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Foster City, CA7 days ago

$215,300–$344,600 Per Year

We engage with the company's numerous technology and product teams, world-wide business partners, academics, and governments, to explore and develop technologies that will shape the future of the payments industry and impact the lives of billions of people.   . Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Foster City, CA7 days ago

$169,100–$270,800 Per Year

The ideal candidate will focus on conducting advanced research in one or more subfields, for example, quantum error correction, quantum optimization, quantum simulation, quantum machine learning, distributed quantum computing and/or quantum security and privacy with the aim of applying their research outcomes to financial services and payments. We engage with the company's numerous technology and product teams, world-wide business partners, academics, and governments, to explore and develop technologies that will shape the future of the payments industry and impact the lives of billions of people.

San Francisco, CA25 days ago

As a Research Scientist, you"ll also actively contribute to the wider research community by sharing and publishing your findings, with ideas inspired by internal projects as well as from collaborations with research programs at partner universities and technical institutes all over the world.

Mountain View, CA19 days ago

Sunnyvale, CA30+ days ago

From creating experiments and prototyping implementations to designing new architectures, our research scientists work on real-world problems that span the breadth of computer science, such as machine (and deep) learning, data mining, natural language processing, hardware and software performance analysis, improving compilers for mobile platforms, as well as core search and much more. As a Research Scientist, you"ll also actively contribute to the wider research community by sharing and publishing your findings, with ideas inspired by internal projects as well as from collaborations with research programs at partner universities and technical institutes all over the world.

Mountain View, CA27 days ago

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Sunnyvale, CA30+ days ago

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Mountain View, CA25 days ago

Participate in a wide variety of research, including learning from simulation, reinforcement learning, learning from demonstrations, vision-language-action (VLA) models, transformers, video generation, robot control, humanoid robots, and more. You will be working on enabling robots to perform human level manipulation, using frontier robotics models for general purpose dexterous tasks reaching human level performance on real world applications.

Redwood City, CA30+ days ago

p>Research Scientists at Riot combine deep technical expertise across machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), experimental design, and systems engineering to invent new ways players experience games. Your team will identify emerging research with the potential to meaningfully change gameplay, turn it into concrete gameplay experiments, and work with game teams to transform validated breakthroughs into options Riot can confidently commit to.

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Mountain View, CA1 day ago

Palo Alto, California22 days ago

Candidates have a strong background in one or more of the following areas:Agentic AI and Reasoning: Large language model (LLM)-powered agents, reinforcement learning (RL), reasoning and planning, autonomous workflows, self-evolving agent systems, computer use agents, deep research agents, and coding agents. Core Modeling and Post-Training: Machine learning methodology, pre-training and post-training techniques including reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) and direct preference optimization (DPO), model distillation, evaluation, causal inference, and time series modeling.

Sunnyvale, California30+ days ago

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Close the Loop: Design and execute high-quality post-training runs (CPT, SFT, RL) to deliver frontier performance on open-source models using curated, high-signal data. Agentic Environments: Design and implement the next generation of "SimLabs", ultra-realistic, long-horizon simulation environments where agents learn to navigate ambiguity and maintain context.

Mountain View, CA28 days ago

$251,000–$310,000 Per Year

Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver-The World''s Most Experienced Driver-to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.

Sunnyvale, CA30+ days ago

From creating experiments and prototyping implementations to designing new architectures, our research scientists work on real-world problems that span the breadth of computer science, such as machine (and deep) learning, data mining, natural language processing, hardware and software performance analysis, improving compilers for mobile platforms, as well as core search and much more. Take ownership of AI quality for production systems by defining technical metrics aligned with business goals, implementing evaluation frameworks, designing experiments, analyzing loss patterns, and driving improvements through system changes or training data enhancements.

Sunnyvale, CA30+ days ago

$207,000–$300,000 Per Year

From creating experiments and prototyping implementations to designing new architectures, our research scientists work on real-world problems that span the breadth of computer science, such as machine and deep learning, data mining, natural language processing, hardware and software performance analysis, improving compilers for mobile platforms, as well as core search and much more. As a Research Scientist, youll also actively contribute to the wider research community by sharing and publishing your findings with ideas inspired by internal projects as well as from collaborations with research programs at partner universities and technical institutes all over the world.

Mountain View, CA30+ days ago

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Mountain View, CA5 days ago

Mountain View, CA25 days ago

At Google DeepMind, we are a pioneering AI lab with exceptional interdisciplinary teams focused on advancing AI development to solve complex global challenges and accelerate high-quality product innovation for billions of users.

5 years of experience leading the cross-functional teams in complex, matrixed environments and ability to influence stakeholders, resolve incentives, and provide strategic technical judgment.

San Francisco, CA30+ days ago

You have deep expertise in generative AI, LLMs, agentic systems, knowledge graphs, reinforcement learning, and advanced architectures like Transformers and deep neural networks. You will lead high-impact research initiatives, collaborate with scientists and engineers to explore emerging techniques, and publish industry-leading ideas that empower our broader AI community.

Santa Clara, CA30+ days ago

D. or equivalent research experience in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering/Cognitive Science or related field • Excellent track record of publications in top-tier conferences (SIGGRAPH, CHI, HRI, ICRA, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, CoG, ETRA, etc.) • Experience with studying human behaviors in related application domains such as gaming, driving, interacting with robots, etc.

What youll be doing:

• Propose, research, prototype and test innovative research ideas • Publish at top conferences and patent novel inventions • Collaborate with other research team members, external researchers, and mentor interns • Create working interactive demonstrations to showcase your research ideas • Participate in technology transfer with engineers around NVIDIA as ideas "graduate" from research to product.

Sunnyvale, CA30+ days ago

As a Research Scientist, you'll also actively contribute to the wider research community by sharing and publishing your findings, with ideas inspired by internal projects as well as from collaborations with research programs at partner universities and technical institutes all over the world.

Sunnyvale, CA30+ days ago

Sunnyvale, CA12 days ago

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Focusing on a portfolio of Class II and III medical devices in the pulmonary space-including next-generation pre-label products-this leader will focus on translating biological and engineering insights into device design, regulatory submissions, and clinical studies. Certain information you provide as part of the application will be used for purposes of determining whether Intuitive Surgical will need to (i) obtain an export license from the U.S. Government on your behalf (note: the government's licensing process can take 3 to 6+ months) or (ii) implement a Technology Control Plan ("TCP") (note: typically adds 2 weeks to the hiring process).

Mountain View, CA30+ days ago

$197,000–$291,000 Per Year

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Stanford, CA30+ days ago

$74,000–$86,000 Per Year

The Cardinal at Work website (https://cardinalatwork.stanford.edu/benefits-rewards) provides detailed information on Stanfords extensive range of benefits and rewards offered to employees. The pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as, but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget availability, internal equity, geographic location, and external market pay for comparable jobs.

Stanford, CA30+ days ago

$77,124–$84,000 Per Year

The Yang Lab in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine is currently recruiting for an experienced virologist to join our lab as a Basic Life Science Research Scientist and work with a team of medicinal chemists, virologists, and structural biologists in developing prototype drugs to combat chronic viral infection. The pay offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on factors including but not limited to the experience and qualifications of the selected candidate, including equivalent years since their applicable education, field or discipline, departmental budget availability, internal equity, among other factors.

Mountain View, CA30+ days ago

p>In order to set you up for success as a Research Scientist on the Gemini Safety team, we look for the following skills and experience:

PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Key Responsibilities:
- Post-training / instruction tuning state of the art LLMs, focusing on text-to-text, image/video/audio-to-text modalities and agentic capabilities.

Mountain View, CA30+ days ago

Our teams aspire to make discoveries that impact everyone, and core to our approach is sharing our research and tools to fuel progress in the field -- we publish regularly in academic journals, release projects as open source, and apply research to Google products.

San Francisco, CA30+ days ago

$158,000–$269,000 Per Year

With offices in Toronto, San Francisco, Dallas, and Pittsburgh, Waabi is growing quickly and looking for diverse, innovative and collaborative candidates who want to impact the world in a positive way. As a Research Scientist on the Behaviors team, you will work closely with our multidisciplinary team of research scientists and engineers to invent the next generation of models and algorithms that power Waabi World.

Sunnyvale, CA30+ days ago

Contribute to research growth by sharing research trends and best practices within the community by reviewing academic papers, serving on program committees and grant panels, speaking at Google events or research conferences, or organizing research conferences and visioning activities.

Sunnyvale, CA30+ days ago

Palo Alto, CA27 days ago

$130,000–$260,000 Per Year

As part of the AI Research team, you will define and own the vision for scalable, robust, and compliant AI/ML solutions; drive high-visibility, cross-functional initiatives from ideation through production; and mentor talent while aligning AI investments with business outcomes. ROI Measurement & Experimentation: Establish robust mechanisms to quantify business impact, including KPI definition, experimentation frameworks, and causal inference approaches to guide decision-making and prioritize investments.

Menlo Park, CA30+ days ago

p>• Curate and integrate publicly available and internal benchmarks to direct the capabilities of frontier model development • Develop and implement evaluation environments, including environments for novel model capabilities and modalities • Collaborate with external data vendors to source and prepare high-quality evaluation datasets • Execute on the technical vision of research scientists designing new benchmarks and evaluations • Build robust, reusable evaluation pipelines that scale across multiple model lines and product areas • Contribute to evaluation tooling that measures the quality and reliability of evaluation suites. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today-beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.

CA22 days ago

p>A criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment: 1. appropriately managing, accessing, and handling confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information, as well as accessing Procore''s information technology systems and platforms; 2. interacting with and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external customers, stakeholders, and/or colleagues; and 3. exercising sound judgment.

As a Principal Applied Research Scientist, you'll partner with ML engineers, software engineers, product leaders, and construction domain experts to design, prototype, and deploy frontier ML systems that translate research into measurable business outcomes.

Los Altos, CA30+ days ago

$158,400–$227,700 Per Year

p>The Future Factory team in TRI''s Energy and Materials division focuses on developing cutting-edge tools and methods to accelerate change and increase flexibility and efficiency in Toyota''s product design and manufacturing, to speed the transition to an emissions-free world.

As a researcher on the team, you will design and implement learning pipelines from scratch, run experiments to evaluate a wide range of architectural, data, and algorithmic choices, and help shape how we apply modern machine learning to the challenges of robotic assembly.

Palo Alto, CA23 days ago

li>Develop reference-based and reference-free metrics calibrated to Sanas''s specific model tasks: SI-SDR, PESQ, STOI, DNSMOS, speaker similarity, WER delta, COMET, and task-specific custom metrics where off-the-shelf measures fall short.

If you're looking to have a significant role in roadmapping and driving technical directions, if you're looking to deploy challenging and big ideas without much overhead or slowness, if you''re looking to leave your mark on an ambitious, generational mission to change how the worlds thinks about speech + AI, then Sanas is a well-suited place for you.

Pleasanton, CA20 days ago

$75–$83 Per Hour

In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. The work is project-based, research-driven, and highly collaborative, requiring a high level of technical breadth and autonomy to help researchers translate scientific questions into operational workflows.

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San Francisco, CA5 days ago

For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. You will work on bringing the next generation of AI-enabled experiences to all of humanity by closing the capability overhang between power users and the average consumer, including areas like tool-use, feature discovery, connectors, and instruction following.

San Francisco, CA11 days ago

For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. The Proactivity Research team, within OpenAI's broader Post-Training team, is focused on making our models in ChatGPT and future potential products proactive in ways that are truly useful.

Mountain View, CA30+ days ago

At Google DeepMind, were a team of scientists, engineers, machine learning experts and more, working together to advance the state of the art in artificial intelligence and ultimately achieve Artificial General Intelligence.

We are seeking strong Research Scientists with expertise in AI research and experience in interdisciplinary sociotechnical modeling to join a multimodal safety research effort within Google DeepMinds Frontier AI unit.

Burlingame, CA30+ days ago

p>• Drive research on improved machine learning models for speech quality • Run computational experiments and report findings • Implement ML models that emulate aspects of human auditory perception • Develop next-gen audio quality models • Independently implement ML training pipelines, models, and evaluation frameworks • Regularly report on project progress, dependencies, and risks to stakeholders • Support research scientists and engineers within the team • Execute on applied coding tasks in support of the teams goals.

The role requires independently implementing end-to-end ML pipelines, data preparation, model training, hyperparameter tuning, and evaluation using metrics like Mean Absolute Error (MAE), Pearson correlation, Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SI-DR), PESQ, and STOI.

San Francisco, CA21 days ago

A criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment: 1. appropriately managing, accessing, and handling confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information, as well as accessing Procore''s information technology systems and platforms; 2. interacting with and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external customers, stakeholders, and/or colleagues; and 3. exercising sound judgment. As a Staff Applied Research Scientist, you'll partner with ML engineers, software engineers, product managers, and construction domain experts to lead day‑to‑day technical execution for spatial intelligence initiatives.

San Francisco, CA30+ days ago

$155,000–$269,000 Per Year

As a Research Scientist in Neural Reconstruction, you will develop the next generation of neural scene-representation and reconstruction algorithms that transform sparse, noisy, and partially observed driving data into realistic and controllable digital worlds. Your work will directly power Waabi Worlds ability to build high-fidelity scene assets, recover geometry and dynamics from sensor data, and support realistic simulation and rendering at scale.

San Francisco, CA30+ days ago

$155,000–$269,000 Per Year

p>This role focuses on large-scale world models for temporal reasoning and generation, including video models, multimodal generative models, LLM/VLM/VLA models, and predictive models of traffic participants and scenes. Your work will directly power Waabi Worlds ability to model future evolution, synthesize realistic safety-critical scenarios, and provide rich generative priors for downstream planning, testing, and training.

San Francisco, CA30+ days ago

The WorkSelected researchers willEvaluate advanced scientific reasoning produced by state-of-the-art AI systemsAssess multi-step derivations proofs theoretical arguments and domain-specific outputsIdentify subtle conceptual flaws or logical inconsistenciesProvide research-grade corrective feedbackThis requires deep subject mastery. Minimum ThresholdCandidates must demonstrate the followingPhD or near completion in Mathematics Physics Neuroscience or ChemistryPeer-reviewed publications in respected journalsMeaningful citation record indicating research impactInternational academic distinction such as Olympiad medalistFaculty position at a leading universityAll credentials will be verified.

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Research Scientist Jobs in Sunnyvale, CA

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Research Scientist/ Research Engineer Collinear AI

Staff Research Scientist, Perception Research Waymo LLC

AI Research Scientist, Applied AI, Google Cloud Google LLC

Staff AI Research Scientist, Applied AI, Google Cloud Google LLC

Research Scientist, Stitch Google LLC

Research Scientist, Recommendation Systems, DeepMind Google LLC

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Lead AI Research Scientist The Capital Group Companies, Inc.

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Basic Life Research Scientist (1 Year Fixed Term) Stanford University

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Research Scientist, Gemini Safety DeepMind Technologies Ltd

Research Scientist, Efficient AI Google LLC

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Senior Research Scientist, Google Cloud AI Research Google

Staff Applied Research Scientist GEICO GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY

AI Research Scientist, Evaluations - Meta Superintelligence Lab Meta Platforms Inc

Principal Applied Research Scientist (Datagrid) Procore Technologies Inc

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Research Scientist (Model Evaluation) Sanas.ai

Research Data Scientist StratAcuity Staffing Partners Inc

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