Top 10 Research Scientist Hiring Companies in the USA (October 2026)

1. #1

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   AbbVie

   37 open Research Scientist roles·On-site mostly (1/37 remote)
   Senior Scientist I-II, ML Molecular OptimizationNorth Chicago, IL, United States·Oct 8Senior Research Statistician - Exploratory Analysis (Hybrid)North Chicago, IL, United States·Oct 7Senior Research Statistician - Exploratory Analysis (Hybrid)South San Francisco, CA, United States·Oct 7Senior Research Statistician - Exploratory Analysis (Hybrid)Remote·Oct 7Senior Research Statistician - Exploratory Analysis (Hybrid)Florham Park, NJ, United States·Oct 7
   All 37 AbbVie roles →
2. #2

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   NVIDIA

   18 open Research Scientist roles·On-site mostly (4/18 remote)
   Research Intern, Efficient Deep Learning - 2027Remote·Oct 5Senior Deep Learning Scientist, Multimodal Agentic RLUS, CA, Santa Clara·Oct 2Senior Deep Learning Scientist, Multimodal Agentic RLUS, CA, Santa Clara·Oct 2Research Scientist, Fundamental Generative AI - New College Grad 2026US, CA, Santa Clara·Sep 29Principal Research Scientist, Synthetic Data GenerationRemote·Sep 4
   All 18 NVIDIA roles →
3. #3

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   Point72

   18 open Research Scientist roles·On-site mostly (1/18 remote)
   Research Engineer, Knowledge Graph IntelligenceNew York, NY·$175k – $250k·Aug 21Summer 2027 Quantitative Research InternshipNew York·$240k – $300k·Aug 3Quantitative Research Intern (NLP)New York·Aug 3Quantitative Research InternNew York, Seattle·Aug 3Quantitative Researcher, Trading Research New York·$125k – $200k·Aug 3
   All 18 Point72 roles →
4. #4

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   Bosch Group

   16 open Research Scientist roles·On-site mostly (1/16 remote)
   Senior Research Scientist- Vision-Language-Action (VLA) ModelsSunnyvale, CA, United States·$185k – $215k·Sep 29Research Scientist- Vision-Language-Action (VLA) ModelsSunnyvale, CA, United States·$165k – $185k·Sep 29Senior Research Scientist- Robotics AISunnyvale, CA, United States·$185k – $215k·Sep 29Research Scientist- Robotics AISunnyvale, CA, United States·$165k – $185k·Sep 29Research Scientist – Molecular DiagnosticsSunnyvale, CA, United States·$150k – $170k·Sep 29
   All 16 Bosch Group roles →
5. #5

   SC

   Stevens Capital Management LP

   16 open Research Scientist roles·Partially remote (10/16 remote)
   Senior Quantitative Researcher Futures - RemoteRemote·$150k – $300k·May 24Senior Quantitative Researcher Futures - Jersey City, NJJersey City, NJ·$150k – $300k·May 24Senior Quantitative Researcher FuturesRemote·$150k – $300k·May 24Senior Quantitative Researcher Equities - RemoteRemote·$150k – $300k·May 24Senior Quantitative Researcher Equities - Jersey City, NJJersey City, NJ·$150k – $300k·May 24
   All 16 Stevens Capital Management LP roles →
6. #6

   SI

   Susquehanna International Group

   14 open Research Scientist roles·On-site mostly (0/14 remote)
   Machine Learning Researcher - PhD: 2027Bala Cynwyd (Philadelphia Area), Pennsylvania·Jul 23Machine Learning Researcher - PhD: 2027New York, New York·Jul 23Quantitative Research Internship - PhD: Summer 2027New York, New York·Jun 29Quantitative Research Internship – Master's: Summer 2027New York, New York·Jun 29Quantitative Systematic Trading Internship - PhD: Summer 2027New York, New York·Jun 29
   All 14 Susquehanna International Group roles →
7. #7

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   Anthropic

   13 open Research Scientist roles·On-site mostly (2/13 remote)
   Staff Research Engineer, Multi-Agent ScalingSan Francisco, CA·$500k – $850k·Oct 2Research Engineer / Research Scientist, RL FrontiersSan Francisco, CA·$500k – $850k·Sep 29Research Scientist, Multi-AgentSan Francisco, CA·$500k – $850k·Sep 24Research Scientist, Life Sciences (Experimental Biology)San Francisco, CA·$300k – $320k·Sep 22Research Engineer, InterpretabilitySan Francisco, CA·$315k – $560k·Aug 21
   All 13 Anthropic roles →
8. #8

   IO

   Institute of Foundation Models

   11 open Research Scientist roles·On-site mostly (0/11 remote)
   Research Scientist – World Modeling, DataSunnyvale, CA·Sep 4Research Scientist, Agentic Data & BenchmarkingSunnyvale, CA·Jun 8Research Scientist - Vision Language ModelSunnyvale, CA·May 29Research Engineer - The Diffusion LLM TeamSunnyvale, CA·Apr 27Research Scientist - AgentsSunnyvale, CA·Jan 13
   All 11 Institute of Foundation Models roles →
9. #9

   JC

   JPMorgan Chase

   11 open Research Scientist roles·On-site mostly (0/11 remote)
   Quantitative Trading & Research - FX Quantitative Trading - AssociateNew York, NY, United States·Oct 8Risk Management - Wholesale Quantitative Research, AssociateJersey City, NJ, United States·Oct 7Quantitative Trading & Research - Residential Finance - AssociateNew York, NY, United States·Oct 5Quantitative Trading & Research - Energy - Executive DirectorNew York, NY, United States·Sep 25Quantitative Trading & Research - Energy - Vice PresidentNew York, NY, United States·Sep 25
   All 11 JPMorgan Chase roles →
10. #10

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    MSD

    11 open Research Scientist roles·On-site mostly (0/11 remote)
    Associate Scientist, Postdoctoral Fellow – AI/ML and Agentic AI for Drug DiscoveryUSA - California - South San Francisco (Grand Ave)·$82k – $92k·Oct 8Senior Data Scientist, Predictive Immune Biomarker Foundation ModelsUSA - Massachusetts - Cambridge (320 Bent Street)·$145k – $228k·Oct 5Associate Director, Quantitative Pharmacology & Pharmacometrics - Mechanistic Modeling, ImmunologyUSA - Pennsylvania - West Point·$157k – $247k·Oct 1Postdoctoral Researcher – Integrative Genetics and Multi-Omics Data ScienceUSA - Massachusetts - Cambridge (320 Bent Street)·$82k – $92k·Sep 30Associate Scientist, Post Doc Fellow- AI/ML & Computational Biology for Antigen DesignUSA - Pennsylvania - West Point·$82k – $92k·Sep 30
    All 11 MSD roles →

Methodology: companies are ranked by number of live Research Scientist listings located in the USA on our board, updated daily. No sponsored placements.