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Research Scientist · New York

$246,500

median · per year, annualized USD

Median over time ▲ +6.9%

$230,500 $246,500

$197.5k 25th

$246.5k Median

$307.4k 75th

$150k

$356.3k

Box 25th–75th · whiskers 10th–90th Full range $150k – $850k · outliers off-axis

Disclosing: 76.9%
Live roles: 52

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Highest-paying jobs

Research Scientist, Takeoff Intel

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY

$350,000 – $850,000

Research Engineer/Research Scientist, Pre-training

Anthropic · Remote-Friendly (Travel-Required) | San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA | New York City, NY

$350,000 – $850,000

Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Tokens

Anthropic · New York City, NY; New York City, NY | Seattle, WA; San Francisco, CA

$350,000 – $500,000

AI Research Scientist - Datadog AI Research (DAIR)

Datadog · New York, New York, USA

$320,000 – $400,000

Embedded Research Scientist

Percepta · New York City

$180,000 – $400,000

Principal Research Scientist, Database Systems

MongoDB · New York City; Palo Alto

$203,000 – $399,000

People Research Scientist, Recruiting

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA

$285,000 – $380,000

People Research Scientist, People

Anthropic · New York City, NY | Seattle, WA; San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY

$285,000 – $380,000

Senior / Staff Machine Learning Research Scientist, Agents

Scale AI · San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; New York, NY

$302,400 – $378,000

Senior Research Data Scientist

Roku · New York, New York

$330,000 – $375,000

Top companies hiring

Company	Median	Roles
SA Scale AI	$243,000	6
Anthropic	$425,000	5
Roku	$352,500	3
Swayable	$165,000	3
BR Basis Research Institute	$150,000	3
Biohub	$282,750	2
Jump Trading	$262,500	2
MongoDB	$262,500	2