Principal AI Research Jobs

90 principal ai research roles at 26 companies · Avg salary $437k (60 with data)

Research scientist and alignment roles at top AI labs

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Research Engineer, Performance RL Featured Pinned

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $350k - $850k
search gpu distributed-systems pytorch fine-tuning alignment code-generation jax
Hybrid full-time principal 2 months ago

Performance Engineer, Inference Systems

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $350k - $850k
llm alignment distributed-systems research inference
Hybrid full-time principal 1 week ago

Principal Software Engineer, AI Observability & Evals Platform

LangChain · Boston, MA · $230k - $270k
llm agents platform evaluation
Hybrid full-time principal 2 weeks ago

Principal Software Engineer, AI (Web & Data)

Okta · Toronto, Canada · $175k - $192k
healthcare cloud llm data-pipeline agents embeddings alignment distributed-systems
On-site full-time principal 3 weeks ago

Distinguished Engineer, Agentic SDLC & Non‑Linear Productivity

GitLab · Remote (Canada) · $260k - $345k
agents llm alignment distributed-systems
Remote full-time principal 3 weeks ago

Principal Research Scientist - AI Scaling & Optimization

Databricks · Mountain View, CA · $270k - $350k
deep-learning generative-ai data-pipeline agents distributed-systems llm pytorch research
On-site full-time principal 4 weeks ago

Research Engineer, Model Evaluations

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $320k - $485k
alignment data-pipeline agents search llm distributed-systems evaluation research
Hybrid full-time principal 1 month ago

Research Engineer, Tinker, Developer Experience

Thinking Machines · San Francisco, CA · $350k - $475k
search pytorch reinforcement-learning llm fine-tuning research infrastructure
On-site full-time principal 1 month ago

Principal Research Scientist – Scaling

Databricks · San Francisco, CA · $280k - $350k
agents data-pipeline deep-learning llm pytorch distributed-systems generative-ai research
On-site full-time principal 1 month ago

Research Engineer, Machine Learning (RL Velocity)

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $500k - $850k
pytorch search distributed-systems pre-training alignment research machine-learning
Hybrid full-time principal 1 month ago
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Research Engineer, Safeguards Labs

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $350k - $850k
alignment search llm agents research
Hybrid full-time principal 1 month ago

Staff/Principal Research Scientist

Snorkel AI · Redwood City, CA · $250k - $350k
tensorflow pytorch llm nlp generative-ai research
Remote full-time principal 1 month ago

Group Product Manager, Agent Security

DeepMind · Mountain View, CA · $240k - $334k
agents alignment security generative-ai
On-site full-time principal 2 months ago

Research Engineer, Environment Scaling

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $350k - $850k
llm data-pipeline fine-tuning alignment cloud distributed-systems search reinforcement-learning
Hybrid full-time principal 3 months ago

Model Performance Software Engineer, Claude Code

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $405k - $485k
alignment agents reinforcement-learning search
Hybrid full-time principal 3 months ago

Engineering Manager, Safeguards Data Infrastructure

Anthropic · London, UK · $405k - $485k
data-pipeline alignment infrastructure rust
Hybrid full-time principal 3 months ago

Research Engineer / Scientist, Societal Impacts

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $350k - $500k
search distributed-systems alignment llm research
Hybrid full-time principal 4 months ago

Principal Software Engineer, ML Flywheel Technical Lead

Waymo · Mountain View, CA · $332k - $421k
llm mlops pre-training deep-learning robotics generative-ai autonomous-vehicles
On-site full-time principal 4 months ago

Research Engineer / Scientist, Frontier Red Team (Cyber)

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $320k - $485k
llm security alignment search research
Hybrid full-time principal 4 months ago

Research Engineer, Frontier Red Team (Autonomy)

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $320k - $850k
robotics llm reinforcement-learning search security alignment agents research
Hybrid full-time principal 4 months ago
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