Lead Research Engineer
$200k - $275kHalluminate
Halluminate, a San Francisco-based applied AI and data company, seeks a lead researcher to head in-house post-training and research efforts for frontier models used in finance workloads. You will train models, publish findings, drive benchmarks, contribute to platform tooling, and help build a high-performance engineering culture from the ground up, with a focus on research quality and real-world impact. This in-person, SF-based role offers a base salary of $200–275k plus equity and relocation #J-18808-Ljbffr
$150k - $250k
...a senior individual contributor and team lead position at an early-stage AI infrastructure... ...validation — and help shape internal research culture around what makes agent training... ...trajectory auditing. Partner with research engineers, domain experts, and data vendors to...SuggestedFull timeVisa sponsorship$110.7k - $379.2k
Position Summary Research Engineer — Post-Training & Small Language Models (SLMs), Healthcare AI Three hundred fifty million Americans rely on a healthcare system whose decision-making has become slow, costly, and adversarial — care delayed by prior authorization...SuggestedLocal areaVisa sponsorship$164.6k - $313.3k
...group (SODA) is looking for a driven Data/ML engineer to push the boundaries of audio GenAI.... ...’re a small, collaborative and efficient research team looking for highly motivated... ...exciting, this is it.We're hiring a data lead to own the training data behind our generative...SuggestedFull timeTemporary workLocal areaWorldwide$197.3k - $313.7k
...to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic... ...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...SuggestedFull time- Factory is seeking innovative Research Engineers to design and integrate advanced AI and ML capabilities that revolutionize productivity and accelerate innovation within software organizations.What you will do and achieve:Design, develop, and deploy AI-driven agentic systems...SuggestedWork at office
$200k - $225k
About AlembicAlembic is where top engineers are solving marketing's hardest problem: proving... ...-dollar decisions. We're backed by leading tech luminaries including WndrCo (founded... ...to leverage advanced analyticsDocument research and implementation decisions for reproducibility...- ...Research Engineer On Physical Ai TeamHedra is a pioneering generative modeling company — first models to market — now building a Physical AI... ...cases. As a Research Engineer on our Physical AI team, you will lead pre-training and post-training on action-conditioned world...
$180k - $280k
...Research EngineerSuperAnnotate helps the world's leading AI teams build responsible, next-generation models powered by high-quality human data. We're a fast-growing... ...at the cutting edge of the field. As a Research Engineer, you'll take a research direction and run with it –...Full time- ...Research EngineerPantheon is building general-purpose robots. Research velocity — experiments shipped per week — is the primary bottleneck on how fast Pantheon gets there. Research Engineers directly determine that rate.Pantheon is looking for a Research Engineer to work...
- ...Research EngineerConsole is building the AI agents that power autonomous enterprises. We... ...us.About the RoleWe're hiring a Research Engineer to push Console's core agent loop from powerful... ...?Product-market fit: We have built the leading product in our category, in a massive...Work at office
- ...Research EngineerWe bring OpenAI's technology to the world through products like ChatGPT and the OpenAI API.We seek to learn from deployment... ...unfettered growth.We are looking for an experienced Research Engineer to work on retrieval & search problems across our API and...
- ...AI Research Engineer OpportunityPoly is building a better file storage platform for everyone. We've raised $8M from YC, Bloomberg Beta, Felicis, Figma Ventures, AI Grant, and more, and we're looking to grow our founding team of superstar builders and dreamers.Poly's intelligent...Work at office
$225k - $400k
...Research EngineerTitle of Role: Research EngineerLocation: San Francisco, onsiteCompany Stage of Funding: Venture-Backed — Software Development, AI, Devtools, Data, Enterprise, B2BOffice Type: OnsiteSalary: $225K–$400KCompany DescriptionWe're representing a dynamic venture...- ...Preference Model is seeking Research Engineers or Research Scientists to advance self-directed learning in AI. The role involves training and evaluating models within proprietary RL environments and optimizing ML infrastructure. Candidates will benefit from competitive...
- ...Research EngineerOur partner is a YC-backed company building a new kind of marketplace in the AI training data space. Rather than operating... ...is the single biggest bottleneck to growth. As a Research Engineer, you will build the automated systems that verify and assure data...Full time
$320k - $405k
...Research Engineer, Economic Research Data PlatformSan Francisco, CAAbout AnthropicAnthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing...Work at officeVisa sponsorshipFlexible hours$200k - $400k
...Research EngineerAs a Research Engineer, you'll be responsible for building industry-leading conversational AI models that power Decagon's agent, and taking them all the way from idea to production. You'll own multi-quarter initiatives that push the agent's reliability...Work at officeLocal area- ...About PhonicPhonic is a product and research lab focused on powering the most realistic, human-like voice AI conversations. We've re-thought... ...raised over $30M from tier 1 VCs.About The RoleAs a Research Engineer at Phonic, you'll sit at the intersection of cutting-edge ML...Work at office
- ...Research EngineerLotus Health is a groundbreaking primary care app that integrates your medical records, AI, and real doctors to provide... ...and prescriptions.Our team includes ex-founders and engineers who have built and scaled consumer apps to millions of users,...
$122k - $215k
...Research EngineerWaabi, founded by AI visionary Raquel Urtasun, is the leader in Physical AI. With a world-class team, we're unlocking... ...candidates who 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
...agents, diffusion model training), second-time technical founders, engineers that made 100+ games for Voodoo, Supersonic, Sidemen and built... ...monetize highly engaging games & 3D environments. Our current research spans:Distributed multi-agent orchestration systems for...Visa sponsorshipRelocation package- ...Research EngineerHUD is building infrastructure to create RL training data and evals for frontier AI agents, as well as a marketplace to sell these to frontier labs through the HUD marketplace. Our platform is used by frontier labs, Fortune 500 companies, and startups...Full timeRemote workRelocationVisa sponsorship
- Anthropic in San Francisco seeks a Domain Scaling specialist to own end-to-end creation of reinforcement learning environments for new capabilities. You will identify high-value tasks, design reward signals, manage vendor relationships, and measure impact on model performance...
- ...Ando Research Team MemberAndo is a messaging platform where AI agents take on work alongside their human teammates. We're rebuilding Slack from the ground up around two core ideas: durable memory and agents as first-class participants.We have real, longitudinal, multi...Work from home
$180k - $340k
...Research EngineerYou'll own the quality of AI across everything Gamma creates. As our Research Engineer, you'll design evaluation frameworks that measure AI output quality, systematically improve production prompts, and fine-tune models to ensure millions of users get...Full timeWork at officeWork from home- ...tool founders, including the founder of Snyk and former CTO of GitHub.About The RoleWe're looking to hire someone to own inference research hands-on and find ways to lower cost per token and latency on our customer workloads.Low-level inference optimization, from...
$210k - $275k
...Research EngineerYou'll build the evaluation systems that tell us whether Firecrawl actually works. That sounds simple. It isn't. Our... ...decisions. If you care about what "good" actually means and have the engineering depth to measure it, this is the role.About FirecrawlFirecrawl...Full timeTemporary workFor contractorsRemote workFlexible hours- ...Research EngineerUnlock New Career Opportunities with SA Technologies Inc. We're Hiring: Research Engineer At SA Technologies Inc., we believe in turning career aspirations into reality... ...partnering with strategic project and technical leads to scope the work, building MVPs to...Full time
- ...software agents. We're the makers of Devin, the first AI software engineer.Our team is extremely talent-dense. Among our founding team, we... ...Devin and our future systems can do. This role blends deep research and hands-on engineering. We don't distinguish between the two....Shift work
$225k
...Research EngineerMagic's mission is to build safe AGI that accelerates humanity's progress on the world's most important problems. We... ...and inference-time compute to achieve this goal.As a Research Engineer, you'll work on training, evaluating, and serving large AI models...Relocation
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