AI Engineering Jobs with Visa Sponsorship
AI engineering jobs with visa sponsorship from AI labs, startups and established tech companies, across LLM, AI agent, machine learning, research and infrastructure roles.
Every role here says in its posting that the company sponsors work visas, such as the H-1B in the US or the Skilled Worker visa in the UK. Terms vary: some companies only transfer an existing visa, and some sponsor only in certain countries, so confirm the details before you apply.
Anthropic, Prime Intellect and Thinking Machines Lab have the most open roles here right now. AI Research Engineer roles are the largest group, at 44%. Of these, 18% can be done remotely. The skills these postings ask for most are Python, Anthropic, LLM and Reinforcement Learning.
- Open roles
- 61
- Typical salary
- $300k - $400k
- Median of 55 posted ranges
- Newest role
- 5d ago
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Skills these roles ask for
Latest visa-sponsored AI engineering roles
Research Scientist, Life Sciences (Computational Chemistry)
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
Senior Research Infrastructure Engineer
HUD
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
TPU Performance Engineer
Anthropic
As a TPU Kernel Engineer, you will be responsible for identifying and addressing performance issues across various ML systems, including research, training, and inference. A significant part of this role involves designing and optimizing kernels specifically for the TPU. You will also provide crucial feedback to researchers regarding how model changes affect performance. The ideal candidate will have a proven history of solving large-scale systems problems and demonstrating expertise in low-level optimization.
$280k - $850k
Member of Technical Staff - Pre-Training Data
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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Research Engineer, Chip Design RL
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
Red Team Engineer, Safeguards
Anthropic
Anthropic's Safeguards team is looking for a Red Team Engineer to ensure the safety of their AI systems and products. This role involves taking an adversarial approach to find vulnerabilities before malicious actors can exploit them. The work covers technical infrastructure weaknesses and emergent risks from advanced AI capabilities, focusing on broader safety implications and novel abuses unique to AI systems. You will simulate sophisticated threat actors, investigate potential abuse like account manipulation and payment fraud, and chain multiple attack vectors to achieve objectives.
$320k - $405k
Applied AI Engineer, Enterprise
Anthropic
As a member of the Applied AI team, you will be an Applied AI Engineer focused on becoming a trusted technical advisor to Enterprise Technology companies adopting the Claude API into their core products. You will work closely with customer product and engineering teams as they ship new products powered by Claude, advising on architecture design decisions, developing evaluation frameworks, and guiding customers through cutting-edge implementation patterns for LLMs. Working closely with our Sales, Product, and Engineering teams, you'll guide a focused portfolio of customers from technical discovery through successful deployment, combining deep engineering expertise with customer-facing skills to help customers unlock the full potential of the Claude API.
$200k - $320k
Quantum-AI Postdoctoral Fellow
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
Security Engineer / Research Engineer, RL Security
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
Research Engineer, Cybersecurity RL (Reinforcement Learning)
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
Staff+ Software Engineer, VectorDB
Anthropic
Anthropic is seeking a Staff+ Software Engineer to enhance the vector search infrastructure powering Claude. This role is crucial for Claude's ability to access information, impacting web search, conversation memory, and model training. You will join a small, foundational team responsible for the architecture, performance, scalability, and cost of the vector database layer. As a hands-on engineer, you will contribute to coding and make key architectural decisions, shaping the future evolution of this critical system within the Databases organization.
$320k - $485k
Research, Tinker, RL Systems
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
Applied Researcher - Scientific AI
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
Applied Researcher - Sovereign AI
Prime Intellect
Prime Intellect is developing an open superintelligence stack, providing infrastructure for AI labs. Their platform, Lab, integrates compute, environments, evaluations, secure sandboxes, and high-performance training for post-training at scale, including SFT, RL, tool use, agent workflows, and continuous model improvement. They are building open-source frontier AI models for long-horizon tasks and the platform their research team uses. The role focuses on building post-training and agent systems for national institutions, public-sector organizations, and regulated industries, addressing needs for models and agents that operate within strict boundaries for data, deployment, access, auditability, and human authority, while enabling self-improvement without external model dependency.
$150k - $300k
Applied Researcher - Forward-Deployed RL
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
Applied Researcher - Continual Learning
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
Applied Researcher - Agentic RL
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
Research Engineer - RL Infrastructure
Prime Intellect
Prime Intellect is building the open superintelligence stack, providing infrastructure for AI labs. Their platform, Lab, unifies compute, environments, evaluations, and training/deployment for post-training at scale, including SFT, RL, and agent workflows. They are developing open-source models for long-horizon tasks and the platform their research team uses. The company has raised significant funding and is looking for individuals passionate about frontier research, infrastructure, and go-to-market strategies in a nascent category.
$150k - $350k
Research Engineer - Pre-training Data
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
Research Engineer - Pre-training
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
Research Engineer - Data and Evaluation
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
Research Engineer - Inference
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
Research Engineer / Scientist - Reinforcement Learning
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
Applied Scientist
Blee
Blee is seeking an Applied Scientist to specialize in agent system design, focusing on architecting and implementing the next generation of intelligent compliance systems. This role involves designing frameworks where multiple agents, powered by custom and foundational models, collaborate to identify, track, and explain compliance flags. You will also be responsible for building and optimizing applied AI/ML pipelines, including model fine-tuning, prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, and customer-specific AI configurations, and training models based on user feedback to deliver more targeted compliance recommendations.
$150k - $275k
Questions about visa-sponsored AI engineering jobs
- How many visa-sponsored AI engineering jobs are open?
- There are 61 open visa-sponsored AI engineering jobs on AiRagJobs right now, the newest posted 5d ago. New roles are added every day.
- How much do visa-sponsored AI engineering jobs pay?
- The median posted salary range is $300k–$400k, from 55 jobs here that list pay. That's base salary; equity and bonuses aren't included.
- Which companies are hiring for visa-sponsored AI engineering jobs?
- Anthropic, Prime Intellect, Thinking Machines Lab, HUD and Reflection ai have the most open roles right now.
- Do all of these jobs sponsor visas?
- Each posting says the company sponsors work visas, but the terms vary. Some only transfer an existing visa, and some sponsor only in certain countries, so ask the company before you apply.
