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13 AI Researchers jobs in San Francisco

Last updated 2026-06-08. CA, USA. Click any row to apply directly on the company's career page.

13
open roles
5
companies hiring
23%
senior / lead
4
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 — 77% of listings are mid-level or below.

Hiring is concentrated rather than broad: OpenAI alone accounts for 62% of these openings (8 of 13), with 4 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.

4 of these 13 postings (31%) went live in the last 30 days, most via Ashby.

Sourced directly from employer career pages via Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Indeed, and LinkedIn — verified every Monday (2026-06-08). Every listing links to the company's own site; HireIndex does not take applications or resumes.

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Company Role
OpenAI Research Scientist mid Apply open_in_new
OpenAI Research Engineer, Applied AI Engineering mid Apply open_in_new
OpenAI Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Post-Training mid Apply open_in_new
OpenAI Researcher, Trustworthy AI mid Apply open_in_new
OpenAI Researcher, Health AI mid Apply open_in_new
OpenAI Research Engineer/Research Scientist, RL/Reasoning mid Apply open_in_new
OpenAI ML Research Engineer - Hardware Codesign mid Apply open_in_new
OpenAI Security Researcher, Agentic AI Threats 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
Plaid Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Research Scientist) - DFAI senior Apply open_in_new
Parallel Research Scientist mid Apply open_in_new
Omnifold MTS - ML Research Scientist 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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