Researcher jobs in San Francisco Bay Area

There are 13 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 $265k.

Updated 2026-09-14. Figures come from live job postings and refresh daily.

Pay on these live postings runs about $169k to $265k, across 4 roles that list a range.

• 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…
  2 days 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…
  11 days 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…
  11 days 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…
  13 days 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

  19 days ago
• Researcher 1

  Alliance · Santa Clara, CA

  Location(s): Silicon Valley Job Schedule: Full-time, Hybrid/On-site Education Requirement: Bachelor’s Degree Sponsorship: No Strong Candidate…
  $97,745 – $198,753

  27 days 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…
  1 month 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…
  1 month 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…
  1 month 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…
  1 month 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…
  1 month 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

  1 month ago
• Staff Researcher, Provider Growth

  Headway · New York, New York, United States; San Francisco, California, United States; Seattle, Washington, United States

  1 in 4 people in the US have a treatable mental health condition, but most providers don't accept insurance, making therapy too expensive for most…
  $212,000 – $265,000

  4 months ago