Research Engineer jobs in San Francisco Bay Area
There are 83 open Research Engineer roles in San Francisco Bay Area on Linora right now, pulled daily from company career pages across Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever, and Workday. Typical pay runs $200k to $350k.
Updated 2026-10-25. Figures come from live job postings and refresh daily.
22 of these Research Engineer roles in San Francisco Bay Area were posted in the last 30 days.
Pay on these live postings runs about $200k to $350k, across 26 roles that list a range.
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- Research EngineerOutset · San FranciscoOutset invented a better way to do research: AI-powered user interviews. Global brands like Hubspot, Microsoft, Uber and Nestle use Outset to achieve…3 days ago
- Research Engineer, AlgorithmsNormalcomputing · Mountain ViewNormal Computing | Build with Us Normal is an applied AI company solving the hardest problems in AI and silicon. We build foundational hardware and…3 days ago
- Research Engineer, Chip Design RLAnthropic · San Francisco, CAAbout Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our…$500,000 – $850,0004 days ago
- Research Engineer, RL FrontiersEtched · San JoseJob Summary Etched is building AI systems that accelerate its own development. As a Research Engineer on the RL Frontiers team, you will train our…$400,0004 days ago
- Research Engineer - RL InfrastructurePrimeintellect · San FranciscoOwn Your Intelligence Prime Intellect is building the open superintelligence stack: the infrastructure frontier AI labs build internally, made…$150,000 – $350,0006 days ago
- Research Engineer - Pre-training DataPrimeintellect · San FranciscoOwn Your Intelligence Prime Intellect is building the open superintelligence stack: the infrastructure frontier AI labs build internally, made…$150,000 – $350,0009 days ago
- Research Engineer - Data and EvaluationPrimeintellect · San FranciscoOwn Your Intelligence Prime Intellect is building the open superintelligence stack: the infrastructure frontier AI labs build internally, made…$150,000 – $350,0009 days ago
- Research Engineer - Pre-trainingPrimeintellect · San FranciscoOwn Your Intelligence Prime Intellect is building the open superintelligence stack: the infrastructure frontier AI labs build internally, made…$150,000 – $350,0009 days ago
- Research Engineer - InferencePrimeintellect · San FranciscoOwn Your Intelligence Prime Intellect is building the open superintelligence stack: the infrastructure frontier AI labs build internally, made…$150,000 – $350,0009 days ago
- Research Engineer / Scientist - Reinforcement LearningPrimeintellect · San FranciscoOwn Your Intelligence Prime Intellect is building the open superintelligence stack: the infrastructure frontier AI labs build internally, made…$150,000 – $350,0009 days ago
- Research Engineertalentpluto · San Francisco, CaliforniaLocation: San Francisco, CA Work Model: In-person Industry: AI training data infrastructure Compensation: $140K-$250K base, plus equity (~0.25%)…$140,000 – $250,00013 days ago
- Research Engineer, Safety & AlignmentCognition · San FranciscoWe are an applied AI lab building end-to-end software agents. We're the makers of Devin, the first AI software engineer. Our team is extremely…16 days ago
- Research Engineer, Applied ResearchSierra · San Francisco, CAAbout us Sierra is the leading platform for customer-facing AI agents, working with many of the world's biggest brands — including The GAP, Rocket…19 days ago
- Research Engineer, Robotics EvalsHud · San FranciscoAbout HUD HUD 's mission is to build reliable, fair and open infrastructure for AI data. We want data to be valuable for the people who create it and…$135,000 – $230,00022 days ago
- Staff Research Engineer, Multi-Agent ScalingAnthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WAAbout Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our…$500,000 – $850,00023 days ago
- Research Engineer, Post-trainingMedraai · San FranciscoWhat We're Building: If you want to shape the future of science, come build with us. Medra is building Physical AI Scientists: robotic systems that…23 days ago
- Research Engineer, Index IntelligenceExa · San Francisco, CaliforniaExa is an applied AI lab building a search engine unlike the world has ever seen. We build massive-scale infra to crawl the entire web, train…24 days ago
- Research Engineer, Content UnderstandingExa · San Francisco, CaliforniaExa is an applied AI lab building a search engine unlike the world has ever seen. We build massive-scale infra to crawl the entire web, train…24 days ago
- Research Engineer - BenchmarksFirecrawl · San Francisco HQ; Toronto HubResearch Engineer - Benchmarks Every week, someone asks which data provider is actually best: for company records, for finding the right person, for…$250,000 – $290,00025 days ago
- Research Engineer / Research Scientist, RL FrontiersAnthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WAAbout Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our…$500,000 – $850,00026 days ago
- Research Engineer / Performance Engineer, RL Distributed SystemsAnthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WAAbout Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our…$500,000 – $850,00026 days ago
- Research Engineer, Robotics DataHud · San FranciscoAbout HUD HUD 's mission is to build reliable, fair and open infrastructure for AI data. We want data to be valuable for the people who create it and…$135,000 – $230,00027 days ago
- Research Engineer, ML InfrastructureChaidiscovery · San Francisco officeAbout Chai Discovery Chai Discovery builds the computer-aided design suite for molecules. Eli Lilly , GSK , Pfizer , Bristol Myers Squibb , argenx…1 month ago
- Research Engineer, Data Infrastructure (Language Modeling)Cartesia · *HQ - San Francisco, CAAbout Cartesia Our mission is to architect AI that learns from and interacts with the world like humans do. We're pioneering the model architectures…1 month ago
- Research Engineer, Web CrawlingThinkingmachines · San FranciscoAbout Thinking Machines The mission of Thinking Machines is to build AI that extends human will and judgment. We are training frontier models with…$350,000 – $475,0001 month ago
- Research EngineerAssorthealth · San FranciscoBuilding Healthcare That Remembers Every time you call a doctor's office, the system forgets you the moment you hang up. You wait on hold, explain…1 month ago
- Research EngineerInvisible Technologies · New York - Hybrid; San Francisco Bay Area - HybridAbout Invisible Invisible Technologies makes AI work. Our end-to-end AI platform structures messy data, automates digital workflows, deploys agentic…1 month ago
- Research Engineer, Privacy and AnonymizationHud · San FranciscoAbout HUD HUD 's mission is to build reliable, fair and open infrastructure for AI data. We want data to be valuable for the people who create it and…$135,000 – $230,0001 month ago
- Research Engineer, AI for Chip DesignOpenai · San FranciscoAbout the Team OpenAI develops models that can reason through complex problems and hardware designed for the demands of advanced AI. AI for Chips…1 month ago
- Research Engineer, Audio and SpeechDecagon · San FranciscoAbout Decagon Decagon is the leading conversational AI platform empowering every brand to deliver concierge customer experiences. Our technology…$200,000 – $400,0001 month ago
- Research Engineer, SafetyDecagon · San FranciscoAbout Decagon Decagon is the leading conversational AI platform empowering every brand to deliver concierge customer experiences. Our technology…$200,000 – $400,0001 month ago
- Senior Research Engineer, SafetyDecagon · San FranciscoAbout Decagon Decagon is the leading conversational AI platform empowering every brand to deliver concierge customer experiences. Our technology…$200,000 – $400,0001 month ago
- Research Engineer, Electrical SensingGridware · San Francisco, CAAbout Gridware Gridware is a San Francisco-based technology company dedicated to protecting and enhancing the electrical grid. We pioneered a…1 month ago
- Research Engineer, Synthetic DataCursor · San FranciscoSpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not…1 month ago
- Research Engineer, Formal MethodsHarmonic · Palo AltoAbout Harmonic At Harmonic, we are building a mathematical reasoning engine that operates with absolute precision. While most AI makes…2 months ago
- Research Engineer, Model Evaluation and ImprovementBenchling · San Francisco, CAWe are rebuilding biotech for the AI era. When a breakthrough is delayed, the world waits. Getting a molecule from discovery to patients, or a crop…2 months ago
- Research EngineerGreptile · San FranciscoResearch Engineer Greptile is an AI code reviewer that catches bugs and anti-patterns in pull requests with complete context of the codebase…2 months ago
- Research Engineer / Research Scientist, HealthOpenai · San FranciscoAbout the Team The Health team, within OpenAI’s broader Personal AGI organization, has a mission to ensure AGI improves health for all humanity…2 months ago
- Research EngineerTessera Labs · San Jose Office (HQ)About Tessera Labs Tessera Labs is a new category of enterprise software: an AI platform that changes how the world's largest companies run. Every…2 months ago
- Research Engineer, Post-TrainingVizcom · San FranciscoResearch Engineer, Post-Training San Francisco, CA · In Person · Full-Time Applying to this role will also allow us to consider you for other…$164,000 – $215,0002 months ago
- Research Engineer - New GradApplied · SunnyvaleApplied Intuition, Inc. is powering the future of physical AI. Founded in 2017 and now valued at $15 billion, the Silicon Valley company is creating…2 months ago
- Research Engineer, Mid-TrainingCognition · San FranciscoWe are an applied AI lab building end-to-end software agents. We're the makers of Devin, the first AI software engineer. Our team is extremely…2 months ago
- Research Engineer, Post-TrainingCognition · San FranciscoWe are an applied AI lab building end-to-end software agents. We're the makers of Devin, the first AI software engineer. Our team is extremely…2 months ago
- Research Engineer, ML InfrastructureCognition · San FranciscoWe are an applied AI lab building end-to-end software agents. We're the makers of Devin, the first AI software engineer. Our team is extremely…2 months ago
- Research Engineer / Research Scientist / AI Systems Engineer, RSIOpenai · San FranciscoAbout the Team The Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI) team works across research, engineering, product, and infrastructure to build AI systems that…2 months ago
- Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, PersonalizationOpenai · San FranciscoAbout the Team The Personalization-Memory team, within OpenAI's broader Personal AGI organization, is focused on developing agents that can learn…2 months ago
- Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, MemoryOpenai · San FranciscoAbout the Team The Personalization-Memory team, within OpenAI's broader Personal AGI organization, is focused on developing agents that can learn…2 months ago
- Research Engineer, Scientific Data & Workflow InfrastructureLila Sciences · Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USAYour Impact at LILA Lila is building an operating system for science, powered by scientific superintelligence — generating hypotheses, designing and…$148,000 – $240,0002 months ago
- Research Engineer, Large-Scale TrainingTogether AI · San FranciscoAbout the Role The Model Shaping team at Together AI works on products and research for tailoring open foundation models to downstream applications…$200,000 – $290,0002 months ago
- Staff Research EngineerOnton · San FranciscoOur mission at Onton is to help people make decisions they love, instantly. We’re tackling the most economically impactful decisions first: the…2 months ago
- Lead Research Engineer, Data QualityHud · San FranciscoAbout HUD HUD is building infrastructure to create RL training data and evals for frontier AI agents, as well as a marketplace to sell these to…2 months ago
- Research Engineer, Robot IntelligenceSamsung Research America · 665 Clyde Avenue, Mountain View, CA, USALab Summary: The Robot Intelligence Lab at Samsung Research America is a new facility dedicated to advancing the field of robotics through…$163,600 – $324,5003 months ago
- Research Engineer, Real EnvironmentsMercor · San FranciscoAbout Mercor Mercor's mission is to organize human intelligence to power the AI economy. We're a leading AI data company, building the layer between…3 months ago
- Research EngineerDecagon · San FranciscoAbout Decagon Decagon is the leading conversational AI platform empowering every brand to deliver concierge customer experiences. Our technology…$200,000 – $400,0003 months ago
- Research Engineer, PrivacyOpenai · San FranciscoAbout the Team The Privacy Engineering Team at OpenAI is committed to integrating privacy as a foundational element in OpenAI's mission of advancing…3 months ago
- Research Engineer, Synthetic DataHud · San FranciscoAbout HUD HUD is building infrastructure to create RL training data and evals for frontier AI agents, as well as a marketplace to sell these to…3 months ago
- Research Engineer, BenchmarksHud · San FranciscoAbout HUD HUD is building infrastructure to create RL training data and evals for frontier AI agents, as well as a marketplace to sell these to…3 months ago
- Research Engineer, QC AutomationHud · San FranciscoAbout HUD HUD is building infrastructure to create RL training data and evals for frontier AI agents, as well as a marketplace to sell these to…3 months ago
- Research Engineer, GeneralistExa · San Francisco, CaliforniaExa is an applied AI lab building a search engine unlike the world has ever seen. We build massive-scale infra to crawl the entire web, train…3 months ago
- Research Engineer, Post-Training InferenceTogether AI · San FranciscoAbout the role The Model Shaping team at Together AI works on products and research focused on tailoring open foundation models to downstream…$200,000 – $290,0003 months ago
Research Engineer pay distribution in San Francisco Bay Area
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$194k
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$250k
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$675k
Base salary only (excludes equity and bonus), across 44 recent Research Engineer postings in San Francisco Bay Area that disclose pay.
Common questions
How many Research Engineer jobs are open in San Francisco Bay Area?
There are 83 open Research Engineer roles in San Francisco Bay Area on Linora right now, pulled daily from company career pages across Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever, and Workday.
How much does a Research Engineer earn?
The median Research Engineer salary is $214k to $350k per year, based on 71 live postings that list a range.
How often are Research Engineer jobs updated?
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Companies hiring Research Engineers now
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