Researcher jobs in San Francisco Bay Area

There are 16 open Researcher 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 $169k to $250k.

Updated 2026-10-25. Figures come from live job postings and refresh daily.

Pay on these live postings runs about $169k to $250k, across 4 roles that list a range.

• Researcher, Misalignment Monitoring Lead

  Openai · San Francisco

  About the Team OpenAI's Safety Research organization works to ensure that our most capable AI models can be deployed safely and responsibly. As…
  3 days ago
• Researcher, Safety - Frontier Assurance

  Openai · San Francisco

  About the team The Frontier Assurance team strengthens OpenAI’s safety decisions through independent expertise, rigorous assessment, and public…
  12 days ago
• Researcher

  Outset · San Francisco

  Outset invented a better way to do research: AI-powered user interviews. Global brands like Hubspot, Microsoft, Uber and Nestle use Outset to achieve…
  17 days ago
• Researcher, Figma Design

  Figma · San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States

  Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring…
  $169,000 – $250,000

  20 days ago
• Researcher - Rapid Research

  Figma · San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States

  Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring…
  $169,000 – $250,000

  1 month ago
• Researcher, Safety Training, National Security

  Openai · San Francisco

  About the Team The Safety Training research team aims to fundamentally advance our capabilities for precisely implementing safe behavior in AI…
  1 month ago
• Researcher, Agent Safety, Oversight and System Mitigations

  Openai · San Francisco

  About the Team The Agent Safety team works to ensure that increasingly capable AI agents act safely, exercise sound judgment, and remain aligned with…
  1 month ago
• Researcher, Agent Safety, Training and Evaluations

  Openai · San Francisco

  About the Team The Agent Safety team works to ensure that increasingly capable AI agents act safely, exercise sound judgment, and remain aligned with…
  1 month ago
• Researcher, Alignment Interpretability

  Openai · San Francisco

  About the Team The Interpretability team studies internal representations of deep learning models. We are interested in using representations to…
  1 month ago
• Researcher, Frontier Risk Mitigations

  Openai · San Francisco

  About the Team Models are becoming increasingly capable—moving from tools that assist humans to agents that can plan, execute, and adapt in the real…
  2 months ago
• Researcher, Recursive Self-Improvement Safety

  Openai · San Francisco

  About the team Models are becoming increasingly capable—moving from tools that assist humans to agents that can plan, execute, and adapt in the real…
  2 months ago
• Researcher, Alignment CoT Monitorability

  Openai · San Francisco

  About the Team The CoT Monitorability team at OpenAI studies whether and when the chain-of-thought of frontier reasoning models is monitorable enough…
  2 months ago
• Researcher, Frontier Cybersecurity Risks

  Openai · San Francisco

  About the team ​​Preparedness is a critical Safety Research team at OpenAI, which is focused on mitigating AI threats to global security that could…
  2 months ago
• Researcher, Multimodal Safety

  Openai · San Francisco

  About the Team OpenAI is at the center of some of the highest-impact multimodal work in AI. ChatGPT serves a massive global audience, and enables…
  2 months ago
• Researcher, Robot Intelligence

  Samsung Research America · 665 Clyde Avenue, Mountain View, CA, USA

  Lab Summary: The Robot Intelligence Lab at Samsung Research America is a new facility dedicated to advancing the field of robotics through…
  $163,600 – $324,500

  3 months ago
• Researcher, Figma Agentic Experiences

  Figma · San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States

  Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring…
  $169,000 – $250,000

  13 months ago