Senior AI Research Engineer Jobs

Anthropic

Anthropic is seeking individuals for a paid, fixed-term research residency program, lasting between six weeks and six months. This program is designed for experienced professionals, such as professors in quantitative disciplines, technical founders, or staff-level engineers, who are looking to transition into full-time work focused on ensuring AI systems are safe and beneficial for humanity. While a background in machine learning is not strictly required, candidates should be motivated by AI safety and excited about empirical AI research. The residency offers a scoped project with direct mentorship from Anthropic researchers, access to Claude models and GPU compute, and connections to the AI safety and security research community.

$350k - $500k

Raindrop

Raindrop is seeking a founding Research Engineer to investigate the behavior of AI agents in production environments. This role is crucial for an early-stage team, involving setting the research direction, conducting experiments, and disseminating findings through publications. The focus will be on understanding agent failures, advancing simulation techniques, developing novel detection methods for undefined issues, and exploring high-impact open questions in AI agent behavior. The ideal candidate will possess strong communication skills, a passion for sharing research, deep expertise in areas like interpretability or AI safety, and the ability to prototype and ship experiments.

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Salesforce is seeking a Senior / Lead Member of Technical Staff to join their AI Research team. This role involves innovating at the frontier of AI, creating new solutions, and defining new product categories with significant impact. You will work closely with software engineers, product managers, and solution engineers to design, implement, and iterate on agentic AI systems. The ideal candidate will possess exceptional engineering skills, deep ML knowledge, strategic thinking, and a dedication to building exceptional product experiences in a fast-paced environment.

$197k - $314k

The Voyage AI team at MongoDB is building state-of-the-art embedding models and rerankers for accurate and efficient unstructured data search and retrieval, crucial for RAG, recommendation systems, and semantic search. This team, comprised of AI researchers from top universities, was recently acquired by MongoDB and is integrating its advanced embedding models with MongoDB's data platform to create powerful end-to-end solutions. We are seeking a Staff Research Scientist to contribute to the development of next-generation AI models, tackling complex challenges at the intersection of machine learning research and the practical deployment of large neural networks.

$151k - $297k

RoboForce is an AI robotics company developing Physical AI-powered Robo-Labor for dull, dirty, and dangerous work. The company's robots are engineered for demanding industrial environments, with a focus on real-world deployment and scalability. We are looking for a Senior / Staff AI Research Engineer, Data Infrastructure to build the data and learning engine behind RoboForce's Physical AI stack. In this role, you will own the full pipeline — from raw teleoperation and UMI device data collection through curation, annotation, and storage, to post-training infrastructure that scores demonstrations, identifies failure patterns, and closes the loop back into model retraining.

$185k - $325k

We are building AI that changes how people capture, understand, and act on conversations and meetings. As Director of AI Research, you will lead research and development across automatic speech recognition (ASR), speaker identification (SID), large language models (LLMs), and audio language models. Your work will shape our AI capabilities, product direction, and long-term research strategy. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who combines research depth with experience building and deploying AI systems at scale. You will set technical priorities, guide model and infrastructure decisions, and work directly with the team on challenging research and engineering problems. Partnering closely with Product, Engineering, and Data teams, you will turn research advances into reliable product capabilities. You will also build the team, experimentation practices, and technical foundation needed to move quickly while maintaining high standards for quality and performance.

$244k - $313k

Nebius is seeking senior- and staff-level ML Engineers to join its AI R&D team, focusing on applied research in AI. This team publishes research in areas such as applying reinforcement learning for agent training, scaling data collection for reinforcement learning, and developing robust evaluation methods for AI agents. The role involves conducting experiments to discover efficient methods for training large language models, exploring guided generation techniques, mining web-scale data for model post-training, and experimenting with reinforcement learning configurations. Research findings often lead to practical applications through collaboration with other teams.

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Turing

Turing is seeking exceptional Research Scientists to join our research organization and develop new ways to evaluate, train, and improve frontier AI systems. This is a research-first role focused on problems where the right benchmark, dataset, or methodology often does not yet exist. You will identify important gaps in the literature, propose ambitious new research directions, and take projects from initial hypothesis through experimentation, benchmark construction, and publication. Our research is deliberately focused on frontier evaluation, synthetic data, hallucination and reliability, and agentic science. We are looking for scientists who can recognize important problems early, formulate them precisely, and design rigorous research programs to answer them.

$250k - $400k

Turing

Turing is seeking Research Engineers to advance our understanding of frontier AI systems and develop practical innovations in data, algorithms, evaluation, and training. You will work at the intersection of research and engineering, investigating high-impact questions that improve real-world AI systems. You will design and run rigorous experiments, develop research-grade prototypes and tooling, and collaborate with Research, Engineering, Product, and Operations teams to translate promising ideas into scalable applications. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to both foundational research and applied AI development across synthetic and agentic data generation, reinforcement learning, post-training, model understanding, benchmarks, and evaluation.

$250k - $400k

Turing

Turing is seeking Research Engineers to advance the understanding of frontier AI systems and develop practical innovations in data, algorithms, evaluation, and training. You will work at the intersection of research and engineering, investigating high-impact questions that improve real-world AI systems. You will design and run rigorous experiments, develop research-grade prototypes and tooling, and collaborate with Research, Engineering, Product, and Operations teams to translate promising ideas into scalable applications. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to both foundational research and applied AI development across synthetic and agentic data generation, reinforcement learning, post-training, model understanding, benchmarks, and evaluation.

$250k - $400k

Turing

Turing is at the forefront of accelerating superintelligence to drive economic progress. We partner with leading AI labs and enterprises to create high-quality datasets, reinforcement learning environments, and research benchmarks that enhance model capabilities in areas like software engineering, enterprise knowledge work, and advanced STEM reasoning. Our work spans both foundational research and applied AI development, focusing on synthetic and agentic data generation, reinforcement learning, post-training, model understanding, benchmarks, and evaluation. We aim to bridge the gap between cutting-edge research and real-world deployment, using deployment signals to refine data, evaluations, and models.

$250k - $400k

Turing

Turing is seeking exceptional Research Scientists to join our STEM research organization and develop new ways to evaluate, train, and improve frontier AI systems. This is a research-first role focused on problems where the right benchmark, dataset, or methodology often does not yet exist. You will identify important gaps in the literature, propose ambitious new research directions, and take projects from initial hypothesis through experimentation, benchmark construction, and publication. Our research is deliberately focused on frontier STEM evaluation, synthetic data, hallucination and reliability, and agentic science. We are looking for scientists who can recognize important problems early, formulate them precisely, and design rigorous research programs to answer them.

$250k - $350k

Turing

Turing builds large-scale datasets and reinforcement learning (RL) environments that power post-training for leading AI labs and enterprises. We create RL environments to evaluate and improve models on complex, long-range, multi-step workflows across high-value domains. We are seeking Research Engineers to advance our understanding of frontier AI systems and develop practical innovations in data, algorithms, evaluation, and training. You will work at the intersection of research and engineering, investigating high-impact questions that improve real-world AI systems. You will design and run rigorous experiments, develop research-grade prototypes and tooling, and collaborate with teams to translate promising ideas into scalable applications. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to both foundational research and applied AI development across synthetic and agentic data generation, reinforcement learning, post-training, model understanding, benchmarks, and evaluation.

$250k - $350k

Turing

Turing is seeking Research Engineers to advance our understanding of frontier AI systems and develop practical innovations in data, algorithms, evaluation, and training. You will work at the intersection of research and engineering, investigating high-impact questions that improve real-world AI systems. You will design and run rigorous experiments, develop research-grade prototypes and tooling, and collaborate with Research, Engineering, Product, and Operations teams to translate promising ideas into scalable applications. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to both foundational research and applied AI development across synthetic and agentic data generation, reinforcement learning, post-training, model understanding, benchmarks, and evaluation.

$250k - $350k

Turing

Turing is seeking Research Engineers to advance our understanding of frontier AI systems and develop practical innovations in data, algorithms, evaluation, and training. You will work at the intersection of research and engineering, investigating high-impact questions that improve real-world AI systems. You will design and run rigorous experiments, develop research-grade prototypes and tooling, and collaborate with Research, Engineering, Product, and Operations teams to translate promising ideas into scalable applications. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to both foundational research and applied AI development across synthetic and agentic data generation, reinforcement learning, post-training, model understanding, benchmarks, and evaluation.

$250k - $350k

Turing

Turing is seeking exceptional AI Research Scientists to join our STEM research organization and develop new ways to evaluate, train, and improve frontier AI systems. This is a research-first role focused on problems where the right benchmark, dataset, or methodology often does not yet exist. You will identify important gaps in the literature, propose ambitious new research directions, and take projects from initial hypothesis through experimentation, benchmark construction, and publication. Our research is deliberately focused on frontier STEM evaluation, synthetic data, hallucination and reliability, and agentic science. We are looking for scientists who can recognize important problems early, formulate them precisely, and design rigorous research programs to answer them.

$150k - $300k

HUD is building reliable, fair, and open infrastructure for AI data, aiming to make data valuable for creators and trustworthy for AI training labs. As a Senior Research Infrastructure Engineer, you will accelerate research on training and evaluating frontier AI agents by building the software and infrastructure that enables researchers to iterate on environments, collect trajectories, and evaluate model behavior. You will collaborate closely with research engineers to understand their needs, identify bottlenecks, and transform research code into robust, reusable systems, owning the tools, pipelines, and execution infrastructure that support their exploration and scaling of promising approaches.

$175k - $260k

OpenAI

OpenAI's Safety Research organization is seeking a senior researcher to lead technical work on misalignment monitoring for frontier AI systems. This role involves developing methods to evaluate AI monitors, understanding their limitations, and improving our ability to reliably detect and stop concerning model behavior. You will set research priorities, design rigorous evaluations, investigate monitoring failures, and develop approaches for stress-testing and improving monitoring systems, with a key focus on understanding monitor limitations as models evolve. The position combines research leadership with hands-on technical execution, translating research findings into practical improvements for OpenAI's safety systems.

$380k - $500k

Scale AI

Scale AI accelerates the development of AI systems by providing the data, infrastructure, and tooling that power the most advanced models in the world. As AI rapidly evolves from static models to dynamic, agentic systems, Scale is building the foundational research, evaluation methodologies, and agent/RL infrastructure that will define this next era. You’ll join a high-impact research organization driving advances in large-language models, post-training, evaluation, and agentic/RL environments, helping shape how next-generation AI is built, measured, and deployed.

$290k - $363k

Abundant

Abundant is building the NVIDIA of training data, recognizing the critical need for scaling data as AI models advance beyond supervised learning to reinforcement learning and learning from experience. Our founding team brings deep expertise from leading AI organizations, with a proven track record in deploying large-scale deep learning models, training state-of-the-art self-driving models, and managing massive data pipelines. We are at the forefront of innovation, addressing the scarcity of training data by advancing simulation, synthetic data generation, and learning from experience, which are essential for achieving AGI, ASI, and physical intelligence. We partner with top AI labs and enterprises to provide the data necessary for models to move from general knowledge to domain expertise and from chatbots to agents.

$168k - $168k

Scale AI

This role is at the intersection of cutting-edge AI research and practical application, with a focus on studying the data types essential for building state-of-the-art agents, such as browser and SWE agents. The ideal candidate will explore the data landscape needed to advance intelligent, adaptable AI agents, guiding the data strategy at Scale to drive innovation. This position requires not only expertise in LLM agents and planning algorithms but also creativity in addressing novel challenges related to data, interaction, and evaluation. You will contribute to impactful research publications on agents, collaborate with customer researchers, and work alongside the engineering team to translate these advancements into real-world, scalable solutions.

$302k - $378k

Scale AI

Scale Labs is launching a new team focused on policy research to bridge the gap between AI research and global policymakers, enabling informed, scientific decisions about AI risks and capabilities. This team tackles complex problems in agent robustness, AI control protocols, and AI risk evaluations to help governments, industry, and the public understand and mitigate AI risk while maximizing AI adoption. The Research Scientist, AI Controls and Monitoring will design methods, systems, and experiments to ensure advanced AI models and agents remain aligned with intended goals, even in high-stakes or adversarial environments.

$216k - $270k

Lila Sciences is building Scientific Superintelligence™ to accelerate discovery across medicine, materials, and energy. We are seeking a talented individual contributor to join our AI safety team, focusing on identifying and mitigating risks from scientific superintelligence. This role involves developing and implementing a bespoke safety strategy tailored to Lila's specific goals and deployment strategies. You will work with domain scientists, risk researchers, evaluators, and engineering teams to translate risk findings and policy requirements into effective interventions, spanning research and implementation. The work includes developing approaches, testing their limits, and integrating reliable safeguards into our systems.

$224k - $336k

Lila Sciences is building a talent-dense, high-agency AI safety team focused on identifying and mitigating risks from scientific superintelligence while preserving scientific discovery capabilities. The team's initial focus is to develop and implement a bespoke safety strategy tailored to Lila's specific goals and deployment strategies. This involves technical safety strategy development, broader ecosystem engagement, safety-focused evaluations, safety systems to mitigate risks, and a research agenda exploring long-term needs like overseeing superintelligent scientific systems. We are seeking a materials scientist to map risks across the materials science domain, connecting deep materials expertise with dual-use risk assessment to safeguard scientific AI.

$268k - $384k