Research Scientist jobs in San Francisco Bay Area
There are 44 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 $216k to $320k.
Updated 2026-09-10. Figures come from live job postings and refresh daily.
25 of these Research Scientist roles in San Francisco Bay Area were posted in the last 30 days.
Pay on these live postings runs about $216k to $320k, across 26 roles that list a range.
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- Staff Research Scientist, AI SafetyBiohub · 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 day 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 day 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…2 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…2 days ago
- Research Scientist, Robot Foundation ModelWayve · SunnyvaleAbout us Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to…7 days ago
- Principal Research Scientist, Robot Foundation ModelWayve · SunnyvaleAbout us Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to…$407,000 – $512,0007 days 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 – $380,0007 days ago
- Staff Research Scientist, Foundation Models RecipesWaymo · Mountain View, CA, US; San Francisco, CA, US; Kirkland, WA, USWaymo 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…$251,000 – $310,0008 days ago
- Staff 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…$251,000 – $310,0008 days 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 – $259,0008 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 – $263,0008 days 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 – $304,0008 days ago
- Research Scientist (Control)Apolloresearch · London & San FranciscoTHE OPPORTUNITY Join our new AGI safety product team and help transform AI control research into practical tools that directly reduce risks from AI…9 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 – $297,0009 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 – $248,0009 days ago
- Research Scientist, APEX BenchmarksMercor · 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…14 days ago
- Principal 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 – $300,00014 days ago
- Research ScientistIdler · San FranciscoAbout idler idler is a frontier data research lab. We build the evals and environments that the world's leading frontier labs use to measure and…15 days ago
- Research Scientist (Generative Modeling)World Labs · San FranciscoAbout World Labs World Labs is a frontier AI research and product company advancing spatial intelligence, the next frontier beyond large language…$250,000 – $325,00016 days ago
- Research Scientist - Humanoid RoboticsApplied · 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…20 days ago
- Research ScientistTessera 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…20 days ago
- Research Scientist, Life Sciences (Chemistry)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 – $320,00020 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 – $320,00020 days 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 – $320,00020 days 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 – $850,00020 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 – $270,0001 month 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 – $270,0001 month 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 – $270,0001 month 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 – $270,0001 month 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 – $376,6501 month ago
- Research Scientist - 3D Vision and Generation, Self-DrivingApplied · 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…1 month ago
- Research Scientist - Multimodal Agent, Consumer DevicesOpenai · San FranciscoAbout the Team The Future of Computing Research team is an applied research team within the Consumer Devices group focused on developing new methods…1 month ago
- Research ScientistSesame · San FranciscoAbout Sesame Sesame believes in a future where computers are lifelike - with the ability to see, hear, and collaborate with us in ways that feel…1 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 – $400,0003 months 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…3 months 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…3 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 – $423,0003 months 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 – $423,0003 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 – $423,0003 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…3 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…3 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…3 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…3 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…4 months ago
Research Scientist pay distribution in San Francisco Bay Area
10th
$232k
25th
$243k
Median
$275k
75th
$305k
90th
$310k
Base salary only (excludes equity and bonus), across 26 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 44 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 $167k to $263k per year, based on 75 live postings that list a range.
How often are Research Scientist jobs updated?
Daily. Linora reads roles straight from company career pages and drops listings that close, so the Research Scientist jobs shown are current rather than reposted or expired.
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