Top 10 Remote Research Scientist Hiring Companies (October 2026)

1. #1

   SC

   Stevens Capital Management LP

   10 open Research Scientist roles·Remote-friendly (10/10 remote)
   Senior Quantitative Researcher Futures - RemoteRemote·$150k – $300k·May 24Senior Quantitative Researcher FuturesRemote·$150k – $300k·May 24Senior Quantitative Researcher Equities - RemoteRemote·$150k – $300k·May 24Senior Quantitative Researcher EquitiesRemote·$150k – $300k·May 24Quantitative Researcher - Portfolio Optimization - RemoteRemote·$150k – $300k·May 24
   All 10 Stevens Capital Management LP roles →
2. #2

   E

   Elastic

   6 open Research Scientist roles·Remote-friendly (6/6 remote)
   Senior Security Research Engineer, SONAR (Security Operations and Novel Adversary Research)Remote·$133k – $211k·Sep 10Senior Security Research Engineer, SONAR (Security Operations and Novel Adversary Research)Remote·$128k – $203k·Sep 10Senior Security Research Engineer, SONAR (Security Operations and Novel Adversary Research)Remote·Sep 10Senior Security Research EngineerRemote·$128k – $203k·Sep 10Senior Security Research EngineerRemote·Sep 10
   All 6 Elastic roles →
3. #3

   MA

   Mistral AI

   5 open Research Scientist roles·Remote-friendly (5/5 remote)
   Research Engineer - Eval PlatformRemote·Oct 8LLM Scientist, AI for ScienceRemote·Oct 6Applied Science - Research Engineer (Robotics)Remote·Sep 25Research Engineer - Cybersecurity (RL Environments)Remote·Sep 25Applied ScientistRemote·Aug 3
4. #4

   SA

   Scale AI

   5 open Research Scientist roles·Remote-friendly (5/5 remote)
   Research Scientist, Safety Post TrainingRemote·$216k – $270k·May 18Senior / Staff Machine Learning Research Scientist, AgentsRemote·$302k – $378k·May 8Machine Learning Fellow - Human Frontier Collective (US)Remote·May 8Machine Learning Fellow - Human Frontier Collective (UK)Remote·May 8Machine Learning Fellow - Human Frontier Collective (Canada)Remote·May 8
5. #5

   N

   NVIDIA

   4 open Research Scientist roles·Remote-friendly (4/4 remote)
   Research Intern, Efficient Deep Learning - 2027Remote·Oct 5Principal Research Scientist, Synthetic Data GenerationRemote·Sep 4Senior Applied Research Scientist, Data CurationRemote·Aug 27Senior Research Engineer - Enterprise ProductsRemote·Jul 10
6. #6

   P

   Profluent

   4 open Research Scientist roles·Remote-friendly (4/4 remote)
   Lead Scientist / Associate Director, Bioinformatics and Data ScienceRemote·$205k – $246k·Sep 10Machine Learning Scientist, Reinforcement LearningRemote·$200k – $330k·Aug 3Machine Learning Scientist, PretrainingRemote·$200k – $330k·Aug 3Machine Learning Scientist, BioMLRemote·$200k – $330k·Aug 3
7. #7

   T

   Tempus

   4 open Research Scientist roles·Remote-friendly (4/4 remote)
   Staff AI Scientist, Foundation ModelsRemote·$220k – $260k·Sep 13Manager, BiostatisticsRemote·$130k – $210k·Sep 10Senior AI Scientist, AI Products / Life SciencesRemote·$140k – $200k·Aug 25Staff AI Scientist - AI Products / Life SciencesRemote·$220k – $260k·Aug 10
8. #8

   A

   Anthropic

   3 open Research Scientist roles·Remote-friendly (3/3 remote)
   Anthropic Fellows Program, ML Systems & Reinforcement LearningRemote·Sep 8Research Engineer/Research Scientist, Pre-trainingRemote·$350k – $850k·Aug 3People Research Scientist, RecruitingRemote·$285k – $380k·Aug 3
9. #9

   F

   Freenome

   3 open Research Scientist roles·Remote-friendly (3/3 remote)
   Senior BiostatisticianRemote·$140k – $200k·Sep 24Senior Bioinformatics Research EngineerRemote·$162k – $227k·Aug 31Staff Machine Learning ScientistRemote·$200k – $284k·Aug 6
10. #10

    S

    SandboxAQ

    3 open Research Scientist roles·Remote-friendly (3/3 remote)
    Senior Research Scientist, MagnetsRemote·$168k – $252k·Sep 21Research Scientist, Homogeneous Catalyst SimulationRemote·$168k – $252k·Jul 31Staff Materials Research Scientist, PFAS Alternative DiscoveryRemote·$204k – $306k·Jul 24

Methodology: companies are ranked by number of live Research Scientist listings marked remote on our board, updated daily. No sponsored placements.