137 AI Research Jobs in the United States

We Love AI Jobs lists 137 open AI Research jobs in the United States at 65 companies, including NVIDIA, OpenAI and Iambic Therapeutics. Most of these roles are based in San Francisco, Santa Clara and Boston. 12% of them (17) can be done remotely. The largest seniority levels are mid-level and senior. 98 listings publish a salary; their average starting salary is $198K a year. Each listing links to the company's own application page.

Open roles

137

Companies

65

Remote

12%

Avg. salary

$198K

Open Positions

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Staff Gen AI Research Scientist

External

Anduril Industries

Costa Mesa, California, United States; Seattle, Washington, United States; Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Full-time
220,000 – 292,000
PyTorch
JAX
Axolotl
Hugging Face

Senior Cybersecurity Operations Researcher

External

Software Engineering Institute | Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, PA
Full-time

Advanced STEM Experts (PhD Level): Scientific Reasoning For AI Training

External

Terac

Remote (United States)
Contract

Senior Scientist, Synthetic Data Generation

External

NVIDIA

5 Locations
Full-time
168,000 – 304,750
NVIDIA NeMo
Nemotron
vLLM
TGI

Senior Research Scientist - Autonomous Vehicles

External

NVIDIA

US, CA, Santa Clara
Full-time
192,000 – 356,500
PyTorch
TensorFlow
CUDA

Member of Technical Staff, Research

External

Fireworks AI

San Mateo (Hybrid)
Full-time
210,000 – 320,000
PyTorch
TensorFlow

Staff Research Scientist, Foundation Models Recipes

External

Waymo

Mountain View, CA, US; San Francisco, CA, US; Kirkland, WA, US
Full-time
251,000 – 310,000
PyTorch
TensorFlow

Researcher, Frontier Cybersecurity Risks

External

OpenAI

San Francisco
Full-time
380,000 – 500,000
PyTorch
TensorFlow

Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Memory

External

OpenAI

San Francisco
Full-time
380,000 – 500,000
ChatGPT

VP, Research

External

Scale AI

San Francisco, CA; New York, NY
Full-time
396,800 – 496,000

Senior AI Researcher

External

Ivo

San Francisco
Full-time
200,000 – 325,000
PyTorch
TensorFlow

AI-Native Software Engineering Researcher

External

Software Engineering Institute | Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, PA
Full-time

Senior AI-Native Software Engineering Researcher

External

Software Engineering Institute | Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, PA
Full-time

Director of Consumer & Product Insights

External

Fora Travel

New York City
Full-time
210,000 – 270,000

AI Research Scientist

External

Embedding VC

Milpitas, CA
Full-time
PyTorch
JAX
TensorRT
CUDA

Research Scientist - World Model

External

Luma AI

Redwood City, CA (Hybrid)
Full-time
PyTorch

Senior/Staff Security Researcher

External

Semgrep

Remote - US
Full-time
190,000 – 319,000
Claude
Cursor

Senior Manager, Research Scientist

External

Scale AI

San Francisco, CA; New York, NY
Full-time
290,400 – 363,000

Developer Relations Manager - Telecom

External

NVIDIA

2 Locations
Full-time
184,000 – 356,500
CUDA
TensorFlow

Research Scientist, Robotics Research - PhD New College Grad 2026

External

NVIDIA

US, WA, Seattle
Full-time
168,000 – 264,500
PyTorch
JAX
Isaac Sim
Isaac Lab

Lead Economist | Housing

External

EliseAI

New York City
Full-time
150,000 – 250,000

Senior Robotics Research Scientist

External

NVIDIA

US, WA, Seattle
Full-time
192,000 – 356,500
PyTorch
JAX
ROS2
Isaac Sim

Machine Learning Research Manager

External

Rad AI

San Francisco - Onsite
Full-time
PyTorch

Research Lead, Training

External

Goodfire

San Francisco, CA
Full-time
400,000 – 600,000

Partner Manager, Global Health

External

Anthropic

San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY
Full-time
215,000 – 300,000
Claude

Member of Technical Staff (Research Scientist)

External

Anthrogen

San Francisco
Full-time
150,000 – 380,000

Research Associate (RL Environments)

External

Anthrogen

San Francisco
Full-time
100,000 – 150,000

Agent Post-Training, Context Research

External

OpenAI

San Francisco
Full-time
380,000 – 500,000
Codex
ChatGPT
Codex Chronicle

Agent Post-Training, Frontier Evals and Environments Research

External

OpenAI

San Francisco
Full-time
380,000 – 500,000
ChatGPT
Codex

Quant AI Investments, TIFIN.ai

External

TIFIN

Boulder, CO
Full-time
150,000 – 225,000

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