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19 AI Researchers jobs in San Francisco

Last updated 2026-09-21. CA, USA. Click any row to apply directly on the company's career page.

19
open roles
9
companies hiring
11%
senior / lead
7
new in 30 days

AI Research hiring in San Francisco: what the data shows

Compared with most AI hiring, this market is relatively open to earlier-career candidates — 89% of listings are mid-level or below.

Hiring is concentrated rather than broad: OpenAI alone accounts for 58% of these openings (11 of 19), with 8 other companies making up the rest.

Among the 8 cities HireIndex tracks for AI researchers, San Francisco is the largest market by open-role count, making it one of the strongest hubs for this skill we track.

7 of these 19 postings (37%) went live in the last 30 days, most via Ashby.

Collected from company job boards (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby), Adzuna, The Muse and LinkedIn, refreshed every Monday (2026-09-21). Each listing links to the original posting; HireIndex doesn't take applications or resumes.

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OpenAI Research Scientist mid Apply open_in_new
OpenAI Research Engineer / Research Scientist- Personal AGI (Post Training) mid Apply open_in_new
OpenAI Research Engineer/Research Scientist, RL/Reasoning mid Apply open_in_new
OpenAI Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Memory mid Apply open_in_new
OpenAI Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Personalization mid Apply open_in_new
OpenAI Research Engineer/Research Scientist - Personal AGI, North Stars mid Apply open_in_new
OpenAI Research Engineer/Research Scientist- Personal AGI, Model Experience mid Apply open_in_new
OpenAI Research Engineer / Research Scientist / AI Systems Engineer, RSI mid Apply open_in_new
OpenAI Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Health mid Apply open_in_new
OpenAI People Research Scientist mid Apply open_in_new
OpenAI Research Engineer, AI for Chip Design mid Apply open_in_new
Writer AI research scientist mid Apply open_in_new
Perplexity Member of Technical Staff (AI Researcher) senior-heavy Apply open_in_new
Plaid Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Research Scientist) - DFAI senior-heavy Apply open_in_new
Parallel Research Scientist mid Apply open_in_new
Adobe Research Scientist II mid Apply open_in_new
Clera Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Robotics and Physical AI mid Apply open_in_new
Cisco AI Research Scientist III (Full Time) – United States mid Apply open_in_new
Mimic Robotics AI Research Scientist (Robot Learning) mid Apply open_in_new

About this list

We scan AI/ML postings on Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, and LinkedIn every week and bucket them by city and skill. This page shows currently open AI Research roles in San Francisco. Listings are deduplicated and company-attributed before publishing. No login or application is required — every link goes directly to the employer.

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