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

Instrumentation Engineer, Aircraft Development

Anduril · Costa Mesa, CA · $146k - $194k
healthcare payments computer-vision evaluation
On-site full-time lead 2 months ago

Instrumentation Engineer, Aircraft Development

Anduril · Victorville, CA · $146k - $194k
payments computer-vision healthcare evaluation
On-site full-time lead 2 months ago

Staff Research Engineer, Voice

Decagon · San Francisco, CA · $350k - $475k
agents llm search data-pipeline research
Remote full-time lead 2 months ago

Staff Research Engineer

Decagon · San Francisco, CA · $350k - $475k
search llm agents data-pipeline research
Remote full-time lead 2 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, Expert Research

AlphaSense · Remote (US) · $202k - $278k
search api-design payments distributed-systems research
Remote full-time lead 2 months ago

Security Lead, Agentic Red Team

DeepMind · Mountain View, CA · $248k - $349k
alignment fine-tuning security agents generative-ai llm
On-site full-time lead 2 months ago

Member of Technical Staff, Inference

Inferact · San Francisco, CA · $200k - $400k
mlops agents reinforcement-learning llm pytorch diffusion-models research inference
Hybrid full-time lead 2 months ago

Threat Collections Engineer

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $300k - $320k
data-pipeline llm alignment rust
Hybrid full-time lead 2 months ago

Research Engineer, Economic Research

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $300k - $405k
llm search cloud data-pipeline alignment data-science research
Hybrid full-time lead 2 months ago

Director of AI Foundations, Foundation Model Evaluation & Integration

Waymo · Mountain View, CA · $332k - $421k
llm nlp generative-ai autonomous-vehicles reinforcement-learning evaluation
Hybrid full-time lead 2 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, Platform

Scale AI · San Francisco, CA · $252k - $315k
pre-training generative-ai reinforcement-learning data-pipeline distributed-systems fine-tuning cloud llm
On-site full-time lead 2 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform

Scale AI · San Francisco, CA · $252k - $315k
distributed-systems search llm fine-tuning pre-training generative-ai reinforcement-learning platform
On-site full-time lead 2 months ago

Head of Engineering, Platform

Goodfire · San Francisco, CA · $300k - $450k
distributed-systems alignment pytorch research
On-site full-time lead 2 months ago

Biological Safety Research Scientist

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $300k - $320k
alignment llm research rust
Hybrid full-time lead 3 months ago

Staff+ Software Engineer, Claude App Infrastructure

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $320k - $485k
alignment agents security distributed-systems infrastructure
Hybrid full-time lead 3 months ago

Software Engineer, Sandboxing (Systems)

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $300k - $405k
llm alignment cloud distributed-systems infrastructure
Hybrid full-time lead 4 months ago

Research Engineer, Cybersecurity Reinforcement Learning

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $300k - $405k
alignment search security llm fine-tuning reinforcement-learning research
Hybrid full-time lead 4 months ago

Lead Research Engineer

Lightning AI · London, UK · $225k - $275k
search deep-learning distributed-systems pytorch gpu research
On-site full-time lead 4 months ago

Staff, ML Engineer - Road & Lane Detection

Torc Robotics · Montreal, Canada · $209k - $313k
deep-learning distributed-systems autonomous-vehicles computer-vision pre-training robotics pytorch payments
Hybrid full-time lead 4 months ago

Staff, ML Engineer - Road & Lane Detection

Torc Robotics · Ann Arbor, MI · $219k - $329k
distributed-systems computer-vision payments pre-training autonomous-vehicles robotics pytorch deep-learning
Hybrid full-time lead 4 months ago

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