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Ad Hoc LLC logo
20hr

Senior Researcher

Senior Researcher leading mixed-methods research and mentoring teams at Ad Hoc, a technology company building digital services for government agencies. Influencing research strategy, stakeholder decisions, and product outcomes.

🇺🇸 United States
Full-time
$130,000 - $140,000 per year
Senior
🧬 Research Scientist
National University logo
5d

Research Assistant – Student Worker

Student Research Assistant supporting National University research on women of color Marriage and Family Therapists. Assisting with qualitative data collection, coding, documentation, and scholarly materials.

🇺🇸 United States
Part-time
$17 - $22 per hour
Entry Level
🧬 Research Scientist
Child Trends logo
7d

Research Assistant – Senior, Early Childhood

Research Assistant supporting Child Trends’ early childhood social science research projects. Collecting, analyzing, and organizing data for research, evaluation, and policy projects.

🇺🇸 United States
Full-time
$53,000 - $62,000 per year
Senior
🧬 Research Scientist
Syndio logo
10d

Senior Research Scientist, Executive Engagement & Insights

Senior Research Scientist leading applied research for Syndio’s pay governance and compensation intelligence platform. Combining proprietary pay data with labor-market data to inform executives, products, and customers.

🇺🇸 United States
Full-time
$164,000 - $184,000 per year
Senior
🧬 Research Scientist
PythonSQL
Mercor logo
17d

LLM Research Scientist – Pre-training, Computer Vision, Adversarial Robustness

LLM research scientist training and improving vision and language models for Mercor’s AI lab and enterprise partners. Focusing on adversarial robustness, computer vision, generative modeling, and multilingual pre-training.

🇺🇸 United States
Contractor
$100 - $120 per hour
Mid Level
Senior
🧬 Research Scientist
PyTorchTensorflow
Mercor logo
17d

LLM Research Scientist – Pre-training, Computer Vision, Adversarial Robustness

LLM research scientist training and improving frontier AI models for vision, language, and adversarial robustness. Conducting empirical research and optimizing models under data, compute, size, and latency constraints.

🇺🇸 United States
Contractor
$100 - $120 per hour
Mid Level
Senior
🧬 Research Scientist
PyTorchTensorflow
JHU EEHPC logo
29d

Research Assistant – AI Development

Research Assistant developing AI conversational systems and prototypes for Johns Hopkins education research. Managing study data, APIs, user-activity tracking, and iterative feature testing.

🇺🇸 United States
Full-time
$18 - $31 per hour
Mid Level
Senior
🧬 Research Scientist
JavaPython
Pluralis Research logo
30d

Research Scientist Intern

Research Scientist Intern advancing Pluralis’s decentralized large-model training research. Publishing foundational Protocol Learning papers toward frontier-scale models.

Distributed SystemsPyTorch
Axle Informatics logo
33d

Cybersecurity Research Assistant

Cybersecurity Research Assistant securing Kubernetes and HPC infrastructure for Axle’s NIH rare-disease research. Building controls, monitoring, automation, and AI-assisted security tooling.

🇺🇸 United States
Full-time
$85,000 - $110,000 per year
Junior
🧬 Research Scientist
AnsibleCloudCyber SecurityDNSFirewallsGrafanaKubernetesLinuxPrometheusPythonTCP/IPTerraform
EHS Support logo
33d

Principal Scientist – Ecological Services

Principal Scientist leading EHS Support’s ecological consulting practice. Developing business, managing teams, and delivering ecological risk assessments, NRDA, restoration, and monitoring services.

NVIDIA logo
34d

Senior Applied Research Scientist, Data Curation

Senior Applied Research Scientist developing NVIDIA’s petabyte-scale multimodal data-curation and deduplication pipelines. Advancing document extraction for foundation-model training and NVIDIA Nemotron.

🇺🇸 United States
Full-time
$224,000 - $356,500 per year
Senior
🧬 Research Scientist
MicroservicesNode.jsPythonPyTorchRaySpark
Celcuity logo
34d

Senior/Principal Scientist, Formulation and Process Development

Formulation scientist leading drug product and process development for Celcuity’s targeted oncology therapies. Supporting formulations, scale-up, lifecycle management, and regulatory filings.

🇺🇸 United States
Full-time
$150,000 - $175,000 per year
Senior
🧬 Research Scientist
SaltStack
Mercor logo
40d

Mercor Research Fellowship – APEX

Research fellow building and validating APEX benchmarks for Mercor, an AI data and enterprise evaluation company. Designing evaluations, testing frontier models, and publishing results.

🇺🇸 United States
Contractor
$40,000 - $80,000 per year
Mid Level
Senior
🧬 Research Scientist
University of Arkansas System logo
41d

Research Assistant I

Part-time Research Assistant translating and disseminating UAMS health research findings. Developing evidence-based websites, reports, presentations, and community-facing materials.

WashU IT logo
42d

Research Assistant – Infectious Diseases

Part-time remote research assistant supporting WashU’s infectious-disease and global public-health research. Conducting assays, analyzing data, coordinating studies, and supporting project operations.

🇺🇸 United States
Part-time
$17 - $29 per hour
Junior
Mid Level
🧬 Research Scientist
Arizona logo
42d

Senior Research Scientist, Information Science – Extended Temporary

Senior Research Scientist developing AI/NLP systems for scientific feasibility assessment at the University of Arizona. Leading reproducible research pipelines, empirical studies, publications, and student collaboration.

DockerLinuxPython
GoodPower logo
44d

Senior Researcher, Mixed Methods

Senior Researcher advancing decarbonization through behavioral and mixed-methods research at GoodPower. Designing experiments, evaluating interventions, and translating evidence into stronger energy-transition programs.

🇺🇸 United States
Full-time
$100,000 - $120,000 per year
Senior
🧬 Research Scientist
Python
NVIDIA logo
44d

Senior Applied Scientist – Cyber Defense

Senior Applied Scientist building and deploying AI agents for NVIDIA’s cybersecurity operations. Evaluating models, optimizing agent systems, and automating detection, investigation, and response.

🇺🇸 United States
Full-time
$184,000 - $356,500 per year
Senior
🧬 Research Scientist
Cyber SecurityPythonTypeScript
NVIDIA logo
44d

Senior Applied Research Scientist – Computational Geometry, Meshing

NVIDIA applied researcher developing computational geometry, meshing, and discretization algorithms. Advancing GPU-based CAD-to-simulation workflows across engineering, semiconductor, and scientific computing.

🇺🇸 United States
Full-time
$192,000 - $356,500 per year
Senior
🧬 Research Scientist
Python
SentiLink logo
54d

Research Scientist, PhD New Grad

Research Scientist building and deploying machine-learning models for SentiLink’s identity verification and fraud-risk products. Researching fraud patterns, engineering features, and delivering production code and analyses.

🇺🇸 United States
Full-time
$120,000 - $220,000 per year
Entry Level
🧬 Research Scientist
Python