Research Scientist Jobs in San Francisco, CA - Page 3
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
- 84
- Median advertised pay
- $267,500 per year
Newest Research Scientist openings in San Francisco, CA
AI Research Scientist
$100k – $300k/yrCogent Security · San Francisco, CA (On-site) · 30 days ago
Cogent is an Applied AI Lab building the next generation of AI agents for cybersecurity. AI has fundamentally changed how attacks happen, allowing malicious actors to operate at…
- Full-time
- Senior
- static analysis
- dynamic analysis
- formal verification
Senior Research Scientist
$200k – $320k/yrEliseAI · San Francisco, CA (On-site) · 30 days ago
EliseAI is seeking world-class experts in Machine
- Full-time
- Director
- 5+ years
- machine learning algorithms
- statistical analysis
- data modeling
Applied AI Researcher, Benchmarking
$150k – $250k/yrDistyl AI · San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) · 30 days ago
At Distyl we’re pushing the envelope of AI utilization in enterprise. This requires creative researchers who don’t just want to drive incremental improvements on benchmarks or optimize an…
- Full-time
- Mid-level
- evaluation frameworks
- benchmark design
- statistical analysis
Applied AI Researcher, System Self-Improvement
$150 – $250/hrDistyl AI · San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) · 30 days ago
At Distyl we’re pushing the envelope of AI utilization in enterprise. This requires creative researchers who don’t just want to drive incremental improvements on benchmarks or optimize an…
- Full-time
- Senior
- feedback-driven systems
- compound AI systems
- prototyping and experimentation
Applied AI Researcher, AI Systems
$150k – $250k/yrDistyl AI · San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) · 30 days ago
At Distyl we’re pushing the envelope of AI utilization in enterprise. This requires creative researchers who don’t just want to drive incremental improvements on benchmarks or optimize an…
- Full-time
- Senior
- compound AI systems
- agentic AI
- LLM orchestration
Research Scientist
$150k – $250k/yrDeft AI, Inc. · San Francisco, CA (On-site) · 30 days ago
Design and develop robot autonomy software stack and algorithms to enable capabilities including grasping and more dexterous behaviors in unstructured environments
- Full-time
- Mid-level
- 3+ years
- reinforcement learning
- imitation learning
- PyTorch
Pluralis Research · San Francisco, CA (Remote) · 30 days ago
Pluralis Research works on Protocol Learning: training and serving large models in a fully decentralized way on small consumer-grade devices connected via the internet.
- Internship
- Entry level
- PyTorch
- distributed training
- large-scale training infrastructure
Research Scientist
RemotePluralis Research · San Francisco, CA (Remote) · 30 days ago
Pluralis Research works on Protocol Learning: training and serving large models in a fully decentralized way on small consumer-grade devices connected via the internet.
- Full-time
- Director
- large-scale distributed training
- gradient compression
- PyTorch
Pluralis Research · San Francisco, CA (On-site) · 30 days ago
Pluralis Research works on Protocol Learning: training and serving large models in a fully decentralized way on small consumer-grade devices connected via the internet.
- Full-time
- Mid-level
- distributed systems
- LLM serving
- pipeline parallelism
Research Fellow
$14.5k/yrAbundant · San Francisco, CA (On-site) · 30 days ago
AI models rely on two fundamental ingredients: compute and data. Abundant is building the NVIDIA of training data. NVIDIA, the leader in compute, has a peak market cap of $5T and generated…
- Full-time
- Entry level
- machine learning research
- reinforcement learning
- model alignment
Member of Technical Staff, Research
$250k – $450k/yrAbundant · San Francisco, CA (On-site) · 30 days ago
You will own a research agenda where research meets production, co-designing strategies with researchers from frontier AI labs.
- Full-time
- Mid-level
- reinforcement learning
- agentic evaluation design
- Python
Member of Technical Staff - Science I
$300k – $400k/yrNTT DATA AIVista · San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) · 30 days ago
San Francisco Bay Area | Bellevue, Washington | Hybrid | Department: Science
- Full-time
- Mid-level
- 5+ years
- machine learning
- large language models
- Python
Base Labs Fellowship
On-siteBaseten · San Francisco, CA (On-site) · 30 days ago
Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma, and Writer. By uniting applied AI research…
- Full-time
- Mid-level
- machine learning
- open-source LLMs
- deep learning
Shoot Your Shot
On-siteAlljoined · San Francisco, CA (On-site) · 30 days ago
Job descriptions are inherently limiting.
- Full-time
- Mid-level
- EEG signal processing
- deep learning
- large-scale neural datasets
Polymath · San Francisco, CA (On-site) · 30 days ago
We’re hiring a Founding Member of Technical Staff - Research to help advance the frontier of autonomous agents.
- Full-time
- Mid-level
- reinforcement learning
- LLM post-training
- benchmark design
Research Scientist
On-sitePhonic · San Francisco, CA (On-site) · 30 days ago
As a Research Scientist at Phonic, you'll drive original research that pushes the boundary of what's possi
- Full-time
- Mid-level
- speech synthesis
- audio modeling
- language modeling
Phonic · San Francisco, CA (On-site) · 30 days ago
As a Research Intern at Phonic, you'll work directly on the core problems that make Phonic's voice AI feel genui
- Internship
- Entry level
- PyTorch
- model implementation from papers
- probability and optimization
Research Scientist - Post Training
Direct ATSAfterQuery · San Francisco, CA · 30 days ago
Massive Opportunity: Forbes reported that we could be YC's fastest unicorn, reportedly raising at a $3.2 billion valuation, and we're not slowing down.
- Full-time
- Mid-level
- LLM training
- model evaluation
- SFT
Research Fellow
On-siteAfterQuery · San Francisco, CA (On-site) · 30 days ago
Massive Opportunity: Forbes reported that we could be YC's fastest unicorn, reportedly raising at a $3.2 billion valuation, and we're not slowing down.
- Full-time
- Mid-level
- research methodology
- experimental design
- scientific writing
DoorDash · San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) · 30 days ago
The DoorDash Research Fellowship is a 3-month program (extendable to 6 months) looking for Summer and Fall 2026 cohorts, for researchers and engineers who want to work on the hardest…
- Temporary
- Mid-level
- Applied machine learning
- Reinforcement learning
- Large-scale model training and evaluation
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