AI Research Scientists advance the state of the art in machine learning — novel architectures, training methods, alignment, evaluation, interpretability. The role lives at frontier labs (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Meta FAIR) and large industrial research orgs; output is typically papers, novel models, or contributions to foundation-model training pipelines.
Salary by Experience Level
Junior
$180,000 – $260,000
per year
Mid-Level
$280,000 – $450,000
per year
Senior
$500,000 – $1,500,000
per year
Required Skills
PyTorch / JAXDistributed training (Megatron, FSDP, DeepSpeed)Paper-grade experimental designMathematics (linear algebra, calculus, information theory)Statistical reasoningReading the literature dailyCUDA / accelerator-aware codePublishing at NeurIPS / ICML / ICLR