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Senior Behavioral Scientist
Austin or San Francisco or Chicago or New York City or Arlington
$166k-$230k/yr HybridFull Time
BetterUp
BetterUp: Digital platform for professional coaching and employee mental fitness.
PhD in behavioral or organizational science, expertise in measurement, advanced analytics, executive communication, and applied behavioral science; experience with quantitative and qualitative data and business-facing research.
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Research Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
$200k-$350k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Console
Console: Automates IT support and internal operations using AI agents.
Experience building production AI systems, evals, model adaptation, and applied research engineering to improve agent behavior in real-world conditions.
Slack, Teams, DSPy, GEPA, LoRA, QLoRA, SFT, distillation, DPO, GRPO
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Research Engineer – Benchmarking
San Francisco or New York City or London
$130k-$500k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Mercor
Mercor: Connecting expert human intelligence with frontier AI model development.
Applied AI research, model evaluation or benchmarking, strong coding and ML experience, data structures and algorithms, backend systems, APIs, SQL or NoSQL, cloud platforms, and model behavior analysis.
SQL, NoSQL, NeurIPS, ICML, ACL
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Research Scientist, All-Optical Working Memory
Emeryville, California, United States
$80k-$150k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Astera Institute
Astera Institute: Conducts fundamental research in artificial intelligence and longevity science.
PhD or equivalent research experience, hands-on mouse survival surgery, and expertise in neuroscience research. Preferred: two-photon imaging, holographic optogenetics, neural-data analysis, rodent behavior, and scientific computing.
Python, MATLAB, Suite2p, CaImAn, Ti:Sapphire, ChRmine, GCaMP, GLM, IACUC, AAALAC, SLM
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Member of Technical Staff, Research Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
Plato
Plato: Building foundational infrastructure to train specialized AI agents.
Experienced research engineer with strong implementation ability; background in RL, LLM agents, evals, simulation, model behavior analysis, and building end-to-end systems for curriculum and task generation.
RL, LLM, evals
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Clinical Research Scientist, Mental Health AI
San Francisco, California, United States
$140k-$185k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Vals AI
Vals AI: Building enterprise benchmarks for evaluating LLM performance.
PhD/PsyD/MD or equivalent research experience in clinical/behavioral fields, track record publishing and leading studies, expertise in study design, psychometrics, human-subjects research, and strong communication skills.
Python, Django, React, AWS, CDK
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Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Personality and Model Behavior
San Francisco, California, United States
$295k-$555k/yr HybridFull Time
OpenAI
OpenAI: Develops artificial intelligence models and generative AI software services.
Research experience with machine learning, reinforcement learning, reward modeling, model training and evaluation; strong ML engineering skills and ability to work in large codebases.
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Founding Research Scientist, Human Simulation
San Francisco, California, United States
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Listen Labs
Listen Labs: Automates customer research interviews through generative AI platforms.
Strong research track record in AI, LLMs, post-training, RLHF, behavioral modeling, or simulation. Founding role; ability to define problems, scope programs, and communicate clearly.
Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, RLHF, Evaluation, Simulation
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Life Science Research Professional 1
Stanford, California, United States
$33-$38/hr OnsiteFull Time
Stanford University
Stanford University: A private research university providing higher education and research.
Bachelors in a related scientific field, experience with in-vivo rodent research, animal surgeries, behavioral assays, quantitative analysis (MATLAB, Python), strong communication and organizational skills.
MATLAB, Python
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Principal Research Scientist, Robotics
Mountain View, California, United States
$235k-$366k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Samsung Research America: A research organization advancing robotics and artificial intelligence through applied R&D and collaboration.
11+ YOEPhD in CS/EE/Robotics or equivalent, 11+ years post-grad robotics R&D, strong publication record, experience with robotics, ML, planning, computer vision, and implementing behaviors on real robots.
PyTorch, TensorFlow, C++, ROS, CUDA
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Research Associate, In Vivo
Redwood City, California, United States
$95k-$115k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Retro Biosciences
Retro Biosciences: Developing therapies to extend healthy human lifespan.
2+ YOEBS/AS in biology, veterinary science or related field (or 5+ years equivalent),2+ years rodent husbandry/colony experience, experience with dose administration, blood collection, necropsy, anesthesia, behavior assays, and ability to lift 50 lbs.
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Senior Research Scientist, Human‑AI Perception and Interaction
Santa Clara, California, United States
$192k-$357k/yr OnsiteFull Time
NVIDIA
NVIDIANASDAQ: NVDA: Designs GPU-accelerated computing and artificial intelligence hardware.
3+ YOEPh.D. or equivalent, 3+ years relevant experience, strong publication record, experience studying human behavior, proficiency with Python/Rust/C++ and PyTorch, mentoring and collaboration experience.
Python, Rust, C++, PyTorch
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Assistant Professor in Animal Behavior or Behavioral Ecology
Santa Clara, California, United States
$105k-$117k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Santa Clara University
Santa Clara University: Private Jesuit university in Silicon Valley providing diverse education.
1+ YOEPh.D. in animal behavior/behavioral ecology or related field (completed at application), ≥12 months postdoctoral experience, evidence of research and undergraduate mentorship, and effective inclusive teaching.
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Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian - Library
Berkeley, California, United States
$83k-$109k/yr OnsiteFull Time
University of California
University of California: A public research university system providing education and healthcare.
Advanced degree required; experience with academic library instruction, social science research methods, evidence synthesis, and data discovery; strong communication and analytical skills.
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Associates and Consultants (Behavioral Science)
Boston or New York or San Francisco or Seattle or Washington DC
$110k-$176k/yr HybridFull Time
Keystone Strategy
Keystone Strategy: A premier economics, technology, and strategy consulting firm delivering transformation and insights across industries.
Bachelor's in economics/behavioral economics/psychology/cognitive science/marketing/statistics/data science/public policy; target GPA 3.6+; graduate degree a plus; experience in consulting, academic research, or market research; experimental design or survey methods experience.
Python, R, Stata
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Member of Technical Staff, Model Evaluation
San Francisco, California, United States
$350k-$500k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Mirendil
Mirendil: Developing frontier artificial intelligence models to accelerate scientific research.
Build evaluation frameworks, automated pipelines, observability tooling, and agent-assisted workflows; partner with training and RL teams to measure and improve model behavior.
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UX Researcher
Chicago or Culver City or San Francisco
$85k-$95k/yr HybridFull Time
Ipsos
IpsosEuronext Paris: IPS: Provides global market research and strategic consulting services.
2+ YOERequires 2+ years of UX or related research experience, with UX research or design preferred; bachelor's degree or equivalent in human factors, HCI, behavioral sciences, or fine arts; communication, moderation, analysis, and mentoring skills.
HCI
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Research Product Manager, Model Behaviors
San Francisco or New York City
$385k-$460k/yr HybridFull Time
Anthropic
Anthropic: Developing safe and reliable artificial intelligence systems.
5+ YOE5+ years product management leading scaled conversational AI products, Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, strong ML knowledge, user empathy, judgment on model behavior, and track record delivering user-facing products.
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Sr. Staff Quantitative Product Researcher
San Francisco or United States
$164k-$337k/yr HybridFull Time
Pinterest
PinterestNYSE: PINS: Visual discovery engine for finding and saving ideas.
7+ YOERequires 7+ years of quantitative user research with large-scale consumer data, expertise in surveys, modeling, experimentation, behavioral analysis, ML evaluation, R or Python, SQL, and data visualization. PhD preferred.
R, Python, SQL
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Student Researcher (LLM Post Training – Agent & Reinforcement Learning) - 2026 Start (PhD)
San Jose, California, United States
OnsiteInternship
ByteDance
ByteDance: Developing AI-driven content platforms and mobile applications.
Pursuing a PhD in CS/AI, research experience in reinforcement learning or agent behavior, first-author ML conference publications, and strong programming/experimentation skills with RL/LLM frameworks.
LLM, RL, WebArena, ALFWorld
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