Research Scientist Jobs — $100k+

We're seeking a research scientist with deep expertise in therapeutic antibodies to join the team. Our goal is to speed up progress in the life sciences by an order of magnitude, and this role puts that mission into practice.

• Pays more than 76% of Research Scientist jobs
• 5+ years experience
• Degree or equivalent experience
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• Parental leave

The Human Flourishing team’s mission is to ensure AI systems understand and advance human flourishing. As AI becomes more capable and plays a larger role in people’s lives, we want its human benefits to grow with its capabilities.

• Pays more than 92% of Research Scientist jobs
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Buyers of business software increasingly need to know how well AI agents actually perform, not just what vendors claim. This is the most senior applied research role on that work, and it is hands-on.

• 2+ years experience
• Degree or equivalent experience
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Anduril’s Research Scientists excel at developing state-of-the art algorithms and software that solve scientific problems with real-world applications. Working in small innovative teams, our research scientists build solutions that make a difference.

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We're seeking a research scientist who combines deep chemistry knowledge with machine learning expertise to join the team. Our goal is to speed up progress in the life sciences by an order of magnitude, and this role puts that mission into practice.

• Pays more than 76% of Research Scientist jobs
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• Learning budget

The Foundations Research team works on high-risk, high-reward ideas that could shape the next decade of AI. Our goal is to advance the science and data that enable our training and scaling efforts, with a particular focus on future frontier models.

• Pays more than 97% of Research Scientist jobs
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The Foundations Research team works on high-risk, high-reward ideas that could shape the next decade of AI. Our goal is to advance the science and data that enable our training and scaling efforts, with a particular focus on future frontier models.

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Wonderlic is seeking a Senior Research Scientist to sit at the precise intersection of I-O psychology and machine learning - someone who has spent time building real systems with real data who cares deeply about what those systems are predicting.

• 3+ years experience
• Degree required
• Apply on 4dayweek

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• 401(k)
• Paid time off

Zillow has the richest housing market data in the industry. You help us build out a foundational model that leverages a representation of who is in the market, what they’ll pay, and how that demand clears against supply.

• Pays more than 99% of Research Scientist jobs
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You'll make Luma's multimodal models fast — profiling and optimizing GPU, CPU, and accelerator code so they train efficiently and deploy at scale without sacrificing quality. You'll write the kernels and operations that get the most out of the hardware.

• Pays more than 70% of Research Scientist jobs
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You'll build the distributed systems that train Luma's large-scale multimodal models across thousands of GPUs, so researchers can focus on innovation on top of reliable, efficient, scalable infrastructure.

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Drive research in agent post-training and reinforcement learning, shaping the technical direction of ambitious research programs grounded in observability and security.

• Pays more than 85% of Research Scientist jobs
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Drive research in foundation models, world models, and multimodal learning, shaping the technical direction of ambitious research programs grounded in observability.

• Pays more than 85% of Research Scientist jobs
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• Paid time off
• Wellness

As a Research Scientist at ClickHouse Labs, you will work on high-impact problems at the intersection of database systems, distributed systems, AI, and systems software engineering while collaborating with experienced researchers and engineers.

• Degree required
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• Unlimited PTO

• Pays more than 66% of Research Scientist jobs
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The team combines cutting-edge AI with hands-on biological research, positioning Anthropic at the forefront of AI-accelerated scientific discovery.

• Pays more than 76% of Research Scientist jobs
• Degree or equivalent experience
• Visa sponsorship
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As a Research Scientist at Mercor, you will work at the intersection of research and engineering on frontier post-training. You will develop new training and evaluation methods, test them through rigorous experiments, and implement successful approaches at scale.

• Pays more than 87% of Research Scientist jobs
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Anduril’s Research Scientists excel at developing state-of-the art algorithms and software that solve scientific problems with real-world applications. Working in small innovative teams, our research scientists build solutions that make a difference.

• Degree required
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Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes.

• 1–3 years experience
• Degree required
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Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes.

• 3+ years experience
• Degree required
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• 401(k)
• Pension
• Paid time off
• Parental leave

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.

• Pays more than 81% of Research Scientist jobs
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We are looking for Research Scientists and Research Engineers with expertise in LLM post-training (SFT, RLHF, reward modeling) and evaluation.

• Degree required
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The People Analytics team helps leaders make better, evidence-based talent decisions.

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Multimodal understanding: build vision-language systems that let Descript's agentic editing features reason over the visual and audio content of a project.

• Degree or equivalent experience
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• 401(k)
• Unlimited PTO
• Meals