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Senior Applied Scientist
Siemens 1AI ResearcherSenior
Ablation Studies · Artificial Intelligence · Bias detection
CareersUpdated August 25, 2026
AI Researcher Jobs
67 open positions across the agentic economy.
01Overview
What is an AI Researcher?
An AI Researcher works on the science behind machine learning systems: publishing papers, running experiments at scale, and pushing capability frontiers in areas like alignment, reasoning, multimodality, or efficient training. Unlike applied ML roles, researchers often have a PhD and contribute to the open literature; their day-to-day mixes literature reviews, experiment design, GPU-hours bookkeeping, and writing. Top-tier hires land at frontier labs (Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepMind, Meta FAIR) or at research-heavy startups working on a specific bet (Sakana, Reka, Cohere).
As of August 2026, AgenticCareers tracks 67 open AI Researcher positions across 28 companies. The median advertised salary is $200K–$300K per year (based on 11 listings with disclosed pay). 10% of roles are remote. The most active employers are Anthropic, Scale AI, Datadog.
Full AI Researcher salary data02At a glance
Role overview
- Top companies hiring
- Common skills
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- Remote availability
- 10% remote
- Salary range
- $135K – $550K
03Open roles
All AI Researcher positions
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Staff Applied Scientist, Financial Forecasting
VercelAI ResearcherStaff
AI Researcher
$250K–$330K / yr
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AI Research Scientist - Datadog AI Research (DAIR)
DatadogAI ResearcherMid
AI Researcher
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Senior Principal Applied Scientist
SiemensAI ResearcherStaff
Siemens builds the systems the physical world runs on: factories, power grids, buildings, trains, hospitals. Industrial and physical AI is a major opportunity in applied AI, and one of the harder ones to get right. There is a generation of AI-powered products to build. We are an applied science organization building the science behind them. The work sits at the intersection of machine learning research, real world data, and production systems running in industrial environments. As Seni
$197K–$267K / yr
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AI Research Engineer - AI Safety
HelsingAI ResearcherMid
AI Researcher
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AI Research Engineer - Datadog AI Research (DAIR)
DatadogAI ResearcherMid
AI Researcher
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AI Research Scientist - Datadog AI Research (DAIR)
DatadogAI ResearcherMid
AI Researcher
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Senior Applied Scientist
DatadogAI ResearcherSenior
AI Researcher
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Staff Applied Scientist - Agentic Interfaces
DatadogAI ResearcherStaff
AI Researcher
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Research Scientist
Snorkel AIAI ResearcherMid
AI Researcher
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Research Scientist - Frontier Benchmarks
Snorkel AIAI ResearcherMid
AI Researcher
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[Expression of Interest] Research Engineer / Scientist, Alignment - London
AnthropicAI ResearcherMid
AI Researcher
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Research Engineer, Chip Design RL (Reinforcement Learning)
AnthropicAI ResearcherMid
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Research Engineer, Code RL (Reinforcement Learning)
AnthropicAI ResearcherMid
AI Researcher
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Research Engineer, Computer Use
AnthropicAI ResearcherMid
AI Researcher
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Research Engineer, Cybersecurity RL (Reinforcement Learning)
AnthropicAI ResearcherMid
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Research Engineer, Domain Scaling
AnthropicAI ResearcherMid
AI Researcher
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Research Engineer, Knowledge Team
AnthropicAI ResearcherMid
AI Researcher
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Research Engineer, Machine Learning (Reinforcement Learning)
AnthropicAI ResearcherMid
AI Researcher
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Research Engineer, Machine Learning (Reinforcement Learning)
AnthropicAI ResearcherMid
AI Researcher
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Research Engineer, Machine Learning (RL Velocity)
AnthropicAI ResearcherMid
AI Researcher
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Research Engineer, Machine Learning (RL Velocity)
AnthropicAI ResearcherMid
AI Researcher
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Research Engineer, Model Evaluations
AnthropicAI ResearcherMid
AI Researcher
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Research Engineer, Performance RL (Reinforcement Learning)
AnthropicAI ResearcherMid
AI Researcher
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Research Engineer, RL Engineering
AnthropicAI ResearcherMid
AI Researcher
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Research Engineer, RL Scaling Science
AnthropicAI ResearcherMid
AI Researcher
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Research Engineer / Scientist, Alignment
AnthropicAI ResearcherMid
About Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems. About the role: You want to build and run elegant and thorough machine learning experiments to help us understand and steer the behavior of powerful AI systems. Y
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Research Engineer, Universes
AnthropicAI ResearcherMid
AI Researcher
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Research Scientist, Takeoff Intel
AnthropicAI ResearcherMid
AI Researcher
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Senior Research Scientist
MongodbAI ResearcherSenior
AI Researcher
04Common questions
Frequently asked
What is an AI Researcher?
An AI Researcher works on the science behind machine learning systems: publishing papers, running experiments at scale, and pushing capability frontiers in areas like alignment, reasoning, multimodality, or efficient training. Unlike applied ML roles, researchers often have a PhD and contribute to the open literature; their day-to-day mixes literature reviews, experiment design, GPU-hours bookkeeping, and writing. Top-tier hires land at frontier labs (Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepMind, Meta FAIR) or at research-heavy startups working on a specific bet (Sakana, Reka, Cohere).
How many AI Researcher jobs are available?
As of August 2026, AgenticCareers tracks 67 open AI Researcher positions across 28 companies, updated daily.
What is the average AI Researcher salary?
The median advertised AI Researcher salary is $200K–$300K per year, based on 11 listings with disclosed pay.
Are AI Researcher jobs remote?
10% of the AI Researcher roles currently tracked on AgenticCareers are remote.
Which companies are hiring AI Researchers?
The most active employers hiring AI Researchers right now are Anthropic, Scale AI, Datadog.
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