Founding Research Engineer
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Founding Research EngineerThis early-stage AI safety company is building technology to ensure AI agents follow the law when taking actions in the real world. This is an opportunity to join as one of the first researchers and help define the research agenda, build foundational tools, and advance the field of law-following AI.Responsibilities include leading research projects from conception to publication, building legal evaluation environments and benchmarks, developing training pipelines and LLM judge evaluation methods, building runtime controls and research infrastructure, and grounding research in real legal practice.Ideal candidates have a degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field, at least 1 year of research or ML engineering experience, strong Python engineering skills, experience with the modern machine learning stack, and a deep commitment to AI safety and the goal of making AI follow the law.
- ...Join Lucidic AI as a Founding Applied Research Engineer to develop and deploy cutting-edge optimization algorithms for enterprise AI agents. You will work directly with customers to understand their agent systems and build solutions that measurably improve accuracy, reliability...Suggested
$160k - $250k
...Join to apply for the Founding Research Engineer role at Adam Join to apply for the Founding Research Engineer role at Adam This range is provided by Adam. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more. Base pay range...SuggestedFull time- ...Learning Deep Learning Adam is an applied research and product lab building the future of computer-aided design, where engineers will be able to speak physical objects into... ...join us. About the role We’re building the founding research team at Adam. At Adam, we’re tackling...SuggestedFull time
$150k - $200k
...Scion Technology has been engaged to conduct a search for an experienced Founding Research Engineer for our client, an early-stage AI startup. This is a full time, direct hire opportunity, onsite in San Francisco, CA. POSITION OVERVIEW We are seeking a highly motivated...SuggestedFull time$150k - $200k
...labs use to train and test their models. You'd be their first engineer in San Francisco, and from about month six you'd lead your own... ...can realistically bring total pay to around $500k a year ~ A founding role working side by side with frontier labs Good to know...SuggestedFull timeWork at office$200k - $300k
...consumer agent in the world. The role This is a hands-on research and engineering role. You'll be in the eval harness, the training code, and... ...verify, correct, and own everything you ship. ~ You want founding-team scope. You'll set the research bar for Pally and help...Full time- ...Lotus Health is hiring a Founding Research Engineer in San Francisco to design and ship core reasoning and agentic systems for patient care. You will curate medical data, train and evaluate models, and build retrieval and tool-use components with safety and citations....
$150k - $250k
Founding Machine Learning Engineer (ML Research Engineer), full-time, in person in San Francisco, CA. $150K - $250K base plus equity. Location: San Francisco, CA. In-person team. You must live in the SF Bay Area or be open to relocating to San Francisco. Work authorization...Full timeLive inRelocationVisa sponsorship- ...Adamcad is assembling the founding research team to advance AI for parametric CAD in 3D space. The role focuses on training models that interpret natural language to generate CAD, and on building robust representations and evaluation methods for geometric accuracy. You...
- ...ML/AI Research Engineer — Agentic AI Lab (Founding Team) Location: San Francisco Bay Area Type: Full-Time Compensation: Competitive salary + meaningful equity (founding tier) Backed by 8VC, we're building a world-class team to tackle one of the industry’s...Full time
- ...Adam is building the founding research team to tackle how AI models interpret and edit parametric CAD in 3D space. We seek people who can design rigorous evals, push the boundaries of LLMs in 3D/CAD, and own the full AI stack from data collection to training and inference...
- ...runtime that understands complex enterprise systems, the tooling experience developers use every day, and the analysis and planning engine that transforms legacy code. You will work directly with customers on high-leverage projects and help define our culture, our...Visa sponsorship
$200k - $225k
About AlembicAlembic is where top engineers are solving marketing's hardest problem: proving... ...tech luminaries including WndrCo (founded by DreamWorks founder Jeffrey Katzenberg... ...to leverage advanced analyticsDocument research and implementation decisions for reproducibility...- ...Salesforce (which had acquired the company he founded, Quip) and CTO of Facebook. Bret was... ...for Google Workspace.Sierra’s Applied Research team advances the quality, speed, and cost... ..., CAEmployment TypeFull timeLocation TypeOn-siteDepartmentEngineeringPlatform EngineeringFull timeFlexible hours
$197.3k - $313.7k
...looking for talented software and platform engineers to embed in our AI team to bridge the... ...engineering skills directly enable world-class research and products used by millions?At... ...More details about company benefits can be found at the following link: to the San...Full time- ...AfterQuery AfterQuery is an applied research lab curating data solutions for foundation... ..., and we're not slowing down. Founding Impact: You will own and architect core... ...you’ll have the opportunity to shape the engineering organization and lead major technical initiatives...Local area
$165k - $310k
...Senior Research Engineer, LLM Training & Post-Training New York, New York, United States; Remote; San Francisco, California, United States... ...Are Lightning AI is the company behind PyTorch Lightning. Founded in 2019, we build an end-to-end platform for developing,...For contractorsFor subcontractorWork at officeRemote workWork from homeFlexible hours2 days per week- ...lifecycle of learned components on OG-1: from data collection and model training through edge deployment on Jetson AGX Orin. Every research project will have a deployment milestone. This is not a lab position. What You Will Do Train and deploy VLA models for...
$200k - $300k
...improvement opportunities, and help set research direction as the team grows. Requirements... ...At least 4 years of ML or software engineering experience in an AI lab, AI product company... ...and set research direction with a founding-team mindset. Benefits Annual salary...Full time- ...Senior Experimental Research Engineer, Electromagnetics Senior Experimental Research Engineer, Electromagnetics 3 days ago Be among the first... ...ago San Francisco, CA $156,000.00-$211,000.00 2 weeks ago Founding Team Senior Software Engineer Manager for a Social Travel...Full time
- ...use, and autonomous agent systems. The founding team includes leaders from Tesla AI, Google... ...the ground up and looking for early research talent to help shape the technical direction... ...Role Our client is hiring a Research Engineer / Scientist to own ambitious research bets...Internship
- ...About David AIDavid AI is the first audio data research company. We bring an R&D approach to data–developing datasets... .... This is where David AI comes in.David AI was founded in 2024 by a team of former Scale AI engineers and operators. In less than a year, we've brought...Work at office
$122k - $215k
...Research EngineerWaabi, founded by AI visionary Raquel Urtasun, is the leader in Physical AI. With a world-class team, we're unlocking the next era... ...want to impact the world in a positive way.As a Research Engineer, you will be at the forefront of advancing and deploying...Full timeWork at officeWork from homeFlexible hours$200k - $350k
...without needing any technical skills.Since founding earlier this year, we have:Locked in 1,0... ...), second-time technical founders, engineers that made 100+ games for Voodoo, Supersonic... ...games & 3D environments. Our current research spans:Distributed multi-agent orchestration...Visa sponsorshipRelocation package- ...We're the makers of Devin, the first AI software engineer.Our team is extremely talent-dense. Among our founding team, we have world-class competitive programmers... ...and post-training. We don't distinguish between research and engineering; we expect both.What You'll AccomplishData...
- ...Research EngineerWe believe that software is the foundation of modern civilization - yet... ...codebases and popular open source software.Our founding team includes deep expertise in data,... ....We're seeking an experienced Research Engineer to join our effort in building and...Full timeWork at office
$190k - $215k
...Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP is looking for a Senior Innovation Engineer to support the Information Technology Department based out of... ...all eligible employees. A summary of available benefits can be found here in the Career section of the Firm’s website. EEO Statement...Contract workWork at officeRemote work3 days per week- ...SLAM SpecialistWorld Labs is a frontier AI research and product company advancing spatial... ...frontier beyond large language models. Co-founded by Dr. Fei-Fei Li, Justin Johnson, and... ...collaborate closely with research scientists, ML engineers, and systems teams to translate cutting-...
$164k - $215k
...Research Engineer, Lead San Francisco, CA · In Person · Full-Time Applying to this role will also allow us to consider you for other research... ...approaches we've tested, what we've learned, and where we've found meaningful signal.This role sits directly between research...Full time- ...We're the makers of Devin, the first AI software engineer. Our team is extremely talent-dense. Among our founding team, we have world-class competitive... ...MissionResearch You will own the core systems that researchers depend on daily: distributed training infrastructure...
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