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Research scientist, research engineer and applied-science roles pulled daily from AI labs, biotech & pharma, and U.S. federal science agencies, the kinds of jobs PhDs actually move into.
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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 1,212 roles across ~100 employers and federal agencies, last refreshed at the time shown below.
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1,212 roles
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- Industry & AI labs
[Expression of Interest] Research Manager, Interpretability
Anthropic · AI Research
San Francisco, CAAI Research & EngineeringPosted 1mo 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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Member of Technical Staff - New Grad (2027 Start)
Decagon · AI
San Francisco$185K • Offers EquityPosted 1mo agoAbout Decagon Decagon is the leading conversational AI platform empowering every brand to deliver concierge customer experiences. Our technology enables industry-defining enterprises like Avis Budget Group, Blo
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Principal Scientist, Biology
Xaira Therapeutics · TechBio
South San Francisco, California, United StatesBiology & PharmacologyPosted 11d 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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Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Tokens
Anthropic · AI Research
New York City, NY; New York City, NY | Seattle, WA; San Francisco, CAAI Research & EngineeringPosted 1mo 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 2mo agoABOUT THINKING MACHINES The mission of Thinking Machines is to build AI that extends human will and judgment. We are training frontier models with Inkling, developing Tinker to let people make models their own,
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Staff Data Scientist - Trust and Safety
Databricks · AI / Data
San Francisco, CaliforniaEngineering - PipelinePosted 5d agoRDQ426R282 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 5d agoP-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, Computer-Aided Drug Design (CADD)
Roche / Genentech · Pharma
ShanghaiView & 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 29d 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
[MA] Vaccines Medical Affairs Scientist, Manager
Pfizer · Pharma
Japan - TokyoView & 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 - Pharma & biotech
12 Month University Industrial Placement Student: Biometrics – Clinical Information Scientist
AstraZeneca · Pharma
UK - MacclesfieldView & apply - Pharma & biotech
12 Month University Industrial Placement Student: Computational Chemistry
AstraZeneca · Pharma
UK - CambridgeView & apply - Pharma & biotech
2027 Spring Co op CMC Synthetics Platform Process and Pharmaceutical Engineering Scientist Cambridge MA
Sanofi · Pharma
Cambridge, MAView & apply - Pharma & biotech
2027 Spring Co-op Bioinformatic Digital Data Scientist - Global Immunology, Waltham, MA
Sanofi · Pharma
Waltham, MAView & apply - Industry & AI labs
Abuse Research Engineer
Stripe · Tech
Remote from the US· Remote8611 Security AnalyticsPosted yesterdayWho we are About Stripe Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, gro
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Advanced Packaging Reliability Engineer
OpenAI · AI Research
San Francisco· Remote$266K – $445K • Offers EquityPosted 3mo 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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Agent Data Scientist
Decagon · AI
San Francisco$165K – $215K • Offers EquityPosted 1mo agoAbout Decagon Decagon is the leading conversational AI platform empowering every brand to deliver concierge customer experiences. Our technology enables industry-defining enterprises like Avis Budget Group, Blo
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Agent Strategist
Sierra · AI
South KoreaPosted 1mo agoABOUT US Sierra is the leading platform for customer-facing AI agents, working with many of the world's biggest brands — including The GAP, Rocket Mortgage, SoFi, Sutter Health, and SoftBank — to transform how
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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
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