Staff/Senior Machine Learning Research Engineer, Intelligent Systems is open at Scale AI in San Francisco, CA; New York, NY. The posting gives a salary of $265K - $331K. Posted on Jul 14, 2026, and still on Scale AI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
As a Staff Machine Learning Research Engineer, you will operate across the full breadth of AIS’s technical needs — wherever the hardest ML problem in agentic AI happens to be that quarter. This could mean training and fine-tuning models, designing evaluation and observability systems, building improvement loops from production data, prototyping novel agent architectures, or designing internal systems and tooling…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Scale AI’s careers page.
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