Research Scientist Jobs in San Francisco, CA - Page 4
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
Labelbox · San Francisco, CA (On-site) · 30 days ago
At Labelbox, we're building the critical infrastructure that powers breakthrough AI models at leading research labs and enterprises. Since 2018, we've been pioneering data-centric…
- Full-time
- Mid-level
- LLM fine-tuning
- LLM training pipelines (pretraining, SFT, RLHF/DPO)
- experiment design and statistical analysis
Research Intern, Inference (Summer 2027)
$58 – $70/hrTogether AI · San Francisco, CA (On-site) · 30 days ago
The Inference Research team is dedicated to building the next generation of efficient, scalable, and reliable serving systems for large foundation models, directly contributing to the…
- Internship
- Entry level
- Deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, JAX)
- Python
- Transformer architectures
Research Intern, Frontier Agents (Summer 2027)
$58 – $70/hrTogether AI · San Francisco, CA (On-site) · 30 days ago
The Agents team investigates how to build, align, and scale frontier AI systems that can tackle complex, multi-step tasks and workflows across text and speech, with a particular focus on…
- Temporary
- Entry level
- PyTorch
- JAX
- Transformer architectures
Research Scientist
Direct ATSPhysical Intelligence · San Francisco, CA · 30 days ago
We are looking for researchers with a record of excellent research results in the fields of machine learning and robotics, at all levels.
- Mid-level
- machine learning
- robotics
- system building
Mercor · San Francisco, CA (On-site) · 30 days ago
We’re looking for a Research Scientist to lead the design of the next generation of APEX benchmarks and the expert-built datasets behind them.
- Full-time
- Senior
- LLM evaluation
- benchmark design
- statistical experimental design
Mercor · San Francisco, CA (On-site) · 30 days ago
As a Research Scientist at Mercor, you will work at the intersection of research and engineering on frontier post-training.
- Full-time
- Senior
- reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards
- GRPO
- machine learning experimentation
Perplexity AI · San Francisco, CA (On-site) · 30 days ago
Perplexity is seeking energetic researchers and engineers to join our Secure Intelligence Institute (SII), Perplexity's flagship research center for advancing security, privacy, and trust…
- Mid-level
- security and privacy research
- threat modeling
- program analysis
OpenAI · San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) · 30 days ago
This role focuses on oversight and system-level mitigations that enable increasingly capable agents to operate safely and autonomously in real environments.
- Full-time
- Mid-level
- AI safety research
- AI alignment
- evaluation design
OpenAI · San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) · 30 days ago
We’re looking for strong executors with excellent judgment, comfort with ambiguity, and an understanding of frontier model research.
- Full-time
- Senior
- frontier model training
- model evaluation
- safety research
OpenAI · San Francisco, CA (On-site) · 30 days ago
OpenAI is seeking a researcher passionate about understanding deep networks, with a strong background in engineering, quantitative reasoning, and the research process.
- Full-time
- Mid-level
- 2+ years
- mechanistic interpretability
- deep learning
- Python
OpenAI · San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) · 30 days ago
We’re looking for an exceptional, hands-on researcher who wants to build frontier health capabilities and turn them into impact at scale.
- Full-time
- Mid-level
- machine learning research
- reinforcement learning
- model evaluation
OpenAI · San Francisco, CA (On-site) · 30 days ago
We’re hiring research scientists, research engineers, and AI systems engineers to work on automating research at OpenAI.
- Full-time
- Mid-level
- LLM training
- reinforcement learning
- evaluation design
OpenAI · San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) · 30 days ago
As a Researcher on the Chat and Multimodal Safety team, you will help shape how frontier models perceive and reason the world, and translate that understanding into safe behavior.
- Full-time
- Mid-level
- multimodal machine learning
- vision-language models
- AI safety evaluation
Agent Post-Training Research
On-siteOpenAI · San Francisco, CA (On-site) · 30 days ago
As a member of Agent Post-Training, you will improve the capabilities, reliability, and product fit of OpenAI's agentic models.
- Full-time
- Mid-level
- large language model training
- reinforcement learning
- evaluation design
OpenAI · San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) · 30 days ago
The CoT Monitorability team at OpenAI studies whether and when the chain-of-thought of frontier reasoning models is monitorable enough to support scalable oversight. We study how to…
- Full-time
- Mid-level
- empirical ML research
- model evaluation design
- chain-of-thought analysis
OpenAI · San Francisco, CA (On-site) · 30 days ago
We’re looking to advance how OpenAI prepares, curates, synthesizes and understands multimodal data at scale.
- Full-time
- Lead / Staff
- multimodal learning
- data curation
- deduplication
OpenAI · San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) · 30 days ago
As a Research Engineer/Research Scientist at OpenAI, you will advance the frontier of AI alignment and capabilities through cutting-edge RL methods.
- Mid-level
- reinforcement learning
- language model training
- large ML codebase debugging
Research Engineer, Privacy
On-siteOpenAI · San Francisco, CA (On-site) · 30 days ago
As a part of the Privacy Engineering Team, you will work on the frontlines of safeguarding user data while ensuring the usability and efficiency of our AI systems.
- Full-time
- Mid-level
- differential privacy
- federated learning
- membership inference defense
Researcher, Safety Oversight
On-siteOpenAI · San Francisco, CA (On-site) · 30 days ago
OpenAI is seeking a senior researcher with a passion for AI safety and experience in safety research.
- Full-time
- Director
- 4+ years
- RLHF
- human-AI collaboration
- machine learning research
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