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Foster City, CA4 days ago

$215,300–$344,600 Per Year

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.   . 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.

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Foster City, CA4 days ago

$169,100–$270,800 Per Year

The 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.

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Alameda, CA4 days ago

$50–$55 Per Hour

This hands-on laboratory role requires expertise in molecular biology, protein expression systems, and chromatographic purification methods, with opportunities to contribute across multiple research initiatives in a fast-paced discovery environment.

Bachelor's degree in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Structural Biology, or a related scientific discipline with 3+ years of relevant industry experience; or Master's degree with 1+ year of relevant industry experience.

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Palo Alto, CAToday

These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information.

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Palo Alto, CAToday

Through the deep understanding of both shoppers and products, we help shoppers discover new products they love, be the most efficient way for advertisers to meet their customers, and helps Amazon continuously innovate on behalf of all customers. We empower every customer with a customized discovery experiences from back-end optimization (such as customized response prediction models) to front-end CX innovation (such as widgets), to help shoppers feel understood and shop efficiently on and off Amazon.

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Sunnyvale, CA6 days ago

Develop AI solutions for various Prime Video Search systems using Deep learning, GenAI, Reinforcement Learning, and optimization methods; - Work closely with engineers and product managers to design, implement and launch AI solutions end-to-end; - Design and conduct offline and online (A/B) experiments to evaluate proposed solutions based on in-depth data analyses; - Effectively communicate technical and non-technical ideas with teammates and stakeholders; - Stay up-to-date with advancements and the latest modeling techniques in the field; - Publish your research findings in top conferences and journals. Prime members can customize their viewing experience and find their favorite movies, series, documentaries, and live sports – including Amazon MGM Studios-produced series and movies; licensed fan favorites; and programming from Prime Video add-on subscriptions such as Apple TV+, Max, Crunchyroll and MGM+.

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Sunnyvale, CAToday

Familiarity with Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) development flow, Register Transfer Level (RTL) review, or compiler intermediate representations including Multi-Level Intermediate Representation (MLIR) and OpenXLA. • Eight or more years of industry experience with a track record of first-author or senior-author publications at top-tier venues in machine learning systems, computer architecture, or efficient machine learning.

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South San Francisco, CA3 days ago

$35–$44.39 Per Hour

Handles post execution tasks to complete agreements, including sending fully executed agreements to counterparty, filing agreements with Legal Records, completing data records in databases, initiating shipments, including organizing necessary import/ export paperwork, and addressing any shipping issues. The Associate Contracts Manager will communicate with Research scientists, leadership, internal legal counsel, outside technology transfer offices, academic scientists, and internal shipping/material supply teams under supervision of the manager.

Mountain View, CA22 days ago

As a Research Scientist, you"ll also actively contribute to the wider research community by sharing and publishing your findings, with ideas inspired by internal projects as well as from collaborations with research programs at partner universities and technical institutes all over the world.

Mountain View, CA16 days ago

San Francisco, CA24 days ago

From creating experiments and prototyping implementations to designing new architectures, our research scientists work on real-world problems that span the breadth of computer science, such as machine (and deep) learning, data mining, natural language processing, hardware and software performance analysis, improving compilers for mobile platforms, as well as core search and much more. As a Research Scientist, you"ll also actively contribute to the wider research community by sharing and publishing your findings, with ideas inspired by internal projects as well as from collaborations with research programs at partner universities and technical institutes all over the world.

Sunnyvale, CA30+ days ago

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Mountain View, CA22 days ago

Participate in a wide variety of research, including learning from simulation, reinforcement learning, learning from demonstrations, vision-language-action (VLA) models, transformers, video generation, robot control, humanoid robots, and more. You will be working on enabling robots to perform human level manipulation, using frontier robotics models for general purpose dexterous tasks reaching human level performance on real world applications.

Berkeley, CA30+ days ago

$142,116–$157,068 Per Year

p>Misconduct Disclosure Requirement: As a condition of employment, the finalist will be required to disclose if they are subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct, are currently being investigated for misconduct, left a position during an investigation for alleged misconduct, or have filed an appeal with a previous employer.

Additional information:

Appointment type: This is a full-time, 1 year, career-track term appointment that may be renewed to a maximum of five years and that may be converted to career based upon satisfactory job performance, continuing availability of funds, and ongoing operational needs.

Redwood City, CA30+ days ago

p>Research Scientists at Riot combine deep technical expertise across machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), experimental design, and systems engineering to invent new ways players experience games. Your team will identify emerging research with the potential to meaningfully change gameplay, turn it into concrete gameplay experiments, and work with game teams to transform validated breakthroughs into options Riot can confidently commit to.

Berkeley, CA30+ days ago

$126,324–$176,832 Per Year

p>The Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering (CCSE) develops and applies advanced computational methodologies to solve large-scale scientific and engineering problems arising in DOE mission areas involving energy, environment, and industrial technology. You will also develop AMReX-based multiphysics/multiscale PDE solvers, steer large-scale simulation campaigns, and work with experimental and public research databases to accelerate scientific discovery.

Mountain View, CA25 days ago

$251,000–$310,000 Per Year

Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World''s Most Experienced Driver-to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.

Sunnyvale, CA30+ days ago

From creating experiments and prototyping implementations to designing new architectures, our research scientists work on real-world problems that span the breadth of computer science, such as machine (and deep) learning, data mining, natural language processing, hardware and software performance analysis, improving compilers for mobile platforms, as well as core search and much more. Take ownership of AI quality for production systems by defining technical metrics aligned with business goals, implementing evaluation frameworks, designing experiments, analyzing loss patterns, and driving improvements through system changes or training data enhancements.

Sunnyvale, CA30+ days ago

$207,000–$300,000 Per Year

From creating experiments and prototyping implementations to designing new architectures, our research scientists work on real-world problems that span the breadth of computer science, such as machine and deep learning, data mining, natural language processing, hardware and software performance analysis, improving compilers for mobile platforms, as well as core search and much more. As a Research Scientist, youll also actively contribute to the wider research community by sharing and publishing your findings with ideas inspired by internal projects as well as from collaborations with research programs at partner universities and technical institutes all over the world.

Mountain View, CA30+ days ago

Berkeley, CA17 days ago

$82,860–$132,588 Per Year

You will have an opportunity to help drive JGI's transition from static genome catalogs to predictive microbiome science by building scalable workflows for longitudinal genomics, collaborating with JGI programs and external researchers, and contributing to research that advances the mission of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in understanding ecosystem function, resilience, and environmental change. D. (or equivalent knowledge/training) in Microbiology, Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, or a related field and a minimum of 2 years of relevant research experience in Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) methodologies and bioinformatics tools, including metagenomics and genome binning or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Mountain View, CA22 days ago

At Google DeepMind, we are a pioneering AI lab with exceptional interdisciplinary teams focused on advancing AI development to solve complex global challenges and accelerate high-quality product innovation for billions of users.

5 years of experience leading the cross-functional teams in complex, matrixed environments and ability to influence stakeholders, resolve incentives, and provide strategic technical judgment.

San Francisco, CA30+ days ago

$158,000–$269,000 Per Year

p>With 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. As a Research Scientist on the Behaviors team, you will work closely with our multidisciplinary team of research scientists and engineers to invent the next generation of models and algorithms that power Waabi World.

Sunnyvale, California30+ days ago

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Close the Loop: Design and execute high-quality post-training runs (CPT, SFT, RL) to deliver frontier performance on open-source models using curated, high-signal data. Agentic Environments: Design and implement the next generation of "SimLabs", ultra-realistic, long-horizon simulation environments where agents learn to navigate ambiguity and maintain context.

Palo Alto, California19 days ago

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We believe that making substantive progress on hard, enterprise-level applications drives and sharpens the research questions we study — and that the best researchers are also builders.

Learn more about our team at salesforceairesearch.com.

Sunnyvale, CA30+ days ago

As a Research Scientist, you'll also actively contribute to the wider research community by sharing and publishing your findings, with ideas inspired by internal projects as well as from collaborations with research programs at partner universities and technical institutes all over the world.

Sunnyvale, CA30+ days ago

Berkeley, CA30+ days ago

$104,887–$179,806 Per Year

From more resource efficient factories resilient supply chains and smarter buildings and grids to sustainable transportation as well as advanced healthcare we create technology with purpose adding real value for customers.

Deep technical knowledge of modern model architectures specifically Transformers VLAs VLMs and Diffusion Models with experience in large-scale training.

San Francisco, CA30+ days ago

$155,000–$269,000 Per Year

p>This role focuses on large-scale world models for temporal reasoning and generation, including video models, multimodal generative models, LLM/VLM/VLA models, and predictive models of traffic participants and scenes. Your work will directly power Waabi Worlds ability to model future evolution, synthesize realistic safety-critical scenarios, and provide rich generative priors for downstream planning, testing, and training.

San Francisco, CA30+ days ago

$155,000–$269,000 Per Year

As a Research Scientist in Neural Reconstruction, you will develop the next generation of neural scene-representation and reconstruction algorithms that transform sparse, noisy, and partially observed driving data into realistic and controllable digital worlds. Your work will directly power Waabi Worlds ability to build high-fidelity scene assets, recover geometry and dynamics from sensor data, and support realistic simulation and rendering at scale.

San Francisco, CA30+ days ago

The WorkSelected researchers willEvaluate advanced scientific reasoning produced by state-of-the-art AI systemsAssess multi-step derivations proofs theoretical arguments and domain-specific outputsIdentify subtle conceptual flaws or logical inconsistenciesProvide research-grade corrective feedbackThis requires deep subject mastery. Minimum ThresholdCandidates must demonstrate the followingPhD or near completion in Mathematics Physics Neuroscience or ChemistryPeer-reviewed publications in respected journalsMeaningful citation record indicating research impactInternational academic distinction such as Olympiad medalistFaculty position at a leading universityAll credentials will be verified.

Sunnyvale, CA30+ days ago

Contribute to research growth by sharing research trends and best practices within the community by reviewing academic papers, serving on program committees and grant panels, speaking at Google events or research conferences, or organizing research conferences and visioning activities.

Sunnyvale, CA30+ days ago

San Francisco, CA30+ days ago

p>You have deep expertise in generative AI, LLMs, agentic systems, knowledge graphs, reinforcement learning, and advanced architectures like Transformers and deep neural networks.

You will lead high-impact research initiatives, collaborate with scientists and engineers to explore emerging techniques, and publish industry-leading ideas that empower our broader AI community.

Mountain View, CA30+ days ago

$197,000–$291,000 Per Year

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As a Research Scientist, you will setup large-scale tests and deploy promising ideas quickly and broadly, managing deadlines and deliverables while applying the latest theories to develop new and improved products, processes, or technologies.

Santa Clara, CA30+ days ago

D. or equivalent research experience in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering/Cognitive Science or related field • Excellent track record of publications in top-tier conferences (SIGGRAPH, CHI, HRI, ICRA, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, CoG, ETRA, etc.) • Experience with studying human behaviors in related application domains such as gaming, driving, interacting with robots, etc.

What youll be doing:

• Propose, research, prototype and test innovative research ideas • Publish at top conferences and patent novel inventions • Collaborate with other research team members, external researchers, and mentor interns • Create working interactive demonstrations to showcase your research ideas • Participate in technology transfer with engineers around NVIDIA as ideas "graduate" from research to product.

Palo Alto, CA24 days ago

$130,000–$260,000 Per Year

As part of the AI Research team, you will define and own the vision for scalable, robust, and compliant AI/ML solutions; drive high-visibility, cross-functional initiatives from ideation through production; and mentor talent while aligning AI investments with business outcomes. ROI Measurement & Experimentation: Establish robust mechanisms to quantify business impact, including KPI definition, experimentation frameworks, and causal inference approaches to guide decision-making and prioritize investments.

Stanford, CA30+ days ago

$74,000–$86,000 Per Year

The Cardinal at Work website (https://cardinalatwork.stanford.edu/benefits-rewards) provides detailed information on Stanfords extensive range of benefits and rewards offered to employees. The pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as, but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget availability, internal equity, geographic location, and external market pay for comparable jobs.

Sunnyvale, CA9 days ago

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p>Focusing on a portfolio of Class II and III medical devices in the pulmonary space-including next-generation pre-label products-this leader will focus on translating biological and engineering insights into device design, regulatory submissions, and clinical studies.

Certain information you provide as part of the application will be used for purposes of determining whether Intuitive Surgical will need to (i) obtain an export license from the U.S. Government on your behalf (note: the government's licensing process can take 3 to 6+ months) or (ii) implement a Technology Control Plan ("TCP") (note: typically adds 2 weeks to the hiring process).

Mountain View, CA29 days ago

From creating experiments and prototyping implementations to designing new architectures, our research scientists work on real-world problems that span the breadth of computer science, such as machine (and deep) learning, data mining, natural language processing, hardware and software performance analysis, improving compilers for mobile platforms, as well as core search and much more. Our teams aspire to make discoveries that impact everyone, and core to our approach is sharing our research and tools to fuel progress in the field -- we publish regularly in academic journals, release projects as open source, and apply research to Google products.

Stanford, CA30+ days ago

$79,849–$92,000 Per Year

p>The Yang Lab in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine is currently recruiting for an experienced virologist to join our lab as a Basic Life Science Research Scientist and work with an interdisciplinary team to develop prototype drugs targeting Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). The pay offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on factors including (but not limited to) the experience and qualifications of the selected candidate including equivalent years since their applicable education, field or discipline; departmental budget availability; internal equity; among other factors.

Mountain View, CA30+ days ago

p>In order to set you up for success as a Research Scientist on the Gemini Safety team, we look for the following skills and experience:

PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Key Responsibilities:
- Post-training / instruction tuning state of the art LLMs, focusing on text-to-text, image/video/audio-to-text modalities and agentic capabilities.

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Los Gatos, CA6 days ago

$466,000–$750,000 Per Year

By treating these powerful embeddings as a core product, we give Netflix the ability to match the right content to the right member, supercharging personalization and helping everyone discover something they'll love. The opportunity ahead is to significantly deepen that understanding through approaches like Semantic IDs, continuous pre-training, novel representation learning methods, or other state-of-the-art techniques.

Redwood City, California17 days ago

li style="font-family:'helvetica' , 'arial' , sans-serif">Build post-training systems that drive biological discovery: RL, reward modeling, reasoning, and multi-agent orchestration for long-horizon scientific tasks.

Engage the wider scientific community through impactful publications, open-source releases, and collaborations worldwide.

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