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Member of Technical Staff, Robotics Research Lead

New
Top rated
Reka
Full-time
Full-time
Posted

Lead the design and execution of the AI’s robotics research agenda, recruit, mentor, and manage a small team of research scientists and engineers in the London lab, collaborate with the world model and simulation teams to develop state-of-the-art training platforms for robotics, guide the creation of persistent 3D/4D scene representations and advanced embodied AI methodologies, drive research efforts in scene understanding, sim-to-real transfer, and advanced planning, foster partnerships with leading ML researchers, hardware specialists, and external collaborators, and help establish the lab's technical culture and external reputation.

Undisclosed

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London, United Kingdom
Maybe global
Onsite

Researcher, Misalignment Research

New
Top rated
OpenAI
Full-time
Full-time
Posted

Design and implement worst-case demonstrations that concretely reveal AGI alignment risks for stakeholders, focusing on high-stakes use cases; develop adversarial and system-level evaluations based on these demonstrations and promote their adoption across OpenAI; create automated tools and infrastructure to scale automated red-teaming and stress testing; conduct research on failure modes of alignment techniques and propose improvements; publish influential internal or external papers that impact safety strategy or industry practice; collaborate with engineering, research, policy, and legal teams to integrate findings into product safeguards and governance; and mentor engineers and researchers to foster a culture of rigorous, impact-oriented safety work.

$295,000 – $445,000
Undisclosed
YEAR

(USD)

San Francisco, United States
Maybe global
Onsite

Researcher, Alignment Science

New
Top rated
OpenAI
Full-time
Full-time
Posted

As a Research Engineer / Research Scientist on the Alignment team, you will design and implement alignment experiments focused on intent following, honesty, calibration, and robustness. You will train and evaluate models using reinforcement learning and other empirical machine learning methods. Your role includes developing evaluations for failure modes such as hallucination, instruction-following failures, reward hacking, covert actions, and scheming. You will study methods that encourage models to verify their behavior and report shortcomings honestly, including confession-style training objectives. You will build monitoring and inference-time interventions that ensure compliant behavior or surface model issues to users or downstream systems. Additionally, you will investigate how alignment methods scale with model capability, compute, data, context length, action length, and adversarial pressure. You will integrate successful techniques into model training and deployment workflows, produce externally publishable research when results advance the broader science of alignment, and collaborate with researchers and engineers across post-training, reinforcement learning, evaluations, safety, and product-facing teams.

$250,000 – $445,000
Undisclosed
YEAR

(USD)

San Francisco, United States
Maybe global
Hybrid

Machine Learning Research, RF Foundation Models Specialist

New
Top rated
Distributed Spectrum
Full-time
Full-time
Posted

Formulate new machine learning problems in RF sensing and spectrum understanding. Design experiments and evaluation approaches reflecting real operating conditions such as domain shift, changing interference, and varying sensors and platforms. Build models for structured, noisy, and partially observed signal environments. Improve robustness across propagation, interference, and low-visibility waveform conditions. Optimize models for throughput, latency, and deployment constraints. Move promising research into a release path for real systems through proofs-of-concept, realistic validation, and conversion into maintainable, deployable code. Use field performance to inform the development of the next generation of models and tooling. Work across the lifecycle of research and deployment including data and evaluation design, experimentation, model development, release readiness, and iteration based on real-world outcomes. Collaborate closely with embedded, hardware, and mission teammates, influencing how machine learning capability is built as the company scales.

$200,000 – $300,000
Undisclosed
YEAR

(USD)

New York City, United States
Maybe global
Onsite

Researcher, Agentic Post-Training

New
Top rated
OpenAI
Full-time
Full-time
Posted

Own end-to-end research and engineering projects to improve the final post-training of OpenAI’s agentic models. Decide which integrations are ready for inclusion in major model runs in collaboration with partner teams. Develop horizontal model improvements in areas such as factuality, instruction following, tool/function calling, multi-agent behavior, and reasoning-effort calibration. Build and improve training, evaluation, grading, and data infrastructure for large-scale reinforcement learning/post-training runs. Create evaluations and diagnostics to assess model readiness for deployment. Enhance feedback loops from real product usage into post-training, including learning from implicit user feedback. Collaborate with Codex, API, ChatGPT, product, training, and other post-training teams to make frontier models more useful, reliable, and agentic.

$295,000 – $445,000
Undisclosed
YEAR

(USD)

San Francisco, United States
Maybe global
Onsite

Staff Research Engineer

New
Top rated
Decagon
Full-time
Full-time
Posted

As a Staff Research Engineer at Decagon, you will lead research and engineering efforts to improve core conversational capabilities in production, including instruction following, retrieval, memory, and long-horizon task completion. You will build and iterate on end-to-end models and pipelines that optimize for quality, efficiency, and user experience. You will partner with platform and product engineers to integrate new models into production systems. Responsibilities also include breaking down ambiguous research ideas into clear, iterative milestones and roadmaps, mentoring other researchers and engineers, setting technical direction, and establishing best practices for applied research and engineering.

$325,000 – $425,000
Undisclosed
YEAR

(USD)

New York, United States
Maybe global
Onsite

Senior Research Engineer

New
Top rated
Decagon
Full-time
Full-time
Posted

As a Senior Research Engineer, you will lead research and engineering efforts to improve core conversational capabilities in production including instruction following, retrieval, memory, and long-horizon task completion. You will build and iterate on end-to-end models and pipelines that optimize for quality, efficiency, and user experience. You will partner with platform and product engineers to integrate new models into production systems. Additionally, you will break down ambiguous research ideas into clear, iterative milestones and roadmaps.

$300,000 – $400,000
Undisclosed
YEAR

(USD)

New York, United States
Maybe global
Onsite

Clinician Scientist

New
Top rated
Abridge
Full-time
Full-time
Posted

Develop and refine AI-driven clinical tools across notes, risk adjustment (HCC capture), clinical decision support, and prior authorization using clinical expertise and prompt engineering; define what "clinically meaningful" output looks like for each product area, including acceptable error rates, failure modes, and quality thresholds; collaborate with cross-functional teams including engineers, data scientists, and clinicians to integrate medical insights into AI models; write, review, and optimize prompts to improve AI model performance in clinical contexts; build and refine evaluation tools to streamline medical documentation quality assessment including hallucination detection, omission detection, and medication safety checks; translate clinical needs into technical specifications and data models; define clinical guardrail metrics and baselines and own pre/post evaluation requirements for any model update that affects clinical output; contribute to product development, revenue cycle management, and broader business initiatives; monitor clinical guideline update cycles and flag when product behavior needs to evolve based on new standards or payer policies.

$236,000 – $277,000
Undisclosed
YEAR

(USD)

San Francisco, United States
Maybe global
Hybrid

Graduation Internship - AI Research - Paris

New
Top rated
H Company
Full-time
Full-time
Posted

Participate in research and development within the Models team, Data Research team, or Agent team in H Company's research lab as a graduation internship; work on building foundational models powering agentic technology, advancing multimodal intelligence through large-scale models, and defining new learning algorithms and agent paradigms for autonomous AI systems.

Undisclosed

()

Paris, France
Maybe global
Onsite

PhD Research Intern, Vision Language Action Models

New
Top rated
Zoox
Intern
Full-time
Posted

Work on the Multimodal Language Action model by exploring novel discrete action tokenization and flow matching approaches, building on MotionLM, FAST, and other models. Train models at the billion+ scale using millions of miles of proprietary Zoox driving data. Gain experience and insight into training Multimodal Language Action models at scale. Contribute to publishable research that could be integrated into Zoox vehicles.

$9,500 – $9,500 / month
Undisclosed
MONTH

(USD)

Foster City, United States
Maybe global
Onsite

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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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