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AI research jobs in San Francisco

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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.

200 open Single list

Thinking Machines Lab · 11 matching
- Research, Post-Training Evals · San Francisco, CA
- Site Reliability Engineer, RL Infra · San Francisco, CA
- Research, RL Scaling · San Francisco, CA
Perplexity · 3 matching
- Member of Technical Staff (AI Researcher) · San Francisco, CA
- Member of Technical Staff (Data Scientist, Evals) · San Francisco, CA
- Member of Data Staff (Data Scientist) · San Francisco, CA
OpenAI · 58 matching
- People Research Scientist · San Francisco, CA
- Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Health · San Francisco, CA
- Data Scientist, Real Estate & Workplace · San Francisco, CA
Hark AI · 5 matching
- Member of Technical Staff, Frontier RL Environments · San Jose, CA
- On-Device Research Engineer · San Jose, CA
- Member of Technical Staff, Pretraining · San Jose, CA
Mercor · 5 matching
- Research Engineer – Benchmarking · San Francisco, CA
- Fullstack Engineer, RL Environments · San Francisco, CA
- Research Engineer, Real Environments · San Francisco, CA
Periodic Labs · 7 matching
- Research Engineer, Lab Automation · Menlo Park, CA
- Research Engineer - Midtraining · Menlo Park, CA
- Research Engineer, Semiconductor · Menlo Park, CA
Anthropic · 33 matching
- Research Scientist, Life Sciences (Chemistry) · San Francisco, CA
- Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Interpretability · San Francisco, CA
- Staff+ Researcher, Cybersecurity Products · San Francisco, CA
Reflection AI · 6 matching
- Member of Technical Staff - Post-Training · San Francisco, CA
- Forward Deployed Engineer - LLM Post-training · San Francisco, CA
- Member of Technical Staff - Pre-Training Infra · San Francisco, CA
Mistral AI · 5 matching
- Research Engineer, Code Agents Infra · Palo Alto, CA
- Applied Scientist · Palo Alto, CA
- Research Engineer, Data Infrastructure · Palo Alto, CA
Dyna Robotics · 4 matching
- Research Engineer/Scientist, Simulation · Redwood City, CA
- Applied Researcher - Deployment Intelligence & Continuous Learning · Redwood City, CA
- Research Internship · Redwood City, CA
Fireworks AI · 3 matching
- Member of Technical Staff, Research · San Mateo, CA
- MTS, Research Engineer · San Mateo, CA
- Member of Technical Staff, Evals & Post-Training Product · San Mateo, CA
Together AI · 5 matching
- Research Engineer, Large-Scale Training · San Francisco, CA
- Research Engineer, Post-Training Inference · San Francisco, CA
- Research Engineer, Core ML · San Francisco, CA
World Labs · 4 matching
- Research Engineer / Scientist (Robot Learning) · San Francisco, CA
- Research Engineer / Scientist (SLAM) · San Francisco, CA
- Research Engineer / Scientist (3D Tech Lead) · San Francisco, CA
Elorian AI · 1 matching
- Reinforcement Learning Infrastructure Engineer · Palo Alto, CA
Cartesia · 6 matching
- Applied Researcher, Audio Post-Training · San Francisco, CA
- Research Engineer, Audio Understanding · San Francisco, CA
- Researcher, Post Training · San Francisco, CA
Goodfire · 3 matching
- Research Lead, Training · San Francisco, CA
- Forward Deployed Research Scientist (Biology) · San Francisco, CA
- Research Scientist · San Francisco, CA
Sesame AI · 2 matching
- Research Scientist · San Francisco, CA
- Research Engineer · San Francisco, CA
xAI · 3 matching
- Member of Technical Staff - RL Training Framework · Palo Alto, CA
- Member of Technical Staff - RL Inference · Palo Alto, CA
- Member of Technical Staff - Post-Training and RL · Palo Alto, CA
Prime Intellect · 4 matching
- Research Engineer - RL Infrastructure · San Francisco, CA
- Research Engineer - Reinforcement Learning · San Francisco, CA
- Research Engineer - Distributed Training · San Francisco, CA
Baseten · 3 matching
- Base Labs Fellowship · San Francisco, CA
- Post-Training Research Engineer · San Francisco, CA
- Post-Training Research Scientist · San Francisco, CA
Armadin · 1 matching
- Member of Technical Staff - Research · Palo Alto, CA
Mirendil · 4 matching
- Member of Technical Staff, Post-Training, RL Environments · San Francisco, CA
- Member of Technical Staff, Post-Training, RL Infra · San Francisco, CA
- Member of Technical Staff, Post-Training, RL · San Francisco, CA
Distyl AI · 7 matching
- Applied AI Researcher, Multi-Agent Systems · San Francisco, CA
- Applied AI Researcher, System Discovery · San Francisco, CA
- Applied AI Researcher, System Self-Construction · San Francisco, CA
Listen Labs · 2 matching
- Founding Research Scientist, Human Simulation · San Francisco, CA
- Member of Technical Staff, Research Engineering · San Francisco, CA
Applied Compute · 3 matching
- Platform Research Engineer · San Francisco, CA
- Research Scientist · San Francisco, CA
- Applied Research Engineer · San Francisco, CA

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