464 research scientist jobs at 193 companies in Napa, CA
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Berkeley or London or United States
$141k-$930k/yrHybridFull Time
Resolution: Conducts research on aligning artificial superintelligence with human intent.
Graduate degree (bachelor's required; PhD or equivalent preferred) in a relevant field, track record of research and technical writing, strong mathematical background, experience with empirical or theoretical research, willingness to use AI tools.
Parallel: Build web infrastructure and search APIs for AI agents.
Deep intuition on modern models and training; expertise in transformer, search, and recommendation model interactions; focus on applied research that can be productized at scale.
Eleos AI Research: Nonprofit research organization studying AI consciousness and moral status.
Design and run empirical ML research on AI well-being; strong publication record; experimental design and engineering skills; familiarity with AI welfare/safety; PhD preferred.
Engram: Developing persistent memory layers for enterprise AI systems.
Deep ML background with research track record; expertise in continual learning, memory architectures, parameter-efficient fine-tuning, retrieval, synthetic data, or agents; strong systems understanding and technical communication.
Tabula Bio: An AI-first therapeutics using physics-based modeling and experimental data to design bacteriophage therapies.
Ph.D. in physics or related (or equivalent research experience); strong numerical methods, large-scale simulation, PDE modeling, statistical mechanics, optimization, HPC; fluency in Python; PyTorch familiarity a plus; collaborative with wet lab.
Scale AI: Provides data and infrastructure for training artificial intelligence models.
5+ YOE5+ years research experience (PhD preferred) in ML/DL/generative models/agents/RL, track record of top-tier publications, experience leading research teams, excellent written and verbal communication.
Clera: AI talent agent matching professionals with high-growth startup roles
0+ YOEBackground in machine learning, AI research, or related engineering; experience with LLMs, formal verification, robotics simulation, scientific computing, or data pipelines; strong first-principles thinking and early-stage adaptability.
Pantograph: Building generally intelligent, affordable robots using internet-scale video training.
Experience with large-scale pretraining, self-supervised or goal-conditioned RL, robotics or video sequence modeling, and training models on large GPU clusters; strong scientific rigor.
Arcade: Design and buy custom physical products using generative AI.
Ph.D. in a related AI or computer science field; top-tier publications; expert Vision-Language Model knowledge, Python, PyTorch, multimodal architectures, and transformer-based computer vision.
Center for AI Safety: Conducts research and advocacy to mitigate AI risks.
PhD-level or equivalent research record with multiple top-conference publications or substantial AI lab research; empirical deep-learning experience, ability to run and debug ML experiments, and strong communication.
AmazonNASDAQ: AMZN: Global online retail and cloud computing technology provider.
4+ YOEPhD or master's degree with 4+ years of quantitative field research experience; scientific problem-solving, experimental and observational data analysis required.
Epsilon Health: Provides AI-powered radiology diagnostic services and medical imaging software.
6+ YOE6+ years in vision-language or multimodal research, deep expertise in large-scale VLM pretraining, proficiency in PyTorch or JAX, experience with distributed multi-GPU training and medical imaging applications.
MetaNASDAQ: META: Develops social networking platforms and virtual reality technologies.
5+ YOEPhD in CS/ML/NLP required prior to joining, 5+ years autonomous ML/NLP research, expertise in LLMs, Python and PyTorch experience, and experience developing ML models at scale.
Astera Institute: Conducts fundamental research in artificial intelligence and longevity science.
Ph.D. or equivalent in a relevant field; experience programming in Python; familiarity with Jax, Pytorch, NumPy, SciPy; research experience in computational/theoretical neuroscience; data analysis, statistics, or ML experience; ability to work independently and communicate results.
Sprinter Health: Mobile provider of in-home diagnostic and preventive healthcare services.
Deep ML research experience, strong track record of novel contributions, ability to run experiments at scale, clinical collaboration experience, and familiarity with healthcare validation and external evaluation.
Pennsylvania or Boston or Rahway or South San Francisco
$117k-$184k/yrHybridFull Time
Merck & Co.NYSE: MRK: Produces prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.
3+ YOEDegree in life sciences (BS/MS/PhD with corresponding experience), 3+ years as an operational clinical scientist/study manager, knowledge of clinical development, GCP/ICH, safety reporting, scientific/medical writing, and project management.
Mountain View or San Francisco or Kirkland or New York City
$213k-$263k/yrHybridFull Time
Waymo: Autonomous driving technology for ride-hailing and logistics.
2+ YOEMasters or PhD in CS/ML/Robotics, 2+ years industry or post-doc research experience in reinforcement learning or foundation models, strong publication record, experience with distributed training (Data parallel, FSDP), and scalable model evaluation and data pipelines.