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Research Engineer

Engineers who build the systems, tools, and infrastructure that enable research.

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Research EngineerSenior Research EngineerStaff Research EngineerML Research EngineerAI Research Engineer
77open jobs
24companies hiring
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Skills

What companies are looking for in this role.

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Implementing and optimizing machine learning models across the full training and inference pipeline

95%

Designing and conducting rigorous scientific experiments to evaluate model capabilities and performance

92%

Translating research prototypes into production-ready systems and infrastructure

88%

Developing scalable distributed systems for large-scale model training and inference

88%

Optimizing computational performance through low-level systems programming and hardware-aware algorithms

85%

Evaluating and benchmarking model capabilities with domain-specific metrics and evaluation frameworks

85%

Building and maintaining robust data pipelines for preprocessing, curation, and generation at scale

82%

Developing novel algorithms and techniques for reinforcement learning and model training

80%
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Developing agentic systems that can autonomously perform multi-step complex tasks

72%

Interpreting and understanding the internal mechanisms and behavior of deep learning models

68%

Designing and implementing multimodal learning systems that integrate multiple data modalities

65%

Implementing techniques for efficient model compression, quantization, and sparsity

62%

Building systems to evaluate and ensure safety, security, and reliability of AI agents

58%
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Collaborating across multidisciplinary teams to integrate research insights into products

85%

Leading research projects with clear problem definition, hypothesis formation, and iterative refinement

80%

Communicating complex technical concepts and research findings clearly to diverse audiences

75%

Balancing research ambitions with practical engineering constraints and timelines

72%
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Technology

The tools and technologies that define this role.

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Pythonvery high
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PyTorchhigh
JAXmoderate
TensorFlowmoderate
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CUDAmoderate
Kuberneteslow
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Evaluation frameworkshigh
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Language modelsvery high
Agent systemshigh
Data pipelineshigh
Distributed training systemshigh
Generative modelshigh
Multimodal learninghigh
Reinforcement learninghigh
Interpretabilitymoderate
Mixed-precision trainingmoderate
Model compressionmoderate
Synthetic data generationmoderate
Vision transformersmoderate
World modelsmoderate
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Open Jobs

77 open Research Engineer jobs across 24 companies.

Cerebras Systems3d
ML Research Engineer (Inference)
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India·Research & Science
Figure AI4d
Staff Reinforcement Learning Engineer – Whole Body Control
San Jose, CA·Research & Science
DeepMind4d
Research Engineer, Information Quality
Mountain View, California, US·Research & Science
Cerebras Systems5d
Advanced Technology: R&D Engineer - AI/ML, HPC
Sunnyvale, CA; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada·Research & Science
Crusoe5d
Technology Scout, R&D
Denver, CO - US·Research & Science
Graphcore1w
Research Engineer
Bristol, UK; Cambridge, UK; London, UK·Research & Science
Goodfire1w
Machine Learning Engineer, Life Sciences
San Francisco, CA·Research & Science
Nebius2w
Senior ML Engineer (AI Research)
Amsterdam, Netherlands; Israel; Remote - Europe; United Kingdom·Research & Science
Anthropic2w
Staff Research Engineer, Discovery Team
San Francisco, CA·Research & Science
Anthropic2w
Research Engineer/Research Scientist, Pre-training
Remote-Friendly (Travel-Required) | San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA | New York City, NY·Research & Science
Anthropic2w
Research Engineer, Pretraining
London, UK·Research & Science
Anthropic2w
Research Engineer, Machine Learning (Reinforcement Learning)
San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY·Research & Science
DeepMind2w
Software Engineer, Numerics
Mountain View, California, US·Research & Science
DeepMind2w
Research Engineer, Multimodal Generative AI (Image/Video)
Kirkland, Washington, US; Seattle, Washington, US·Research & Science
DeepMind2w
Research Engineer, Agentic Safety
Mountain View, California, US·Research & Science
DeepMind2w
Research Engineer, Human Understanding
Los Angeles, California, US; Mountain View, California, US·Research & Science
Skild AI2w
Research Engineer
Pittsburgh, San Mateo·Research & Science
Waymo2w
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, LLM/VLM Visual Reasoning
Mountain View, CA, US; San Francisco, CA, US·Research & Science
Anthropic2w
Research Engineer, Agents
Remote-Friendly (Travel-Required) | San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA | New York City, NY·Research & Science
Anthropic2w
Research Engineer, Frontier Red Team (Autonomy)
San Francisco, CA·Research & Science