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What Is a Research Engineer?

A Research Engineer turns research ideas into working, scalable code. They bridge the gap between a scientist’s prototype and a system that can train on large clusters or serve in production, owning the infrastructure, tooling, and experimentation harnesses that make fast iteration possible.

143Open roles now
57Companies hiring
$300,000Median salary
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Typical responsibilities

  • Build training and evaluation pipelines for large models
  • Implement and optimize research prototypes for scale and speed
  • Maintain experiment-tracking, data, and reproducibility tooling
  • Profile and remove bottlenecks in distributed training
  • Collaborate with scientists to validate and harden new methods
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Research Engineer salary range

Based on 76 Research Engineer postings in our database that disclose a salary, the range runs from $125,840 to $500,000, with a median of $300,000. These are aggregate figures across disclosing postings only — individual offers vary by company, stage, and location.

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Open Research Engineer roles

RoleCompanyLocationPosted
Research EngineerCrosbyNew York CityJun 16, 2026
Research Engineer, RL EngineeringAnthropicSan Francisco, CAJun 15, 2026
Senior GenAI Research Engineer - Optimization and KernelsDatabricksMountain View, CaliforniaJun 15, 2026
Research Engineer, Core MLTogether AISan FranciscoJun 15, 2026
Research Engineer, Frontier Speculative DecodingTogether AISan Francisco, New York CityJun 15, 2026
Systems Research Engineer, GPU ProgrammingTogether AISan FranciscoJun 15, 2026
Systems Research Engineer Intern - GPU Programming (Fall 2026)Together AISan FranciscoJun 15, 2026
Research Engineer, Code RL (Reinforcement Learning)AnthropicSan Francisco, CAJun 11, 2026
Staff Research Engineer - CodeTuringSan Francisco, California, United StatesJun 11, 2026
Staff Research Engineer - RL GymsTuringSan Francisco, California, United StatesJun 11, 2026
Research Engineer (Scaling Multimodal Data)World LabsSan FranciscoJun 11, 2026
Research Engineer / Scientist (3D Reconstruction)World LabsSan FranciscoJun 11, 2026
Research Engineer / Scientist (3D Tech Lead)World LabsSan FranciscoJun 11, 2026
Research Engineer / Scientist (SLAM)World LabsSan FranciscoJun 11, 2026
Research Engineer, Cybersecurity RL (Reinforcement Learning)AnthropicSan Francisco, CAJun 10, 2026
Research Engineer, Performance RL (Reinforcement Learning)AnthropicSan Francisco, CAJun 10, 2026
Research EngineerDatology AIRedwood CityJun 4, 2026
Research Engineer, Safeguards LabsAnthropicSan Francisco, CAJun 3, 2026
Prompting & AI Agent Research EngineerHello PatientUS RemoteJun 3, 2026
Prompting & AI Agent Research EngineerHello PatientNew York, NYJun 3, 2026
Prompting & AI Agent Research EngineerHello PatientAustin, TexasJun 3, 2026
Founding Applied Research EngineerRoxSan FranciscoMay 28, 2026
Research Engineer, Knowledge FoundationsAnthropicSan Francisco, CAMay 26, 2026
Machine Learning Systems Research Engineer, Agent Post-training - Enterprise GenAIScale AISan Francisco, CAMay 26, 2026
Principal Research EngineerSynthesiaEuropeMay 22, 2026
Research Engineer, Economic Research Data PlatformAnthropicSan Francisco, CAMay 20, 2026
Senior Research EngineerMem0San Francisco Bay AreaMay 20, 2026
Senior Research Engineer, Voice + SpeechDecagonSan FranciscoMay 18, 2026
Staff Research Engineer, Voice + SpeechDecagonNew York CityMay 18, 2026
Senior Research Engineer, Voice + SpeechDecagonNew York CityMay 18, 2026
Senior Research EngineerNetradyneBangaloreMay 18, 2026
Data Research EngineerFundamentalBarcelonaMay 14, 2026
Research EngineerGraphon AISan FranciscoMay 14, 2026
Research Engineer, Frontier CapabilitiesLila SciencesCambridge, MA USAMay 14, 2026
Senior / Engineer II, AI Lab Research EngineerLila SciencesCambridge, MA USAMay 14, 2026
Staff / Principal Research Engineer, AI Safety, Technical MitigationsLila SciencesCambridge, MA USAMay 14, 2026
Research Engineer – EvalsFirecrawlSan Francisco, CA (Hybrid) OR Remote (Americas, UTC-3 to UTC-10)May 13, 2026
Research Engineer, Tinker, Developer ExperienceThinking Machines LabSan FranciscoMay 13, 2026
Research Engineer, VoiceInflection AIPalo Alto, California, United StatesMay 12, 2026
Research Engineer, Knowledge TeamAnthropicRemote (Friendly (Travel-Required))May 6, 2026
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