LLM researcher jobs in the United States
82 open roles for LLM researchers in the United States as of Nov 15, 2026. Waymo, Reflectionai, Hark, Anthropic and Wayve have the most. 7 are remote and the median advertised salary is $275K.
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- Research Staff, LLMsDeepgram · 🇺🇸USA - Remote$149K - $338KRemoteLead and abovePythonLLMPyTorch
- Member of Product Staff, Foundation Models & Post-TrainingAbridge · 🇺🇸SF Office$250K - $290KHybridLead and aboveLLMAI agentsGenerative AI
- Sr. Software Engineer, Pretraining DataCursor · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$220K - $357KSeniorData quality
- Senior Applied Research Scientist - Foundation ModelsAmbient.ai · 🇺🇸Redwood City$180K - $230KHybridSeniorPythonC++PyTorch
- 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
- 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 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
- Data Annotators: Paid Tasks for AI Model TrainingTerac · 🇺🇸United States—RemoteMachine LearningAILLM evaluation
- Research Engineer - Pre-training DataPrimeIntellect · 🇺🇸San Francisco—PythonLangChainDatadog
- Research Engineer - Pre-trainingPrimeIntellect · 🇺🇸San Francisco—PythonPyTorchLangChain
- Research Engineer -- Vision and Vision-Language ModelsZyphra · 🇺🇸San Francisco—PythonMachine LearningPyTorch
- Research Scientist - Pre-trainingPluralis Research · 🇺🇸San Francisco—RemotePythonLLMPyTorch
- Principle Roboticist, Robot Foundation ModelWayve · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, California USA$296K - $375KHybridPythonC++Machine Learning
- Member of Technical Staff - Pre-Training Evals InfraReflectionai · 🇺🇸New York, NY—RustPythonC++
- 2027 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Research, Perception Foundation ModelsWaymo · 🇺🇸Mountain View, CA, USA—InternPythonMachine LearningPyTorch
- 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
- 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
- Robotics Engineer: Foundation Model TrainingGeneralrobotics · 🇺🇸Redmond, WA—PythonMachine LearningPyTorch
- 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
- 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
- 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 Applied Scientist, Efficient LLM Inference & Model OptimizationNebius · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, California, United States$195K - $262KSeniorPythonMachine 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
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Who is hiring for LLM researcher roles in the United States
Where LLM researcher roles in the United States are
- 🇺🇸United States82
- 🇺🇸California67
- 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area66
- 🇺🇸New York, NY7
- 🇺🇸Seattle, WA5
- 🇬🇧United Kingdom2
- 🇪🇺Europe2
- 🇬🇧London2
- 🇺🇸Boston, MA1
- 🌏Asia-Pacific1
A role that lists several places is counted in each of them.
Questions about LLM researcher jobs in the United States
- How many LLM researcher jobs in the United States are open right now?
- There are 82 open LLM researcher jobs in the United States at 50 companies on Jobs Every Hour as of Nov 15, 2026. 8 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 in the United States?
- Right now the most openings are at Waymo (7), Reflectionai (6), Hark (4), Anthropic (3) and Wayve (3). The ranking changes as companies open and close roles.
- Are there remote LLM researcher jobs in the United States?
- 7 of the 82 open LLM researcher jobs in the United States (9%) 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 in the United States pay?
- The median advertised salary is $275K, based on 49 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range. The middle half of those roles advertise between $225K and $315K. 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 one of the LLM researcher jobs in the United States?
- 6 of the 82 open LLM researcher jobs in the United States (7%) are for beginners: junior roles and internships. Of the 23 postings that state experience, the median asks for 5 years. 50 companies are hiring and 8 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 in the United States?
- 70 of the 82 open LLM researcher jobs in the United States (85%) ask for AI or machine-learning skills, most often PyTorch, Machine Learning, LLM. Employers still list 82 such roles today at 50 companies. Counted from the postings' own text on Nov 15, 2026.
- What skills do LLM researcher jobs in the United States ask for?
- Most often Python (60%), PyTorch (57%), Machine Learning (52%), LLM (41%), AI (32%) of the 82 open postings, counted from their own text on Nov 15, 2026.
- Which job titles come up most in LLM researcher jobs in the United States?
- Member of Technical Staff (18), Research Engineer (8), Research Scientist (7), Machine Learning Engineer (3), 2027 Summer Intern (3): the most common titles among the 82 open roles, without the level and place notes in brackets.
- Are LLM researcher jobs in the United States in demand in 2026?
- 82 LLM researcher jobs in the United States are open on Jobs Every Hour today at 50 companies, 0.1% of all 148,162 open jobs here; 8 were posted in the last seven days. The median advertised salary is $275K. 7 (9%) can be done remotely.
- How do I apply for LLM researcher jobs in the United States?
- 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.
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