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Principal Scientist / Associate Director, Agentic AI Research for Materials Science Lila Sciences

San Francisco, Massachusetts

$288,000–$420,000 / year

Full-time U.S. employees receive a comprehensive benefits program including medical, dental, and vision coverage; employer-paid life and disability insurance; flexible time off with generous company wide holidays; paid parental leave; an educational assistance program; commuter benefits, including bike share memberships for office based employees; and a company subsidized lunch program. LILA combines advanced AI models with proprietary AI Science Factory instruments into an operating system for science that executes the entire scientific method autonomously, accelerating discovery at unprecedented speed, scale, and impact across medicine, materials, and energy.

30+ days ago

Research Engineer / Scientist, Data & Evals Harvey

San Francisco, California

We’re looking for research engineers who can build reliable data and evaluation systems, question what a metric actually tells us, and work closely with researchers and legal experts to turn model failures into measurable improvements. Build and maintain capability benchmarks like our Legal Agent Benchmark (LAB), along with product-focused evals that track how models perform on real customer workflows.

2 days ago

Research & Business Scientist Kaneka Pharma America LLC

Newark, CA

Specific responsibilities include enzyme screening, development of enzyme-based processes, enzyme engineering through genetic engineering, development of cultivation methods using genetically modified microorganisms, development of analytical methods, scale-up studies utilizing external resources, and evaluation of new enzyme-related technologies. In addition, this position collaborates closely with internal R&D personnel, customer-facing staff, experimental equipment suppliers, raw material suppliers, and external technical service providers to execute experimental research effectively.

2 days ago

Lead Technical Recruiter - Research Harvey

San Francisco, California

You’ll partner closely with our Chief Research Officer and technical leadership to build the team from the ground up, initially focused on post-training talent across data and evaluations, infrastructure, and modeling and training. You’ll own searches end-to-end, develop talent strategies for highly specialized AI talent markets, and help define how we identify and attract exceptional technical talent as Harvey Labs scales.

29 days ago

Research Analyst Food Impact Partners

San Francisco, California

We co-found new companies through our venture studio and back external ones through our investment portfolio, on a simple thesis: the most durable welfare gains come from solutions the industry actually wants to adopt; technologies that align animal welfare and producer profitability by design. Data and organization: gather, clean, and organize data from public sources, reports, and interviews; help keep our internal trackers and research library current.

29 days ago

Member of Research Staff, Optimization The Voleon Group

Berkeley, California

Your research colleagues have collectively published hundreds of academic articles in top-tier venues on machine learning, systems, and theory, and we meet regularly to stay current on the latest academic research and share ideas. In addition to our enriching and collegial working environment, we offer highly competitive compensation and benefits packages, technology talks by our experts, a beautiful modern office, daily catered lunches, and more.

14 days ago

Senior Member of Research Staff, Optimization The Voleon Group

Berkeley, California

Your research colleagues have collectively published hundreds of academic articles in top-tier venues on machine learning, systems, and theory, and we meet regularly to stay current on the latest academic research and share ideas. 5-10+ years of related experience in numerical methods, optimization solvers, mathematical programming, convex &/or nonconvex optimization directing key research projects and mentoring colleagues.

14 days ago

Research Scientist idler

San Francisco, California

Our approach to creating training data scales using technology, and all of our data products are built on a unified self-reinforcing platform that learns through experience. Work with our customers — researchers at frontier labs — to design novel post-training recipes and data quality measurement techniques.

30+ days ago

Research Engineer, Multimodal Data Eventual

San Francisco, California

Eventual runs vision/language models and pipelines over every clip in a corpus along axes the customer cares about (gripper type, failure mode, object class, scene, motion density), so a researcher can ask "left-arm grasp failures on deformable objects" and get a curated dataset in minutes. You'll define the roadmap for our visual understanding capabilities, train and select the models that make corpus-scale annotation tractable at single-digit cents per hour of video, and build the rich datasets that go on to train customer models.

30+ days ago

Research Engineer / Scientist, Reinforcement Learning Harvey

San Francisco, California

$230,000–$450,000 / year

We’re looking for research engineers and scientists who have gotten training runs working at scale, are immersed in RL for language models, and want their work to reach users quickly. Develop reward functions and verifiers for semi-verifiable tasks, including rubrics, learned preference models, and expert preference data, and study where they break.

4 days ago

Member of Research Staff, Causal Inference, Voleon Securities Voleon Capital Management Lp

Berkeley, CA

Your research colleagues across Voleon have collectively published hundreds of academic articles in top-tier venues on machine learning, systems, and theory, and we meet regularly to stay current on the latest academic research and share ideas. Financial applications of causal inference are challenging and demand new methods that go beyond the academic state-of-the-art; it is critical candidates have a deep understanding of the field to draw inspiration for new methodology.

30+ days ago

Software Engineer, Strategy Research Analytics Voleon Capital Management Lp

Berkeley, CA

You'll collaborate closely with Data Scientists, Researchers, and Data Infrastructure teams to ensure analytics systems run reliably and produce consistent, queryable datasets. The Research Analytics team sits within Research Engineering and works closely with Data Scientists and Researchers across all of Voleons core strategies.

30+ days ago

Member of Research Staff, Reinforcement Learning, Voleon Securities Voleon Capital Management Lp

Berkeley, CA

Your research colleagues across Voleon have collectively published hundreds of academic articles in top-tier venues on machine learning, systems, and theory, and we meet regularly to stay current on the latest academic research and share ideas. For nearly two decades, our affiliate Voleon Capital Management has led the hedge fund industry and worked at the frontier of applying AI/ML to investment management, becoming a multibillion-dollar asset manager.

30+ days ago

Member of Research Staff Voleon Capital Management Lp

Berkeley, CA

Your research colleagues have collectively published hundreds of academic articles in top-tier venues on machine learning, systems, and theory, and we meet regularly to stay current on the latest academic research and share ideas. The behavior of financial markets is noisy and violates a number of classical statistical assumptions, and we've spent over a decade pioneering scientific advances in the application of machine learning techniques to this domain.

30+ days ago

Investor Relations Manager, Capital Markets & Strategic Research Higgsfield Inc

San Francisco, CA

$175,000–$240,000 / year

About the role: We are looking for an Investor Relations Manager, Capital Markets & Strategic Research to build and deepen Higgsfield's relationships across investment banks, equity research, institutional investors, and the broader capital markets ecosystem. Team members are expected to work from our San Francisco office three full days per week, with the remaining days worked remotely and are expected to be available during agreed working hours and to maintain sufficient overlap with the relevant team's time zone.

30+ days ago

Research Product Manager, Fine-tuning Lila Sciences

San Francisco, Massachusetts

First, you'll decide which new scientific domain capabilities the Lila model should gain and how to build them — the right mix of reinforcement-learning environments and supervised fine-tuning (SFT) data — prioritized against our Target Product Profiles (TPPs) and customer needs. Full-time U.S. employees receive a comprehensive benefits program including medical, dental, and vision coverage; employer-paid life and disability insurance; flexible time off with generous company wide holidays; paid parental leave; an educational assistance program; commuter benefits, including bike share memberships for office based employees; and a company subsidized lunch program.

30+ days ago

Research Program Manager OpenAI LLC

San Francisco, CA

For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. We work alongside teams developing our core models, helping turn ambitious research goals into coordinated execution across model training, alignment and safety, and research infrastructure.

30+ days ago

Senior Member of Research Staff, Optimization Voleon Capital Management Lp

Berkeley, CA

Your research colleagues have collectively published hundreds of academic articles in top-tier venues on machine learning, systems, and theory, and we meet regularly to stay current on the latest academic research and share ideas. 5-10+ years of related experience in numerical methods, optimization solvers, mathematical programming, convex &/or nonconvex optimization directing key research projects and mentoring colleagues.

30+ days ago

Senior Member of Research Staff Voleon Capital Management Lp

Berkeley, CA

Your research colleagues have collectively published hundreds of academic articles in top-tier venues on machine learning, systems, and theory, and we meet regularly to stay current on the latest academic research and share ideas. As a Senior Member of Research Staff, you will work at the forefront of modern statistical machine learning leading key projects focused on enduring challenges of financial market prediction and portfolio optimization.

30+ days ago

Senior Member of Research Staff, Voleon Securities Voleon Capital Management Lp

Berkeley, CA

Your research colleagues across Voleon have collectively published hundreds of academic articles in top-tier venues on machine learning, systems, and theory, and we meet regularly to stay current on the latest academic research and share ideas. Expertise modern statistical methods and machine learning with a track record as an applied researcher, preferably with experience in at least one of the following: optimal control, deep RL, deep learning, and causal inference.

30+ days ago

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Research Jobs in Pleasant Hill, CA

Principal Scientist / Associate Director, Agentic AI Research for Materials Science Lila Sciences

Research Engineer / Scientist, Data & Evals Harvey

Research & Business Scientist Kaneka Pharma America LLC

Lead Technical Recruiter - Research Harvey

Research Analyst Food Impact Partners

Member of Research Staff, Optimization The Voleon Group

Senior Member of Research Staff, Optimization The Voleon Group

Research Scientist idler

Research Engineer, Multimodal Data Eventual

Research Engineer / Scientist, Reinforcement Learning Harvey

Member of Research Staff, Causal Inference, Voleon Securities Voleon Capital Management Lp

Software Engineer, Strategy Research Analytics Voleon Capital Management Lp

Member of Research Staff, Reinforcement Learning, Voleon Securities Voleon Capital Management Lp

Member of Research Staff Voleon Capital Management Lp

Investor Relations Manager, Capital Markets & Strategic Research Higgsfield Inc

Research Product Manager, Fine-tuning Lila Sciences

Research Program Manager OpenAI LLC

Senior Member of Research Staff, Optimization Voleon Capital Management Lp

Senior Member of Research Staff Voleon Capital Management Lp

Senior Member of Research Staff, Voleon Securities Voleon Capital Management Lp

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