Research Scientist jobs in San Francisco Bay Area
There are 42 open Research Scientist 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 $214k to $320k.
Updated 2026-07-27. Figures come from live job postings and refresh daily.
16 of these Research Scientist roles in San Francisco Bay Area were posted in the last 30 days.
Pay on these live postings runs about $214k to $320k, across 30 roles that list a range.
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- Research Scientist, Takeoff IntelAnthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NYAbout Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our…$350,000 – $850,0003 days ago
- Principal Research Scientist, RoboticsSamsung 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…$242,500 – $376,6503 days ago
- Research Scientist - 3D Vision and Generation, Self-DrivingApplied · SunnyvaleAbout Applied Intuition Applied Intuition, Inc. is powering the future of physical AI. Founded in 2017 and now valued at $15 billion, the Silicon…$126,000 – $423,0003 days ago
- Senior Research Scientist, PerceptionWaymo · Mountain View, CA, USA ; San Francisco, CA, USA ; Kirkland, WA, USA ; New York City, NY, USAWaymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving…$213,000 – $263,0005 days ago
- Senior Research Scientist, World Action ModelingWaymo · Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; New York City, NY, USAWaymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving…$213,000 – $263,0005 days ago
- Research Scientist (post-training)Genmo · San Francisco HQWe are Genmo, a research lab dedicated to building open, state-of-the-art models for video generation towards unlocking the right brain of AGI. Join…6 days ago
- Research Scientist (diffusion)Genmo · San Francisco HQWe are Genmo, a research lab dedicated to building open, state-of-the-art models for video generation towards unlocking the right brain of AGI. Join…6 days ago
- Principal Research Scientist, Database SystemsMongoDB · New York City; Palo AltoThe mission of MongoDB Research is to advance the state of the art in database systems by conducting fundamental and applied research that directly…$203,000 – $399,0006 days ago
- Staff Research ScientistMongoDB · Palo AltoAbout Voyage AI Team at MongoDB Voyage AI team in MongoDB is building a best-in-class, general-purpose, domain-specific, and fine-tuned embedding…$151,000 – $297,0006 days ago
- Senior Research ScientistMongoDB · Palo AltoAbout Voyage AI Team at MongoDB Voyage AI team in MongoDB is building a best-in-class, general-purpose, domain-specific, and fine-tuned embedding…$126,000 – $248,0006 days ago
- Research Scientist, Life Sciences (Computational)Anthropic · 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…$300,000 – $320,00011 days ago
- Research Scientist, Frontier Risk EvaluationsScale AI · San Francisco, CA; New York, NYScale Labs, Research Scientist — Frontier Risk Evaluations As the leading data and evaluation partner for frontier AI companies, Scale plays an…$216,000 – $270,00018 days ago
- Research Scientist, Safety Post TrainingScale AI · San Francisco, CA; New York, NYScale Labs, Research Scientist — Safety Post Training As the leading data and evaluation partner for frontier AI companies, Scale plays an integral…$216,000 – $270,00018 days ago
- Research Scientist, AI Controls and MonitoringScale AI · San Francisco, CA; New York, NYScale Labs, Research Scientist — AI Controls and Monitoring As the leading data and evaluation partner for frontier AI companies, Scale plays an…$216,000 – $270,00018 days ago
- Research Scientist, Agent RobustnessScale AI · San Francisco, CA; New York, NYScale Labs, Research Scientist — Agent Robustness As the leading data and evaluation partner for frontier AI companies, Scale plays an integral role…$216,000 – $270,00018 days ago
- Staff Research ScientistCarbon, Inc. · Sunnyvale, California, United StatesAt Carbon, our mission goes beyond 3D printing. We are enabling creators everywhere to make what the world needs, right now. Our company is built on…$137,600 – $206,40019 days ago
- Staff Research Scientist, AI SafetyBiohub · New York, NY (Hybrid); Redwood City, CA (Hybrid)Biohub is the first large-scale initiative bringing frontier AI models, massive compute, and frontier experimental capabilities under one roof. We're…$241,000 – $301,0001 month ago
- Research Scientist, RL for Autonomous Planning & World ModelingWaymo · Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; New York City, NY, USAWaymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving…$204,000 – $259,0001 month ago
- Research Scientist (Generative Modeling)World Labs · San FranciscoAbout World Labs: We build foundational world models that can perceive, generate, reason, and interact with the 3D world — unlocking AI's full…$250,000 – $325,0001 month ago
- Senior Staff Research Scientist, Reinforcement LearningCentific · East Palo Alto, CAAbout Centific Centific is a frontier AI data foundry that curates diverse, high-quality data, using our purpose-built technology platforms to…$250,000 – $300,0001 month ago
- Research ScientistGoodfire · San Francisco, CAAbout Goodfire Goodfire is a research company using interpretability to understand, learn from, and design AI systems. Our mission is to build the…$200,000 – $400,0001 month ago
- Research Scientist, Agentic Data & BenchmarkingIfm Us · Sunnyvale, CAAbout the Institute of Foundation Models The Institute of Foundation Models (IFM) is a dedicated research lab for building, understanding, using, and…1 month ago
- Research Scientist, Wayve LabsWayve · SunnyvaleAbout us Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to…$230,000 – $380,0001 month ago
- Principal Research Scientist, 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…$235,400 – $365,6501 month ago
- Senior Staff Research Scientist, 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…$197,800 – $296,6001 month ago
- Research Scientist, Life SciencesAnthropic · 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…$300,000 – $320,0001 month ago
- Research Scientist, AIBiohub · Redwood City, CA (Hybrid)Biohub is the first large-scale initiative bringing frontier AI models, massive compute, and frontier experimental capabilities under one roof. We're…$214,000 – $375,0001 month ago
- Research Scientist - Vision Language ModelIfm Us · Sunnyvale, CAAbout the Institute of Foundation Models We are a dedicated research lab for building, understanding, using, and risk-managing foundation models. Our…1 month ago
- Research Scientist - Frontier BenchmarksSnorkel AI · San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)About Snorkel At Snorkel, we believe meaningful AI doesn’t start with the model, it starts with the data. We’re on a mission to help enterprises…1 month ago
- Research Scientist - World-Action Foundation Model, RoboticsApplied Intuition · Sunnyvale, California, United StatesAbout Applied Intuition Applied Intuition, Inc. is powering the future of physical AI. Founded in 2017 and now valued at $15 billion, the Silicon…$126,000 – $423,0002 months ago
- Research Scientist - Reinforcement Learning, Self-DrivingApplied Intuition · Sunnyvale, California, United StatesAbout Applied Intuition Applied Intuition, Inc. is powering the future of physical AI. Founded in 2017 and now valued at $15 billion, the Silicon…$126,000 – $423,0002 months ago
- Research Scientist - 3D Vision and Generation, Self-DrivingApplied Intuition · Sunnyvale, California, United StatesAbout Applied Intuition Applied Intuition, Inc. is powering the future of physical AI. Founded in 2017 and now valued at $15 billion, the Silicon…$126,000 – $423,0002 months ago
- Research Scientist / Engineer - Pre-training Data & EvaluationRhoda Ai · Palo AltoAt Rhoda AI, we’re building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and…2 months ago
- Research Scientist / Engineer - Efficient ModelingRhoda Ai · Mountain ViewAt Rhoda AI, we’re building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and…2 months ago
- Research Scientist / Engineer - Video Generation ModelingRhoda Ai · Palo AltoAt Rhoda AI, we’re building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and…2 months ago
- Research Scientist / Engineer - Robot Learning DataRhoda Ai · Mountain ViewAt Rhoda AI, we’re building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and…2 months ago
- Research Scientist / Engineer - Post-training & Robot LearningRhoda Ai · Mountain ViewAt Rhoda AI, we’re building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and…2 months ago
- Research Scientist / Engineer - ReasoningRhoda Ai · Mountain ViewAt Rhoda AI, we’re building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and…2 months ago
- Research Scientist, Frontier CapabilitiesLila Sciences · Cambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USAYour impact at LILA We’re building a talent-dense, high-agency research team to develop the next generation of learning systems and reasoning…$176,000 – $304,0002 months ago
- Research Scientist - Frontier AI/ML & Quantum AlgorithmsSygaldry Technologies · San FranciscoAbout Sygaldry Sygaldry Technologies is building quantum-accelerated AI servers to exponentially speed up training and inference for AI. By…2 months ago
- Research ScientistCogent Security · San Francisco, CAAbout Cogent Security Cogent is an Applied AI Lab building the next generation of AI agents for cybersecurity. AI has fundamentally changed how…$100,000 – $300,0002 months ago
- Research Scientist, InterpretabilityAnthropic · 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…$350,000 — $850,0003 months ago
Research Scientist pay distribution in San Francisco Bay Area
10th
$224k
25th
$240k
Median
$275k
75th
$301k
90th
$310k
Base salary only (excludes equity and bonus), across 30 recent Research Scientist postings in San Francisco Bay Area that disclose pay.
Common questions
How many Research Scientist jobs are open in San Francisco Bay Area?
There are 42 open Research Scientist 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 Scientist earn?
The median Research Scientist salary is $150k to $250k per year, based on 80 live postings that list a range.
How often are Research Scientist jobs updated?
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