Lead Research Scientist VisaLead Research ScientistFoster City, CA$215,300–$344,600 / yearWe engage with the company's numerous technology and product teams, world-wide business partners, academics, and governments, to explore and develop technologies that will shape the future of the payments industry and impact the lives of billions of people. . Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
Staff Research Scientist VisaStaff Research ScientistFoster City, CA$169,100–$270,800 / yearThe ideal candidate will focus on conducting advanced research in one or more subfields, for example, quantum error correction, quantum optimization, quantum simulation, quantum machine learning, distributed quantum computing and/or quantum security and privacy with the aim of applying their research outcomes to financial services and payments. We engage with the company's numerous technology and product teams, world-wide business partners, academics, and governments, to explore and develop technologies that will shape the future of the payments industry and impact the lives of billions of people.
NewData Scientist V Pinnacle Technical ResourcesData Scientist VMenlo Park, California$100–$110 / hourContractorThe specific compensation for this position will be determined by several factors, including the scope, complexity, and location of the role, as well as the cost of labor in the market; the skills, education, training, credentials, and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. This role requires strong technical expertise, excellent communication skills, and the ability to collaborate with stakeholders to drive data-driven decision-making.
NewData Scientist V- #26-21251 US Tech Solutions, Inc.Data Scientist V- #26-21251Menlo Park, CAResearch and Experiment: Formulate multiple hypotheses that are tied together to answer business questions; develop a comprehensive research plan that identifies appropriate data collection tools, techniques, or methods to be used for a specific research problem; conduct research with appropriate methods to answer the research questions or test hypotheses. Modeling: Develop and implement predictive and forecasting models using multiple techniques such as regression, clustering, classification, and more; evaluate and refine models based on performance metrics; generate actionable insights from model output.
Head of Generative AI Research VisaHead of Generative AI ResearchFoster City, CA$258,100–$451,800 / yearYou will build and lead a world-class team of researchers, establish Visa as a thought leader in GenAI for commerce and payments, and translate cutting-edge research into transformative products and services. Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
NewAI Scientist - up to $600k base + equity Sharpe SearchAI Scientist - up to $600k base + equityFremont, CAn The ideal candidate has deep expertise in modern ML with emphasis on LLMs (training, fine-tuning, RL, inference, agents, evaluation), a track record of frontier work, the ability to turn ambitious research into reliable systems people use, strong software engineering, precise communication, and genuine curiosity about markets. An elite, high-leverage quant firm is building a self-improving hedge fund powered by thousands of machine learning models—increasingly designed and refined by AI itself.
NewClinical Research Associate Digital ProspectorsClinical Research AssociateRedwood City, CAParticipate in the team's monthly Central Monitoring process, spending three consecutive days onsite reviewing study documentation across multiple active trials. \n Were seeking a Clinical Research Associate (CRA) with strong clinical monitoring experience to support a growing clinical team.
NewMachine Learning Engineer CYNET SYSTEMSMachine Learning EngineerSan Jose, CA$55–$60 / hourTemporaryContractorPart timeAs a nationally and locally certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE), Cynet Systems is committed to helping organizations build high-performing teams while empowering professionals to grow rewarding careers. We deliver agile, scalable talent solutions across IT, engineering, life sciences, clinical, and professional staffing, powered by a high-performing recruitment engine operating across North America and Asia.
NewResearch Scientist Stealth StartupResearch ScientistSunnyvale, CAA strong publication record in machine learning or an equivalent public body of work, such as open-source models, technical reports, or reproducible results that have gained recognition. GPU performance optimization experience, including FlashAttention-style kernels, sparse or linear attention, memory optimization, and distributed training using technologies such as FSDP and torchrun.
Research Scientist Michael Page InternationalResearch ScientistSan Francisco, California$220,000–$275,000 / yearFull timeA successful Research Scientist should have: A strong academic background in a relevant field such as computer science, data science, or engineering. Excellent communication skills to effectively present findings to technical and non-technical audiences.
Clinical Research Scientist (MD) Soleil Labs, LLCClinical Research Scientist (MD)South San Francisco, CA$204,000–$354,000TCG Labs-Soleil is seeking a highly skilled Clinical Research Scientist (MD) to provide medical and scientific leadership across the design, execution, and interpretation of clinical trials within an assigned program. This model supports scientific entrepreneurs from the initial idea to clinical proof of concept (PoC) by combining a dedicated fund (TCG Labs) with our independent, evergreen R&D center led by a top-tier scientific team (Soleil).
NewResearch Scientist, Social Simulation and Agents, DeepMind Google LLCResearch Scientist, Social Simulation and Agents, DeepMindSan Francisco, CAYou will join an interdisciplinary team of domain experts, machine learning researchers, social scientists, and engineers to conduct cutting-edge research and advance the next generation of computational frameworks that simulate human social behavior at scale to advance societal health. Key responsibilities include formulating metrics and validation methods, developing frameworks for multimodal environments, collaborating with product teams to drive research, and publishing high-impact research in top AI and social science venues.
AI Research Scientist - Infrastructure Engineer, Reinforcement Learning Advanced Micro Devices, IncAI Research Scientist - Infrastructure Engineer, Reinforcement LearningSanta Clara, CaliforniaWe are hiring a AI Research Scientist - Infrastructure Engineer, Reinforcement Learning , to own reinforcement learning infrastructure at scale—including distributed policy and value training, rollout generation, logging, checkpointing, and researcher‑facing APIs across large GPU fleets. You make RL scientists productive by improving throughput, fault tolerance, reproducibility, and observability—turning fragile notebooks into reliable systems that RSI, generalizing-HW, and RL research programs depend on.
Research Scientist, AI BiohubResearch Scientist, AIRedwood City, CaliforniaBuild post-training systems that drive biological discovery: RL, reward modeling, reasoning, and multi-agent orchestration for long-horizon scientific tasks. The future anticipated Redwood City, CA, and New York City, NY base pay range for a role in this field is $214,000 to $375,000 annually.
Forward Deployed AI Research Scientist Advanced Micro Devices, IncForward Deployed AI Research ScientistSanta Clara, CaliforniaThe role is designed to scale a technical-business bridge across AMD: translating customer and partner needs into AI research directions, translating AI capabilities into engineering value, and helping teams align on what can be built, measured, and delivered., You will work closely with internal engineering teams and strategic external partners to identify valuable problems, shape them into tractable AI research and engineering efforts, and drive them toward measurable outcomes.
Staff Research Scientist, AI Safety BiohubStaff Research Scientist, AI SafetyRedwood City, CaliforniaSuccess requires excellence across five interconnected pillars: training frontier AI models specifically for biology; building engineering systems that maximize research velocity and efficiency; executing a sophisticated data strategy that fuels AI development; operating a world-class AI compute platform; and creating impactful products that transform AI capabilities into accessible scientific tools. You will leverage state-of-the-art AI to accelerate discovery and drive transformative insights in biology—developing novel AI models purpose-built for biological research, engineering robust systems that enable breakthrough science at unprecedented scale, and translating these advances into practical tools that empower researchers worldwide.
AI Research Scientist, Adaptive Behavior Systems Toyota Research InstituteAI Research Scientist, Adaptive Behavior SystemsLos Altos, CA$176,000–$253,500 / yearPhD in computer science, machine learning, or a closely related field with 1-7 years of experience in machine learning research or related projects in an industry setting, particularly in areas related to LLM training or large-scale ML. Base pay offered will depend on multiple individualized factors, including, but not limited to, a candidate's experience, skills, job-related knowledge, and market location.
AI Research Scientist, Hardware AI Systems Advanced Micro Devices, IncAI Research Scientist, Hardware AI SystemsSanta Clara, CaliforniaWe are hiring a AI Research Scientist, Hardware AI Systems , to develop AI systems that generalize across hardware engineering contexts, different SoC programs, toolchains, process nodes, and teams, without bespoke retraining for every program. You will work on metareasoning (when to call which tool or simulator), representation learning across flows (RTL, verification, physical design), and learning under high- or mixed-latency rewards typical of silicon signoff.
AI Research Scientist, Recursive Self Improvement, AI Safety and Reinforcement Learning Advanced Micro Devices, IncAI Research Scientist, Recursive Self Improvement, AI Safety and Reinforcement LearningSanta Clara, CaliforniaWe are hiring an AI Research Scientist, Recursive Self Improvement, AI Safety and Reinforcement Learning focused on recursive self-improvement (RSI) in a bounded, engineering-first sense: systems where models, data generators, or toolchains participate in improving their own training signals, curricula, or verification—always under explicit governance, kill switches, and human oversight. synthetic data quality, targeted self-play, automated curriculum refinement) versus when they amplify bias or reward hacking, and you will design measurement and containment so RSI-style pipelines remain auditable and safe for AMD’s AI-for-HW and generative-AI programs.
2026 Intern, Phd Research Scientist Waabi2026 Intern, Phd Research ScientistSan Francisco, CA$60–$65 / hourWith offices in Toronto, San Francisco, Dallas, and Pittsburgh, Waabi is growing quickly and looking for diverse, innovative and collaborative candidates who want to impact the world in a positive way. Be encouraged to submit and publish work externally at top machine learning, computer vision, and robotics conferences (NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CVPR, etc.), post to our company blog.