Lead AI Research Jobs

264 lead ai research roles at 60 companies · Avg salary $318k (153 with data)

Research scientist and alignment roles at top AI labs

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agents 1530 autonomous-vehicles 410 cloud 927 computer-vision 412 data-pipeline 709 deep-learning 494 distributed-systems 956 fine-tuning 525 generative-ai 1296 healthcare 609 infrastructure 359 llm 1753 machine-learning 397 mlops 382 payments 760 pytorch 695 reinforcement-learning 371 research 503 robotics 599 search 536

Director, Enterprise Machine Learning & Research Featured

Scale AI · San Francisco, CA · $289k - $362k
llm generative-ai deep-learning machine-learning research
On-site full-time lead 2 weeks ago

Member of Technical Staff - Voice Model Featured

xAI · Palo Alto, CA · $150k - $450k
pytorch pre-training speech distributed-systems reinforcement-learning fine-tuning
On-site full-time lead 4 weeks ago

Research Lead, Training Insights Featured

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $850k - $850k
search pre-training agents alignment reinforcement-learning llm research
Hybrid full-time lead 1 month ago

Director, Engineering, Proactive Offense

Horizon3 AI · Remote (US) · $240k - $285k
alignment security distributed-systems cloud
Hybrid full-time lead 1 week ago

Security Engineer - Member of Technical Staff

Simile · Palo Alto, CA · $200k - $400k
agents generative-ai security cloud alignment
On-site full-time lead 1 week ago

Senior / Staff+ Software Engineer, Voice Platform

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $320k - $485k
distributed-systems speech api-design alignment llm infrastructure
Hybrid full-time lead 1 week ago

Staff Product Manager, AI Safety

Pinterest · San Francisco, CA · $164k - $339k
reinforcement-learning alignment generative-ai agents rust
Remote full-time lead 1 week ago

Software Engineer, Cloud Inference Safeguards

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $405k - $485k
alignment agents data-pipeline rust inference
Hybrid full-time lead 2 weeks ago

Evaluation Lead

Waabi · Toronto, Canada · $159k - $260k
generative-ai autonomous-vehicles robotics evaluation
On-site full-time lead 2 weeks ago

Engineering Manager, Agent Prompts & Evals

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $320k - $405k
agents alignment llm evaluation
Hybrid full-time lead 2 weeks ago

Director, Forward Deployed Researcher - Data as a Service

Snorkel AI · New York, NY · $200k - $320k
generative-ai data-pipeline reinforcement-learning llm research
On-site full-time lead 2 weeks ago

Safeguards Enforcement Lead, Frontier Abuse Enforcement

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $230k - $270k
fine-tuning alignment generative-ai rust
Hybrid full-time lead 3 weeks ago

Sr. Director of Product, Research and Training Infrastructure

CoreWeave · Sunnyvale, CA · $233k - $341k
reinforcement-learning distributed-systems pre-training generative-ai gpu research infrastructure
Hybrid full-time lead 3 weeks ago

Applied Research Engineer - Member of Technical Staff

Simile · Palo Alto, CA · $200k - $400k
distributed-systems generative-ai fine-tuning search agents deep-learning research
On-site full-time lead 3 weeks ago

Member of Technical Staff - Multimodal Understanding

xAI · New York, NY · $180k - $440k
data-pipeline jax reinforcement-learning agents llm generative-ai pytorch pre-training
On-site full-time lead 3 weeks ago

Finance Systems Integration Engineer

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $205k - $265k
agents api-design llm alignment payments data-pipeline
On-site full-time lead 4 weeks ago

Staff Software Engineer, Billing Platform

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $320k - $405k
alignment payments data-pipeline platform
Hybrid full-time lead 1 month ago

Staff Research Engineer - Code

Turing · San Francisco, CA · $250k - $350k
reinforcement-learning fine-tuning search data-pipeline research
Hybrid full-time lead 1 month ago

Member of Technical Staff - ML & Data Infrastructure

xAI · Palo Alto, CA · $180k - $440k
llm gpu data-pipeline embeddings pre-training distributed-systems agents infrastructure
On-site full-time lead 1 month ago

Member of Technical Staff - Imagine Model

xAI · Palo Alto, CA · $180k - $440k
pytorch pre-training computer-graphics deep-learning agents reinforcement-learning
On-site full-time lead 1 month ago

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There are currently 264 lead ai research jobs on AI Dev Jobs from 60 companies. The average salary is $318k based on 153 listings with published compensation.
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