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4,283 postings · 208 companies

Research Engineer salary

Writes the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.

92 posted ranges at 24 companies · median $340k · H-1B median $222k (215 filings)

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By level

Median of posted rangesMiddle halfH-1B median

LevelPostedH-1B
Entry1 posted$138k to $186kone postingFew2 filings
MidH-1B onlyNo ranges$203k3 filings
Senior7 posted$300k$200k to $350k$232k12 filings
Staff11 posted$325k$250k to $400kFew2 filings
Principal2 posted$338k to $475k2 postingsFew1 filing
Not stated71 posted$350k$295k to $500k$222k193 filings

By company

Anthropic$675kAnthropic, PBC is an American artificial intelligence (AI) public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California.H-1B $317kOpenAI$440kOpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) public benefit corporation (PBC) headquartered in San Francisco, California.Harvey$340kHarvey is a generative artificial intelligence (AI) product developed by the Counsel AI Corporation for the legal industry.Turing$313kAn AI data company posting pay on 13 open jobs, mostly Research Engineer roles.Decagon$300kAn AI app company posting pay on 33 open jobs, mostly Software Engineer roles.H-1B $375kEtched$275kDesigns inference chips and memory systems specialised for transformer models.Mercor$340kAn AI data company posting pay on 37 open jobs, mostly Software Engineer roles.Character.AI$313kAn AI app company posting pay on 10 open jobs, mostly Software Engineer roles.H-1B $335kScale AI$300kScale AI, Inc. is an American artificial intelligence infrastructure and software company based in San Francisco, California.H-1B $245k1X$250k1X Technologies is a Norwegian-American robotics and artificial intelligence company developing general-purpose humanoid robots for home environments.H-1B $240kTogether AI$248kCloud platform for training, fine-tuning and serving open-source AI models.H-1B $241kDuolingo$219kA consumer company posting pay on 9 open jobs, mostly Software Engineer roles.H-1B $204kInflection AI$475kInflection AI, Inc. is an American technology company which has developed machine learning and generative artificial intelligence hardware and apps, founded in 2022.Snowflake$283kSnowflake Inc. is an American cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) data platform company founded in San Mateo, California, and headquartered in Menlo Park.Ramp$278kRamp Business Corporation is an American multinational financial technology company that offers corporate charge cards, expense management, and bill-payment software.Deepgram$277kA tech employer posting pay on 18 open jobs, mostly Software Engineer roles.Cartesia$275kA tech employer posting pay on 5 open jobs, mostly Engineering Manager roles.Hume AI$265kA tech employer posting pay on 4 open jobs, mostly Research Scientist roles.Hex$250kA data company posting pay on 11 open jobs, mostly Software Engineer roles.Starburst$243kThe Trino-based data lakehouse: Starburst Galaxy and Starburst Enterprise.Baseten$238kAn AI infrastructure company posting pay on 42 open jobs, mostly Software Engineer roles.Invisible Technologies$207kAn AI data company posting pay on 7 open jobs, mostly Software Engineer roles.Benchling$201kA software company posting pay on 11 open jobs, mostly Software Engineer roles.Elastic$172kElastic is a Dutch-American software company that provides a platform for enterprise search, observability, and cybersecurity.H-1B $118k
CompanyPosted
AnthropicAnthropic, PBC is an American artificial intelligence (AI) public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California.$675k$500k to $850k
OpenAIOpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) public benefit corporation (PBC) headquartered in San Francisco, California.$440k$380k to $500k
HarveyHarvey is a generative artificial intelligence (AI) product developed by the Counsel AI Corporation for the legal industry.$340k$230k to $450k
TuringAn AI data company posting pay on 13 open jobs, mostly Research Engineer roles.$313k$250k to $375k
DecagonAn AI app company posting pay on 33 open jobs, mostly Software Engineer roles.$300k$200k to $400k
EtchedDesigns inference chips and memory systems specialised for transformer models.$275k$150k to $400k
MercorAn AI data company posting pay on 37 open jobs, mostly Software Engineer roles.$340k$180k to $500k
Character.AIAn AI app company posting pay on 10 open jobs, mostly Software Engineer roles.$313k$225k to $400k
Scale AIScale AI, Inc. is an American artificial intelligence infrastructure and software company based in San Francisco, California.$300k$250k to $350k
1X1X Technologies is a Norwegian-American robotics and artificial intelligence company developing general-purpose humanoid robots for home environments.$225k to $275k2 postings
Together AICloud platform for training, fine-tuning and serving open-source AI models.$200k to $295k2 postings
DuolingoA consumer company posting pay on 9 open jobs, mostly Software Engineer roles.$179k to $259k2 postings
Inflection AIInflection AI, Inc. is an American technology company which has developed machine learning and generative artificial intelligence hardware and apps, founded in 2022.$400k to $550kone posting
SnowflakeSnowflake Inc. is an American cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) data platform company founded in San Mateo, California, and headquartered in Menlo Park.$236k to $330kone posting
RampRamp Business Corporation is an American multinational financial technology company that offers corporate charge cards, expense management, and bill-payment software.$204k to $352kone posting
DeepgramA tech employer posting pay on 18 open jobs, mostly Software Engineer roles.$216k to $338kone posting
CartesiaA tech employer posting pay on 5 open jobs, mostly Engineering Manager roles.$200k to $350kone posting
Hume AIA tech employer posting pay on 4 open jobs, mostly Research Scientist roles.$180k to $350kone posting
HexA data company posting pay on 11 open jobs, mostly Software Engineer roles.$214k to $285kone posting
StarburstThe Trino-based data lakehouse: Starburst Galaxy and Starburst Enterprise.$215k to $270kone posting
BasetenAn AI infrastructure company posting pay on 42 open jobs, mostly Software Engineer roles.$200k to $275kone posting
Invisible TechnologiesAn AI data company posting pay on 7 open jobs, mostly Software Engineer roles.$180k to $233kone posting
BenchlingA software company posting pay on 11 open jobs, mostly Software Engineer roles.$136k to $265kone posting
ElasticElastic is a Dutch-American software company that provides a platform for enterprise search, observability, and cybersecurity.$133k to $211kone posting

Posted ranges

Not stated$500k to $850k

Research Engineer / Scientist, Pre-training

San Francisco Bay Area

Anthropicseen Nov 4Posting ↗
Not stated$380k to $500k

Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Human Flourishing

San Francisco Bay Area

OpenAIseen Nov 4Posting ↗
Not stated$230k to $450k

Research Engineer / Scientist, Data & Evals

San Francisco Bay Area

Harveyseen Nov 4Posting ↗
Not stated$230k to $450k

Research Engineer / Scientist, Reinforcement Learning

New York City

Harveyseen Nov 4Posting ↗
Not stated$230k to $450k

Research Engineer / Scientist, Reinforcement Learning

San Francisco Bay Area

Harveyseen Nov 4Posting ↗
Not stated$230k to $450k

Research Engineer, Infrastructure

New York City

Harveyseen Nov 4Posting ↗
Not stated$230k to $450k

Research Engineer, Infrastructure

San Francisco Bay Area

Harveyseen Nov 4Posting ↗
Not stated$230k to $450k

Research Engineer / Scientist, Data & Evals

New York City

Harveyseen Nov 4Posting ↗
Not stated$230k to $450k

Research Engineer / Scientist, Data & Evals

Remote (US)

Harveyseen Nov 4Posting ↗
Not stated$230k to $450k

Research Engineer, Infrastructure

Remote (US)

Harveyseen Nov 4Posting ↗
Not stated$230k to $450k

Research Engineer / Scientist, Reinforcement Learning

Remote (US)

Harveyseen Nov 4Posting ↗
Not stated$204k to $352k

Research Engineer, Benchmarks & Evaluation

New York City

Rampseen Nov 4Posting ↗
Senior$133k to $211k

Senior Security Research Engineer

Elsewhere in the US

Elasticseen Nov 4Posting ↗
Not stated$500k to $850k

Research Engineer, Chip Design RL

San Francisco Bay Area

Anthropicseen Oct 28Posting ↗
Not stated$380k to $850k

Research Scientist / Research Engineer - Web Understanding and Structured Retrieval, Search

San Francisco Bay Area

OpenAIseen Oct 28Posting ↗
Not stated$380k to $850k

Research Scientist / Research Engineer, Safety + Alignment, Search

San Francisco Bay Area

OpenAIseen Oct 28Posting ↗
Not stated$380k to $850k

Research Scientist / Research Engineer - Foundations, Search

San Francisco Bay Area

OpenAIseen Oct 21Posting ↗
Not stated$150k to $400k

Internal Acceleration, Research Engineer (ASIC)

San Francisco Bay Area

Etchedseen Oct 21Posting ↗
Not stated$150k to $400k

Internal Acceleration, Research Engineer (Hardware)

San Francisco Bay Area

Etchedseen Oct 21Posting ↗
Not stated$150k to $400k

Internal Acceleration, Research Engineer (Production)

San Francisco Bay Area

Etchedseen Oct 21Posting ↗
Not stated$150k to $400k

Internal Acceleration, Research Engineer (Kernels)

San Francisco Bay Area

Etchedseen Oct 21Posting ↗
Not stated$216k to $338k

Research Engineer, Post-Training

Remote (US)

Deepgramseen Oct 21Posting ↗
Entry$138k to $186k

AI Research Engineer, New PhD Graduate

New York City

Duolingoseen Oct 14Posting ↗
Not stated$500k to $850k

Research Engineer / Performance Engineer, RL Distributed Systems

San Francisco Bay Area

Anthropicseen Oct 7Posting ↗
Not stated$500k to $850k

Research Engineer / Research Scientist, RL Frontiers

San Francisco Bay Area

Anthropicseen Oct 7Posting ↗
Staff$500k to $850k

Staff Research Engineer, Multi-Agent Scaling

San Francisco Bay Area

Anthropicseen Oct 7Posting ↗
Not stated$214k to $285k

AI Research Engineer

New York City

Hexseen Oct 7Posting ↗
Not stated$200k to $250k

Tactile Sensing Research Engineer

San Francisco Bay Area

1Xseen Oct 7Posting ↗
Not stated$200k to $350k

Research Engineer, Data Infrastructure (Language Modeling)

San Francisco Bay Area

Cartesiaseen Sep 25Posting ↗
Staff$180k to $350k

Senior/Staff AI Research Engineer

San Francisco Bay Area

Hume AIseen Sep 25Posting ↗
Not stated$500k to $850k

Research Engineer, Code RL (Reinforcement Learning)

San Francisco Bay Area

Anthropicseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$500k to $850k

Research Engineer, Computer Use

San Francisco Bay Area

Anthropicseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$500k to $850k

Research Engineer, Cybersecurity RL (Reinforcement Learning)

San Francisco Bay Area

Anthropicseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$350k to $850k

Research Engineer, Discovery

San Francisco Bay Area

Anthropicseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$350k to $850k

Research Engineer, Knowledge Team

San Francisco Bay Area

Anthropicseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$500k to $850k

Research Engineer, Machine Learning (Reinforcement Learning)

San Francisco Bay Area

Anthropicseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$500k to $850k

Research Engineer, Machine Learning (RL Velocity)

San Francisco Bay Area

Anthropicseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$500k to $850k

Research Engineer, Post-Training Model Evaluations

San Francisco Bay Area

Anthropicseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$350k to $850k

Research Engineer, Pretraining Scaling

San Francisco Bay Area

Anthropicseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$500k to $850k

Research Engineer, RL Engineering

San Francisco Bay Area

Anthropicseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$350k to $850k

Research Engineer, Visual Knowledge Work

San Francisco Bay Area

Anthropicseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Staff$350k to $850k

Staff Research Engineer, Discovery Team

San Francisco Bay Area

Anthropicseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Staff$500k to $850k

Staff+ Research Engineer, RL Data Platform

San Francisco Bay Area

Anthropicseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$315k to $560k

Research Engineer, Interpretability

San Francisco Bay Area

Anthropicseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Principal$400k to $550k

Principal Research Engineer, Model Training & Post-Training

San Francisco Bay Area

Inflection AIseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$350k to $500k

ML/Research Engineer, Safeguards

San Francisco Bay Area

Anthropicseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$350k to $500k

Research Engineer, Life Sciences

San Francisco Bay Area

Anthropicseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$350k to $500k

Research Engineer, Production Model Post-Training

San Francisco Bay Area

Anthropicseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$350k to $500k

Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Tokens

San Francisco Bay Area

Anthropicseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$350k to $500k

Research Engineer / Scientist, Alignment

San Francisco Bay Area

Anthropicseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$380k to $500k

Research Engineer / Research Scientist- Personal AGI (Post Training)

San Francisco Bay Area

OpenAIseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$380k to $500k

Research Engineer, Codex

San Francisco Bay Area

OpenAIseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$380k to $500k

Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Memory

San Francisco Bay Area

OpenAIseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$380k to $500k

Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Personalization

San Francisco Bay Area

OpenAIseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$380k to $500k

Research Engineer/Research Scientist - Personal AGI, North Stars

San Francisco Bay Area

OpenAIseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$380k to $500k

Research Engineer/Research Scientist- Personal AGI, Model Experience

San Francisco Bay Area

OpenAIseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$380k to $500k

Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Health

San Francisco Bay Area

OpenAIseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$380k to $500k

Research Engineer, AI for Chip Design

San Francisco Bay Area

OpenAIseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$180k to $500k

Research Engineer - Environments, Data and Post-Training

San Francisco Bay Area

Mercorseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$160k to $500k

Research Engineer, Real Environments

San Francisco Bay Area

Mercorseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$200k to $500k

Research Engineer - Benchmarking

San Francisco Bay Area

Mercorseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$250k to $445k

Research Engineer

San Francisco Bay Area

OpenAIseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$295k to $445k

Research Engineer/Research Scientist, RL/Reasoning

San Francisco Bay Area

OpenAIseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$295k to $445k

Research Engineer / Research Scientist / AI Systems Engineer, RSI

San Francisco Bay Area

OpenAIseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$300k to $400k

Applied AI, Research Engineer

San Francisco Bay Area

Anthropicseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Senior$200k to $400k

Senior Research Engineer

San Francisco Bay Area

Decagonseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$200k to $400k

Research Engineer

San Francisco Bay Area

Decagonseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Senior$200k to $400k

Senior Research Engineer, Audio and Speech

San Francisco Bay Area

Decagonseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$200k to $400k

Research Engineer, Safety

San Francisco Bay Area

Decagonseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$200k to $400k

Research Engineer, Audio and Speech

San Francisco Bay Area

Decagonseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Senior$200k to $400k

Senior Research Engineer, Safety

San Francisco Bay Area

Decagonseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$225k to $400k

Research Engineer, Post-Training (All Industry Levels)

San Francisco Bay Area

Character.AIseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Principal$275k to $400k

Principal Research Engineer, Post-Training

San Francisco Bay Area

Character.AIseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$225k to $400k

Research Engineer, AI Safety & Alignment

San Francisco Bay Area

Character.AIseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Staff$250k to $400k

Staff Research Engineer, Enterprise Knowledge

Elsewhere in the US

Turingseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Staff$250k to $400k

Staff Research Engineer, Frontier Data

Elsewhere in the US

Turingseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Staff$250k to $400k

Staff Research Engineer

Elsewhere in the US

Turingseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Staff$290k to $363k

Senior/Staff Machine Learning Research Engineer, General Agents, Enterprise GenAI

San Francisco Bay Area

Scale AIseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Staff$250k to $350k

Staff/Senior Machine Learning Research Engineer, Intelligent Systems

San Francisco Bay Area

Scale AIseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Senior$250k to $350k

Senior Research Engineer

Elsewhere in the US

Turingseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Senior$250k to $350k

Senior Research Engineer, Frontier Data

Elsewhere in the US

Turingseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Senior$250k to $350k

Senior Research Engineer, SWE

Elsewhere in the US

Turingseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Staff$221k to $331k

Staff AI Research Engineer

New York City

Duolingoseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Staff$236k to $330k

Senior/Staff System Research Engineer - LLM Inference Optimization

Seattle area

Snowflakeseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$200k to $300k

Systems Research Engineer, GPU Programming

San Francisco Bay Area

Together AIseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$250k to $300k

Open Call - Research Engineer / Scientist

San Francisco Bay Area

1Xseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$200k to $290k

Research Engineer, Large-Scale Training

San Francisco Bay Area

Together AIseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$200k to $275k

Post-Training Research Engineer

San Francisco Bay Area

Basetenseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$215k to $270k

Applied AI Research Engineer

Elsewhere in the US

Starburstseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$136k to $265k

Research Engineer, Model Evaluation and Improvement

San Francisco Bay Area

Benchlingseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$190k to $237k

ML Research Engineer, ML Systems

San Francisco Bay Area

Scale AIseen Sep 24Posting ↗
Not stated$180k to $233k

Research Engineer

San Francisco Bay Area

Invisible Technologiesseen Sep 24Posting ↗
PostingRange
Research Engineer / Scientist, Pre-training (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$500kto $850k
Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Human Flourishing (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAINot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$380kto $500k
Research Engineer / Scientist, Data & Evals (the posting, opens in a new tab)HarveyNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$230kto $450k
Research Engineer / Scientist, Reinforcement Learning (the posting, opens in a new tab)HarveyNot statedNew York City$230kto $450k
Research Engineer / Scientist, Reinforcement Learning (the posting, opens in a new tab)HarveyNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$230kto $450k
Research Engineer, Infrastructure (the posting, opens in a new tab)HarveyNot statedNew York City$230kto $450k
Research Engineer, Infrastructure (the posting, opens in a new tab)HarveyNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$230kto $450k
Research Engineer / Scientist, Data & Evals (the posting, opens in a new tab)HarveyNot statedNew York City$230kto $450k
Research Engineer / Scientist, Data & Evals (the posting, opens in a new tab)HarveyNot statedRemote (US)$230kto $450k
Research Engineer, Infrastructure (the posting, opens in a new tab)HarveyNot statedRemote (US)$230kto $450k
Research Engineer / Scientist, Reinforcement Learning (the posting, opens in a new tab)HarveyNot statedRemote (US)$230kto $450k
Research Engineer, Benchmarks & Evaluation (the posting, opens in a new tab)RampNot statedNew York City$204kto $352k
Senior Security Research Engineer (the posting, opens in a new tab)ElasticSeniorElsewhere in the US$133kto $211k
Research Engineer, Chip Design RL (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$500kto $850k
Research Scientist / Research Engineer - Web Understanding and Structured Retrieval, Search (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAINot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$380kto $850k
Research Scientist / Research Engineer, Safety + Alignment, Search (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAINot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$380kto $850k
Research Scientist / Research Engineer - Foundations, Search (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAINot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$380kto $850k
Internal Acceleration, Research Engineer (ASIC) (the posting, opens in a new tab)EtchedNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$150kto $400k
Internal Acceleration, Research Engineer (Hardware) (the posting, opens in a new tab)EtchedNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$150kto $400k
Internal Acceleration, Research Engineer (Production) (the posting, opens in a new tab)EtchedNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$150kto $400k
Internal Acceleration, Research Engineer (Kernels) (the posting, opens in a new tab)EtchedNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$150kto $400k
Research Engineer, Post-Training (the posting, opens in a new tab)DeepgramNot statedRemote (US)$216kto $338k
AI Research Engineer, New PhD Graduate (the posting, opens in a new tab)DuolingoEntryNew York City$138kto $186k
Research Engineer / Performance Engineer, RL Distributed Systems (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$500kto $850k
Research Engineer / Research Scientist, RL Frontiers (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$500kto $850k
Staff Research Engineer, Multi-Agent Scaling (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicStaffSan Francisco Bay Area$500kto $850k
AI Research Engineer (the posting, opens in a new tab)HexNot statedNew York City$214kto $285k
Tactile Sensing Research Engineer (the posting, opens in a new tab)1XNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$200kto $250k
Research Engineer, Data Infrastructure (Language Modeling) (the posting, opens in a new tab)CartesiaNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$200kto $350k
Senior/Staff AI Research Engineer (the posting, opens in a new tab)Hume AIStaffSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $350k
Research Engineer, Code RL (Reinforcement Learning) (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$500kto $850k
Research Engineer, Computer Use (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$500kto $850k
Research Engineer, Cybersecurity RL (Reinforcement Learning) (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$500kto $850k
Research Engineer, Discovery (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$350kto $850k
Research Engineer, Knowledge Team (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$350kto $850k
Research Engineer, Machine Learning (Reinforcement Learning) (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$500kto $850k
Research Engineer, Machine Learning (RL Velocity) (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$500kto $850k
Research Engineer, Post-Training Model Evaluations (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$500kto $850k
Research Engineer, Pretraining Scaling (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$350kto $850k
Research Engineer, RL Engineering (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$500kto $850k
Research Engineer, Visual Knowledge Work (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$350kto $850k
Staff Research Engineer, Discovery Team (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicStaffSan Francisco Bay Area$350kto $850k
Staff+ Research Engineer, RL Data Platform (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicStaffSan Francisco Bay Area$500kto $850k
Research Engineer, Interpretability (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$315kto $560k
Principal Research Engineer, Model Training & Post-Training (the posting, opens in a new tab)Inflection AIPrincipalSan Francisco Bay Area$400kto $550k
ML/Research Engineer, Safeguards (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$350kto $500k
Research Engineer, Life Sciences (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$350kto $500k
Research Engineer, Production Model Post-Training (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$350kto $500k
Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Tokens (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$350kto $500k
Research Engineer / Scientist, Alignment (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$350kto $500k
Research Engineer / Research Scientist- Personal AGI (Post Training) (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAINot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$380kto $500k
Research Engineer, Codex (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAINot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$380kto $500k
Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Memory (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAINot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$380kto $500k
Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Personalization (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAINot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$380kto $500k
Research Engineer/Research Scientist - Personal AGI, North Stars (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAINot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$380kto $500k
Research Engineer/Research Scientist- Personal AGI, Model Experience (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAINot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$380kto $500k
Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Health (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAINot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$380kto $500k
Research Engineer, AI for Chip Design (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAINot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$380kto $500k
Research Engineer - Environments, Data and Post-Training (the posting, opens in a new tab)MercorNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $500k
Research Engineer, Real Environments (the posting, opens in a new tab)MercorNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$160kto $500k
Research Engineer - Benchmarking (the posting, opens in a new tab)MercorNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$200kto $500k
Research Engineer (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAINot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$250kto $445k
Research Engineer/Research Scientist, RL/Reasoning (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAINot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$295kto $445k
Research Engineer / Research Scientist / AI Systems Engineer, RSI (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAINot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$295kto $445k
Applied AI, Research Engineer (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$300kto $400k
Senior Research Engineer (the posting, opens in a new tab)DecagonSeniorSan Francisco Bay Area$200kto $400k
Research Engineer (the posting, opens in a new tab)DecagonNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$200kto $400k
Senior Research Engineer, Audio and Speech (the posting, opens in a new tab)DecagonSeniorSan Francisco Bay Area$200kto $400k
Research Engineer, Safety (the posting, opens in a new tab)DecagonNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$200kto $400k
Research Engineer, Audio and Speech (the posting, opens in a new tab)DecagonNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$200kto $400k
Senior Research Engineer, Safety (the posting, opens in a new tab)DecagonSeniorSan Francisco Bay Area$200kto $400k
Research Engineer, Post-Training (All Industry Levels) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Character.AINot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$225kto $400k
Principal Research Engineer, Post-Training (the posting, opens in a new tab)Character.AIPrincipalSan Francisco Bay Area$275kto $400k
Research Engineer, AI Safety & Alignment (the posting, opens in a new tab)Character.AINot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$225kto $400k
Staff Research Engineer, Enterprise Knowledge (the posting, opens in a new tab)TuringStaffElsewhere in the US$250kto $400k
Staff Research Engineer, Frontier Data (the posting, opens in a new tab)TuringStaffElsewhere in the US$250kto $400k
Staff Research Engineer (the posting, opens in a new tab)TuringStaffElsewhere in the US$250kto $400k
Senior/Staff Machine Learning Research Engineer, General Agents, Enterprise GenAI (the posting, opens in a new tab)Scale AIStaffSan Francisco Bay Area$290kto $363k
Staff/Senior Machine Learning Research Engineer, Intelligent Systems (the posting, opens in a new tab)Scale AIStaffSan Francisco Bay Area$250kto $350k
Senior Research Engineer (the posting, opens in a new tab)TuringSeniorElsewhere in the US$250kto $350k
Senior Research Engineer, Frontier Data (the posting, opens in a new tab)TuringSeniorElsewhere in the US$250kto $350k
Senior Research Engineer, SWE (the posting, opens in a new tab)TuringSeniorElsewhere in the US$250kto $350k
Staff AI Research Engineer (the posting, opens in a new tab)DuolingoStaffNew York City$221kto $331k
Senior/Staff System Research Engineer - LLM Inference Optimization (the posting, opens in a new tab)SnowflakeStaffSeattle area$236kto $330k
Systems Research Engineer, GPU Programming (the posting, opens in a new tab)Together AINot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$200kto $300k
Open Call - Research Engineer / Scientist (the posting, opens in a new tab)1XNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$250kto $300k
Research Engineer, Large-Scale Training (the posting, opens in a new tab)Together AINot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$200kto $290k
Post-Training Research Engineer (the posting, opens in a new tab)BasetenNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$200kto $275k
Applied AI Research Engineer (the posting, opens in a new tab)StarburstNot statedElsewhere in the US$215kto $270k
Research Engineer, Model Evaluation and Improvement (the posting, opens in a new tab)BenchlingNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$136kto $265k
ML Research Engineer, ML Systems (the posting, opens in a new tab)Scale AINot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$190kto $237k
Research Engineer (the posting, opens in a new tab)Invisible TechnologiesNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $233k
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H-1B by prevailing-wage level

The level the employer chose on the filing: I is entry, IV is fully competent. FY2025 Q4 to FY2026 Q3.

Level I: $194k (38) · Level II: $214k (88) · Level III: $240k (40) · Level IV: $242k (40)

H-1B median by quarter

Fiscal quarterFilingsMedian
FY2025 Q120$221k
FY2025 Q256$200k
FY2025 Q355$203k
FY2025 Q428$235k
FY2026 Q115$230k
FY2026 Q253$209k
FY2026 Q3119$220k

Posted median by week

Week ofRangesMedian
Sep 2177$348k
Oct 579$340k
Oct 1276$349k
Oct 1981$340k
Oct 2684$344k
Nov 292$340k

Recent changes

Range movedNov 4 · 6d ago
Invisible Technologies

Added a pay range to Research Engineer: $180k to $233k. Posting ↗

PostedNov 4 · 6d ago
Anduril Industries

Posted Winter 2027 Research Engineer Co-op with no pay range. Posting ↗

RetitledNov 4 · 6d ago
OpenAI

Retitled Research Scientist / Research Engineer, Search Integrity as Research Scientist / Research Engineer, Safety + Alignment, Search. Posting ↗

And 1 more: Research Scientist / Research Engineer - Web Understanding and Structured Retrieval, Search.

ClosedNov 4 · 6d ago
1X

Took down Research Engineer, Robot Learning ($130k to $300k), last seen Oct 28. Posting ↗

ClosedNov 4 · 6d ago
Together AI

Took down Research Engineer, Post-Training Inference ($200k to $290k), last seen Oct 28. Posting ↗

ClosedNov 4 · 6d ago
Harvey

Took down Research Engineer, Post-Training ($231k to $340k), last seen Oct 28. Posting ↗

Range movedOct 28 · 13d ago
Deepgram

Raised the pay range for Research Engineer, Post-Training: now $216k to $338k, was $178k to $268k. Posting ↗

RetitledOct 28 · 13d ago
Prime Intellect

Retitled Research Engineer - Pretraining as Research Engineer - Pre-training. Posting ↗

And 1 more: Research Engineer - Pre-training Data.

Related titles: Member of Technical Staff, Research Scientist, Applied Scientist, AI Safety Researcher