Researcher Jobs in San Francisco.

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Total jobs
90
positions indexed
New today
1
last 24 hours
Companies
57
actively hiring
Worldwide remote
0
from anywhere
Distyl AI
Applied AI Researcher, System Self-Construction
Distyl AI
⚡ Apply early San Francisco Hybrid $150,000–$250,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 1w ago
Distyl AI
Applied AI Researcher, Post-Training
Distyl AI
⚡ Apply early San Francisco Hybrid $150,000–$250,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 1w ago
Distyl AI
Applied AI Researcher, System Discovery
Distyl AI
⚡ Apply early San Francisco Hybrid $150,000–$250,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 1w ago
OpenAI
Researcher, Frontier Risk Mitigations
OpenAI
⚡ Apply early San Francisco Onsite $295,000–$445,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 1w ago
Windranger Labs
Mantle Squad US – Ecosystem Researcher
Windranger Labs
⚡ Apply early San Francisco Onsite
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 2w ago
Triumph
Quant Strategist
Triumph
⚡ Apply early San Francisco HQ Onsite $200,000–$400,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 2w ago
Tavus
AI Researcher (Multimodal Audio/Video Generation)
Tavus
⚡ Apply early San Francisco Onsite
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 2w ago
Spellbrush
AI Anime Researcher - LLM
Spellbrush
⚡ Apply early San Francisco or Tokyo Onsite
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 2w ago
Spellbrush
AI Anime Researcher - Motion Generation Models
Spellbrush
⚡ Apply early San Francisco or Tokyo Onsite
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 2w ago
Spellbrush
AI Anime Researcher
Spellbrush
⚡ Apply early Tokyo Onsite
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 2w ago
Plaud
User Researcher
Plaud
⚡ Apply early San Francisco, CA Hybrid
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 2w ago
PI
Applied Researcher
Physical Intelligence
⚡ Apply early San Francisco Onsite
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 2w ago
OpenAI
Researcher, Multimodal Safety
OpenAI
⚡ Apply early San Francisco Onsite $295,000–$445,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 2w ago
Perplexity
Member of Technical Staff (AI Researcher)
Perplexity
⚡ Apply early San Francisco Onsite $220,000–$485,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 2w ago
OpenAI
Researcher, Alignment CoT Monitorability
OpenAI
⚡ Apply early San Francisco Onsite $250,000–$445,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 2w ago
OpenAI
Researcher, Frontier Cybersecurity Risks
OpenAI
⚡ Apply early San Francisco Onsite $295,000–$445,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 2w ago
OpenAI
Security Researcher, Agentic AI Threats
OpenAI
⚡ Apply early San Francisco Hybrid $293,000–$405,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 2w ago
Parallel Bio
Research Associate, Biobanking
Parallel Bio
⚡ Apply early San Francisco, CA Onsite $70,000–$85,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 2w ago
Paraform
Marketplace Quant
Paraform
⚡ Apply early San Francisco Onsite $150,000–$250,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 2w ago
OpenAI
Researcher, Synthetic RL
OpenAI
⚡ Apply early San Francisco Onsite $295,000–$445,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 2w ago
OpenAI
Researcher, Interpretability
OpenAI
⚡ Apply early San Francisco Hybrid $295,000–$445,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 2w ago
OpenAI
Researcher, Safety Oversight
OpenAI
⚡ Apply early San Francisco Onsite $295,000–$445,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 2w ago
OpenAI
Researcher, Alignment
OpenAI
⚡ Apply early San Francisco Onsite $250,000–$445,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 2w ago
OpenAI
Researcher, Training
OpenAI
⚡ Apply early San Francisco Onsite $360,000–$440,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 2w ago
OpenAI
Researcher, Robustness & Safety Training
OpenAI
⚡ Apply early San Francisco Onsite $295,000–$445,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 2w ago

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