AI Research Engineer Jobs with Visa Sponsorship

Anthropic

Anthropic's Life Sciences team is building a research group focused on biological discoveries by combining AI with hands-on biological research. We're seeking a research scientist who combines deep chemistry knowledge with machine learning expertise to join the team. Our goal is to speed up progress in the life sciences by an order of magnitude, and this role puts that mission into practice. You'll be a computational chemist who knows reactions, synthesis, and medicinal chemistry in depth and has hands-on experience training and evaluating machine learning models. Above all, you'll build the reinforcement learning environments, datasets, and evaluations that teach Claude chemistry. Working alongside our bench chemists and AI researchers, you'll turn real chemistry problems and experimental data into training tasks and measure whether the models get better at them.

$300k - $320k

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

Reflection ai

Reflection is a research lab dedicated to making intelligence open and accessible for everyone. We build open models that empower individuals to control their intelligence and shape the future of AI. This role focuses on the foundational aspects of AI development, specifically in pre-training data, contributing to the creation of open foundational models. You will be part of a talented team, helping to define the company's future and the future of open AI.

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Anthropic

Anthropic is seeking a Research Engineer for its Code RL team, focused on advancing AI models for silicon design. This role involves leveraging chip design expertise to create tasks and signals for AI models, aiming to improve their capabilities in areas like RTL generation, design verification, and physical design optimization. The position sits at the intersection of cutting-edge research and engineering, with a commitment to building high-quality, scalable AI systems.

$500k - $850k

Anthropic

Reinforcement learning is crucial for training AI models like Claude to reason, write code, and act autonomously. At scale, RL training involves complex distributed systems running across numerous accelerators and hosts. As an engineer in RL Engineering, you will be responsible for securing this expanding system. This is a hands-on role where you will work directly within the RL codebase and its underlying infrastructure, collaborating with the engineers and researchers who develop and utilize it. The system's rapid evolution, driven by research advancements, requires security solutions that maintain pace without compromising performance or development velocity. We are seeking candidates with expertise in either security engineering for large-scale ML systems or ML systems/research engineering with a strong interest in security.

$320k - $405k

Sygaldry Technologies

Sygaldry Technologies is developing quantum-accelerated AI servers to dramatically speed up AI training and inference. By merging quantum computing with AI, the company aims to accelerate the development of superintelligence and ensure its efficient and affordable operation. Their unique approach involves integrating multiple qubit types into a single, fault-tolerant architecture to achieve the necessary cost, scale, and speed for advanced AI applications. Sygaldry is at the forefront of new discoveries in physics, engineering, and AI, tackling complex challenges with a grounded, optimistic, and rigorous culture. They are seeking individuals passionate about defining the future at the intersection of quantum and AI and driving its global impact.

$125k - $145k

Anthropic

The Cybersecurity RL team within Horizons is seeking a Research Engineer to advance the capabilities of AI models in secure coding, vulnerability remediation, and defensive cybersecurity. This role combines research and engineering, involving the design and implementation of RL environments, conducting experiments, delivering work into production training runs, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate will possess domain expertise in cybersecurity and an interest in training safe AI models, potentially coming from backgrounds such as white hat hacking, security engineering, or detection and response.

$500k - $850k

Thinking Machines Lab

Thinking Machines is building AI that extends human will and judgment. We are developing Tinker, a fine-tuning API that empowers researchers and developers to customize frontier AI models. This role focuses on building and enhancing our training systems for Tinker, specifically involving RL systems, numerics, and kernels, to enable users to train models with their own data and algorithms.

$350k - $475k

Prime Intellect

Prime Intellect is building the open superintelligence stack, a platform designed to unify compute, environments, evaluations, and high-performance training for AI labs. Their platform, Lab, supports full-stack systems for post-training at frontier scale, including SFT, RL, tool use, agent workflows, and continuous model improvement. They are focused on creating open-source models for long-horizon tasks like autonomous research and the platform their own research team uses. The company aims to provide AI companies and research teams with the ability to transform their workflows, tools, and data into owned superintelligence.

$150k - $300k

Prime Intellect

Prime Intellect is building the open superintelligence stack, providing infrastructure for AI labs. Their platform, Lab, unifies compute, environments, evaluations, and training for post-training at scale, including SFT, RL, tool use, and agent workflows. They are focused on open-source models trained for long-horizon tasks and the platform used to build them. The company has raised significant funding from prominent investors and is seeking individuals to work at the intersection of frontier research, infrastructure, and go-to-market strategy for a nascent category.

$150k - $300k

Prime Intellect

Prime Intellect is building an open superintelligence stack, providing infrastructure for AI labs. Their platform, Lab, unifies compute, environments, evaluations, and training for post-training at scale, including SFT, RL, tool use, agent workflows, and continuous model improvement. They are focused on open-source models for long-horizon tasks and the platform their research team uses. The company has raised significant funding from prominent investors and is looking for individuals passionate about building at the intersection of frontier research, infrastructure, and go-to-market strategy for a nascent category.

$150k - $300k

Prime Intellect

Prime Intellect is developing an open superintelligence stack, providing infrastructure that AI labs typically build internally to ambitious AI teams. Their platform, Lab, integrates compute, environments, evaluations, secure sandboxes, high-performance training, and deployment for post-training at scale, covering SFT, RL, tool use, agent workflows, and continuous model improvement. They are focused on building open-source frontier AI models trained for long-horizon tasks and the platform their research team uses. The company has secured significant funding from prominent investors and AI leaders, and is seeking individuals passionate about building at the intersection of frontier research, infrastructure, and go-to-market strategy for a nascent category.

$150k - $300k

Prime Intellect

Prime Intellect is building the open superintelligence stack, providing infrastructure for AI labs. Their platform, Lab, unifies compute, environments, evaluations, and training for post-training at frontier scale. They are developing open-source models for long-horizon tasks and the platform their research team uses. The company has raised $150M from prominent investors and AI leaders. They are seeking individuals passionate about building at the intersection of frontier research, infrastructure, and go-to-market strategy for a nascent category. This role focuses on building the data foundation for Prime Intellect's next generation of open models. You will identify and process valuable data sources, transforming them into training-ready corpora. Your work will directly influence both broad pretraining efforts and the development of specific capabilities like reasoning, coding, and long-context learning. You will collaborate closely with researchers to test and refine data strategies, ensuring the data effectively improves model performance.

$150k - $350k

Prime Intellect

Prime Intellect is building the open superintelligence stack, providing infrastructure for AI labs. Our platform, Lab, unifies compute, environments, evaluations, secure sandboxes, high-performance training, and deployment for post-training at frontier scale. We are developing open-source models trained end-to-end for long-horizon tasks like autonomous research, alongside the full-stack platform our research team utilizes. We are seeking individuals passionate about building at the intersection of frontier research, real infrastructure, and go-to-market for a nascent category.

$150k - $350k

Prime Intellect

Prime Intellect is building the open superintelligence stack, a full-stack system for post-training at frontier scale. Our platform, Lab, unifies compute, environments, evaluations, secure sandboxes, high-performance training, and deployment. We are developing open-source models trained end-to-end for long-horizon tasks and the platform our research team uses to build them. This role is for someone who wants to build at the intersection of frontier research, real infrastructure, and go-to-market for a new category. As a Research Engineer, you will build the tasks and environments that train our models through RL, and the evaluations that measure their capabilities. You will collaborate directly with researchers to diagnose model failures, examining both task implementation and success scoring.

$150k - $350k

Prime Intellect

Prime Intellect is building the open superintelligence stack, a platform designed to unify compute, environments, evaluations, and deployment for frontier-scale AI development. We are creating open-source models trained for long-horizon tasks and the full-stack platform our research team uses to build them. We are looking for individuals passionate about building at the intersection of frontier research, real infrastructure, and go-to-market for a nascent category.

$150k - $350k

Prime Intellect

Prime Intellect is building the open superintelligence stack, a full-stack system for post-training at frontier scale, from SFT and RL to tool use and agent workflows. We are developing open-source models trained end-to-end for long-horizon tasks like autonomous research, and the platform our own research team uses to build them. We are seeking individuals passionate about building at the intersection of frontier research, real infrastructure, and go-to-market for a nascent category. This role will focus on developing the algorithms and systems used to train our open models with reinforcement learning, with opportunities to specialize in RL algorithms, scaling research, or training frameworks.

$150k - $350k

HUD is building reliable, fair, and open infrastructure for AI data, aiming to make data valuable for creators and trustworthy for AI labs. As a Research Engineer on the Robotics team, you will develop datasets and evaluations crucial for training and assessing embodied AI systems. This role involves translating research needs into data specifications, creating methods for data validation, and conducting experiments to understand how data characteristics impact model performance. You will collaborate with internal research and engineering teams, and potentially with data vendors and buyers, to enhance robotics data offerings.

$100k - $230k

Anthropic

Reinforcement learning (RL) is crucial for Claude's ability to reason, write code, and act autonomously over long horizons. This role is part of the team responsible for building and maintaining the RL training system, which is used to train production models and for researchers across Anthropic to run their experiments. The team collaborates closely with research teams company-wide on the science and engineering required to scale RL effectively. As a Research Engineer, you will be at the heart of RL at Anthropic, with a direct view of RL training at the frontier, as the system you own supports both production and research runs. You will work with collaborators across research teams to understand system performance, identify areas of fragility, and drive future improvements.

$500k - $850k

Anthropic

Anthropic's production models undergo sophisticated post-training processes to enhance their capabilities, alignment, and safety. Decisions in production training depend on knowing how the model is really behaving. This role's mission is to have the best observability into production post-training runs at Anthropic, providing the clearest, most trusted view of model quality during training. You will shape what gets measured, keep the signal trustworthy and timely, and investigate surprising results to inform post-training and release decisions.

$500k - $850k

HUD is building reliable, fair, and open infrastructure for AI data, aiming to make data valuable for creators and trustworthy for AI trainers. We are a growing team of researchers, engineers, and operators backed by significant VC funding. We are seeking a Research Manager to lead research focused on enhancing HUD's agent training data and evaluations for frontier models. This role involves guiding research engineers through complex projects, translating findings into scalable methods, and staying technically engaged while ensuring rigorous experimentation and impactful results. The ideal candidate will possess a deep understanding of model training dynamics, including how signals, data, and evaluation design influence outcomes.

$120k - $295k

Cartesia

Cartesia is pioneering AI architectures that learn and interact with the world like humans. We are seeking a Research Engineer, Data Infrastructure to build the datasets and systems essential for pretraining our foundational models. This role involves developing performant, scalable infrastructure for acquiring, processing, and curating massive datasets, and collaborating closely with research teams to optimize data composition. Your contributions will directly influence the capabilities and quality of our cutting-edge models.

$200k - $350k

Anthropic

Anthropic is dedicated to building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems that are safe and beneficial for users and society. This role focuses on Multi-Agent systems, which are increasingly vital for AI deployment, from small subagents within products to large groups tackling complex problems. Training Claude for optimal performance and safety in these large groups is a challenging new frontier in reinforcement learning and a new way to scale compute at test time.

$500k - $850k

Anthropic

Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems that are safe and beneficial for users and society. The Vision team is seeking a research engineer to focus on visual and spatial reasoning as core capabilities for LLMs. This role involves owning the end-to-end process of creating training data and RL environments for visual knowledge work. You will identify tasks, build evaluations, design rewards, and scale data, combining applied research with hands-on data work. Collaboration with external vendors, pretraining, RL, and product teams is essential to ensure the environments built translate into real-world knowledge work capabilities.

$350k - $850k