1,657 research manager jobs at 587 companies in Berkeley, CA

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Research Manager
San Francisco or Singapore or Singapore or United States
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HUD
HUD: Private AI platform building reinforcement-learning environments, evaluating models, and delivering post-training data to frontier AI labs.
Experience leading technical research projects to completion, directly managing and mentoring researchers or research engineers, strong understanding of machine learning and reinforcement learning, and experience with agent training data, evals, benchmarks, synthetic data, or model evaluation infrastructure.
ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor
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Research Manager
San Francisco, California, United States
$170k-$260k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Center for AI Safety
Center for AI Safety: A nonprofit AI safety research and advocacy organization reducing societal-scale risks from artificial intelligence.
Experienced researcher with strong research track record, ability to unblock technical problems, people and project management skills, familiarity with empirical deep learning and large language/multimodal models, and excellent communication.
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Research Manager
San Francisco or New York City
$150k-$190k/yr HybridFull Time
Outset
Outset: AI-moderated research platform that helps research teams run interviews, recruit participants, and synthesize customer insights.
5+ YOE5+ years in research, insights, or strategy roles; strong qualitative research, project ownership, client relationship, data synthesis, communication, and quantitative and narrative analysis skills.
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Manager, Research Services
Boston or Orange County or New York or Santa Monica or Washington or California or Los Angeles or San Diego or San Francisco or Philadelphia
$104k-$156k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Goodwin Procter
Goodwin Procter: Law firm serving investors, entrepreneurs, and companies in life sciences, private equity, real estate, technology, and finance.
7+ YOE2+ MgmtBachelor's required; MLIS/MLS preferred. 7+ years legal research experience, 2+ years people management, expertise with legal/business research platforms, strong communication and analytical skills.
Westlaw, Lexis, Bloomberg Law, PACER, SEC/EDGAR, D&B/Capital IQ, Factiva
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Research Operations Manager
San Francisco, California, United States
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Nudge
Nudge: Private neurotechnology developing non-invasive focused-ultrasound brain-interface devices for medical and everyday use.
5+ YOEAt least 5 years of relevant experience in research or study operations, program management, or complex interdisciplinary projects, with project management, process-building, communication, and team leadership skills.
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Research Program Manager
San Francisco, California, United States
$239k-$328k/yr HybridFull Time
OpenAI
OpenAI: AI research and deployment focused on beneficial AGI.
5+ YOE5+ years in research or technical program management; technical fluency in AI research, engineering workflows, data, experiments, compute, safety, or distributed systems; strong cross-functional execution and communication.
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Research Product Manager
San Francisco, California, United States
$175k-$475k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Thinking Machines Lab
Thinking Machines Lab: Private AI research and product building customizable multimodal systems for researchers and the wider public.
Degree in CS/AI/math/physics/engineering, experience in research program or product management, strong technical communication, ability to learn new domains; Masters/PhD and publications preferred.
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Research Partnership Manager
Palo Alto or London
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Odyssey
Odyssey: AI lab developing causal, multimodal general-purpose world models for developers and partners.
Operationally manage R&D and commercial partnerships, drive delivery plans, coordinate cross-functional stakeholders, perform diligence on security requirements, and translate research blockers into actionable updates.
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AI Whistleblowing Research Manager (San Francisco/London)
San Francisco or London
$110k-$190k/yr HybridFull Time
The AI Whistleblower Initiative
The AI Whistleblower Initiative: Independent nonprofit supporting frontier AI insiders, lawyers, and journalists through research, policy advocacy, and vetted legal resources.
Track record managing research projects to completion; experience recruiting and managing external researchers; strong judgment on research quality; broad research interests in AI safety, policy, psychology, law, or journalism; US or UK work authorization.
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Research Program Manager
San Francisco, California, United States
$175k-$191k/yr OnsiteFull Time
AfterQuery
AfterQuery: N AI applied research lab serving frontier model developers with training data and evaluation systems.
1+ YOE1-3+ years in research operations or technical program management; technical background in computer science, machine learning, statistics or related field; working Python and SQL; evaluation literacy; excellent communication; track record running cross-functional programs.
Python, SQL
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Research Data Manager
San Francisco, California, United States
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University of California, San Francisco
University of California, San Francisco: Public research university dedicated to health sciences and patient care.
3+ YOEBachelor's degree or equivalent, 3+ years in database design/data pipeline engineering, strong SQL and Python or R skills, experience in research data environments, and excellent interdisciplinary communication.
SQL, Python, R, Stata, SAS, NONMEM, OMOP, CDISC, LOINC, FHIR
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Manager, Strategic Clinical Research
Sunnyvale, California, United States
$146k-$179k/yr HybridFull Time
Ceribell
CeribellNasdaq: CBLL: AI-powered point-of-care EEG revolutionizing seizure management in acute care
7+ YOEAdvanced degree (PhD, MA/MS, MD, PharmD) in scientific/clinical field; 7+ years clinical research experience with 5+ in medical device/pharma; strong research methodology and project management; experience with EHR, RWE, neurology, pediatric, or neonatal research preferred.
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Research Manager, AI Infrastructure
Palo Alto or San Jose
$203k-$311k/yr HybridFull Time
Lenovo
LenovoHKSE: 992: Global technology delivering Smarter Technology for All.
8+ YOE3+ MgmtPhD or MS in computer science or related field; 8+ years in systems/architecture/AI infrastructure R&D including 3+ years leading research teams; deep technical expertise in at least two areas; US citizenship or US national required; no sponsorship.
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Machine Learning Research Manager
San Francisco or United States
$200k-$230k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Rad AI
Rad AI: Healthcare AI software helping radiologists automate reporting and patient follow-up while reducing documentation burden.
6+ YOEMS/PhD or equivalent; 6+ years applied ML research; prior people management or team lead experience; strong NLP/LLM and transformer expertise; experience taking research to production; collaboration and communication skills.
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Manager, Research Scientist
San Francisco or New York City
$290k-$363k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Scale AI
Scale AI: Develops data and infrastructure for AI systems.
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.
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Research Scientist Manager, Climate and Energy
Alameda, California, United States
$207k-$300k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Google
GoogleNASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL: Global technology specializing in internet-related services and products.
4+ YOEPhD in physics, engineering, or related field; 4 years managing research agendas across teams or projects; experience with advanced physical systems; experimental research, analysis, and leadership skills.
High vacuum systems, Pulse power systems, Optics and lasers, Cryogenic systems, Simulation, Computational analysis
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AI Research Manager - Meta Superintelligence Labs
Menlo Park, California, United States
$219k-$301k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Meta
MetaNASDAQ: META: Builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses.
6+ YOE4+ MgmtPhD in computer science, machine learning, or related field; 6+ years AI research experience; 4+ years managing researchers or engineers; LLM post-training and technical leadership experience required.
Large Language Models, SFT, RLHF, RLVR, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP
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Research Product Manager (RPM)
San Francisco, California, United States
$150k-$210k/yr HybridFull Time
Abundant
Abundant: AI research lab building reinforcement-learning environments and datasets for AI labs and enterprises.
Design and implement model capabilities, run experiments and benchmarks, perform literature review, build research data pipelines, strong RL/LLM/agent knowledge, and proficiency coding agents (Codex, Claude Code).
Oddish, Codex, Claude Code
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Research Manager, Biological Safety
San Francisco, California, United States
$405k-$485k/yr HybridFull Time
Anthropic
Anthropic: AI research developing safe and steerable AI systems.
8+ YOE3+ MgmtTechnical team management, Python, scientific programming, data analysis, ML fundamentals, biology and biosecurity knowledge, quantitative evaluation design, and strong analytical and writing skills. Bachelor’s degree required.
Python, large language models
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Research Lead, Training
San Francisco or New York City
$400k-$600k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Goodfire
Goodfire: Private AI research building interpretability tools that help organizations understand, debug, and design AI models.
Senior research leader to set and execute model training research agenda, lead and grow a training organization, balance research with delivery, and drive interpretability-informed and alignment work.