Research Scientist GoodfireResearch ScientistSan Francisco, California$200,000–$400,000 / yearTreating models as black boxes is an unnecessary handicap—we have access to the structures inside them, and understanding those structures lets us steer what models learn, make them safer and more useful, and extract the vast knowledge they contain. Most importantly, you'll have the opportunity to join a vital mission at an important point in its trajectory — we are developing groundbreaking technology with a world-class team on the critical path to ensuring a safe and beneficial future for humanity.
Research Scientist, Agent Robustness Scale AI, Inc.Research Scientist, Agent RobustnessSan Francisco, CA$216,000–$270,000 / yearFor example, you might: Research the science of AI agent capabilities with a focus on how they relate to safety, risk factors, and methodologies for benchmarking them; Design and build harnesses to test AI agents' tendency to take harmful actions when pressured to do so by users or tricked into doing so by elements of their environment; Design and build exploits and mitigations for new and unique failure modes that arise as AI agents gain affordances like coding, web browsing, and computer use; Characterize and design mitigations for potential failure modes or broader risks of systems involving multiple interacting AI agents. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position and may be inclusive of several career levels at Scale; it will be determined during the interview process based on work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, qualifications, interview performance, and relevant education or training.
Research Engineer, Cybersecurity RL (Reinforcement Learning) AnthropicResearch Engineer, Cybersecurity RL (Reinforcement Learning)San Francisco, CAFor example, you might be a white hat hacker who's curious about how LLMs could augment or transform your work, a security engineer interested in how AI could help harden systems at scale, or a detection and response professional wondering how models could enhance defensive workflows. Your work will include designing and implementing RL environments, conducting experiments and evaluations, delivering your work into production training runs, and collaborating with other researchers, engineers, and cybersecurity specialists across and outside Anthropic.
Research Manager EmendataResearch ManagerSan Francisco, CaliforniaWith this approach, our small but fast-growing team is having a big impact taking on challenges in healthcare program integrity – safeguarding programs like Medicare and Medicaid by preventing fraud, waste, and abuse. Working Style : Able to produce high-quality work in a client-facing environment under dynamic circumstances; enterprising in acquiring knowledge and figuring out problems; disciplined/structured in approach to work.
Research Operations Lead, Biology AnthropicResearch Operations Lead, BiologySan Francisco, CAManage vendor and supplier relationships: including contract research organizations: source and qualify vendors, negotiate quotes and service contracts, schedule preventive maintenance and field-service visits, and hold suppliers to their commitments. This 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.
Research Scientist/Engineer, Biological Safety AnthropicResearch Scientist/Engineer, Biological SafetySan Francisco, CAAs a bio safety researcher, you will spend your time: designing and running capability evaluations against frontier models, generating and curating training data for our safety classifiers, training and iterating on those classifiers alongside our ML engineers, and measuring how they hold up against adversarial pressure in production traffic. The core technical tension you will own is precision: safeguards need to be robust against sophisticated actors while staying out of the way of the far larger population of legitimate researchers using Claude to accelerate life sciences work.
Research Engineer, Performance RL (Reinforcement Learning) AnthropicResearch Engineer, Performance RL (Reinforcement Learning)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. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.
Research Scientist, Interpretability AnthropicResearch Scientist, InterpretabilitySan Francisco, CAIn the short term, we have focused on resolving the issue of "superposition" (see Toy Models of Superposition, Superposition, Memorization, and Double Descent, and our May 2023 update), which causes the computational units of the models, like neurons and attention heads, to be individually uninterpretable, and on finding ways to decompose models into more interpretable components. A few places to learn more about our work and team at a high level are this introduction to Interpretability from our research lead, Chris Olah; a discussion of our work on the Hard Fork podcast produced by the New York Times, and this blog post (and accompanying video) sharing more about some of the engineering challenges we'd had to solve to get these results.
AI Operator - Research Programs DistylAI Operator - Research ProgramsSan Francisco, CA$140,000–$200,000 / yearThe strongest candidates have come from places where the job was to own hard outcomes under pressure - Founders, Chiefs of Staff, COOs, Delivery Managers, and operators from high-intensity environments. As a result, Distyl's technologies affect some of the world's largest operations - from hundreds of millions of consumer interactions to tens of millions of supply chain transactions and millions of patient journeys.
Research Scientist, Frontier Risk Evaluations Scale AI, Inc.Research Scientist, Frontier Risk EvaluationsSan Francisco, CA$216,000–$270,000 / yearFor example, you might do any or all of the following: Design and build harnesses to test AI models and systems (including agents) for dangerous capabilities such as security vulnerability exploitation, CBRN uplift, and other high-risk activities; Work with government agencies or other labs to collectively scope and design evaluations to measure and mitigate risks posed by advanced AI systems; Publish evaluation methodologies and write technical reports for policymakers. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position and may be inclusive of several career levels at Scale; it will be determined during the interview process based on work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, qualifications, interview performance, and relevant education or training.
Research Engineer, Chip Design RL (Reinforcement Learning) AnthropicResearch Engineer, Chip Design RL (Reinforcement Learning)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. You may be a good fit if you: Have expertise in ASIC or FPGA design: RTL, design verification (UVM, formal methods, coverage-driven), physical design (synthesis, place-and-route, timing closure), PPA optimization, DFT, ECOs.
Part-Time/Full-Time Research Panel. Entry Level. Receptionist Or Typist Welcome ApexFocusGroupPart-Time/Full-Time Research Panel. Entry Level. Receptionist Or Typist WelcomeOakland, CARemoteWe’re inviting individuals from all backgrounds, including those searching for entry level positions, such as, receptionist or typist roles, to express interest in joining upcoming consumer research studies. Research formats vary and may include focus groups (remote online or in-person), video interviews, product evaluations, or digital feedback sessions.
Research Program Manager MercorResearch Program ManagerSan Francisco, California$120,000–$200,000 / yearMercor Enterprise brings this same infrastructure to Fortune 500 companies: helping companies capture how their best people actually work, translating that expertise directly back into agents. You’ll work across research, operations, and marketing to ensure evaluations are executed rigorously, results are shared with the broader AI community, and new benchmarks launch smoothly.
Principal Research Scientist - Frontier Industrial AI AVEVA Group LtdPrincipal Research Scientist - Frontier Industrial AISan Leandro, CA$213,500–$355,500 / yearThis pay range represents the minimum and maximum compensation that the position offers, and final compensation can vary within the range depending on work location, job experience, skills, and relevant educational attainment and/or training. Our cutting-edge solutions are used by thousands of enterprises to deliver the essentials of life - such as energy, infrastructure, chemicals, and minerals - safely, efficiently, and more sustainably.
Member of Technical Staff - Research Emerald AIMember of Technical Staff - ResearchOakland, CaliforniaWe are looking for individuals who combine strong research skills with hands-on software engineering experience and are excited to develop production-quality infrastructure, large-scale prototypes, and experimental platforms that operate on thousands of GPUs. You will collaborate closely with your team mates, product, and customer teams to translate new ideas into deployed capabilities while publishing cutting-edge research that advances the state of the art in AI infrastructure.
Research Scientist, Agent Robustness Scale AI IncResearch Scientist, Agent RobustnessSan Francisco, CA$197,400–$246,750 / yearFor example, you might: Research the science of AI agent capabilities with a focus on how they relate to safety, risk factors, and methodologies for benchmarking them; Design and build harnesses to test AI agents' tendency to take harmful actions when pressured to do so by users or tricked into doing so by elements of their environment; Design and build exploits and mitigations for new and unique failure modes that arise as AI agents gain affordances like coding, web browsing, and computer use; Characterize and design mitigations for potential failure modes or broader risks of systems involving multiple interacting AI agents. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position, determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, interview performance, and relevant education or training.
Research Scientist, Safety Post Training Scale AI IncResearch Scientist, Safety Post TrainingSan Francisco, CA$216,000–$270,000 / yearThe range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position and may be inclusive of several career levels at Scale; it will be determined during the interview process based on work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, qualifications, interview performance, and relevant education or training. As a Research Scientist working on Safety Post-Training you will develop and apply post-training methods and interpretability techniques to make frontier AI systems safer, and better understood by researchers and policymakers.
Data Scientist / AI Scientist – AI for Aging Research – Zhou lab Buck InstituteData Scientist / AI Scientist – AI for Aging Research – Zhou labNovato, CAFull timeThis individual will help develop new computational methods, analyze complex imaging datasets, and work closely with experimental and computational researchers to generate insights from large-scale biological data. Prior experience in biological or biomedical imaging is helpful but not required for candidates with strong technical expertise and a genuine interest in applying frontier AI methods to major biological questions.
Research Associate I- Ramani Lab Gladstone InstitutesResearch Associate I- Ramani LabSan Francisco, CaliforniaThe Research Associate will specifically be responsible for (1) aiding with lab organization and ordering; (2) supporting the lab’s biochemistry pipeline for creating and characterizing chromatin in vitro through a combination of protein purification, molecular biology, and genomics data analysis, and (3) generatingsingle-cell and single-molecule sequencing libraries compatible with Illumina and PacBio sequencing platforms. ResearchAssociates will be expected to help build on recent studies from the lab have focused on understanding chromatin fiber structure in the contexts of regulated transcription and DNA replication (Ostrowski et al, Cell [2025]; Moore et al, Science [2025]; Yang et al, Nature [2026]).
Research Engineer AndoResearch EngineerSan Francisco, CaliforniaBuild evaluation from real data - Mine production workspace data (carefully, with consent and redaction pipelines you'll help design) into benchmarks and labeled datasets. Some concrete research problems on our plate right now: Proactivity: An agent embedded in a team's channels has to decide, message by message, whether to ignore, quietly track, or intervene.