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

researchalignmentevaluationpre-training
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

Staff Research Engineer, Model Efficiency

Cohere · New York, NY
generative-ai llm search research
Remote full-time lead 5 months ago

Member of Technical Staff - Post Training, Reinforcement Learning

Liquid AI · San Francisco, CA
pytorch generative-ai reinforcement-learning data-pipeline llm research
Remote full-time lead 5 months ago

Member of Engineering (Data Platform Lead)

Poolside · Remote (Europe)
agents distributed-systems pre-training data-pipeline
Remote full-time lead 5 months ago

Senior Staff Research Scientist

DeepL · Cologne
pre-training llm generative-ai reinforcement-learning research
Hybrid full-time lead 5 months ago

Member of Technical Staff, Evals & Post-Training Product

Fireworks AI · San Mateo, CA
agents generative-ai mlops fine-tuning pytorch llm evaluation
On-site full-time lead 5 months ago

Member of Technical Staff - Multi-Modal, Vision

Liquid AI · San Francisco, CA
reinforcement-learning data-pipeline computer-vision pre-training distributed-systems deep-learning research
Remote full-time lead 5 months ago

Senior Member of Technical Staff: ML Systems and Infrastructure

DevRev · Bangalore, India
generative-ai tensorflow gpu alignment llm agents pytorch jax
On-site full-time lead 6 months ago

Member of Technical Staff - Post-Training

Reflection AI · San Francisco, CA
distributed-systems pre-training llm reinforcement-learning
On-site full-time lead 6 months ago

Member of Technical Staff - Pre-Training

Reflection AI · San Francisco, CA
deep-learning pre-training pytorch distributed-systems llm data-pipeline
On-site full-time lead 6 months ago

Technical Lead, Safety Research

OpenAI · San Francisco, CA
mlops llm reinforcement-learning alignment deep-learning fine-tuning research
Hybrid full-time lead 6 months ago

Agents Research Lead

General Intelligence · New York, NY
llm distributed-systems search agents research
On-site full-time lead 6 months ago

Member of Technical Staff - ML Engineer / Scientist (JP Localization)

Liquid AI · Tokyo, Japan
pre-training llm generative-ai machine-learning research
Remote full-time lead 6 months ago

Member of Technical Staff, Agent Code

Cohere · London, UK
pre-training tensorflow search cloud llm generative-ai pytorch distributed-systems
Remote full-time lead 7 months ago

Research Engineer, Applied AI

DeepMind · Singapore
pytorch reinforcement-learning mlops search tensorflow generative-ai fine-tuning research
On-site full-time lead 7 months ago

Senior/Staff AI Researcher (USA)

Articul8 · Remote (US)
reinforcement-learning distributed-systems data-pipeline llm generative-ai nlp fine-tuning pre-training
Remote full-time lead 7 months ago

Senior/Staff AI Researcher (India)

Articul8 · Remote (India)
computer-vision generative-ai llm pre-training data-pipeline distributed-systems deep-learning reinforcement-learning
Remote full-time lead 7 months ago

Member of Technical Staff, Agents Modeling

Cohere · New York, NY
search llm generative-ai pytorch pre-training fine-tuning agents
Hybrid full-time lead 7 months ago

Member of Technical Staff, Integration/RL Team (Research Engineer)

Cohere · Paris, France
distributed-systems generative-ai pytorch search llm research
Remote full-time lead 7 months ago

Member of Technical Staff - ML Research Engineer, Data

Liquid AI · San Francisco, CA
llm data-pipeline generative-ai computer-vision search pytorch pre-training research
Remote full-time lead 8 months ago

Member of Technical Staff - Distributed Training Engineer

Liquid AI · San Francisco, CA
gpu data-pipeline pytorch generative-ai distributed-systems research
Remote full-time lead 8 months ago

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Lead AI Research Jobs — FAQ

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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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