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Flight Research Systems Engineer
Concord, California, United States
$105k-$152k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Joby Aviation
Joby AviationNYSE: JOBY: Manufacturer of electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.
5+ YOEBS in Aerospace/Systems/Electrical Engineering with 5+ years (or MS+3), systems engineering for safety-critical vehicles, SSA/FHA/FMECA experience, requirements tool proficiency (Jama/Polarion/DOORS), US Person export-control eligibility.
Jama, Polarion, Flow, DOORS, HIL, Cameo/MagicDraw, Capella, Rhapsody
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Systems/GPU Research Engineer
San Francisco or Los Angeles
$160k-$320k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Vast.ai
Vast.ai: Decentralized marketplace for GPU cloud computing resources.
Expertise in systems and GPU engineering, GPU architectures, neural network performance, C++/CUDA/Python proficiency, and strong research background with publications preferred.
C++, CUDA, GPGPU, Python, Linux
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Research Engineer / Research Scientist / AI Systems Engineer, RSI
San Francisco, California, United States
$295k-$445k/yr HybridFull Time
OpenAI
OpenAI: Develops artificial intelligence models and generative AI software services.
Experience in LLM training, model evaluations, agent systems, synthetic data, research infrastructure, and large-scale distributed systems; strong generalist able to move between research and implementation; rigorous scientific judgment and concern for safety and reliability.
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Research Engineer Robotics (Systems)
Redmond or Burlingame
$184k-$257k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Meta
MetaNASDAQ: META: Develops social networking platforms and virtual reality technologies.
5+ YOEBachelor's in CS/CE/Robotics or equivalent, 5+ years robotics engineering experience, ML systems in robotics, full-stack software-hardware systems engineering, strong communication and project delivery skills.
ROS/ROS2
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Research Engineer, Infrastructure, Training Systems
San Francisco, California, United States
$350k-$475k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Thinking Machines
Thinking Machines: Building AI systems to extend human will and judgment.
Bachelor's or equivalent, strong systems engineering, experience with distributed training and deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, JAX); contributions to ML infra preferred.
PyTorch, JAX, XLA, Megatron-LM, DeepSpeed
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Research Engineer
Redwood City, California, United States
$180k-$300k/yr HybridFull Time
DatologyAI
DatologyAI: Automated data curation for efficient AI model training.
4+ YOEBachelor's or equivalent, 4+ years research lab experience, strong ML systems and distributed training background, software engineering and empirical research skills; PhD preferred; publication/open-source contributions valued.
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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
San Francisco, California, United States
$100k-$200k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Human Archive
Human Archive: A research lab focused on embodied intelligence and robotics backed by YC.
Master’s or PhD in robotics, computer vision, sensing systems, or related fields; published research in sensor fusion, perception systems, multimodal datasets, or embodied AI; experience with RGB-D, IMUs, motion capture, tactile sensing, or robotics systems; strong hardware intuition; experience with RL and real deployments.
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Research Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
Pantograph
Pantograph: Building generally intelligent, affordable robots using internet-scale video training.
Experience training models on large GPU clusters, operating distributed systems, processing large datasets, and building research or production infrastructure; comfort with Kubernetes and large-scale data tools.
Kubernetes, JAX, CUDA, Linux
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Research Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
$180k-$280k/yr HybridFull Time
SuperAnnotate
SuperAnnotate: Platform for building high-quality training datasets for AI models.
MS/PhD or equivalent research experience in ML/CS, deep ML knowledge, hands-on experience with RL/agentic systems or multimodal evaluation, strong Python skills, autonomy, and technical writing.
Python
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Senior Research Engineer - Video Agents
San Francisco, California, United States
$220k-$280k/yr HybridFull Time, Temporary
Canva
Canva: Online graphic design platform for creating and editing visual content.
5+ YOE5+ years ML research or research engineering; experience shipping LLM-powered systems; Python and PyTorch; multimodal models; agent planning, memory, and evals; strong experimentation.
Python, PyTorch
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Research Engineer, Applied AI
San Francisco, California, United States
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HeyMilo
HeyMilo: Automates candidate screening and interviews using AI voice agents.
Advanced degree in AI/ML or CS, strong RL and LLM experience, Python and systems engineering skills, experience with containers and cloud, and ability to own research-to-production projects.
Python, Docker, Linux, LLMs
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Research Platform Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
$200k-$300k/yr HybridFull Time
World Labs
World Labs: Building foundational AI models to perceive and simulate 3D worlds.
5+ YOE5+ years building and shipping production systems; strong in at least one area of ML infra, distributed systems, data systems, or research tooling; Python expert; experience with ML researchers; high ownership mindset.
Python, C++, CUDA, Rust, Go
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Research Engineer
Berkeley or London or United States
$141k-$930k/yr HybridFull Time
Resolution
Resolution: Conducts research on aligning artificial superintelligence with human intent.
Strong software engineering with production Python, ML framework experience (PyTorch or Jax), distributed-training knowledge, ability to ship complex systems, bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in CS/physics/math/ML, and motivation for ASI alignment.
Python, PyTorch, Jax, CUDA, Slack
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Senior Research Engineer - Video Agents
San Francisco or Sydney
$220k-$280k/yr HybridFull Time
Canva
Canva: Cloud-based visual communication and graphic design software platform.
5+ YOE5+ years of ML research or research engineering experience, production LLM systems, agent-building experience, strong Python and PyTorch skills, and multimodal model experience.
Python, PyTorch, LLM, LLM-as-judge
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Research Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
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Altara
Altara: Building a scientific intelligence platform for physical R&D.
Experience in applying AI/ML engineering, multi-agent workflows, multimodal data, or knowledge retrieval systems; strong product-minded and customer-focused mindset.
Python, Machine Learning, Multimodal data, LLM, Knowledge retrieval
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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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Founding Research Engineer
New York City or San Francisco
$215k-$330k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Ambral
Ambral: AI-powered account managers for enterprise customer success teams.
4+ YOE4+ years building production software or ML systems, including 2+ years with RL environments or evaluation/agent infrastructure; strong software engineering, data processing, reproducibility, and evaluation skills.
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Machine Learning Research Engineer
Redwood City or Palo Alto
$140k-$240k/yr HybridFull Time
WindBorne Systems
WindBorne Systems: Operates smart weather balloons to provide global atmospheric data.
Strong ML research and engineering skills with Python and PyTorch, experience with large messy datasets, research taste, and ability to convert experiments into reusable systems.
Python, PyTorch
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Research Engineer, AI Models
San Francisco or United States
HybridFull Time
EnCharge AI: Develops energy-efficient analog in-memory AI hardware and software systems.
5+ YOE5+ years in ML research/systems, strong Python and PyTorch, hands-on with transformers/diffusion models, fine-tuning and evaluation pipelines, hardware-aware ML optimizations and benchmarking experience.
Python, PyTorch, PyTorch Profiler, Nsight
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