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Every night we pull PhD-relevant roles from public employer career sites on Greenhouse, Ashby and Workday (AI labs, biotech, pharma and tech) plus the USAJobs federal API, filter them down to research-level positions, de-duplicate, and store them in our own database of PhD-level jobs. Right now that's 1,217 roles across ~113 employers and federal agencies, last refreshed at the time shown below.
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1,217 roles
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- Industry & AI labs
[Expression of Interest] Research Manager, Interpretability
Anthropic · AI Research
San Francisco, CAAI Research & EngineeringPosted 8d agoAbout Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing g
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Machine Learning Research Engineer, Agent Data Foundation - Enterprise GenAI
Scale AI · AI Research
San Francisco, CA; New York, NYEnterprise EngineeringPosted 8d agoAI is becoming vitally important in every function of our society. At Scale, our mission is to accelerate the development of AI applications. For 9 years, Scale has been the leading AI data foundry, helping fue
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Network Architect - AI Silicon & Systems
SambaNova Systems · AI Hardware
Austin, Texas, United States; Remote - US; San Jose, California, United States· RemoteHardwarePosted yesterdayThe era of pervasive AI has arrived. In this era, organizations will use generative AI to unlock hidden value in their data, accelerate processes, reduce costs, drive efficiency and innovation to fundamentally
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Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Tokens
Anthropic · AI Research
New York City, NY; New York City, NY | Seattle, WA; San Francisco, CAAI Research & EngineeringPosted 8d agoAbout Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing g
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Research Engineer, Infrastructure, Kernels
Thinking Machines Lab · AI Research
San Francisco· RemotePosted 8d agoThe mission of Thinking Machines is to build AI that extends human will and judgment. ABOUT THE ROLE We’re looking for an infrastructure research engineer to design, optimize, and maintain the compute foundatio
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Staff Data Scientist - Trust and Safety
Databricks · AI / Data
San Francisco, CaliforniaEngineering - PipelinePosted yesterdayRDQ426R282 Databricks is building the world's best and most secure platform for data and AI. We innovate and deploy industry-leading solutions in security, compliance, and governance. As a member of the Trust a
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Staff Software Engineer - Database Engine Internals
Databricks · AI / Data
Mountain View, CaliforniaEngineering - PipelinePosted yesterdayP-188 Our mission at Databricks is to radically simplify the whole data lifecycle from ingestion to ETL, BI, and all the way up to ML/AI with a unified platform. To achieve this goal, we believe the data wareho
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"Principal Scientist siRNA Design
Roche / Genentech · Pharma
BaselView & apply - Pharma & biotech
(Associate) Principal Bioanalysis Scientist
AstraZeneca · Pharma
Shanghai Jing'An OfficeView & apply - Pharma & biotech
(Associate) Principal Scientist, Translational Medicine
AstraZeneca · Pharma
2 LocationsView & apply - Pharma & biotech
(Senior) Scientist, Protein Engineering
Roche / Genentech · Pharma
ShanghaiView & apply - Pharma & biotech
[DJ] 非臨床開発研究部 [DSRD] リサーチアンドディベロップメントサイエンティスト（専門管理職・一般社員）/Research and Development Scientist （Research & Development Scientist / DSRD-Tokyo）
Pfizer · Pharma
Japan - TokyoView & apply - Industry & AI labs
[Expression of Interest] Research Engineer / Scientist, Alignment - London
Anthropic · AI Research
London, UKAI Research & EngineeringPosted 8d agoAbout Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing g
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[MA] Amyloidosis, Medical Affairs Scientist
Pfizer · Pharma
Japan - TokyoView & apply - Pharma & biotech
[MA] RA/Gastroenterology, Medical Affairs Scientist, Medical Manager/Associate (Field Medical)
Pfizer · Pharma
Japan - TokyoView & apply - Pharma & biotech
[MA] Senior Medical Affairs Scientist Manager - Amyloidosis (Cardiology)
Pfizer · Pharma
Japan - TokyoView & apply - Pharma & biotech
【AstraZeneca】【CET】Cutomer Experience & IT, Associate Director Data Scientist
AstraZeneca · Pharma
2 LocationsView & apply - Pharma & biotech
【AstraZeneca】【Medical】ﾒﾃﾞｨｶﾙ本部 ｴﾋﾞﾃﾞﾝｽ&ｵﾌﾞｻﾞﾍﾞｰｼｮﾅﾙﾘｻｰﾁ統括部, Data Scientist
AstraZeneca · Pharma
2 LocationsView & apply - AI / Research labs
Academic Research Partnerships & Programs Lead
OpenAI · AI Research
San Francisco· Remote$333K – $370K • Offers EquityPosted 27d agoAbout the role We are building a higher education researcher motion that helps funded labs adopt OpenAI across core research workflows. This role will develop relationships with principal investigators, researc
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ADME Scientist, Antibody–Oligonucleotide Conjugates (Principal Scientist I/II)
Novartis · Pharma
San DiegoView & apply - AI / Research labs
Advanced Packaging Reliability Engineer
OpenAI · AI Research
San Francisco· Remote$266K – $445K • Offers EquityPosted 2mo agoABOUT THE TEAM: OpenAI’s Hardware organization develops AI-native silicon and system-level solutions for the unique demands of advanced AI workloads. Building on efforts like Jalapeño, the team is developing fu
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AI Data Scientist
Amgen · Biotech / Pharma
India - HyderabadView & apply - Pharma & biotech
AI Data Scientist
Amgen · Biotech / Pharma
India - HyderabadView & apply - Pharma & biotech
AI Data Scientist, OTDS - Manager
Amgen · Biotech / Pharma
India - HyderabadView & apply - Pharma & biotech
AI Data Scientist, OTDS – Manager (Individual Contributor)
Amgen · Biotech / Pharma
India - HyderabadView & apply - Industry & AI labs
AI in Residence
Xaira Therapeutics · TechBio
South San Francisco, California, United StatesBioMedical AIPosted 1mo agoAbout Xaira Therapeutics Xaira is an innovative biotech startup focused on leveraging AI to transform drug discovery and development. The company is leading the development of generative AI models to design pro
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AI Inference Internship
Perplexity · AI Research
London· RemotePosted 6mo agoPerplexity is excited to announce the Internship Program for exceptional Master’s or PhD students studying Computer Science or Engineering in the UK, enrolled in the 2025-2026 academic year. This is an intensiv
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AI Product Manager
Dyno Therapeutics · TechBio
Watertown, Massachusetts, United StatesEngineeringPosted 20d agoThe Role AI Product Manager This role will drive development of Dyno’s AI products for biological design. You’ll work across modeling, software, and experimental validation to build systems that scientists use
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AI Research Engineer
Xaira Therapeutics · TechBio
Seattle, Washington, United States; South San Francisco, California, United StatesComputational Protein DesignPosted 13d agoAbout Xaira Therapeutics Xaira is an innovative biotech startup focused on leveraging AI to transform drug discovery and development. The company is leading the development of generative AI models to design pro
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AI Research Engineer
Normal Computing · AI Research
New York City· Remote$200K – $400K • Offers EquityPosted 2d agoABOUT NORMAL COMPUTING Normal Computing builds silicon that turns thermal noise from an obstacle into a computational resource. Conventional chips spend most of their energy forcing determinism onto physics; ou
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