Research Scientist Jobs in San Francisco, CA
Research Scientist openings in San Francisco, CA from employers' own career sites, newest first. Rolev.ai ranks them against your resume and tailors it to each posting.
- Open positions
- 86
- Median advertised pay
- $267,500 per year
Newest Research Scientist openings in San Francisco, CA
Research Scientist
On-siteDavid AI · San Francisco, CA (On-site) · 23 days ago
David AI is the first audio data research company. We bring an R&D approach to data-developing datasets with the same rigor AI labs bring to models. Our mission is to bring AI into the…
- Full-time
- Senior
- 5+ years
- PyTorch
- speech and audio ML
- DSP
Research, Mid Training
$350k – $475k/yrThinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA (On-site) · 23 days ago
Mid-training is a step between pre-training and post-training, where we take a base model and train it into the foundation for reasoning.
- Full-time
- Mid-level
- PyTorch
- distributed training
- synthetic data generation
Research, Pre-Training Data
$350k – $475k/yrThinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA (On-site) · 23 days ago
The role of pre-training researchers sits at the core of our roadmap.
- Full-time
- Mid-level
- Python
- PyTorch
- large-scale data curation
Research, Post-Training Evals
$350k – $475k/yrThinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA (On-site) · 23 days ago
We’re looking for a researcher to help develop reliable model evaluations for research signals.
- Full-time
- Mid-level
- LLM evaluation design
- benchmark auditing
- PyTorch
Research, RL Scaling
$350k – $475k/yrThinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA (On-site) · 23 days ago
Our team scales reinforcement learning for frontier models.
- Full-time
- Senior
- reinforcement learning
- PyTorch
- distributed training
Research, General Agents
$350k – $475k/yrThinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA (On-site) · 23 days ago
This role is responsible for advancing the agentic capabilities of our models, with ownership spanning the full development cycle.
- Full-time
- Mid-level
- Python
- PyTorch
- synthetic data pipelines
Researcher (General)
On-siteMakerMaker · San Francisco, CA (On-site) · 23 days ago
As a Researcher on our team, you'll design experiments and develop methods that drive how our autonomous research agents make decisions.
- Full-time
- Senior
- 5+ years
- reinforcement learning
- PyTorch
- large-scale ML training infrastructure
Research Intern
On-siteBuild AI · San Francisco, CA (On-site) · 23 days ago
We’re hiring Research Interns to train on the physical labor dataset.
- Internship
- Entry level
- PyTorch
- model training
- model evaluation
Trajectory · San Francisco, CA (On-site) · 23 days ago
As a Member of Technical Staff (Research) at Trajectory, you will design and build the post-training stack that lets our customers’ models continually learn from real production workflows.
- Full-time
- Mid-level
- LLM training
- reinforcement learning
- PyTorch
Achira · San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) · 23 days ago
We’re looking for deep learning researchers who want to build rich representations of atomistic systems to help teach AI about the microscopic world.
- Full-time
- Senior
- deep learning
- equivariant graph neural networks
- PyTorch
Letta · San Francisco, CA (On-site) · 23 days ago
You will design the long-term memory architecture for LLMs.
- Full-time
- Senior
- LLM memory architecture
- retrieval systems
- agent evaluation
Letta · San Francisco, CA (On-site) · 23 days ago
You will develop methods for agents that self-improve after training.
- Full-time
- Mid-level
- machine learning
- large language models
- continual learning
Letta · San Francisco, CA (On-site) · 23 days ago
You will pioneer post-training techniques that improve how well LLMs can be integrated into complete agentic systems.
- Full-time
- Mid-level
- PyTorch
- supervised fine-tuning
- reinforcement learning
Member of Technical Staff, Post-Training, RL
$300k – $400k/yrMirendil · San Francisco, CA (On-site) · 23 days ago
We are looking for research engineers to help build the post-training stack for frontier reasoning models.
- Full-time
- Mid-level
- reinforcement learning
- LLM post-training
- distributed training at scale
Genmo · San Francisco, CA (On-site) · 23 days ago
We are Genmo, a research lab developing the world’s most sophisticated video world models to understand, simulate, and interact with the physical world.
- Full-time
- Mid-level
- PyTorch
- RLHF
- diffusion models
Genmo · San Francisco, CA (On-site) · 23 days ago
We are Genmo, a research lab developing the world’s most sophisticated video world models to understand, simulate, and interact with the physical world.
- Full-time
- Senior
- diffusion models
- text-to-video generation
- PyTorch
Research Engineer
On-siteAssort Health · San Francisco, CA (On-site) · 23 days ago
Every time you call a doctor's office, the system forgets you the moment you hang up. You wait on hold, explain everything from scratch, get bounced between lines, and hope someone follows…
- Full-time
- Senior
- 5+ years
- LLM post-training
- Python
- ML evaluation
Research Scientist
On-siteLatent · San Francisco, CA (On-site) · 23 days ago
As a Machine Learning Engineer, Research, you will own the design and development of novel modeling approaches that advance state-of-the-art clinical intelligence.
- Full-time
- Director
- machine learning
- deep learning
- PyTorch
Research Scientist
HybridConstellation · San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) · 23 days ago
We are looking for a Research Scientist to decode the human experience.
- Full-time
- Mid-level
- PyTorch
- JAX
- time-series analysis
Research Scientist
On-siteChai Discovery · San Francisco, CA (On-site) · 23 days ago
Chai Discovery builds the computer-aided design suite for molecules. Eli Lilly GSK Pfizer Bristol Meyers argenx and Novartis all use Chai to power drug discovery programs. AI is…
- Full-time
- Mid-level
- diffusion models
- deep learning architecture design
- pre-training large models
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