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updated october 2026

Research Scientist Jobs in San Francisco (October 2026)

120 open Research Scientist positions in San Francisco as of October 2026, across 65 hiring companies — 23 of them remote-friendly. Anthropic leads with 14 openings. Listings are updated daily, and every role links straight to the employer's official application page.

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Senior Research Scientist

EliseAI·San Francisco·On-site
Senior·Research Scientist·$200k – $320k
LLMsAgentic AIWorkflow integrationNlp for domain specific applications
5mo ago→
E

Junior Research Scientist

EliseAI·San Francisco·On-site
Junior·Research Scientist·$150k – $230k
PythonMachine learningNatural language processingData pipelines
5mo 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
6mo ago→
L

Research Scientist

Latent·San Francisco·On-site
Senior·Research Scientist·$225k – $300k
Clinical natural language processingGraph neural networksLongitudinal patient data modelingExplainable ai
6mo ago→
B

Post-Training Research Scientist

Baseten·San Francisco·On-site
Mid·Research Scientist·$210k – $285k
Post-training optimizationModel inference performanceApplied ai researchResearch-to-production translation
6mo ago→
AA

Scientist, Machine Learning

Atomic AI·South San Francisco, California, United States·On-site
Senior·Research Scientist·$170k
PythonPyTorchTensorFlowDeep learning
7mo ago→
CD

Research Scientist

Chai Discovery·San Francisco office·On-site
Senior·Research Scientist
LLMsDiffusion modelsBiochemical data modelingDeep learning architecture
7mo ago→
O

Data Scientist, Preparedness

OpenAI·San Francisco·On-site
Senior·Research Scientist·$347k – $400k
PythonMachine learningAi safetyRisk analysis
7mo ago→
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Research Scientist: Pretraining

Generalist·San Francisco Bay Area (San Mateo) or Boston (Somerville)·On-site
Senior·Research Scientist·$240k – $350k
Embodied foundation modelsMultimodal learningVision-language-actionRobotics hardware integration
8mo ago→
O

Research Scientist

OpenEvidence·San Francisco, Miami·On-site
Senior·Research Scientist
Machine learning model developmentQuantitative evaluationEnd to end system designClinical ai applications
8mo ago→
C

Research Scientist

Cursor·San Francisco, New York·On-site
Senior·Research Scientist
Reinforcement learningPythonResearchMachine learning
8mo ago→
O

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

OpenAI·San Francisco·On-site
Senior·Research Scientist·$295k – $555k
Machine learningReinforcement learningPythonDeep learning
10mo ago→
A

Machine Learning Researcher

Alljoined·San Francisco·On-site
Mid·Research Scientist·$140k – $250k
EegDeep learningNeural decodingMachine learning
11mo ago→
C

Senior Research Scientist, Model Evaluation

Cohere·Toronto; San Francisco; Canada; Seattle; London; United States; New York·Hybrid
Senior·Research Scientist
PythonMachine learningModel evaluationDeep learning
11mo ago→
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Machine Learning Research Scientist

Sentra·San Francisco / Bay Area·On-site
Senior·Research Scientist·$120k – $300k
LLMsKnowledge graph constructionTemporal reasoningSemantic compression
12mo ago→
C

AI Research Scientist

Collate·San Francisco·On-site
Mid·Research Scientist·$391k – $215k
Natural language processingTransformer modelsBiomedical nlpDeep learning
13mo ago→
LA

Research Scientist

Lead Allies Inc·San Francisco·Hybrid
Senior·Research Scientist
Preference modelingExperimental designAi model evaluationHuman-in-the-loop ml
16mo ago→
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Research Engineer/Research Scientist, RL/Reasoning

OpenAI·San Francisco·On-site
Senior·Research Scientist·$295k – $445k
Reinforcement learningPythonMachine learningAi alignment
17mo ago→
O

Research Scientist

OpenAI·San Francisco·On-site
Senior·Research Scientist·$250k – $445k
Machine learningPythonResearchCollaboration
18mo ago→
PI

Research Scientist

Physical Intelligence·San Francisco·On-site
Research Scientist
Machine learningRoboticsAlgorithm designSystem architecture
25mo ago→

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