AI Research Scientist Jobs

Anthropic is the most frequent poster in this hub with about 23 open research roles, followed by Scale AI, Krafton, Jump Trading, Nebius, Biohub, Helsing and Datadog. That list is unusual: a frontier lab, a data company, a game studio, a trading firm, a cloud provider, a biology institute, a defense company and an observability vendor all hiring research scientists at once. Applied research has spread well beyond the labs that used to be the only option.

About 340 research scientist listings are live as of September 2026 and roughly 30 were added in the last seven days, so the flow is steady rather than fast. The US holds about 160 of them and the UK about 40; Germany, France and India have a handful each. Forty-one percent are tagged remote, lower than the board average, which fits a field where compute access and in person collaboration still matter.

Titles run from research scientist and AI researcher to applied scientist and research engineer, and several recent postings name generative and agentic AI as the focus. The seniority mix differs from the engineering hubs: mid level roles dominate at about 210, senior at around 60 and staff or principal at about 45, and there are 15 entry level openings, which is rare on this board. A mid level research listing often expects a doctorate or a publication record rather than years in industry.

Pay is stated in USD on about 18 percent of listings, and among those the median midpoint is around $241,500 a year, the highest of any role hub in this group. Most listings still do not publish a figure. To search this slice, use the category filter for research scientist together with a level, and look at the research engineer hub and the remote AI researcher hub for adjacent titles.