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Senior Staff Research Scientist, Speech Technologies

New
Top rated
Hippocratic AI
Full-time
Full-time
Posted

Design, develop, and iterate on data-driven ASR models for streaming and non-streaming conversational speech applications; research and implement state-of-the-art end-to-end speech recognition architectures tailored to the medical domain; train, evaluate, and optimize ASR models across accuracy, latency, and resource utilization dimensions; preprocess and curate large-scale speech datasets to support robust model training; collaborate closely with LLM, product, and clinical teams to integrate speech technologies into the broader Hippocratic AI platform; contribute to the team's research culture through experimentation, documentation, and knowledge sharing.

Undisclosed

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Bellevue or Menlo Park, United States
Maybe global
Hybrid

AI Research Resident

New
Top rated
Maincode
Full-time
Full-time
Posted

Lead research that advances Maincode's work on capable, useful, and trustworthy AI systems. Design and execute experiments, develop new research directions, and collaborate closely with researchers and engineers. Produce research outputs suitable for top-tier conferences, journals, technical reports, open-source releases, or deployment in Matilda and future Maincode systems.

Undisclosed

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Australia
Maybe global
Remote

Researcher, Agent Post-Training, Personality

New
Top rated
OpenAI
Full-time
Full-time
Posted

As a member of the Agent Post-training Personality team, the role involves helping to make OpenAI’s agents exceptional collaborators by studying what makes an agent thoughtful, clear, perceptive, appropriately proactive, and easy to work with. This includes translating those insights into evaluations, training data, reward signals, and model improvements. Responsibilities include developing a rigorous understanding of effective agent collaboration across various types of work, turning qualitative judgments about model behavior into concrete hypotheses, evaluations, graders, and training interventions, studying user signals to understand behaviors that create trust and satisfaction, working with human experts and trainers to produce high-quality data capturing excellent collaborative behavior, improving reward models and reinforcement learning objectives, collaborating with pretraining and early-training teams on data and objectives, building pipelines for updating training data, partnering with product teams to turn consumer insights into model improvements, and owning projects end to end from identifying behavioral failures through experimentation, training, evaluation, and launch.

$295,000 – $445,000
Undisclosed
YEAR

(USD)

San Francisco, United States
Maybe global
Onsite

Deployment Lead

New
Top rated
Labelbox
Full-time
Full-time
Posted

As an Applied Research Engineer at Labelbox, you will create frameworks and tools to construct, train, benchmark, and evaluate autonomous agent capabilities. You will design agent-focused data programs using supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning (RL) methodologies. You will develop data pipelines from diverse sources such as code repositories, web browsers, and computer systems. You will implement and adapt popular open-source agent libraries and benchmarks with proprietary datasets and models. You will engage with research teams in frontier AI labs and the wider AI community to understand evolving agent data needs for frontier models and share best practices. You will collaborate closely with frontier AI lab customers to understand their requirements and guide model development. Additionally, you will publish research findings in academic journals, conferences, and blog posts.

$250,000 – $300,000
Undisclosed
YEAR

(USD)

San Francisco or Wrocław, United States or Poland
Maybe global
Hybrid

Forward Deployed Engineering Manager

New
Top rated
Labelbox
Full-time
Full-time
Posted

As an Applied Research Engineer at Labelbox, you are responsible for creating frameworks and tools to construct, train, benchmark, and evaluate autonomous agent capabilities. You design agent-focused data programs using supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning (RL) methodologies. You develop data pipelines from diverse sources such as code repositories, web browsers, and computer systems. You implement and adapt popular open-source agent libraries and benchmarks with proprietary datasets and models. You engage with research teams in frontier AI labs and the wider AI community to understand evolving agent data needs and share best practices. You collaborate closely with frontier AI lab customers to understand their requirements and guide model development. Additionally, you publish research findings in academic journals, conferences, and blog posts.

$250,000 – $300,000
Undisclosed
YEAR

(USD)

San Francisco or Wrocław, United States or Poland
Maybe global
Hybrid

Researcher: Agent Post-Training, API & Power-Users

New
Top rated
OpenAI
Full-time
Full-time
Posted

The role involves improving the capabilities, reliability, and product fit of OpenAI’s agentic models for power users and API developers. Responsibilities include designing and running experiments to enhance model behavior in API and power-user workflows such as function calling, tool use, coding, planning, and long-horizon execution. The role requires building evals, graders, and environments from real developer and power-user workflows, turning observed failures into training data, hypotheses, and improvements. The researcher partners with API and power-users to identify behavior gaps and translate product signals into post-training interventions. They improve model behavior when composed into systems, ensuring reliable tool use, respect for developer intent, appropriate error handling, clarification when needed, and task coherence. The role also includes owning end-to-end model behavior projects from failure analysis through training, eval design, integration into major model runs, and launch readiness. Developing feedback loops using power-user traces and production-like environments to identify model failures and gaps is part of the job. The researcher assists in deciding which capabilities, fixes, and integrations are ready for major model runs. Additionally, debugging hard failures in models by analyzing traces, evals, training data, and product context is required. The role involves working on early-training and alignment interventions, improving large-scale training and launch machinery, and taking on cross-functional projects that touch model training, product infrastructure, and production agent harnesses, including multi-agent systems and training against production-like environments.

$295,000 – $445,000
Undisclosed
YEAR

(USD)

San Francisco, United States
Maybe global
Remote

Researcher, Training - London

New
Top rated
OpenAI
Full-time
Full-time
Posted

Design, prototype and scale up new architectures to improve model intelligence; execute and analyze experiments autonomously and collaboratively; study, debug, and optimize both model performance and computational performance; contribute to training and inference infrastructure.

£170,000 – £445,000
Undisclosed
YEAR

(GBP)

London, United Kingdom
Maybe global
Hybrid

Research Engineer / Research Scientist (Pre-training)

New
Top rated
Ideogram
Full-time
Full-time
Posted

In this role, you will push the frontier of visual generative models. You will work on large-scale pre-training for text-to-image foundation models, shaping objectives, algorithms, data, and systems, and turn novel ideas into models that power products used by millions of users. You will work with a creative and ambitious team of researchers and engineers building the future of the creative economy.

Undisclosed

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Toronto, Canada
Maybe global
Onsite

RE/RS, Data Understanding - Foundations

New
Top rated
OpenAI
Full-time
Full-time
Posted

The Data Understanding team is responsible for creating high quality datasets and their quantized representations for OpenAI, which includes synthesizing data, building VQ representations, processing, filtering, deduplication, quality control, and tokenization to enable effective use in large model training runs. The role involves advancing how OpenAI builds and understands pretraining data at scale by treating data quality and curation as core research problems. Responsibilities include developing new methods to select, combine, and transform data, creating datasets that improve model capabilities, designing rigorous experiments to understand how data choices and interventions affect model learning and downstream behavior, and working closely with frontier models and web-scale data to build evidence for effective approaches and translate successful research into scalable data processing pipelines.

$445,000 – $555,000
Undisclosed
YEAR

(USD)

San Francisco, United States
Maybe global
Onsite

RE/RS, Data Understanding (MM)

New
Top rated
OpenAI
Full-time
Full-time
Posted

The Data Understanding team is responsible for creating high quality datasets and their quantized representation for OpenAI, which includes synthesizing multimodal data, building VQ representations, processing, filtering, deduplication, quality control, and tokenization for effective use in big model training runs. The role involves advancing how OpenAI prepares, curates, synthesizes, and understands multimodal data at scale. Responsibilities include working on research and production problems such as synthesizing multimodal content (images, audio, and video) and their supervisions, improving noisy data pipelines, building better quality filters, using models to automate data preparation, and measuring whether changes in the dataset improve model performance. The position also requires owning and driving a research agenda, choosing the right multimodal data problems, and carrying long-running work through to impact, while engaging in an empirical, collaborative approach to research.

$445,000 – $555,000
Undisclosed
YEAR

(USD)

San Francisco, United States
Maybe global
Remote

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They also mentor junior researchers, provide technical leadership, and continuously monitor emerging AI trends in specialized areas like deep learning, natural language processing, and computer vision."},{"question":"What skills are required for AI Research Scientists?","answer":"AI Research Scientists need strong theoretical knowledge in mathematics, statistics, and computational methods. Programming proficiency in Python and frameworks like TensorFlow or PyTorch is essential. They must excel at experimental design, hypothesis testing, and data analysis. Critical thinking and problem-solving abilities help navigate complex research challenges. Expertise in specific AI domains such as deep learning, reinforcement learning, or natural language processing is typically required. Communication skills for publishing papers and presenting findings are crucial. Collaboration abilities support interdisciplinary work with engineers, domain experts, and stakeholders. Ethical research practices and knowledge of research methodologies round out the necessary skillset."},{"question":"What qualifications are needed for AI Research Scientists?","answer":"Most AI Research Scientist positions require a PhD in artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer science, or related fields. Employers like Meta explicitly specify this educational requirement in job postings. Candidates need demonstrated expertise in specific AI subfields such as machine learning, deep learning, or specialized areas like large language models. A strong publication record in peer-reviewed journals or at major AI conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR) is typically expected. Prior research experience developing novel algorithms and conducting experiments is essential. Some positions may accept exceptional candidates with Master's degrees who have substantial research contributions or publications in relevant AI domains."},{"question":"What is the salary range for AI Research Scientists?","answer":"Salaries for AI Research Scientists vary based on several factors including education level, research specialty, publication record, and prior contributions to the field. Geographic location significantly impacts compensation, with positions in tech hubs like San Francisco or New York typically paying more. Employer type affects pay scales—research positions at top tech companies often offer higher compensation than academic or nonprofit research labs. Experience level creates substantial variation, with senior scientists commanding significantly higher salaries. Specialized expertise in high-demand areas like large language models or reinforcement learning can command premium compensation. Many roles include additional compensation through research bonuses, stock options, or conference funding."},{"question":"How long does it take to get hired as an AI Research Scientist?","answer":"The hiring process for AI Research Scientists typically takes 2-4 months from application to offer. The timeline includes initial screening, technical interviews assessing research expertise, and evaluation of published work. Many employers require candidates to present previous research or complete a research proposal task. PhD candidates may face longer timelines as companies evaluate their dissertation research and publication potential. The process often includes multiple rounds of interviews with research teams and leadership. 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