer, Infrastructure, Kernels — Thinking Machines Lab · Seed · San Francisco, CA · 3 weeks ago
  34. Research Engineer, Infrastructure, Training Systems — Thinking Machines Lab · Seed · San Francisco, CA · 3 weeks ago
  35. Member of Technical Staff, Research — Fireworks AI · Series D · San Mateo, CA · $210K–320K · 3 weeks ago
  36. Researcher, Frontier Cybersecurity Risks — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $295K–445K · 3 weeks ago
  37. Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Personalization — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $295K–555K · 3 weeks ago
  38. Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Memory — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $295K–555K · 3 weeks ago
  39. Applied Scientist — Mistral AI · Series C · Palo Alto, CA · 3 weeks ago
  40. Researcher, Multimodal Safety — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $295K–445K · 3 weeks ago
  41. Data Scientist, SMB Ads Growth — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $293K–515K · 3 weeks ago
  42. Data Scientist, Ads Demand — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $293K–515K · 3 weeks ago
  43. Research Engineer, Large-Scale Training — Together AI · Seed · San Francisco, CA · $200K–290K · 3 weeks ago
  44. Research Engineer / Scientist (Robot Learning) — World Labs · San Francisco, CA · $250K–350K · 4 weeks ago
  45. Data Scientist, GTM Intelligence — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $290K–340K · 4 weeks ago
  46. Research Scientist, Data — Periodic Labs · Seed · Menlo Park, CA · 4 weeks ago
  47. Staff Software Engineer, Code RL — Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $405K–625K · 4 weeks ago
  48. Research Scientist, Takeoff Intel — Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $350K–850K · 4 weeks ago
  49. Data Scientist, GTM & Enterprise AI Acceleration — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $290K–340K · 4 weeks ago
  50. Research Engineer, Real Environments — Mercor · Series B · San Francisco, CA · $180K–500K · 4 weeks ago

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