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Research Scientist in San Francisco Salary at AI Startups

Base pay from 244 open roles at 48 AI companies that list a salary range. Annual USD.

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25th percentile

$217K

Median

$257K

75th percentile

$333K

Percentiles use the midpoint of each posted range. Lowest posted $107K, highest $850K.

Pay by role

RoleCompanySalary range
Research Engineer, Chip Design RL (Reinforcement Learning)San Francisco, CA | New York City, NYAnthropic$500K–$850K
Research Engineer, Code RL (Reinforcement Learning)San Francisco, CA | New York City, NYAnthropic$500K–$850K
Research Engineer, Computer UseSan Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WAAnthropic$500K–$850K
Research Engineer, Cybersecurity RL (Reinforcement Learning)San Francisco, CA | New York City, NYAnthropic$500K–$850K
Research Engineer, DiscoverySan Francisco, CAAnthropic$350K–$850K
Research Engineer, Knowledge TeamRemote-Friendly (Travel-Required) | San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA | New York City, NYAnthropic$350K–$850K
Research Engineer, Machine Learning (Reinforcement Learning) San Francisco, CA | New York City, NYAnthropic$500K–$850K
Research Engineer, Machine Learning (RL Velocity)Remote-Friendly (Travel-Required) | San Francisco, CA | New York City, NYAnthropic$500K–$850K
Research Engineer / Performance Engineer, RL Distributed SystemsSan Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WAAnthropic$500K–$850K
Research Engineer, Post-Training Model EvaluationsSan Francisco, CA | Seattle, WAAnthropic$500K–$850K
Research Engineer, Pretraining ScalingSan Francisco, CAAnthropic$350K–$850K
Research Engineer/Research Scientist, Pre-trainingRemote-Friendly (Travel-Required) | San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA | New York City, NYAnthropic$350K–$850K
Research Engineer / Research Scientist, RL FrontiersSan Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WAAnthropic$500K–$850K
Research Engineer, RL EngineeringSan Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WAAnthropic$500K–$850K
Research Engineer, Visual Knowledge WorkNew York City, NY; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WAAnthropic$350K–$850K
Research Scientist, InterpretabilitySan Francisco, CAAnthropic$350K–$850K
Staff Research Engineer, Discovery TeamSan Francisco, CAAnthropic$350K–$850K
Staff Research Engineer, Multi-Agent ScalingSan Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WAAnthropic$500K–$850K
Staff+ Research Engineer, RL Data PlatformSan Francisco, CA | New York City, NYAnthropic$500K–$850K
Staff+ Research Scientist, Multi-AgentSan Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WAAnthropic$500K–$850K
Research Engineer, Retrieval & Search, Applied EngineeringSan FranciscoOpenAI$293K–$585K
Research Engineer, InterpretabilitySan Francisco, CAAnthropic$315K–$560K
Data Scientist, Ads DemandSan FranciscoOpenAI$293K–$515K
Data Scientist, SMB Ads Growth San FranciscoOpenAI$293K–$515K
Data Scientist, B2B Strategy & IntelligenceSan FranciscoOpenAI$347K–$510K
ML/Research Engineer, SafeguardsSan Francisco, CA | New York City, NYAnthropic$350K–$500K
Research Engineer, Life SciencesSan Francisco, CAAnthropic$350K–$500K
Research Engineer, Production Model Post-TrainingSan Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WAAnthropic$350K–$500K
Research Engineer / Research Scientist, TokensNew York City, NY; New York City, NY | Seattle, WA; San Francisco, CAAnthropic$350K–$500K
Research Engineer / Scientist, AlignmentSan Francisco, CAAnthropic$350K–$500K
Research Engineer / Research Scientist- Personal AGI (Post Training)San FranciscoOpenAI$380K–$500K
Machine Learning Data Scientist, ForecastingSan FranciscoOpenAI$340K–$500K
Research Engineer, CodexSan FranciscoOpenAI$380K–$500K
Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, MemorySan FranciscoOpenAI$380K–$500K
Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Personalization San FranciscoOpenAI$380K–$500K
Research Engineer/Research Scientist - Personal AGI, North StarsSan FranciscoOpenAI$380K–$500K
Research Engineer/Research Scientist- Personal AGI, Model ExperienceSan FranciscoOpenAI$380K–$500K
Research Engineer / Research Scientist, HealthSan FranciscoOpenAI$380K–$500K
Research Engineer, AI for Chip DesignSan FranciscoOpenAI$380K–$500K
Data ScientistSan FranciscoMercor$160K–$500K
Research Engineer - Environments, Data and Post-TrainingSan FranciscoMercor$180K–$500K
Research Engineer, Real Environments San FranciscoMercor$160K–$500K
Research Engineer – BenchmarkingSan FranciscoMercor$200K–$500K
Research Scientist, APEX BenchmarksSan FranciscoMercor$200K–$500K
Research Scientist - Environments, Data and Post-TrainingSan FranciscoMercor$250K–$500K
Research Engineer, Infrastructure, NumericsSan FranciscoThinking Machines Lab$350K–$475K
Research Engineer, Infrastructure, InferenceSan FranciscoThinking Machines Lab$350K–$475K
Research Engineer, Infrastructure, Training SystemsSan FranciscoThinking Machines Lab$350K–$475K
Research Engineer, Infrastructure, KernelsSan FranciscoThinking Machines Lab$350K–$475K
Research Engineer, Web CrawlingSan FranciscoThinking Machines Lab$350K–$475K
Research EngineerSan FranciscoOpenAI$250K–$445K
Research ScientistSan FranciscoOpenAI$250K–$445K
Research Engineer/Research Scientist, RL/ReasoningSan FranciscoOpenAI$295K–$445K
Research Engineer / Research Scientist / AI Systems Engineer, RSISan FranciscoOpenAI$295K–$445K
Data Scientist, BusinessSan FranciscoOpenAI$345K–$440K
Protection Scientist Engineer, Integrity San FranciscoOpenAI$198K–$425K
Principal Scientist / Associate Director, Agentic AI Research for Materials ScienceCambridge, MA USA; San Francisco, CA USALila Sciences$288K–$420K
Research Scientist/Engineer, Biological SafetySan Francisco, CAAnthropic$300K–$405K
Applied AI, Research Engineer San Francisco, CA | New York City, NYAnthropic$300K–$400K
Research ScientistSan Francisco, CAGoodfire$200K–$400K
Senior Research EngineerSan FranciscoDecagon$200K–$400K
Research EngineerSan FranciscoDecagon$200K–$400K
Senior Research Engineer, Audio and SpeechSan FranciscoDecagon$200K–$400K
Research Engineer, SafetySan FranciscoDecagon$200K–$400K
Research Engineer, Audio and SpeechSan FranciscoDecagon$200K–$400K
Senior Research Engineer, SafetySan FranciscoDecagon$200K–$400K
Data Scientist, ProductSan FranciscoOpenAI$230K–$385K
Data Scientist, InfrastructureSan FranciscoOpenAI$230K–$385K
Data Scientist, CodexSan FranciscoOpenAI$230K–$385K
Data Scientist, Platform and B2B ProductsSan FranciscoOpenAI$230K–$385K
Data Scientist, Financial Engineering San FranciscoOpenAI$230K–$385K
Data Scientist, B2B Demand Generation, Growth & MeasurementSan FranciscoOpenAI$293K–$385K
Data Scientist, PreparednessSan FranciscoOpenAI$345K–$385K
Data Scientist, Real Estate & Workplace San FranciscoOpenAI$266K–$385K
Senior / Principal ML Scientist, Foundation Models for Life SciencesSan Francisco, CA USALila Sciences$268K–$384K
Senior/Principal ML Scientist, Translational BiologySan Francisco, CA USALila Sciences$268K–$384K
Data Scientist, GTMNew York City, NY; San Francisco, CA | New York City, NYAnthropic$285K–$380K
Data Scientist, PolicyNew York City, NY; San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY; Washington, DCAnthropic$285K–$380K
Data Scientist, ProductNew York City, NY; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WAAnthropic$285K–$380K
Data Scientist, SafeguardsNew York City, NY; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WAAnthropic$285K–$380K
Lead Data Scientist, Platform ProductNew York City, NY | Seattle, WA; San Francisco, CAAnthropic$285K–$380K
People Research Scientist, RecruitingSan Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WAAnthropic$285K–$380K
Research Engineer, Frontier Evals & EnvironmentsSan FranciscoOpenAI$295K–$380K
Data Scientist, SafetySan FranciscoOpenAI$265K–$380K
Senior / Staff Machine Learning Research Scientist, AgentsSan Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; New York, NYScale AI$302K–$378K
AI Applied ScientistSan Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United StatesFigma$153K–$376K
Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Research Scientist) - DFAISan Francisco HQPlaid$249K–$368K
Senior Manager, Research ScientistSan Francisco, CA; New York, NYScale AI$290K–$363K
Senior/Staff Machine Learning Research Engineer, General Agents, Enterprise GenAISan Francisco, CA; New York, NYScale AI$290K–$363K
Scientist II / Senior ML Scientist, Data-Efficient Learning for Drug DiscoveryCambridge, MA USA; London, UK; San Francisco, CA USALila Sciences$228K–$358K
Scientist II/ Senior Scientist, BioMLSan Francisco, CA USALila Sciences$228K–$358K
Senior ML Scientist, AI for Protein EngineeringSan Francisco, CA USALila Sciences$268K–$358K
Senior ML Scientist, Biological SystemsSan Francisco, CA USALila Sciences$268K–$358K
Staff/Senior Machine Learning Research Engineer, Intelligent SystemsSan Francisco, CA; New York, NYScale AI$250K–$350K
Principal Research Scientist – ScalingSan Francisco, CaliforniaDatabricks$280K–$350K
Research Engineer / Scientist (3D Tech Lead)San FranciscoWorld Labs$250K–$350K
Research Engineer / Scientist (SLAM)San FranciscoWorld Labs$250K–$350K
Research Engineer / Scientist (Robot Learning)San FranciscoWorld Labs$250K–$350K
Data Scientist San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United StatesFigma$140K–$348K
Data Scientist, FinanceSan Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United StatesFigma$140K–$348K
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