Head of Data Acquisition Radical NumericsHead of Data AcquisitionSan Francisco, CaliforniaWorking fluency in the regulatory and privacy regime for health and genomic data (HIPAA, GDPR, and the NIH controlled-access framework), including enough command of the constraints on AI/model development to tell early which data is worth pursuing and which is effectively unusable. You will then travel globally to meet researchers, hospital systems, national biobanks, sequencing centers, and pharmaceutical partners face-to-face, building relationships that allow Radical Numerics to access these datasets.
Member of Technical Staff, Distributed Systems Radical NumericsMember of Technical Staff, Distributed SystemsSan Francisco, CaliforniaYou should care about how every layer of the cluster affects research velocity: provisioning and capacity, scheduling and multi-tenancy, storage and lineage, communication overhead, observability, and the reliability of long-running jobs across thousands of accelerators. Partner closely with model researchers and training scientists to unblock large-scale runs, advise on parallelism and performance trade-offs, and design systems that support new scientific directions rather than constrain them.
Member of Technical Staff, Infrastructure and Training Systems Radical NumericsMember of Technical Staff, Infrastructure and Training SystemsSan Francisco, CaliforniaWe believe biological world models will require not only strong research ideas, but exceptional training and inference systems: infrastructure that makes large-scale experimentation efficient, reproducible, and robust enough to support rapid scientific iteration. Build and optimize distributed training infrastructure for large-scale biological world models across large distributed compute systems, with a focus on performance, stability, and scalability.
Product Designer, ICHRA Oscar HealthProduct Designer, ICHRASan Francisco, CARemote$123,372–$161,925.75 / yearPartnering closely with a Senior Product Designer in this space, you will collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, engineers, research, data and operational stakeholders to take features from discovery through delivery while driving a consistent, scalable, and intuitive experience across the entire Lucie suite. The ideal candidate brings a strong visual design portfolio and a proven track record of designing complex enterprise software, data-intensive platforms, or workforce management tools.
Research Scientist - Computational Neuroscience Astera InstituteResearch Scientist - Computational NeuroscienceEmeryville, CaliforniaUnlike traditional non-profit research organizations, projects supported by Astera operate like high-velocity startups, allowing us to focus on ambitious goals, match structure to problem, and attract strong technical talent and leadership. We believe the coming years will bring an era of unprecedented scientific and technological advancement as exponential progress in AI converges with central advances in other fields to dramatically accelerate innovation.
Research Scientist - World Model LumaResearch Scientist - World ModelRedwood City, CaliforniaLuma already trains the strongest generative video models in the industry; the next step is turning those models into world models — interactive, controllable, physically faithful, and useful as a substrate for embodied reasoning. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Invent next-generation world model architectures — diffusion, transformer, autoregressive, or hybrid — with a particular focus on controllability and physical consistency.
Applied Research Scientist - Foundation Models Ambient.aiApplied Research Scientist - Foundation ModelsRedwood City, CaliforniaPowered by Ambient Pulsar, the first reasoning Vision-Language Model purpose-built for physical security, our platform seamlessly integrates with existing security cameras and physical access control systems to unify monitoring, access control, threat assessment, response, and investigations through an always-on reasoning layer that augments security operators with superhuman capabilities. The momentum speaks for itself: we doubled new ARR in FY26, we process 200M+ video hours per day, and have delivered results for world-class customers including Cisco, ServiceNow, SentinelOne, TikTok, Bayer, and MoMA.
NewResearch Scientist, Materials Characterization Periodic LabsResearch Scientist, Materials CharacterizationMenlo Park, California$225,000–$325,000 / yearYou will own the design and execution of high-fidelity property measurements, drive the development of high-throughput characterization schemes, and collaborate closely with AI, automation, and materials science teams to build feedback loops that accelerate discovery. In collaboration with the AI team, implement automated data analysis and reasoning pipelines for screened materials; contribute to feedback loop design between measurement and prediction.
NewResearch Scientist / Engineer, Functional Ultrasound Imaging Astera InstituteResearch Scientist / Engineer, Functional Ultrasound ImagingAlameda, CaliforniaThe tools this requires do not yet exist, so we are assembling a founding team of experimental neuroscientists, computational scientists, and engineers to build them, from recording and interface hardware to software and computational methods, and to use them to study neural activity at unprecedented scale, with direct promise for treating neurological and psychiatric disease. From implementing the imaging system and designing experiments to analyzing large-scale datasets and building functional brain atlases, you'll help create one of the world's most advanced platforms for mesoscale imaging of the primate brain.
NewHybrid | Senior Biochemistry & Life Sciences Research Scientist — $55–$95/hour 24-MagHybrid | Senior Biochemistry & Life Sciences Research Scientist — $55–$95/hourSan Francisco, CaliforniaWe are sharing a specialised full-time opportunity for senior life sciences researchers with deep expertise in biochemistry, molecular and cell biology, genetics, immunology, neuroscience, structural biology, or related research disciplines. Clear progression into senior research responsibility, such as Senior Scientist, Staff Scientist, Research Scientist, Instructor, Principal Investigator , faculty member, or comparable level.
Research Scientist, Applied Science GenBio AIResearch Scientist, Applied SciencePalo Alto, CaliforniaProven track record in research and innovation demonstrated through contributions in top-tier AI/ML (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, ICLR) and/or core biology (e.g., Nature, Science, or Cell) journals and conferences. The successful candidate will contribute to model development, lead computational discovery efforts in collaboration with external partners, and help translate research advances into impactful outcomes.
Research Scientist, Data Periodic LabsResearch Scientist, DataMenlo Park, California$250,000–$350,000 / yearYou will work with computational and experimental scientists to translate complex scientific workflows into rigorous evaluations and agentic benchmarks, and partner with pretraining, midtraining, and reinforcement learning researchers to identify the data models needed, then build the datasets, environments, and pipelines to deliver it. This means constructing cutting-edge evaluations based on advanced scientific use cases, sourcing and procuring external datasets, integrating internally generated experimental data into the training stack, constructing training environments for RL.
Research Scientist / Engineer – Reinforcement Learning Infrastructure LumaResearch Scientist / Engineer – Reinforcement Learning InfrastructureRedwood City, CaliforniaThe RL Infrastructure team builds the systems that make this possible at scale: high-throughput distributed training that couples policy optimization with large fleets of inference workers, environments that expose models to realistic multi-step tasks, and the reward, verification, and evaluation systems that turn model behavior into learning signal. Advance RL training efficiency and stability: sequence packing for long multi-turn trajectories, KV cache reuse across rollouts, curriculum and task sampling, and resource scheduling across heterogeneous training/inference workloads.
Sr. Research Associate/Associate Scientist, Protein Biochemistry AllakosSr. Research Associate/Associate Scientist, Protein BiochemistryRedwood City, CaliforniaSenior Research Associate/Associate Scientist, Protein Biochemistry Allakos Inc. is a clinical-stage company developing therapeutic antibodies for inhibitory receptors on the surface of immune effector cells involved in allergic, inflammatory and proliferative diseases. Position Summary: We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Research Associate/Associate Scientist with a strong background in protein biochemistry to join our R&D team.
Scientist/Senior Scientist, Stem Cell/Ipsc Research-Foster City, CA (San Francisco Bay Area) IlluminaScientist/Senior Scientist, Stem Cell/Ipsc Research-Foster City, CA (San Francisco Bay Area)Foster City, CA$113,300–$169,900 / yearIllumina's leadership position in the generation and analysis of human genetic data enables us to pursue a unique human genetics-first approach to target discovery, supported by a multidisciplinary team of dedicated experimental scientists, statistical geneticists, and deep learning engineers working collaboratively to validate therapeutic hypotheses. The successful candidate is expected to pursue novel approaches to study a broad range of different disease indications using high throughput functional genomics strategies in a variety of human IPSC systems, with a focus on identification and validation of therapeutic targets and next-generation biomarkers.
Research Scientist LVISResearch ScientistPalo Alto, CA$120,000–$140,000 / yearLVIS Corporation is on a mission to revolutionize the entire continuum of neurological care by developing AI driven software tools to help physicians accelerate patient throughput and improve patient diagnostic and treatment outcomes. We have an international team with our headquarters located in Palo Alto, California, USA, and we have an office in Gangnam, Seoul, South Korea.
AI Research Scientist - PhD MercorAI Research Scientist - PhDSan Francisco, CaliforniaRemote$55–$80 / hourPhD or advanced degree (or equivalent industry experience) in Medicine , Healthcare , Statistics , Data Science , AI/ML Research , Computer Science , Game Development , or Mechanical/Aerospace Engineering . Contribute subject matter expertise to a cutting-edge project with state-of-the-art large language models .
Member of Technical Staff - Research Scientist Kinetic SystemsMember of Technical Staff - Research ScientistSan Francisco, CaliforniaYou'll be joining an energetic, early-stage startup environment and have ownership across the full stack of what we do: product, research, training, evals, and infrastructure. Our mission is to advance the capabilities of frontier models for solving clinically and economically meaningful healthcare tasks.
Research Engineer / Scientist, Frontier Red Team (Cyber) AnthropicResearch Engineer / Scientist, Frontier Red Team (Cyber)San Francisco, CAThis research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences. Develop systems, tools, and frameworks for AI-empowered cybersecurity, such as autonomous vulnerability discovery and remediation, malware detection and management, network hardening, and pentesting.
Research Scientist / Engineer – Training Infrastructure LumaResearch Scientist / Engineer – Training InfrastructureRedwood City, CaliforniaThe Training Infrastructure team at Luma is responsible for building and maintaining the distributed systems that enable training of our large-scale multimodal models across thousands of GPUs. Research and implement advanced parallelization techniques (FSDP, Tensor Parallel, Pipeline Parallel, Expert Parallel).