LLM researcher jobs
LLM researcher: a person in this job designs and trains large language models, the technology behind chat assistants. Neura Robotics Gmbh, Waymo, Reflectionai, Nebius and Anthropic have the most open roles with “LLM researcher” or a close variant in the title right now.
136 open roles · 12 posted in the last 7 days · 12% remote · 74 companies hiring · $275K median advertised salary · checked Nov 15 against employer career pages
| Period | Count |
|---|---|
| under $75K | 0 |
| $75K to $100K | 0 |
| $100K to $125K | 0 |
| $125K to $150K | 0 |
| $150K to $175K | 2 |
| $175K to $200K | 3 |
| $200K to $250K | 15 |
| $250K to $300K | 13 |
| $300K and more | 19 |
Skills asked for in LLM researcher roles
Bars show the share of these 136 roles; one role can count in several rows.
Newest LLM researcher jobs
- Research Staff, LLMsDeepgram · 🇺🇸USA - Remote$149K - $338KRemoteLead and abovePythonLLMPyTorch
- LLM Data ResearcherClera · 🇪🇸Barcelona—Machine LearningLLMAI
- Member of Product Staff, Foundation Models & Post-TrainingAbridge · 🇺🇸SF Office$250K - $290KHybridLead and aboveLLMAI agentsGenerative AI
- Senior AI R&D Engineer – Model Training (f/m/d)AlephAlpha · Heidelberg—HybridSeniorRustPythonKubernetes
- Sr. Software Engineer, Pretraining DataCursor · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$220K - $357KSeniorData quality
- Senior Applied Research Scientist - Foundation ModelsAmbient.ai · 🇺🇸Redwood City$180K - $230KHybridSeniorPythonC++PyTorch
- AI R&D Engineer – Model Training (f/m/d)AlephAlpha · Heidelberg—HybridRustPythonKubernetes
- Software Engineer, Pretraining DataCursor · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$160K - $250KLLM evaluationData quality
- Member of Technical Staff, Multimodal Pretraining DataHark · 🇺🇸San Jose$180K - $450KPython
- Member of Technical Staff, Pretraining EvaluationsHark · 🇺🇸San Jose$180K - $450KPython
- Senior AI Research Engineer - LLM Training & Inference InfrastructureDatadog · 🇫🇷Paris, France—SeniorRustGoPython
- Member of Technical Staff, Pretraining DataMirendil · 🇺🇸San Francisco$300K - $400KPythonPyTorchLLM evaluation
- Member of Technical Staff, Pretraining Architecture and ScalingHark · 🇺🇸San Jose$180K - $450K
- Research Program Manager, Pre-trainingReflectionai · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA—
- Research Scientist, Pre-training ResearchChai Discovery · 🇺🇸San Francisco office—CAD
- Research Scientist – Multimodal Foundation Models & Visual ReasoningElorian Ai Inc · 🇺🇸Palo Alto—PythonMachine LearningPyTorch
- Research Staff, LLMs [EMEA - Remote]Deepgram · EMEA - Remote—RemoteLead and abovePythonLLMPyTorch
- Research Engineer / Scientist, Pre-trainingAnthropic · 🇺🇸Remote-Friendly (Travel-Required) | San Francisco, CA | S…$500K - $850KRemotePythonMachine LearningLLM
- Member of Technical Staff - ML Research Engineer, Pre-Training DataLiquid Ai · 🇺🇸San Francisco—HybridPythonPyTorch
- Machine Learning Engineer - Vision Foundation ModelsZoox · 🇺🇸Foster City, CA$254K - $305KPythonC++Machine Learning
- Internship, Foundation Models42dot · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, United States—InternPythonMachine LearningPyTorch
- Machine Learning Engineer, Driving Foundation Models42dot · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, United States$175K - $250KGoPythonC++
- Senior Data Scientist - LLMs for Fraud DetectionDataVisor · 🇺🇸Mountain View, California, United States$140K - $170KSeniorPythonSQLGCP
- Member of Technical Staff — RL & Agentic Model TrainingEmbedding Vc · 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area—PythonPyTorch
- 2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Research, Multimodal Foundation ModelsWaymo · 🇺🇸Mountain View, CA, USA—InternPythonMachine LearningPyTorch
- Member of Technical Staff - Pre-Training DataReflectionai · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA—PythonMachine LearningPyTorch
- Roboticist, Robot Foundation ModelWayve · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, California USA$210K - $267KHybridPythonC++Machine Learning
- VLA Pre-training & World Models | HumanoidHirehire · 🇬🇧London—PythonLLMPyTorch
- Data Annotators: Paid Tasks for AI Model TrainingTerac · 🇺🇸United States—RemoteMachine LearningAILLM evaluation
- LLM Data Scientist/Algorithm Engineer (Top Talent Program)Binance · 🇦🇺🇭🇰🇳🇿Australia; Hong Kong; New Zealand; Singapore; Taiwan—LLMAIRAG
- Research Engineer - Pre-training DataPrimeIntellect · 🇺🇸San Francisco—PythonLangChainDatadog
- Research Engineer - Pre-trainingPrimeIntellect · 🇺🇸San Francisco—PythonPyTorchLangChain
- Senior AI R&D Engineer - Performance - Pre-training (f/m/d)AlephAlpha · Heidelberg—HybridSeniorPythonMachine LearningLLM
- Research Engineer -- Vision and Vision-Language ModelsZyphra · 🇺🇸San Francisco—PythonMachine LearningPyTorch
- Research Scientist - Pre-trainingPluralis Research · 🇺🇸San Francisco—RemotePythonLLMPyTorch
- Senior AI Researcher: LLM post-training for hallucination reduction (f/m/d)AlephAlpha · Heidelberg—HybridSeniorPythonLLMPyTorch
- LLM Applied Data Scientist (RAG/ NLP)Binance · 🇭🇰🇸🇬Hong Kong; Singapore—PythonC++Machine Learning
- Principle Roboticist, Robot Foundation ModelWayve · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, California USA$296K - $375KHybridPythonC++Machine Learning
- Member of Technical Staff - Pre-Training Evals InfraReflectionai · 🇺🇸New York, NY—RustPythonC++
- Research Engineer (Materials Foundation Models)Cuspai · 🇬🇧Cambridge, UK—HybridMachine LearningLLMComputer Vision
- Robotic Foundation Model Engineer (human)Neura Robotics Gmbh · Aachen—PythonC++GCP
- Robotics Foundation Models Engineer (Mensch)Neura Robotics Gmbh · Aachen · +1 more location—PythonC++GCP
- Senior Applied Scientist, Efficient LLM Inference & Model OptimizationNebius · 🇩🇪Berlin, Germany · +4 more locations—SeniorPythonMachine LearningLLM
- 2027 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Research, Perception Foundation ModelsWaymo · 🇺🇸Mountain View, CA, USA—InternPythonMachine LearningPyTorch
- LLM Scientist, AI for ScienceMistral.ai · 🇫🇷Paris—HybridLLMPyTorchTensorFlow
- Robotic Foundation Model Engineer Intern (Human)Neura Robotics Gmbh · Metzingen / Riederich—InternPythonC++GCP
- Robotic Foundation Model Engineer Intern (Mensch)Neura Robotics Gmbh · Metzingen / Riederich—InternPythonC++GCP
- Research Scientist, Robot Foundation ModelsWayve · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, California USA$370K - $513KHybridMachine LearningPyTorchReinforcement learning
- Foundation Model Data EngineerSciforium · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$155K - $210KPythonMachine LearningLLM
- 2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Research Scientist, Foundation ModelsWaymo · 🇺🇸Mountain View, CA, USA—InternPythonMachine LearningTensorFlow
- NLP / LLM Data ScientistDandelionhealth · Remote$135K - $165KRemotePythonSQLMachine Learning
- Senior/Staff System Research Engineer – LLM Inference OptimizationSnowflake · 🇺🇸US-WA-Bellevue$236K - $330KHybridLead and aboveMachine LearningLLMTensorFlow
- Product-Focused Data Scientist (LLM Products)Blue Rose Research · 🇺🇸Remote or NYC$160K - $210KRemotePythonSQLLLM
- ML Engineering Intern - LLM Research & DevelopmentProsus · 🇳🇱Amsterdam—InternPythonLLMPyTorch
- (MSc/PhD) AI Research Intern - LLMs, Causal Inference & Decision MakingProsus · 🇳🇱Amsterdam—InternPythonMachine LearningLLM
- Robotics Engineer - Singapore: Foundation Model TrainingGeneralrobotics · 🇸🇬Singapore—PythonMachine LearningPyTorch
- Robotics Engineer: Foundation Model TrainingGeneralrobotics · 🇺🇸Redmond, WA—PythonMachine LearningPyTorch
- Research Lead - Pre-training SafetyFar.ai · Berkeley Office$290K - $450KRemoteLead and above.NETMachine LearningLLM evaluation
- Research Engineer (LLM Performance), LondonIsomorphic Labs · 🇬🇧London—GCPMachine LearningLLM
- Staff Tech Lead, Perception, Pre-training & DistillationWaymo · 🇺🇸Mountain View, California, United States, San Francisco…$251K - $310KLead and abovePythonC++Machine Learning
- Pre-training Research EngineerSciforium · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$165K - $225KMachine LearningDeep learningDistributed training
- Research Engineer - Pre-trainingPluralis Research · 🇺🇸San Francisco—RemotePythonLLMPyTorch
- AI Researcher, LLMsHudson River Trading · 🇬🇧🇺🇸London, United Kingdom; New York, NY, United States—LLMPyTorchAI
- Project Lead, AI Model TrainingNewtonx · Remote—RemoteLead and abovePythonSQLFigma
- AI Research Intern: Foundation Models - IMMEDIATE STARTGraymatter Robotics · 🇺🇸Los Angeles - HQ$40 - $50 an hourInternPythonPyTorchAI
- Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Frontier ResearchDeepgram · 🇺🇸USA - Remote$197K - $338KRemoteLead and aboveDockerLLMKubernetes
- Senior Technischer Product Manager - AI & Robotics Foundation Model (Mensch)Neura Robotics Gmbh · Metzingen / Riederich—SeniorPythonC++GCP
- Senior Technical Project Manager - AI & Robotics Foundation Models (human)Neura Robotics Gmbh · Metzingen / Riederich—SeniorPythonC++GCP
- Staff Research Scientist, Foundation Models RecipesWaymo · 🇺🇸Mountain View, CA, US; San Francisco, CA, US; Kirkland, W…$251K - $310KLead and aboveMachine LearningLLMPyTorch
- Machine Learning Scientist, PretrainingProfluent · 🇺🇸Emeryville, California, United States; Hybrid (2-3 days o…$212K - $339KHybridGCPAzureMachine Learning
- Member of Technical Staff, Foundation ModelsOdysseyml · 🇺🇸Palo Alto$164K - $508KPyTorch
- Staff Software Engineer- Foundation Model InferenceDatabricks · 🇺🇸San Francisco, California$190K - $265KLead and aboveAzureLLMPyTorch
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Vision-Language Foundation ModelsWaymo · 🇺🇸Mountain View, California, United States$251K - $310KLead and abovePythonMachine LearningLLM
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Model Training and Reinforcement LearningNebius · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, California, United States$195K - $262KSeniorPythonMachine LearningLLM
- Sr. Staff ML Researcher, LLM Algorithmic OptimizationD Matrix · 🇺🇸Santa Clara$175K - $265KHybridLead and abovePythonMachine LearningLLM
- [AI Research Div.] Foundation Model Evaluation Engineer - 독자 AI 파운데이션 모델 (2년 이상 / 인턴)KRAFTON · 🇰🇷Seoul—AINLP
- Senior AI Infrastructure Engineer - Model TrainingKodiak · 🇺🇸Mountain View, CA$190K - $260KSeniorPythonC++PyTorch
- Robotics Foundation Models Engineer (human)Neura Robotics Gmbh · 🇩🇪Munich / Freising—PythonC++GCP
- Member of Technical Staff, Foundation ModelsAtaraxis Ai · 🇺🇸New York HQ$100K - $300KPythonMachine LearningPyTorch
- Principal Research Engineer, Model Training & Post-TrainingInflection AI · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, California, United States$400K - $550KLead and aboveMachine LearningLLM
- Research Scientist - Physical AI & Robot Foundation ModelsLG AI Research · 🇰🇷Gangseo-gu, Seoul, South Korea—PyTorch
- Member of Technical Staff, PretrainingMirendil · 🇺🇸San Francisco$300K - $400KDistributed training
- Member of Technical Staff, Model TrainingParallel · 🇺🇸San Francisco or Palo Alto$150K - $300K
- Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, LLM/VLM Model Architecture & OptimizationWaymo · 🇺🇸Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA;$298K - $368KLead and aboveMachine LearningLLMPyTorch
- [Residency/Postdoc] Research Scientist - Scientific Foundation ModelLG AI Research · 🇰🇷Gangseo-gu, Seoul, South Korea—Machine LearningPyTorch
- Research Scientist, Video Foundation ModelsCantina · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $320KHybrid
- AI Research Engineer, Pre-TrainingHudson River Trading · 🇬🇧🇺🇸London, United Kingdom; New York, NY, United States—LLMPyTorchAI
- Senior Robotic Foundation Model Engineer (Mensch)Neura Robotics Gmbh · Metzingen / Riederich—SeniorPythonC++GCP
- Senior Robotic Foundation Model Engineer (human)Neura Robotics Gmbh · Metzingen / Riederich—SeniorPythonC++GCP
- Senior / Principal ML Scientist, Foundation Models for Life SciencesLila Sciences · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA USA$268K - $384KLead and aboveGCPMachine LearningPyTorch
- Machine Learning Research, RF Foundation Models SpecialistDistributed Spectrum · 🇺🇸New York City$200K - $300KMachine LearningAI
- Machine Learning Researcher, Multimodal LLMsBland · 🇺🇸San Francisco$160K - $280KMachine LearningLLMAI
- Member of Technical Staff, Research — Relational Foundation ModelsAvra · Remote—RemoteRustC++PyTorch
- Helix AI Engineer, Video PretrainingFigure · 🇺🇸San Jose, CA$200K - $400KPythonMachine LearningPyTorch
- Member of Technical Staff – AI Research Engineer (Image/Video Foundation Models)Genpeach · 🇨🇭Zurich—RemotePythonLLMPyTorch
- Staff Research Scientist, AI Agents & LLMsSnowflake · 🇺🇸US-WA-Bellevue$200K - $288KHybridLead and aboveLLMAI
- Member of Technical Staff - Pre-Training InfraReflectionai · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA—Machine Learning
- Member of Technical Staff, PretrainingHark · 🇺🇸San Jose$180K - $450KLLM
- Generative AI - 3D Foundation ModelMeshy · 🇨🇳Shanghai—HybridPythonMachine LearningPyTorch
- Member of Technical Staff, Pretraining ScienceRadical Numerics · 🇺🇸San Francisco—PythonPyTorch
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Who is hiring for LLM researcher roles
Where LLM researcher roles are
- 🇺🇸United States82
- 🇺🇸California67
- 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area66
- 🇪🇺Europe23
- 🌏Asia-Pacific13
- 🇬🇧United Kingdom10
- 🇬🇧London9
- 🇺🇸New York, NY7
- 🇰🇷South Korea7
- 🇺🇸Seattle, WA5
A role that lists several places is counted in each of them.
What LLM researcher roles pay, by level
| Level in the title | Median advertised salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| No level in the title | $280K | 31 |
| Lead and above | $280K | 15 |
Medians of the midpoints of advertised yearly US-dollar ranges; a level needs at least 15 such roles. Advertised, not verified pay.
Kinds of work close to this one
Roles where employers ask for the same skills. The bar shows how much the skill lists overlap; the text names the shared skills and, where 30 postings state pay, the median advertised pay there.
Companies hiring LLM researchers
LLM researcher salaryQuestions about LLM researcher jobs
- What is an LLM researcher job?
- In an LLM researcher job, a person designs and trains large language models, the technology behind chat assistants. 136 such roles are open on Jobs Every Hour as of Nov 15, 2026.
- How many LLM researcher jobs are open right now?
- There are 136 open LLM researcher jobs at 74 companies on Jobs Every Hour as of Nov 15, 2026. 12 of them were posted in the last seven days. The list is rebuilt every hour from the employers' own careers pages.
- Which companies have the most LLM researcher jobs?
- Right now the most openings are at Neura Robotics Gmbh (10), Waymo (7), Reflectionai (6), Nebius (6) and Anthropic (5). The ranking changes as companies open and close roles.
- Are there remote LLM researcher jobs?
- 16 of the 136 open LLM researcher jobs (12%) are listed as remote. Remote roles are often limited to certain countries or time zones, so check the location line of each job.
- What do LLM researcher jobs pay?
- The median advertised salary is $275K, based on 52 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range. The middle half of those roles advertise between $225K and $333K. These are advertised ranges, not verified pay. Most employers here are technology companies, so the figures run above the wider market for the same work.
- Is it hard to get an LLM researcher job?
- 11 of the 136 open LLM researcher jobs (8%) are for beginners: junior roles and internships. Of the 35 postings that state experience, the median asks for 5 years. 74 companies are hiring and 12 roles were posted in the last seven days. Matching your resume to the skills each posting names helps most; the free resume builder shows the match.
- How is AI changing LLM researcher jobs?
- 124 of the 136 open LLM researcher jobs (91%) ask for AI or machine-learning skills, most often PyTorch, Machine Learning, LLM. Employers still list 136 such roles today at 74 companies. Counted from the postings' own text on Nov 15, 2026.
- What skills do LLM researcher jobs ask for?
- Most often Python (65%), PyTorch (63%), Machine Learning (49%), LLM (49%), AI (42%) of the 136 open postings, counted from their own text on Nov 15, 2026.
- Which job titles come up most in LLM researcher jobs?
- Member of Technical Staff (21), Research Engineer (13), Research Scientist (10), Senior Applied Scientist (5), Machine Learning Engineer (3): the most common titles among the 136 open roles, without the level and place notes in brackets.
- Are LLM researcher jobs in demand in 2026?
- 136 LLM researcher jobs are open on Jobs Every Hour today at 74 companies, 0.1% of all 148,162 open jobs here; 12 were posted in the last seven days. The median advertised salary is $275K. 16 (12%) can be done remotely.
- How do I apply for LLM researcher jobs?
- Open a job and press “Apply on company site”. You go straight to the employer's own careers page and apply there. Jobs Every Hour needs no account and charges nothing for applying.













