Research & Science salaries

Median published range $230K – $350K · 131 postings with USD ranges · updated 2026-11-02

Latest postings with published pay

Research Program Manager, Safety Systems
OpenAISan Francisco2026-10-30RemoteResearch$239K – $328K

Research Program Manager, Safety Measurement
OpenAISan Francisco2026-10-30RemoteResearch$239K – $328K

Research Engineer, Infrastructure
HarveyRemote2026-10-30RemoteEngineering$230K – $340K

Research Engineer, Infrastructure
HarveyLondon2026-10-30RemoteEngineering$230K – $340K

Research Engineer / Scientist, Reinforcement Learning
HarveyLondon2026-10-30RemoteEngineering$230K – $340K

Research Engineer / Scientist, Reinforcement Learning
HarveyRemote2026-10-30RemoteEngineering$230K – $340K

Research Engineer / Scientist, Data & Evals
HarveyRemote2026-10-30RemoteEngineering$230K – $340K

Member of Technical Staff, Research (2026 PhD New Grad) - Seattle
Fireworks AIGreater Seattle Area2026-10-30RemoteEngineering$200K – $300K

Research Engineer, Infrastructure
HarveyNew York2026-10-29RemoteEngineering$230K – $340K

Research Engineer, Infrastructure
HarveySan Francisco2026-10-29RemoteEngineering$230K – $340K

Research Engineer / Scientist, Reinforcement Learning
HarveyNew York2026-10-29RemoteEngineering$230K – $340K

Research Engineer / Scientist, Reinforcement Learning
HarveySan Francisco2026-10-29RemoteEngineering$230K – $340K

Research Engineer / Scientist, Data & Evals
HarveySan Francisco2026-10-29RemoteEngineering$230K – $340K

Research Engineer / Scientist, Data & Evals
HarveyNew York2026-10-29RemoteEngineering$230K – $340K

Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Human Flourishing
OpenAISan Francisco2026-10-28Research$380K – $500K

Researcher, Misalignment Monitoring Lead
OpenAISan Francisco2026-10-22Safety Systems$380K – $500K

Research Scientist / Research Engineer, Safety + Alignment, Search
OpenAISan Francisco2026-10-21Research$380K – $850K

Research Scientist / Research Engineer - Web Understanding and Structured Retrieval, Search
OpenAISan Francisco2026-10-21Research$380K – $850K

Research Staff, Applied Voice AI
DeepgramUSA - Remote2026-10-19RemoteResearch$216K – $338K

Research Engineer, Post-Training
DeepgramUSA - Remote2026-10-19RemoteResearch$216K – $338K

Product and Research Operations Manager, Voices
Cartesia*HQ - San Francisco, CA2026-10-19Product$160K – $225K

Mercor AI Research Fund Grants: Economics of AI
MercorSan Francisco2026-10-19Research$5M – $5M

Agent Post-Training, Computer Use Research
OpenAISan Francisco2026-10-19Research$380K – $500K

Researcher, Safety - Frontier Assurance
OpenAISan Francisco2026-10-13Safety Systems$380K – $500K

Market Research Lead, ChatGPT
OpenAISan Francisco2026-10-09RemoteMarketing$240K – $300K

Research Scientist / Engineer – Training Infrastructure
Luma AIRedwood City, CA2026-10-08RemoteResearch & AI$195K – $395K

Research Scientist / Engineer – Performance Optimization
Luma AIRedwood City, CA2026-10-08RemoteResearch & AI$195K – $395K

Post-Training Applied Researcher
BasetenSan Francisco2026-10-07RemoteEPD$200K – $275K

Lead Technical Recruiter - Research
HarveyNew York2026-10-06RemoteRecruiting$164K – $246K

Lead Technical Recruiter - Research
HarveySan Francisco2026-10-06RemoteRecruiting$164K – $246K

Research Engineer, Index Intelligence
Exa AISan Francisco, California2026-10-01Research$180K – $350K

Research Engineer, Content Understanding
Exa AISan Francisco, California2026-10-01Research$180K – $350K

Research Engineer - Benchmarks
FirecrawlSan Francisco HQ; Toronto Hub2026-09-29RemoteEngineering Team$250K – $290K

Research Engineer, Data Infrastructure (Language Modeling)
Cartesia*HQ - San Francisco, CA2026-09-24Research$200K – $350K

Research Program Manager, Frontier Assurance
OpenAISan Francisco2026-09-22RemoteSafety Systems$239K – $328K

Mercor AI Research Fund Grants: Benchmarks
MercorSan Francisco2026-09-22RemoteResearch$5M – $5M

Internal Communications, Research and Product
OpenAISan Francisco2026-09-22RemoteCommunications$171K – $190K

AI research scientist
WriterSan Francisco, CA2026-09-22RemoteEngineering, product & design$199K – $325K

Perplexity Research Fellowship
PerplexitySan Francisco2026-09-20AI Research & Systems$180K – $220K

Research Scientist - Environments, Data and Post-Training
MercorSan Francisco2026-09-18Research$250K – $500K

Physical Scientist / Test Engineer
MidjourneySan Francisco Bay Area Hybrid2026-09-18RemoteMidjourney Medical$146K – $154K

Senior UX Researcher, Qualitative
SunoLos Angeles2026-09-16Product$176K – $220K

Senior UX Researcher, Mixed Methods (Quant-Leaning)
SunoNYC2026-09-16Product$176K – $220K

Researcher, Safety Training, National Security
OpenAISan Francisco2026-09-12Safety Systems$380K – $500K

Research Engineer, AI for Chip Design
OpenAISan Francisco2026-09-11RemoteResearch$380K – $500K

Research Program Manager, Governance
OpenAISan Francisco2026-09-09RemoteResearch$239K – $328K

Senior Research Engineer, Safety
DecagonSan Francisco2026-09-04Engineering$200K – $400K

Research Engineer, Safety
DecagonSan Francisco2026-09-04Engineering$200K – $400K

Research Engineer, Audio and Speech
DecagonSan Francisco2026-09-04Engineering$200K – $400K

Engineering Manager, Research
DecagonSan Francisco2026-09-04Engineering$280K – $430K

Researcher, Agent Safety, Training and Evaluations
OpenAISan Francisco2026-09-03Safety Systems$380K – $500K

Researcher, Agent Safety, Oversight and System Mitigations
OpenAISan Francisco2026-09-03Safety Systems$380K – $500K

Researcher, Alignment Interpretability
OpenAISan Francisco2026-09-01Research$295K – $500K

Research Program Manager
OpenAISan Francisco2026-08-31Research$239K – $328K

Marketing Scientist
OpenAISan Francisco2026-08-28RemoteMarketing$198K – $220K

Research Scientist, APEX Benchmarks
MercorSan Francisco2026-08-27Research$200K – $500K

People Research Scientist
OpenAISan Francisco2026-08-25People$170K – $220K

Member of Technical Staff (AI Researcher)
PerplexitySan Francisco2026-08-25AI Research & Systems$220K – $485K

Research Staff, Voice AI Foundations
DeepgramUSA - Remote2026-08-23RemoteResearch$150K – $250K

Research Staff, LLMs
DeepgramUSA - Remote2026-08-23RemoteResearch$150K – $250K

Research Engineer, Machine Learning Systems
DeepgramUSA - Remote2026-08-23RemoteResearch$150K – $250K

Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Health
OpenAISan Francisco2026-08-21Research$380K – $500K

Director of Research, Text-to-Speech
DeepgramUSA - Remote2026-08-21RemoteResearch$234K – $361K

Research Engineer – Benchmarking
MercorSan Francisco2026-08-18Research$200K – $500K

Product Marketing Lead, API Models & Research
OpenAISan Francisco2026-08-14RemoteMarketing$374K – $415K

Researcher, Frontier Risk Mitigations
OpenAISan Francisco2026-08-10Safety Systems$380K – $500K

Researcher, Recursive Self-Improvement Safety
OpenAISan Francisco2026-08-07Safety Systems$380K – $500K

Research Engineer / Research Scientist / AI Systems Engineer, RSI
OpenAISan Francisco2026-08-05RemoteResearch$295K – $445K

Researcher, Alignment CoT Monitorability
OpenAISan Francisco2026-08-04Research$295K – $500K

Member of Technical Staff, Research
Fireworks AISan Mateo2026-08-04RemoteEngineering$210K – $320K

Researcher, Multimodal Safety
OpenAISan Francisco2026-08-03Safety Systems$380K – $500K

Researcher, Frontier Cybersecurity Risks
OpenAISan Francisco2026-08-03Safety Systems$380K – $500K

Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Personalization
OpenAISan Francisco2026-08-03Research$380K – $500K

Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Memory
OpenAISan Francisco2026-08-03Research$380K – $500K

Research Engineer / Scientist (Robot Learning)
World LabsSan Francisco2026-07-28Research$250K – $350K

Research Scientist / Engineer – Reinforcement Learning Infrastructure
Luma AIRedwood City, CA2026-07-24RemoteResearch & AI$195K – $395K

Research Engineer, Real Environments
MercorSan Francisco2026-07-24Engineering$160K – $500K

Research Operations, Code
MercorSan Francisco2026-07-22Engineering$130K – $250K

Research Engineer/Research Scientist- Personal AGI, Model Experience
OpenAISan Francisco2026-07-22Research$380K – $500K

Research Engineer
DecagonSan Francisco2026-07-22Engineering$200K – $400K

Staff User Researcher
HarveySan Francisco2026-07-21Design$158K – $264K

Research Program Manager, Human Data Campaigns
OpenAISan Francisco2026-07-21RemoteResearch$239K – $328K

Research Scientist
SesameSan Francisco2026-07-14Machine Learning$190K – $320K

Research Engineer - Evals
FirecrawlSan Francisco HQ; Toronto Hub2026-07-12RemoteEngineering Team$250K – $290K

Member of Technical Staff, Applied Research
LlamaIndexSan Francisco2026-07-08RemoteEngineering$180K – $250K

Member of Technical Staff - Research, Post-Training
ModalNew York2026-07-05Engineering$150K – $350K

Member of Technical Staff - Research, Inference
ModalNew York2026-07-05Engineering$150K – $350K

Research Scientist, Data
PikaUS remote2026-07-01RemoteResearch$185K – $400K

Research Engineer/Research Scientist - Personal AGI, North Stars
OpenAISan Francisco2026-06-25RemoteResearch$380K – $500K

Agent Post-Training Research
OpenAISan Francisco2026-06-25Research$380K – $500K

Principal Research Engineer, Post-Training
Character.AIRedwood City, CA2026-06-22Technical Staff - ML$275K – $400K

Research Engineer
SesameSan Francisco2026-06-17Machine Learning$190K – $320K

Research Program Manager, Data Acquisition
OpenAISan Francisco2026-06-05Research$239K – $328K

Senior Research Engineer, Audio and Speech
DecagonSan Francisco2026-05-18Engineering$200K – $400K

Protection Scientist Engineer, Integrity
OpenAISan Francisco2026-05-05Applied AI$198K – $425K

Machine Learning Researcher, Multimodal LLMs
Bland AISan Francisco2026-04-21Engineering$160K – $280K

Machine Learning Researcher, Audio
Bland AISan Francisco2026-04-20Engineering$160K – $280K

Research Scientist
HedraSan Francisco2026-04-15Research$200K – $325K

Research Engineer
HedraSan Francisco2026-04-15Research$175K – $275K

Research Engineer - Environments, Data and Post-Training
MercorSan Francisco2026-03-25Research$180K – $500K

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