Salary guide
| Company | Open listings | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| Zillow Group | 6 | $160,000 |
| Upstart | 3 | $200,000 |
| Garner Health | 3 | $174,000 |
| Country | Currency | Listings | Median pay | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | USD | 19 | $197,000 | $165,000 to $242,000 |
Develop, evaluate, and productionize applied science solutions that address complex business and customer problems across Expedia Group. Translate ambiguous product and business needs into well-defined scientific approaches, measurable outcomes, and deployable solutions.
The Discovery team at Anthropic is organized around the north star goal of building an AI scientist – a system capable of solving the long-term reasoning challenges and basic capabilities necessary to push the scientific and technological frontier.
We are seeking an exceptional Staff Applied Researcher to join our Applied Science team.
Define the scientific roadmap for Data Science Platform across agentic analytics, causal inference and forecasting, identifying opportunities where advances in methodology can improve decision-making at scale across Reddit. Research, evaluate, and implement emerging methods.
The team conducts machine learning research, evaluates model performance, and partners closely with Engineering teams to translate promising ideas into scalable model improvements.
Nebius Token Factory is looking for scientists who can turn frontier LLM and VLM inference bottlenecks into research questions, conduct rigorous experiments, and translate their findings into production capabilities.
The Advertiser Optimization team is the decision-making engine of Instacart's $1B+ ads business. We own the systems responsible for Bidding, Pacing, Budgeting, and Targeting: converting stated advertiser goals into real-time auction actions.
As a Staff Applied Scientist on the Discovery team, you'll own how Faire measures and optimizes the long-term value of a discovery impression — one of the highest-leverage open problems on our marketplace.
The team is building data-informed approaches across areas such as collections, loan assistance, payment experiences, and borrower communications, with a meaningful opportunity to apply machine learning to problems that have often been addressed manually.
We are looking for an Applied Scientist to solve challenging and open-ended problems in the domain of Creators and content contextual signals.
The team conducts machine learning research, evaluates model performance, and partners closely with engineering teams to translate promising ideas into scalable model improvements.
The Agentic Foundations team is a focused group of 15–20 applied scientists within Zillow’s broader Agentic AI organization, building the foundational AI technologies that power the next generation of home shopping experiences.
The Agentic Foundations team is a focused group of 15–20 applied scientists within Zillow's broader Agentic AI organization, building the foundational AI technologies that power the next generation of home shopping experiences.
We are seeking an exceptional Applied Scientist to join our Applied Science team. In this role, you will design, develop, and deploy the algorithmic systems that power Garner's products and drive meaningful impact for our members.
The Shopping AI team is at the heart of Zillow Group’s mission to create a seamless digital real estate marketplace.
The Agentic AI team at Zillow is at the forefront of transforming the real estate industry by helping millions of people use AI assistants to find their next home.
The Agentic Foundations team is a focused group of 15–20 applied scientists within Zillow's broader Agentic AI organization, building the foundational AI technologies that power the next generation of home shopping experiences.
Ship production algorithmic systems end-to-end, from problem framing to launch to iteration. Frame messy, real-world healthcare and business constraints into clear objectives, tradeoffs, and decision frameworks.
Join our dynamic team, leveraging a comprehensive database of over 100 million homes, transactions, and users to predict and analyze housing market trends.
We do not publish a Applied Scientist median yet: it needs at least 20 live USD listings and we currently have 19. This page covers only listings paying $100k+ or more.
The companies with the most open $100k+ Applied Scientist listings are Zillow Group (6 listings, median $160,000), Upstart (3 listings, median $200,000) and Garner Health (3 listings, median $174,000).
The figures come from the salary ranges employers publish in their own job listings, collected from company career pages and applicant-tracking systems. Each listing counts once, at the midpoint of its range. Only USD listings go into the headline figures, and listings that are closed or stale are removed. The data was last refreshed on November 12, 2026.
Yes. Each listing is tagged remote, hybrid or on-site, and remote roles carry a region (US only, EMEA, APAC or global), so you can filter the live job list to the arrangement you want.
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