Liftoff Jobs

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

Research jobs at AI companies

259 open research roles at 45 AI companies, updated daily. Scientists and research engineers training, evaluating and publishing models.

259 open

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  1. Conceptual Reasoning Fellow — Anthropic · Remote (US) · $100K–167K · yesterdaynew
  2. Research Engineer - Eval Platform — Mistral AI · Paris, FR · 2 days agonew
  3. Post-Training Applied Researcher — Baseten · San Francisco, CA · $200K–275K · 3 days agonew
  4. LLM Scientist, AI for Science — Mistral AI · Paris, FR · 4 days agonew
  5. Research Engineer, Applied Research — Sierra · San Francisco, CA · 5 days agonew
  6. Research Intern — Mercor · San Francisco, CA · USD 80/hour · 5 days agonew
  7. Staff Research Engineer, Multi-Agent Scaling — Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $500K–850K · last week
  8. Research Scientist, Scaling RL — Periodic Labs · Menlo Park, CA · last week
  9. Model Designer — Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA · last week
  10. Research Scientist/Research Engineer, Midtraining — Periodic Labs · Menlo Park, CA · last week
  11. Research Engineer / Research Scientist, RL Frontiers — Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $500K–850K · last week
  12. AI Scientist - Domain Expert Crashworthiness — Mistral AI · Paris, FR · last week
  13. Research Engineer - Cybersecurity (RL Environments) — Mistral AI · Paris, FR · 2 weeks ago
  14. Applied Science - Research Engineer (Robotics) — Mistral AI · Singapore, SG · 2 weeks ago
  15. MTS, Agent Research — Etched · San Jose, CA · 2 weeks ago
  16. Research Engineer - Auto Research — Chai Discovery · San Francisco, CA · 2 weeks ago
  17. Research Engineer, Data Infrastructure (Language Modeling) — Cartesia · San Francisco, CA · $200K–350K · 2 weeks ago
  18. Research Engineer, Web Crawling — Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA · 2 weeks ago
  19. Member of Technical Staff (Machine Learning Research Engineer) — Perplexity · Berlin, DE · 2 weeks ago
  20. Research Operations, Reinforcement Learning — Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $210K–260K · 2 weeks ago
  21. Model Safety Contractor — Elorian AI · Palo Alto, CA · USD 75–125/hour · 2 weeks ago
  22. Research, Mid Training — Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA · 2 weeks ago
  23. Research Scientist - Environments, Data and Post-Training — Mercor · San Francisco, CA · $250K–500K · 3 weeks ago
  24. Applied Scientist (Internship in Paris or London) — Mistral AI · Seoul, KR · 3 weeks ago
  25. Research Intern, Frontier Agents (Summer 2027) — Together AI · San Francisco, CA · USD 58–70/hour · 3 weeks ago
  26. Research Intern, Frontier Agents (Winter 2027) — Together AI · San Francisco, CA · USD 58–70/hour · 3 weeks ago
  27. Systems Research Engineer Intern - GPU Programming (Winter 2027) — Together AI · San Francisco, CA · USD 58–70/hour · 3 weeks ago
  28. Systems Research Engineer Intern - GPU Programming (Summer 2027) — Together AI · San Francisco, CA · USD 58–70/hour · 3 weeks ago
  29. Research Intern, Model Shaping (Winter 2027) — Together AI · San Francisco, CA · USD 58–70/hour · 3 weeks ago
  30. Research Intern, Model Shaping (Summer 2027) — Together AI · San Francisco, CA · USD 58–70/hour · 3 weeks ago
  31. Research Intern, Inference (Winter 2027) — Together AI · San Francisco, CA · USD 58–70/hour · 3 weeks ago
  32. Research Intern, Inference (Summer 2027) — Together AI · San Francisco, CA · USD 58–70/hour · 3 weeks ago
  33. Perplexity Research Fellowship — Perplexity · San Francisco, CA · $180K–220K · 3 weeks ago
  34. Research, Finetuning Science — Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA · 3 weeks ago
  35. Research Lead, Tinker, Fine-tuning Science — Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA · 3 weeks ago
  36. Research, Tinker, RL Systems — Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA · 3 weeks ago
  37. Director of Model & Simulation — Valar Atomics · Torrance, CA · $225K–300K · 3 weeks ago
  38. Researcher, Safety Training, National Security — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $380K–500K · 4 weeks ago
  39. Research Engineer, AI for Chip Design — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $380K–500K · 4 weeks ago
  40. Research Software Engineer, Post Training — Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA · 4 weeks ago
  41. Member of Technical Staff, Research (2026 PhD New Grad) — Fireworks AI · San Mateo, CA · $200K–300K · 4 weeks ago
  42. Member of Technical Staff, Research Engineer — xDOF · San Francisco, CA · 4 weeks ago
  43. Foundation Models — Genesis AI · London, UK · 4 weeks ago
  44. Research Engineer, Cybersecurity RL (Reinforcement Learning) — Anthropic · Zurich, CH · 4 weeks ago
  45. Research Engineer, Full Stack — Mistral AI · Palo Alto, CA · 4 weeks ago
  46. Research Engineer, Forge — Mistral AI · Paris, FR · 5 weeks ago
  47. AI Tutor - Design — xAI · International · Remote · 5 weeks ago
  48. AI Tutor - Humanities — xAI · International · Remote · 5 weeks ago
  49. Researcher, Agent Safety, Oversight and System Mitigations — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $380K–500K · 5 weeks ago
  50. Researcher, Agent Safety, Training and Evaluations — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $380K–500K · 5 weeks ago
  51. Research Scientist: Post-Training — Generalist AI · San Francisco Bay Area Boston · $240K–350K · 5 weeks ago
  52. Research Manager, Biological Safety — Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $405K–485K · 5 weeks ago
  53. Researcher, Alignment Interpretability — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $295K–500K · 5 weeks ago
  54. Research Leader / Senior Scientist (Computational Drug Design), Cambridge, MA — Isomorphic Laboratories · Cambridge, MA · 6 weeks ago
  55. Research, General Agents — Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA · 6 weeks ago
  56. Research, Coding Agents — Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA · 6 weeks ago
  57. Research Scientist, APEX Benchmarks — Mercor · San Francisco, CA · $200K–500K · 6 weeks ago
  58. Staff+ Research Engineer, RL Data Platform — Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $500K–850K · 6 weeks ago
  59. Research, Post-Training Evals — Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA · 6 weeks ago
  60. Member of Technical Staff (AI Researcher) — Perplexity · San Francisco, CA · $220K–485K · 6 weeks ago
  61. Research, Safety — Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA · 6 weeks ago
  62. Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Health — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $380K–500K · 7 weeks ago
  63. Research, RL Scaling — Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA · 7 weeks ago
  64. RE/RS, Data Understanding - Foundations — OpenAI · Zurich, CH · 7 weeks ago
  65. AI Scientist - Physics Models — Mistral AI · Paris, FR · 5 weeks ago
  66. AI Scientist - Agentic Engineering — Mistral AI · Paris, FR · 5 weeks ago
  67. Research Engineer – Benchmarking — Mercor · San Francisco, CA · $200K–500K · 7 weeks ago
  68. AI Research Engineer — Traversal · New York, NY · 7 weeks ago
  69. Research Engineer, Lab Automation — Periodic Labs · Menlo Park, CA · 8 weeks ago
  70. Staff+ Researcher, Cybersecurity Products — Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $405K–485K · 2 months ago
  71. Research Analyst — xAI · New York, NY · $130K–158K · 2 months ago
  72. Member of Technical Staff - Post-Training — Reflection AI · San Francisco, CA · 2 months ago
  73. Researcher, Frontier Risk Mitigations — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $380K–500K · 2 months ago
  74. Researcher, Recursive Self-Improvement Safety — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $380K–500K · 2 months ago
  75. Research Scientist (London) — Goodfire · London, UK · GBP 150,000–300,000/year · 2 months ago
  76. Research Engineer / Research Scientist / AI Systems Engineer, RSI — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $295K–445K · 2 months ago
  77. Researcher, Alignment CoT Monitorability — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $295K–500K · 2 months ago
  78. Research Engineer, Code Agents Infra — Mistral AI · Palo Alto, CA · 2 months ago
  79. Research, Post-Training — Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA · 2 months ago
  80. Research, Pre-Training Data — Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA · 2 months ago
  81. Research Scientist, Simulation — Dyna Robotics · Redwood City, CA · 2 months ago
  82. Research, Audio Expertise — Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA · 2 months ago
  83. Research, Vision Expertise — Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA · 2 months ago
  84. Member of Technical Staff, Research — Fireworks AI · San Mateo, CA · $210K–320K · 2 months ago
  85. Researcher, Frontier Cybersecurity Risks — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $380K–500K · 2 months ago
  86. Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Personalization — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $380K–500K · 2 months ago
  87. Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Memory — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $380K–500K · 2 months ago
  88. Applied Scientist — Mistral AI · Palo Alto, CA · 2 months ago
  89. Researcher, Multimodal Safety — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $380K–500K · 2 months ago
  90. Member of Technical Staff (Model Behavior) — Perplexity · San Francisco, CA · $200K–330K · 2 months ago
  91. Research Engineer, Large-Scale Training — Together AI · San Francisco, CA · $200K–290K · 2 months ago
  92. Member of Technical Staff - ML Scientist, Japanese Multimodal — Liquid AI · Tokyo, JP · 2 months ago
  93. Applied Scientist, EMEA — Mistral AI · Paris, FR · 2 months ago
  94. ML Research Intern — Modal · New York, NY · USD 15,000/month · 2 months ago
  95. Research Engineer / Scientist (Robot Learning) — World Labs · San Francisco, CA · $250K–350K · 2 months ago
  96. Member of Technical Staff - Research Software Engineer - Safety Evaluations Infrastructure — Reflection AI · New York, NY · 2 months ago
  97. Research Scientist, Data — Periodic Labs · Menlo Park, CA · 3 months ago
  98. Research Engineer, Real Environments — Mercor · San Francisco, CA · $160K–500K · 3 months ago
  99. Research Engineer/Research Scientist- Personal AGI, Model Experience — OpenAI · San Francisco, CA · $380K–500K · 3 months ago
  100. Member of Technical Staff (Secure Intelligence Institute) — Perplexity · San Francisco, CA · $220K–405K · 6 weeks ago

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