Principal AI Research Jobs

59 principal ai research roles at 14 companies · Avg salary $474k (40 with data)

Research scientist and alignment roles at top AI labs

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Anthropic Articul8 Inworld AI Turing Reflex Robotics Lightmatter Waymo Spotify Mistral AI Pinterest
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

Research Engineer, Performance RL Featured Pinned

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $350k - $850k
llm reinforcement-learning fine-tuning jax gpu search pytorch alignment
Hybrid full-time principal 3 weeks ago

Staff/Principal Research Scientist

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

Engineering Manager, Vertical AI Products (Multiple Roles)

Anthropic · New York, NY · $320k - $485k
legal alignment agents healthcare
Hybrid full-time principal 1 month ago

Research Engineer, Environment Scaling

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $350k - $850k
data-pipeline alignment llm fine-tuning distributed-systems cloud reinforcement-learning search
Hybrid full-time principal 2 months ago

Model Quality Software Engineer, Claude Code

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $405k - $485k
alignment reinforcement-learning agents search
Hybrid full-time principal 2 months ago

Engineering Manager, Safeguards Data Infrastructure

Anthropic · London, UK · $405k - $485k
data-pipeline alignment rust infrastructure
Hybrid full-time principal 2 months ago

Research Engineer / Scientist, Societal Impacts

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $350k - $500k
alignment search llm distributed-systems research
Hybrid full-time principal 2 months ago

Principal Software Engineer, ML Flywheel Technical Lead

Waymo · Mountain View, CA · $332k - $421k
pre-training autonomous-vehicles deep-learning mlops generative-ai robotics llm
On-site full-time principal 2 months ago

Research Engineer / Scientist, Frontier Red Team (Cyber)

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $320k - $485k
llm alignment search security research
Hybrid full-time principal 2 months ago

Research Engineer, Frontier Red Team (Autonomy)

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $320k - $850k
llm search robotics agents alignment reinforcement-learning security research
Hybrid full-time principal 2 months ago

Research Scientist, Societal Impacts

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $350k - $850k
fine-tuning alignment llm research
Hybrid full-time principal 2 months ago

Research Engineer/Research Scientist, Audio

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $350k - $500k
reinforcement-learning llm fine-tuning pytorch distributed-systems alignment search speech
Hybrid full-time principal 2 months ago

Research Engineer, Universes

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $500k - $850k
agents fine-tuning alignment search llm reinforcement-learning distributed-systems research
Hybrid full-time principal 3 months ago

Research Engineer, Reward Models Platform

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $350k - $500k
alignment fine-tuning mlops data-pipeline distributed-systems search cloud reinforcement-learning
Hybrid full-time principal 3 months ago

Principal Research Engineer - RL Gyms

Turing · San Francisco, CA · $250k - $350k
api-design fine-tuning search reinforcement-learning data-pipeline research
Hybrid full-time principal 5 months ago

Principal Research Engineer - Code

Turing · San Francisco, CA · $250k - $350k
reinforcement-learning search fine-tuning data-pipeline research
Hybrid full-time principal 5 months ago

Research Scientist, Interpretability

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $350k - $850k
llm deep-learning pre-training alignment research
Hybrid full-time principal 5 months ago

Infrastructure Engineer, Pre-training

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $350k - $850k
mlops data-pipeline alignment llm distributed-systems pre-training research infrastructure
Hybrid full-time principal 5 months ago

Machine Learning Systems Engineer, RL Engineering

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $500k - $850k
fine-tuning distributed-systems alignment llm reinforcement-learning machine-learning research
Hybrid full-time principal 6 months ago

Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Tokens

Anthropic · New York, NY · $350k - $500k
reinforcement-learning search data-pipeline distributed-systems pytorch alignment research
Hybrid full-time principal 6 months ago

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