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

Engineering Manager, Cloud Inference AWS

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $405k - $485k
alignment llm cloud inference infrastructure
Hybrid full-time lead 1 month ago

Security Engineer Lead, Corporate Security

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $320k - $405k
alignment llm security agents
On-site full-time lead 1 month ago

Member of Technical Staff, Pre-training Systems

Magic · San Francisco, CA · $225k - $550k
distributed-systems deep-learning gpu pre-training code-generation
On-site full-time lead 1 month ago

Member of Technical Staff, Inference & RL Systems

Magic · San Francisco, CA · $225k - $550k
pre-training distributed-systems code-generation inference
On-site full-time lead 1 month ago

Senior Staff Software Engineer, API

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $405k - $485k
alignment distributed-systems api-design agents
Hybrid full-time lead 1 month ago

Offensive Security Research Engineer, Safeguards

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $320k - $405k
llm alignment search rust research
Hybrid full-time lead 1 month ago

Research Scientist - 3D Vision and Generation, Self-Driving

Applied Intuition · Sunnyvale, CA · $126k - $423k
pytorch search cloud pre-training computer-vision robotics autonomous-vehicles generative-ai
On-site full-time lead 1 month ago

Research Engineer - Reinforcement Learning, Self-Driving

Applied Intuition · Sunnyvale, CA · $126k - $423k
pytorch search cloud computer-vision reinforcement-learning autonomous-vehicles robotics research
On-site full-time lead 1 month ago

Research Engineer - 3D Vision and Generation, Self-Driving

Applied Intuition · Sunnyvale, CA · $126k - $423k
computer-vision search autonomous-vehicles computer-graphics robotics pre-training generative-ai cloud
On-site full-time lead 1 month ago

Staff+ Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $405k - $485k
distributed-systems cloud security alignment data-pipeline payments infrastructure
Hybrid full-time lead 2 months ago

Manager I, Engineering - AI Platform - Annotation & Evaluation

Datadog · New York, NY · $187k - $240k
data-pipeline llm healthcare evaluation
Hybrid full-time lead 2 months ago

Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer, General Agents, Enterprise GenAI

Scale AI · San Francisco, CA · $218k - $273k
reinforcement-learning fine-tuning generative-ai llm agents research machine-learning
On-site full-time lead 2 months ago

Staff Research Engineer, Applied AI

DeepMind · Mountain View, CA · $197k - $291k
pytorch mlops search generative-ai tensorflow fine-tuning research
On-site full-time lead 2 months ago

AI Transformation Strategist & Program Leader

Lyft · San Francisco, CA · $176k - $220k
code-generation alignment llm legal
Hybrid full-time lead 2 months ago

Staff / Senior Software Engineer, AI Reliability

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $325k - $485k
distributed-systems llm mlops alignment infrastructure
Hybrid full-time lead 2 months ago

Applied AI Engineer, Life Sciences (Beneficial Deployments)

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $280k - $320k
alignment fine-tuning llm healthcare
Hybrid full-time lead 2 months ago

Staff Machine Learning Engineer – VLM/LLM Evaluation

Waymo · Mountain View, CA · $238k - $302k
agents pre-training generative-ai pytorch distributed-systems tensorflow deep-learning reinforcement-learning
Hybrid full-time lead 2 months ago

Staff / Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Inference

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $300k - $485k
llm distributed-systems alignment payments inference infrastructure
Hybrid full-time lead 2 months ago

Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Databricks · San Francisco, CA · $190k - $285k
data-pipeline pytorch tensorflow generative-ai llm rag fine-tuning pre-training
On-site full-time lead 2 months ago

Research Engineer / Scientist (3D Tech Lead)

World Labs · San Francisco, CA · $250k - $350k
computer-vision search fine-tuning computer-graphics data-pipeline research
On-site full-time lead 2 months ago

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