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

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

ML/Research Engineer, Safeguards

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $350k - $500k
agents search reinforcement-learning alignment data-pipeline fine-tuning research
Hybrid full-time principal 6 months ago

Privacy Research Engineer, Safeguards

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $320k - $485k
pre-training search llm alignment pytorch fine-tuning research
Hybrid full-time principal 6 months ago

Research Engineer, Pretraining Scaling

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $350k - $850k
pre-training llm distributed-systems alignment search pytorch research
Hybrid full-time principal 6 months ago

Performance Engineer, GPU

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $280k - $850k
llm distributed-systems alignment pytorch gpu jax research
Hybrid full-time principal 6 months ago

Principal Machine Learning Infrastructure Researcher

Lightmatter · Mountain View, CA · $300k - $350k
llm deep-learning research infrastructure machine-learning
Hybrid full-time principal 7 months ago

Research Engineer/Research Scientist, Pre-training

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $350k - $850k
pre-training deep-learning pytorch alignment search distributed-systems data-pipeline llm
Hybrid full-time principal 8 months ago

Principal Software Engineer, Perception Pretraining

Waymo · Mountain View, CA · $332k - $421k
llm computer-vision pre-training pytorch fine-tuning autonomous-vehicles deep-learning mlops
On-site full-time principal 9 months ago

Research Engineer / Scientist, Alignment Science

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $350k - $500k
reinforcement-learning alignment agents llm fine-tuning search nlp research
Hybrid full-time principal 12 months ago

Research Engineer, Production Model Post-Training

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $350k - $500k
alignment deep-learning distributed-systems llm reinforcement-learning search fine-tuning research
Hybrid full-time principal 1 year ago

Research Engineer, Machine Learning (Reinforcement Learning)

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $500k - $850k
llm pytorch gpu tensorflow reinforcement-learning distributed-systems alignment search
Hybrid full-time principal 1 year ago

[Expression of Interest] Research Scientist / Engineer, Honesty

Anthropic · New York, NY · $350k - $500k
alignment fine-tuning llm rag reinforcement-learning research
Hybrid full-time principal 1 year ago

Research Engineer, Agents

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $500k - $850k
search llm alignment agents fine-tuning research
Hybrid full-time principal 1 year ago

Performance Engineer

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $280k - $850k
alignment llm distributed-systems research
Hybrid full-time principal 1 year ago

Staff / Principal Research Scientist - USA

Inworld AI · Mountain View, CA · $270k - $500k
nlp generative-ai agents reinforcement-learning llm research
On-site full-time principal 2 years ago

Industry Principal, Insurance

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $360k - $550k
alignment llm
Hybrid full-time principal 1 month ago

Research Scientist, Frontier Red Team (Emerging Risks)

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $320k - $850k
alignment robotics research
Hybrid full-time principal 2 months ago

Principal Research Scientist - Music

Spotify · New York, NY · $252k - $360k
generative-ai research
Remote full-time principal 5 months ago

Principal Research Scientist, Database Systems

MongoDB · New York, NY · $168k - $330k
distributed-systems research
On-site full-time principal 9 months ago

TPU Kernel Engineer

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $280k - $850k
llm alignment research
Hybrid full-time principal 10 months ago

Principal Product Manager, AI Compliance

Pinterest · San Francisco, CA · $228k - $471k
alignment
Remote full-time principal 3 weeks ago

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There are currently 59 principal ai research jobs on AI Dev Jobs from 14 companies. The average salary is $474k based on 40 listings with published compensation.
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