Salary guide
| Measure | Annual pay (USD) |
|---|---|
| 25th percentile | $208,000 |
| Median | $208,000 |
| 75th percentile | $248,000 |
| Lowest listing | $130,000 |
| Highest listing | $320,000 |
| Listings counted | 22 |
| Company | Open listings | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA | 16 | $208,000 |
| Anduril Industries | 3 | $221,000 |
| Country | Currency | Listings | Median pay | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | USD | 21 | $208,000 | $208,000 to $248,000 |
EliseAI is seeking world-class experts in Machine Learning and related fields to strengthen our expansive research team.
Path-find technical innovations in Quantum Error Correction and Fault Tolerance, working with multi-functional teams in Product, Engineering, and Applied Research.
Research, design, and implement novel, large-scale generative AI methods. Publish original research. Collaborate with team members, research teams, as well as product teams. Speak at conferences and events. Transfer technology to product groups.
Design and architect AI/ML models—including deep neural networks, graph neural networks, transformers, and reinforcement-learning agents—for quantum error correction, syndrome decoding, logical operation synthesis, and real-time calibration in fault-tolerant quantum systems.
Research and develop open AI models for quantum system calibration to advance the state of the art and empower the quantum community to build on shared foundations.
Define a high-impact research agenda and lead projects that advance AI models and agents for cybersecurity and apply them to important security problems.
Define a high-impact research agenda and lead projects in AI-enabled secure system design, implementation, analysis, and verification.
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.
Anduril Industries · 10d ago
Anduril’s Senior 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.
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 create impactful solutions that make a difference.
We are looking for an Applied Research Scientist to join our computational engineering applied research team!
Developing algorithms, models, and methods for robotic manipulation and loco-manipulation, for both industrial and household applications;
Designing and implementing cutting-edge techniques in the field of vehicle autonomy. Publish and present your original research, speak at conferences and events. Collaborate with other research team members, a diverse set of internal product teams, and external researchers.
Conduct original research in the space of generative AI. Implement and train large-scale generative AI models for various content creation applications. Collaborate with other research team members, a diverse set of internal product teams, and external researchers.
Develop novel architectures and system software implementations to enable scalable multi-GPU platforms. Understand and analyze the interplay between operating systems, CPU and GPU architectures, and efficient algorithm designs.
Understand and analyze the potential vulnerabilities and risks in future systems for AI and AI-based systems. Develop creative hardware, software, and algorithms to enable trustworthy AI systems with strong and verifiable security, privacy, and safety guarantees.
Explore circuit approaches to optimizing processor computation and interconnect performance and power. Design and implement circuit approaches in prototype systems.
Design and implement novel AI algorithms and models for general-purpose humanoid robots and embodied agents; Develop large-scale AI training and inference methods for foundation models; Optimize and deploy AI models in physical simulation and on robot hardware;
Define and conduct original research across EDA algorithms, VLSI design methodology, and advanced machine learning techniques.
Researching and designing multimodal search and curation systems optimized for Physical AI data — video, lidar, radar, text, and more.
Anduril Industries · 10d ago
Anduril’s Senior 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.
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.
The median Senior Research Scientist salary in our $100k+ listings is $208,000 a year, based on 22 live USD listings. The middle half of listings pays $208,000 to $248,000. These figures cover only listings that publish a salary of $100k+ or more, so they sit above pay for Senior Research Scientist roles overall.
Individual $100k+ Senior Research Scientist listings range from $130,000 to $320,000 a year. The 25th percentile of listing midpoints is $208,000 and the 75th percentile is $248,000.
The companies with the most open $100k+ Senior Research Scientist listings are NVIDIA (16 listings, median $208,000) and Anduril Industries (3 listings, median $221,000).
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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