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updated august 2026

Research Scientist Jobs in San Francisco (August 2026)

73 open Research Scientist positions in San Francisco as of August 2026, across 37 hiring companies — 16 of them remote-friendly. OpenAI leads with 13 openings. Listings are scraped daily from company career pages and ATS APIs; every role links straight to the official application page.

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Data Scientist (132)AI Engineer (106)Machine Learning Engineer (100)Data Engineer (61)Data Analyst (16)MLOps (14)Analytics Engineer (13) (5)
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Research Scientist, Agent Robustness

Scale AI·San Francisco, CA; New York, NY·On-site
Senior·Research Scientist·$216k – $270k
Machine learningRLHFDpoGrpo
3mo ago→
SA

Senior / Staff Machine Learning Research Scientist, Agents

Scale AI·San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; New York, NY·Hybrid
Senior·Research Scientist·$302k – $378k
PythonTensorFlowPyTorchReinforcement learning
3mo ago→
SA

Research Scientist, AI Controls and Monitoring

Scale AI·San Francisco, CA; New York, NY·On-site
Senior·Research Scientist·$216k – $270k
Machine learningPythonAnomaly detectionRuntime monitoring
3mo ago→
SA

Machine Learning Research Engineer, Agent Data Foundation - Enterprise GenAI

Scale AI·San Francisco, CA; New York, NY·On-site
Senior·Research Scientist·$250k – $350k
LLMsReinforcement learningPythonMachine learning
3mo ago→
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Senior Research Scientist

EliseAI·San Francisco·On-site
Senior·Research Scientist·$200k – $320k
LLMsAgentic AIWorkflow integrationNlp for domain specific applications
4mo ago→
E

Junior Research Scientist

EliseAI·San Francisco·On-site
Junior·Research Scientist·$150k – $230k
PythonMachine learningNatural language processingData pipelines
4mo ago→
A

Research Scientist - Post Training

AfterQuery·San Francisco·On-site
Mid·Research Scientist·$210k – $450k
Large language model data curationFoundation model evaluationData pipelinesDistributed computing
4mo ago→
RA

Research Scientist - LLM

Retell AI·San Francisco Bay Area·On-site
Mid·Research Scientist·$225k – $400k
LLMsVoice aiReinforcement learningNatural language processing
4mo ago→
RA

Research Scientist - Audio

Retell AI·San Francisco Bay Area·On-site
Mid·Research Scientist·$225k – $400k
Speech recognitionNatural language processingReinforcement learningCall center automation
4mo ago→
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Research Scientist

Latent·San Francisco·On-site
Senior·Research Scientist·$225k – $300k
Clinical natural language processingGraph neural networksLongitudinal patient data modelingExplainable ai
4mo ago→
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AI Research Scientist - United States

Flexion Robotics·San Francisco, California, United States·On-site
Senior·Research Scientist
Reinforcement learningHumanoid roboticsNeural network architecturesRobotics simulation
5mo ago→
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Post-Training Research Scientist

Baseten·San Francisco·On-site
Mid·Research Scientist·$210k – $285k
Post-training optimizationModel inference performanceApplied ai researchResearch-to-production translation
5mo ago→
CD

Research Scientist

Chai Discovery·San Francisco office·On-site
Senior·Research Scientist
LLMsDiffusion modelsBiochemical data modelingDeep learning architecture
5mo ago→
O

Data Scientist, Preparedness

OpenAI·San Francisco·On-site
Senior·Research Scientist·$347k – $400k
PythonMachine learningAi safetyRisk analysis
6mo ago→
ES

ML Research Scientist (Health & Sensing)

Eight Sleep·San Francisco·On-site
Mid·Research Scientist
Machine learningDeep learningTime seriesBiomedical signal processing
6mo ago→
O

Research Scientist

OpenEvidence·San Francisco, Miami·On-site
Senior·Research Scientist
Machine learning model developmentQuantitative evaluationEnd to end system designClinical ai applications
6mo ago→
C

Research Scientist

Cursor·San Francisco, New York·On-site
Senior·Research Scientist
Reinforcement learningPythonResearchMachine learning
7mo ago→
O

Research Engineer / Research Scientist- Personal AGI (Post Training)

OpenAI·San Francisco·On-site
Senior·Research Scientist·$295k – $555k
Machine learningReinforcement learningPythonDeep learning
9mo ago→
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Senior Research Scientist, Model Evaluation

Cohere·Toronto; San Francisco; Canada; Seattle; London; United States; New York·Hybrid
Senior·Research Scientist
PythonMachine learningModel evaluationDeep learning
10mo ago→
C

AI Research Scientist

Collate·San Francisco·On-site
Mid·Research Scientist·$391k – $215k
Natural language processingTransformer modelsBiomedical nlpDeep learning
11mo ago→
O

Research Engineer/Research Scientist, RL/Reasoning

OpenAI·San Francisco·On-site
Senior·Research Scientist·$295k – $445k
Reinforcement learningPythonMachine learningAi alignment
15mo ago→
O

Research Scientist

OpenAI·San Francisco·On-site
Senior·Research Scientist·$250k – $445k
Machine learningPythonResearchCollaboration
17mo ago→
PI

Research Scientist

Physical Intelligence·San Francisco·On-site
Research Scientist
Machine learningRoboticsAlgorithm designSystem architecture
24mo ago→

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Methodology: live Research Scientist listings whose location includes San Francisco, sourced daily from company career pages and ATS APIs. Multi-office roles appear under every listed location.