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AI research jobs in San Francisco

Nowhere packs more frontier ML work into seven square miles. Research scientist and research engineer roles at Bay Area portfolio companies, gathered in one place.

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Applied Scientist, Optimization & Logistics
Sprinter Health · San Francisco, CA · Full Time
$160k - $220k View role →
AI Research Scientist
Sprinter Health · San Francisco, CA · Full Time
$160k - $220k View role →
Marketing Scientist
OpenAI · San Francisco · Full Time
$198k - $220k View role →
Founding Data Scientist, Pricing & Monetization
OpenAI · San Francisco · Full Time
$340k - $380k View role →
Member of Technical Staff - Research & Post-training
Preference Model · San Francisco · Full Time
$200k - $350k View role →
Research Scientist
Sesame · San Francisco · Full Time
$190k - $320k View role →
Product Marketing Manager, Research & Safety
OpenAI · San Francisco · Full Time
$221k - $245k View role →
Research Engineer, Privacy
OpenAI · San Francisco · Full Time
$380k - $445k View role →
Data Scientist
HappyRobot · San Francisco · Full Time
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Senior Data Scientist - Network Value (Plaid App)
Plaid · San Francisco HQ · Full Time
$191k - $263k View role →
Data Center Research & Development Engineer, Mechanical - Industrial Compute
OpenAI · San Francisco · Full Time
$260k - $385k View role →
Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Personality and Model Behavior
OpenAI · San Francisco · Full Time
$295k - $555k View role →
Research Engineer, Generalist
Exa · San Francisco, California · Full Time
$180k - $350k View role →
Logistics Research Team - Software Engineer (Mid-Level)
Sprinter Health · San Francisco, CA · Full Time
$160k - $200k View role →
Senior Data Scientist - (Payment Risk/Fraud) Embedded Insights
Plaid · San Francisco HQ · Full Time
$191k - $263k View role →
Research Engineer, Post-Training
Harvey · San Francisco · Full Time
$231k - $340k View role →
User Research Intern
Sleeper · San Francisco · Full Time
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Agent Post-Training, Artifacts Research
OpenAI · San Francisco · Full Time
$295k - $445k View role →
Agent Post-Training, Computer Use Research
OpenAI · San Francisco · Full Time
$295k - $445k View role →
Agent Post-Training, Connectors Research
OpenAI · San Francisco · Full Time
$295k - $445k View role →
Agent Post-Training, Context Research
OpenAI · San Francisco · Full Time
$295k - $445k View role →
Agent Post-Training, Frontier Evals and Environments Research
OpenAI · San Francisco · Full Time
$295k - $445k View role →
Senior Software Engineer - Research Platform, Consumer Devices
OpenAI · San Francisco · Full Time
$293k - $325k View role →
Research Engineer / Research Scientist -Personal AGI, Proactivity
OpenAI · San Francisco · Full Time
$295k - $555k View role →
Research Engineer/Research Scientist - Personal AGI, North Stars
OpenAI · San Francisco · Full Time
$295k - $555k View role →
Agent Post-Training Research
OpenAI · San Francisco · Full Time
$295k - $445k View role →
Data Scientist, Identity
OpenAI · San Francisco · Full Time
$293k - $515k View role →
Research Communications Manager, Safety
OpenAI · San Francisco · Full Time
$185k - $205k View role →
Data Scientist, Product
Harvey · San Francisco · Full Time
$155k - $260k View role →
Research Engineer
Sesame · San Francisco · Full Time
$190k - $320k View role →
Logistics Research Team - Software Engineer (Senior)
Sprinter Health · San Francisco, CA · Full Time
$195k - $225k View role →
Technical Sourcer, Research
OpenAI · San Francisco · Full Time
$137k - $240k View role →
Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Research Scientist) - DFAI
Plaid · San Francisco HQ · Full Time
$249k - $368k View role →
Senior Research Engineer, Voice + Speech
Decagon · San Francisco · Full Time
$200k - $400k View role →
Data Scientist, Safety
OpenAI · San Francisco · Full Time
$230k - $325k View role →
Senior Data Scientist - Network Value
Plaid · San Francisco HQ · Full Time
$191k - $263k View role →
Market Research Lead
OpenAI · San Francisco · Full Time
$234k - $260k View role →
Research Partner
Sprig · San Francisco, CA · Full Time
$165k - $200k View role →
Protection Scientist Engineer, Integrity
OpenAI · San Francisco · Full Time
$198k - $425k View role →
Senior Research Scientist
EliseAI · San Francisco · Full Time
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Junior Research Scientist
EliseAI · San Francisco · Full Time
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Researcher, Misalignment Research
OpenAI · San Francisco · Full Time
$295k - $445k View role →
Senior Fraud Research Analyst
Plaid · San Francisco HQ · Full Time
$139k - $191k View role →
Research Scientist
Hedra · San Francisco · Full Time
$200k - $325k View role →
Research Engineer
Hedra · San Francisco · Full Time
$175k - $275k View role →
TL, Research Inference
OpenAI · San Francisco · Full Time
$380k - $555k View role →
Research Engineer/Scientist - Human Alignment, Consumer Devices
OpenAI · San Francisco · Full Time
$380k - $445k View role →
Data Scientist, Business
OpenAI · San Francisco · Full Time
$290k - $441k View role →
Data Scientist, Preparedness
OpenAI · San Francisco · Full Time
$347k - $400k View role →
Product Manager, Research
Decagon · San Francisco · Full Time
$232k - $290k View role →
Recruiter, AI/ML Research
OpenAI · San Francisco · Full Time
$216k - $240k View role →
Staff Research Engineer, Voice + Speech
Decagon · San Francisco · Full Time
$200k - $400k View role →
Staff Research Engineer
Decagon · San Francisco · Full Time
$200k - $400k View role →
Technical Program Manager – Adversarial Model Research
OpenAI · San Francisco · Full Time
$207k - $285k View role →
Software Engineer, Research - Human Data
OpenAI · San Francisco · Full Time
$230k - $385k View role →
Data Scientist, Marketing
Harvey · San Francisco · Full Time
$170k - $260k View role →
ML Research Engineer - Hardware Codesign
OpenAI · San Francisco · Full Time
$185k - $455k View role →
Research Engineer / Research Scientist- Personal AGI (Post Training)
OpenAI · San Francisco · Full Time
$295k - $555k View role →
AI Data Scientist
Gamma · San Francisco · Full Time
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Research Engineer
Gamma · San Francisco · Full Time
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Research, Evals
Exa · San Francisco, California · Full Time
$180k - $350k View role →
Machine Learning Research Scientist
Sentra · San Francisco / Bay Area · Full Time
$120k - $300k View role →
Technical Lead, Safety Research
OpenAI · San Francisco · Full Time
$460k - $555k View role →
Data Scientist, Financial Engineering
OpenAI · San Francisco · Full Time
$230k - $385k View role →
Data Scientist, Codex
OpenAI · San Francisco · Full Time
$230k - $385k View role →
Data Scientist, Platform and B2B Products
OpenAI · San Francisco · Full Time
$230k - $385k View role →
Software Engineer, Research Developer Productivity
OpenAI · San Francisco · Full Time
$230k - $325k View role →
Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure - Research
OpenAI · San Francisco · Full Time
$250k - $380k View role →
Senior Research Engineer
Decagon · San Francisco · Full Time
$200k - $400k View role →
Research Engineer, Codex
OpenAI · San Francisco · Full Time
$295k - $445k View role →
Data Scientist, Infrastructure
OpenAI · San Francisco · Full Time
$230k - $385k View role →
Research, ML
Exa · San Francisco, California · Full Time
$180k - $350k View role →
Research Engineer/Research Scientist, RL/Reasoning
OpenAI · San Francisco · Full Time
$295k - $445k View role →
Research Engineer, Frontier Evals & Environments
OpenAI · San Francisco · Full Time
$205k - $380k View role →
Research Engineer
OpenAI · San Francisco · Full Time
$250k - $445k View role →
Research Scientist
OpenAI · San Francisco · Full Time
$250k - $445k View role →
Data Scientist, Product
OpenAI · San Francisco · Full Time
$230k - $385k View role →
Research Engineer, Retrieval & Search, Applied Engineering
OpenAI · San Francisco · Full Time
$293k - $585k View role →

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