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, ML Engineer - BEV

Torc Robotics · Montreal, Canada · $209k - $313k
tensorflow distributed-systems data-pipeline mlops payments pre-training autonomous-vehicles pytorch
Hybrid full-time lead 4 months ago

Research Engineer, Interpretability

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $315k - $560k
pytorch distributed-systems alignment llm deep-learning gpu search pre-training
Hybrid full-time lead 5 months ago

Staff Machine Learning Research Scientist, LLM Evals

Scale AI · San Francisco, CA · $264k - $331k
generative-ai nlp search llm machine-learning evaluation research
On-site full-time lead 5 months ago

Senior / Staff Research Engineer, Simulation Agents

Waabi · Remote (US) · $158k - $269k
data-pipeline tensorflow autonomous-vehicles robotics search pytorch reinforcement-learning research
Remote full-time lead 5 months ago

Machine Learning Research Engineer, Agents - Enterprise GenAI

Scale AI · San Francisco, CA · $189k - $237k
generative-ai search llm reinforcement-learning agents autonomous-vehicles research machine-learning
On-site full-time lead 5 months ago

Machine Learning Research Engineer, Agent Data Foundation - Enterprise GenAI

Scale AI · San Francisco, CA · $189k - $237k
llm autonomous-vehicles search generative-ai data-pipeline research machine-learning
On-site full-time lead 5 months ago

Machine Learning Systems Engineer, Research Tools

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $320k - $405k
llm fine-tuning data-pipeline distributed-systems alignment pre-training machine-learning research
Hybrid full-time lead 6 months ago

Tech Lead Manager- MLRE, ML Systems

Scale AI · San Francisco, CA · $264k - $331k
reinforcement-learning pytorch gpu agents llm research
On-site full-time lead 6 months ago

Staff / Senior Software Engineer, Inference

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $300k - $485k
cloud distributed-systems llm alignment infrastructure inference
Hybrid full-time lead 6 months ago

Platform Hardware Security

Anthropic · New York, NY · $405k - $485k
alignment cloud distributed-systems security
Hybrid full-time lead 6 months ago

Staff Research Scientist, Voyage AI

MongoDB · Palo Alto, CA · $137k - $270k
embeddings nlp computer-vision deep-learning search llm research
On-site full-time lead 6 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, Perception Data

Waymo · Mountain View, CA · $238k - $302k
pre-training fine-tuning data-pipeline generative-ai robotics rag mlops autonomous-vehicles
On-site full-time lead 6 months ago

Research Engineer - Robotic Hardware, Simulation and Data

Applied Intuition · Sunnyvale, CA · $126k - $423k
search computer-vision pytorch cloud robotics autonomous-vehicles research
On-site full-time lead 7 months ago

Research Scientist - World-Action Foundation Model, Robotics

Applied Intuition · Sunnyvale, CA · $126k - $423k
computer-vision search robotics autonomous-vehicles pytorch pre-training generative-ai cloud
On-site full-time lead 7 months ago

Research Scientist - Reinforcement Learning, Self-Driving

Applied Intuition · Sunnyvale, CA · $126k - $423k
reinforcement-learning pytorch search robotics cloud autonomous-vehicles computer-vision research
On-site full-time lead 7 months ago

Staff Research Engineer, Discovery Team

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $350k - $850k
data-pipeline search reinforcement-learning alignment distributed-systems agents research
Hybrid full-time lead 11 months ago

Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Perception

Waymo · Mountain View, CA · $281k - $356k
computer-vision fine-tuning autonomous-vehicles llm pre-training generative-ai machine-learning
On-site full-time lead 12 months ago

Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Data & Eval

Airbnb · United States · $244k - $305k
fine-tuning data-pipeline generative-ai payments llm mlops evaluation machine-learning
On-site full-time lead 1 year ago

Research Scientist - Reinforcement Learning, Robotics

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

Research Engineer

Lightning AI · London, UK · $180k - $250k
deep-learning gpu distributed-systems pytorch search research
On-site full-time lead 1 year ago

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