Research Scientist Jobs in San Francisco.
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Total jobs
102
positions indexed
New today
0
last 24 hours
Companies
47
actively hiring
Worldwide remote
0
from anywhere
How many Research Scientist jobs in San Francisco are there right now?
There are 102 open Research Scientist jobs in San Francisco on JobsRadar right now, from 47 companies hiring directly. 75 of them disclose pay, with a median of $275,000 a year and most offers between $213,500 and $352,500. The board was last refreshed on August 23, 2026 at 09:02 UTC.
Research Scientist salary range in San Francisco
$213.5k
25th
$275k
Median
$352.5k
75th
$200k
$425k
Box 25th–75th · whiskers 10th–90th
Full range $96.5k – $850k · outliers off-axis
Based on 75 disclosed live listings
Updated Aug 23, 2026 from live listings
Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Health
OpenAI
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Research Scientist, Life Sciences (Chemistry)
Anthropic
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1d ago
Research Scientist, Takeoff Intel
Anthropic
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1d ago
People Research Scientist, Recruiting
Anthropic
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1d ago
Research Scientist, Life Sciences (Computational)
Anthropic
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1d ago
Research Scientist, Life Sciences
Anthropic
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1d ago
Research Engineer / Scientist, Frontier Red Team (Cyber)
Anthropic
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1d ago
Research Scientist/Engineer, Biological Safety
Anthropic
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Research Scientist, Interpretability
Anthropic
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1d ago
Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Tokens
Anthropic
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1d ago
Research Engineer / Scientist, Alignment
Anthropic
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1d ago
Research Engineer/Research Scientist, Pre-training
Anthropic
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1d ago
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Senior Manager, Research Scientist
Scale AI
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2d ago
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Research Scientist - Frontier Benchmarks
Snorkel AI
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2d ago
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Research Scientist - RL Training
Snorkel AI
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2d ago
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Research Scientist
Snorkel AI
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2d ago
Research Engineer / Scientist (3D Tech Lead)
World Labs
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3d ago
Research Scientist (Generative Modeling)
World Labs
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3d ago
Research Engineer / Scientist (SLAM)
World Labs
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3d ago
Research Engineer / Scientist (Robot Learning)
World Labs
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3d ago
Principal Research Scientist – Scaling
Databricks
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4d ago
Principal AI Research Scientist, Research Director - AI Scaling
Databricks
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4d ago
PhD GenAI Research Scientist Intern
Databricks
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4d ago
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Founding AI Research Scientist - Optexity (USA)
Pear VC
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1w ago
Founding Research Scientist, Human Simulation
Listen Labs
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1w ago
Frequently asked questions
- How many Research Scientist jobs in San Francisco are open right now?
- 102 Research Scientist jobs in San Francisco are open across 47 companies, as of August 23, 2026.
- What do Research Scientist jobs in San Francisco pay?
- Across the 75 Research Scientist jobs in San Francisco that disclose pay, the median is $275,000 a year, and the middle half of offers falls between $213,500 and $352,500.
- Which companies are hiring Research Scientist jobs in San Francisco?
- OpenAI, Anthropic, Scale AI, Snorkel AI and World Labs are among the 47 companies currently hiring Research Scientist jobs in San Francisco.
- How current are these listings?
- Every listing comes straight from the employer’s own careers system and is re-checked three times a day. This page was last updated on August 23, 2026 at 09:02 UTC.