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Research Scientist Jobs in United States.

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362
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19
last 24 hours
Companies
176
actively hiring
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How many Research Scientist jobs in United States are there right now?

There are 362 open Research Scientist jobs in United States on JobsRadar right now, from 176 companies hiring directly. 241 of them disclose pay, with a median of $200,000 a year and most offers between $134,950 and $260,575. 19 were added in the last 24 hours; the board was last refreshed on October 7, 2026 at 21:05 UTC.

Research Scientist salary range in United States

$135k 25th
$200k Median
$260.6k 75th
$94k
$336.4k
Box 25th–75th · whiskers 10th–90th Full range $35k – $850k · outliers off-axis
Based on 241 disclosed live listings
Updated Oct 7, 2026 from live listings
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Mercor
Research Scientist - Environments, Data and Post-Training
Mercor
⚡ Apply early San Francisco Onsite $250,000–$500,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 2h ago
EliseAI
Senior Research Scientist
EliseAI
⚡ Apply early San Francisco Onsite $200,000–$320,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 2h ago
EliseAI
Junior Research Scientist
EliseAI
⚡ Apply early San Francisco Onsite $150,000–$230,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 2h ago
EliseAI
Junior Research Scientist
EliseAI
⚡ Apply early New York City Onsite $150,000–$230,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 2h ago
EliseAI
Senior Research Scientist
EliseAI
⚡ Apply early New York City Onsite $200,000–$320,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 2h ago
Revolution Medicines
Associate Scientist Research Laboratory Operations
Revolution Medicines
⚡ Apply early Redwood City, California, Unit... Onsite $99,000–$124,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 2h ago
IonQ
Senior Research Scientist - Fault Tolerant Quantum Algorithms
IonQ
⚡ Apply early Bothell, Washington, United St... Onsite $145,920–$191,047
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 3h ago
Datadog
Staff Research Scientist - Post-Training for Agents
Datadog
⚡ Apply early New York, New York, USA; Pitts... Onsite $320,000–$400,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 4h ago
Datadog
Staff Research Scientist - Foundation & World Models
Datadog
⚡ Apply early New York, New York, USA; Pitts... Onsite $320,000–$400,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 4h ago
Neogen
Senior Research Scientist
Neogen
⚡ Apply early Lansing, MI Onsite
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 10h ago
SA
Research Scientist, Safety Post Training
Scale AI
⚡ Apply early San Francisco, CA; New York, N... Onsite $216,000–$270,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 22h ago
SA
Research Scientist, AI Controls and Monitoring
Scale AI
⚡ Apply early San Francisco, CA; New York, N... Onsite $216,000–$270,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 22h ago
SA
Senior / Staff Machine Learning Research Scientist, Agents
Scale AI
⚡ Apply early San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA... Onsite $302,400–$378,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 22h ago
SA
Senior Manager, Research Scientist
Scale AI
⚡ Apply early San Francisco, CA; New York, N... Onsite $290,400–$363,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 22h ago
SA
Research Scientist, Frontier Risk Evaluations
Scale AI
⚡ Apply early San Francisco, CA; New York, N... Onsite $216,000–$270,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 22h ago
SA
Machine Learning Research Scientist, Post-Training
Scale AI
⚡ Apply early San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA... Onsite $165,600–$207,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 22h ago
SA
Research Scientist, Agent Robustness
Scale AI
⚡ Apply early San Francisco, CA; New York, N... Onsite $216,000–$270,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 22h ago
SA
Machine Learning Research Scientist, Evaluations
Scale AI
⚡ Apply early San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA... Onsite $165,600–$207,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 22h ago
Septerna
Scientist/Research Scientist, Molecular Pharmacology (contract position)
Septerna
⚡ Apply early South San Francisco, Californi... Onsite $145,600–$145,600
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 23h ago
SA
Research Scientist - Human-AI Systems
Snorkel AI
⚡ Apply early New York City, NY (Hybrid); Sa... Hybrid $200,000–$375,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 1d ago
Percepta
Research Scientist – World Modeling
Percepta
⚡ Apply early New York City Onsite
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 1d ago
Percepta
Research Scientist – Optimization
Percepta
⚡ Apply early New York City Onsite
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 1d ago
Percepta
Embedded Research Scientist
Percepta
⚡ Apply early New York City Onsite $180,000–$400,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 1d ago
Percepta
Research Scientist – Reinforcement Learning (RL)
Percepta
⚡ Apply early New York City Onsite
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 1d ago
SA
Research Scientist
Snorkel AI
⚡ Apply early New York City, NY (Hybrid); Sa... Hybrid $200,000–$375,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 1d ago

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Frequently asked questions

How many Research Scientist jobs in United States are open right now?
362 Research Scientist jobs in United States are open across 176 companies, as of October 7, 2026.
What do Research Scientist jobs in United States pay?
Across the 241 Research Scientist jobs in United States that disclose pay, the median is $200,000 a year, and the middle half of offers falls between $134,950 and $260,575.
Which companies are hiring Research Scientist jobs in United States?
Mercor, EliseAI, Revolution Medicines, IonQ and Datadog are among the 176 companies currently hiring Research Scientist jobs in United States.
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 October 7, 2026 at 21:05 UTC.

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