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San Francisco or Singapore or Singapore or United States
OnsiteFull Time
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.
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.
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.
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/yrOnsiteFull Time
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
AI Whistleblowing Research Manager (San Francisco/London)
San Francisco or London
$110k-$190k/yrHybridFull Time
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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).
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.
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.