Machine Learning Scientist Jobs

Fin , now part of Salesforce, is on a mission to help businesses provide perfect customer experiences. Our AI Agent Fin is the highest-performing AI Customer Agent on the market today, enabling businesses to deliver impeccable, always-on customer support across the customer journey, from service, to sales, to ecommerce. Powered by our own AI models, Fin resolves complex customer issues end-to-end across every channel, with minimal set-up and integration. Fin can also be combined with our natively integrated Intercom help desk, giving modern support teams one single system. Together with Salesforce, the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success, we're building the future of customer experience. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn't a buzzword, it's a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing, and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI. Ready to level up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You're in the right place. Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce. What's the opportunity? We're building a new function at Fin: AI Product Management. For over a decade, Fin has invested in in-house AI, with a team of machine learning scientists, ML engineers, researchers, and AI designers. Now, we’re expanding this team with product managers who will define the future of Fin's AI platform and AI agent. As a Staff AI Product Manager, you’ll shape the vision, strategy, and roadmap for core AI systems that power Fin and Fin's AI features. You’ll work at the intersection of advanced AI research, cutting-edge product development, and real customer problems, helping us build world-class AI products that deliver meaningful business impact. This is a high-ownership role for a technical, customer-obsessed PM who thrives in fast-moving, ambiguous environments and loves turning complex AI cap

About Pinecone: Pinecone is the leading vector database for building accurate and performant AI applications at scale in production. Pinecone’s mission is to make AI knowledgeable. More than 109,000 customers across various industries have shipped AI applications faster and more confidently with Pinecone’s developer-friendly technology. Pinecone is based in New York and has raised $138M in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ, Menlo Ventures, and Wing Venture Capital. About the Role/Team: As a Technical PMM , you will help developers, software engineers, and machine learning scientists understand how Pinecone enables knowledgeable AI applications. You will accomplish this through messaging and positioning, GTM strategy, launch planning, and enablement for key product features. You will work closely with Product, Sales, Developer Relations, and Marketing teams to ensure our customers understand the value of our platform. Responsibilities: Product Launches & GTM Strategy: Develop launch plans for product releases, align with product teams, and manage GTM execution. Lead core launch teams with cross-functional members (documentation , communications, developer relations, product, growth marketing, etc). Measure customer impact and adoption post-launch, iterating on strategies as needed. Positioning & Messaging: Craft compelling, technically accurate messaging for AI-powered search and retrieval solutions. Build product narratives for enterprise and developer audiences that differentiate Pinecone from competitors. Develop and maintain positioning for new product capabilities Customer & Market Insights: Partner with customers to develop case studies, gathering business impact metrics and architectural insights. Engage in customer interviews and research to refine messaging and identify key value drivers. Content Development & Enablement: Develop internal and external enablement materials, including sales training, pitch decks, and GTM enablement sessi

Scale works with the industry's leading AI labs to provide high quality data and accelerate progress in GenAI research. We are looking for Research Scientists and Research Engineers with expertise in LLM post-training (SFT, RLHF, reward modeling) and evaluation. This role is on the evaluation pod within the GenAI Research Organization and will focus on building benchmarks and diagnosing model failure modes in both text and multimodal modalities. In this role, you will develop rigorous evaluations and diagnostic methods that reveal where frontier models fail and why. You will collaborate with researchers and engineers to define best practices in evaluation-driven AI development. You will also partner with top foundation model labs to translate failure analysis into technical and strategic input on the next generation of generative AI models. You will: Analyze model behavior to identify, characterize, and diagnose failure modes in frontier LLMs and Agents. You’ll identify everything from capability gaps and reasoning errors to robustness and alignment issues, all focusing on RCA. Design and build benchmarks and evaluation methods that measure LLM capabilities in both text and multimodal modalities. Apply post-training expertise (SFT, RLHF, reward modeling) to connect observed failures to the data and training interventions that address them. Publish research findings in top-tier AI conferences. Ideally you’d have: Ph.D. or Master's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, AI, or a related field. Deep understanding of deep learning, reinforcement learning, and large-scale model fine-tuning. Experience with post-training techniques such as RLHF, preference modeling, or instruction tuning, and with LLM evaluation or benchmark development. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Published research in areas of machine learning at major conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, CVPR, etc.) and/or journals. Previous experience in a customer facing r

About the Team The Strategic Finance team at OpenAI plays a critical role in shaping the company’s long-term trajectory. We partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Go-To-Market teams to inform high-stakes decisions through rigorous data science and economic modeling. As part of our expanding Data Science function, we’re building a best-in-class Forecasting capability to drive real-time, data-driven decision-making across user growth, revenue, compute infrastructure, and more. We are developing scalable forecasting infrastructure to help us understand and anticipate business dynamics in an increasingly complex, usage-based world. Our models are foundational to planning, pricing, operational efficiency, and growth strategy - supporting key investment decisions and unlocking OpenAI’s full potential. About the Role We’re looking for a senior Machine Learning Data Scientist to lead our forecasting initiatives. You’ll be one of the founding members of the Forecasting pillar within Strategic Finance Data Science, responsible for building and scaling robust, interpretable, and production-ready forecasting systems. Your models will power critical business decisions by predicting core metrics such as DAU/WAU, revenue, LTV, compute consumption, and profitability. This is a highly cross-functional role, requiring technical excellence, strong product intuition, and business acumen. You’ll collaborate with product managers, researchers, engineers, and finance leaders to operationalize forecasting insights, influence company-wide strategy, and build foundational forecasting capabilities at OpenAI. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Build statistical and machine learning models to solve forecasting needs across product, finance, infrastructure, and GTM domains. Own the end-to-end modeling lifecycle , including scoping, feature engineerin

Scale works with the industry’s leading AI labs to provide high quality data and accelerate progress in GenAI research. We are looking for Research Scientists and Research Engineers with expertise in LLM post-training (SFT, RLHF, reward modeling). This role will focus on optimizing data curation and eval to enhance LLM capabilities in both text and multimodal modalities. In this role, you will develop novel methods to improve the alignment and generalization of large-scale generative models. You will collaborate with researchers and engineers to define best practices in data-driven AI development. You will also partner with top foundation model labs to provide both technical and strategic input on the development of the next generation of generative AI models. You will: Research and develop novel post-training techniques, including SFT, RLHF, and reward modeling, to enhance LLM core capabilities in both text and multimodal modalities. Design and experiment new approaches to preference optimization. Analyze model behavior, identify weaknesses, and propose solutions for bias mitigation and model robustness. Publish research findings in top-tier AI conferences. Ideally you’d have: Ph.D. or Master's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, AI, or a related field. Deep understanding of deep learning, reinforcement learning, and large-scale model fine-tuning. Experience with post-training techniques such as RLHF, preference modeling, or instruction tuning. Excellent written and verbal communication skills Published research in areas of machine learning at major conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, CVPR, etc.) and/or journals Previous experience in a customer facing role. Compensation packages at Scale for eligible roles include base salary, equity, and benefits. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position and may be inclusive of several career levels at Scale; it will be determined du

Who We Are Nuro believes self-driving vehicles are the most immediate and profound opportunity for AI to drive positive change in the physical world. Safer streets, more time for what matters, and easier access to the world around us, that’s why we’re building a universal autonomy platform: self-driving for all roads and all rides. Founded in 2016, Nuro is a physical AI company developing Level 4 autonomous driving technology for a wide range of vehicles, use cases, and markets. Powered by the Nuro Driver™, our universal autonomy platform enables the global mobility ecosystem to deploy autonomy at scale, from robotaxis and logistics fleets to personal vehicles. With years of real-world deployment experience and a flexible, partner-led business model, Nuro is working toward a future where millions of autonomous vehicles powered by our technology help make everyday life safer, easier, and more connected. Nuro has raised over $2B in capital from Uber, NVIDIA, Google, Softbank, Fidelity, T. Rowe Price, and other leading investors. About the Role The mandate of the learned behavior team is to use advanced machine learning techniques to accelerate software progress. In this role, you will work closely with the software vertical teams to understand their pain points and explore novel and advanced machine learning methods to solve practical real-world challenging problems. To name a few, using self-supervised learning to learn robust representations, exploring techniques for out-of-distribution detection to solve long tail problems, adjusting reinforcement learning techniques for motion planning, working on trajectory prediction and motion planning, investigating the robustness of models to mitigate uncertainties, or trying to build an end-to-end driving system. If you love solving challenging new problems with a mindset of deriving practical solutions to eventually be used on the vehicle, come join us! About the Work Work on scalable machine learning based planning and pre

Who We Are Nuro believes self-driving vehicles are the most immediate and profound opportunity for AI to drive positive change in the physical world. Safer streets, more time for what matters, and easier access to the world around us, that’s why we’re building a universal autonomy platform: self-driving for all roads and all rides. Founded in 2016, Nuro is a physical AI company developing Level 4 autonomous driving technology for a wide range of vehicles, use cases, and markets. Powered by the Nuro Driver™, our universal autonomy platform enables the global mobility ecosystem to deploy autonomy at scale, from robotaxis and logistics fleets to personal vehicles. With years of real-world deployment experience and a flexible, partner-led business model, Nuro is working toward a future where millions of autonomous vehicles powered by our technology help make everyday life safer, easier, and more connected. Nuro has raised over $2B in capital from Uber, NVIDIA, Google, Softbank, Fidelity, T. Rowe Price, and other leading investors. About the Work Develop and scale state-of-the-art generative models—especially diffusion architectures, flow-matching techniques, and energy-based models —for autonomous plan generation. Build generative models with foundation models. Leverage large language models and world foundation models for reasoning, decision making and multi-modality generation. Optimize generative models using reinforcement learning to improve interactive reasoning. Explore reward modeling/learned verifier using generative models. Explore joint prediction and planning and self-play. Leverage generative models for active learning and world modeling. Develop controllable generative models to guide the generation process towards desired goals, conditions and rewards. Collaborate across autonomy teams while developing holistic solutions to top autonomy challenges. Understand issues, propose ideas, prioritize work and develop solutions to solve them, evaluate

About Scale At Scale AI, our mission is to accelerate the development of AI applications. For 8 years, Scale has been the leading AI data foundry, helping fuel the most exciting advancements in AI, including: generative AI, defense applications, and autonomous vehicles. With our recent Series F round, we’re accelerating the abundance of frontier data to pave the road to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), and building upon our prior model evaluation work with enterprise customers and governments, to deepen our capabilities and offerings for both public and private evaluations. About the ACE team The Agent Capabilities & Environments (ACE) team, part of Scale’s Research organization, brings together customer-facing Researchers and Applied AI Engineers. Our core mission includes research on agent environments and RL reward signals, benchmarking autonomous agent performance across real-world scenarios and environments, creating robust data programs to improve Large Language Models (LLMs) agentic capabilities and building foundational tools and frameworks for evaluating models as agents. ACE focuses on autonomous agents that dynamically interact with diverse external environments, including code repositories, GUI interfaces, browsers, and more. About This Role This role is at the intersection of cutting-edge AI research and practical application, with a focus on studying the data types essential for building state-of-the-art agents, such as browser and SWE agents. The ideal candidate will explore the data landscape needed to advance intelligent, adaptable AI agents, guiding the data strategy at Scale to drive innovation. This position requires not only expertise in LLM agents and planning algorithms but also creativity in addressing novel challenges related to data, interaction, and evaluation. You will contribute to impactful research publications on agents, collaborate with customer researchers, and work alongside the engineering team to translate t

Who We Are Nuro believes self-driving vehicles are the most immediate and profound opportunity for AI to drive positive change in the physical world. Safer streets, more time for what matters, and easier access to the world around us, that’s why we’re building a universal autonomy platform: self-driving for all roads and all rides. Founded in 2016, Nuro is a physical AI company developing Level 4 autonomous driving technology for a wide range of vehicles, use cases, and markets. Powered by the Nuro Driver™, our universal autonomy platform enables the global mobility ecosystem to deploy autonomy at scale, from robotaxis and logistics fleets to personal vehicles. With years of real-world deployment experience and a flexible, partner-led business model, Nuro is working toward a future where millions of autonomous vehicles powered by our technology help make everyday life safer, easier, and more connected. Nuro has raised over $2B in capital from Uber, NVIDIA, Google, Softbank, Fidelity, T. Rowe Price, and other leading investors. About the role In this role, you will collaborate closely with researchers and engineers on the Learned Behavior teams to tackle plan generation challenges in autonomous driving. You’ll apply state-of-the-art generative modeling techniques—ranging from cutting-edge diffusion, flow matching, energy-based models, and SoTA algorithms—in order to develop novel solutions that generate safe, comfortable, and efficient driving behaviors in the most challenging real world situations. Beyond core research, you’ll own the end-to-end lifecycle of your models, productizing them for robust, real-world autonomous driving deployments on a global scale. About the Work Develop and scale state-of-the-art generative models—especially diffusion architectures, flow-matching techniques, and energy-based models —for autonomous plan generation. Build generative models with foundation models. Leverage large language models and world foundation models for r

Natera’s Research team is building tests that can detect many cancers from a single blood draw. We are looking for a Staff Machine Learning and Bioinformatics Scientist to help design the models at the heart of that effort. You’ll work with large-scale, multi-modal genomic datasets from clinical cohorts and partner closely with molecular biologists and clinical scientists. Your research will advance the state-of-the-art and you will drive new methods from prototype, through scalable implementation, toward clinical validation and, ultimately, to patients. PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES: Lead the development of novel statistical and machine learning methods for cancer signal detection on multi-modal genomic data Build interpretable, well-calibrated models, setting the standard for uncertainty estimation and reproducibility across the group Prototype, test and productionize ML models using scalable infrastructure Own key technical deliverables within larger projects and help shape the team’s research roadmap Collaborate closely with molecular biologists and clinical experts on design and analysis of experiments and validation studies Keep raising the bar through code and design reviews across projects Translate complex results into clear stories for technical and non-technical audiences Mentor junior scientists and champion a culture of curiosity, collaboration, and scientific excellence QUALIFICATIONS: PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, Bioinformatics, or a related quantitative field with 6-12 years of experience post-PhD Hands-on experience developing novel statistical / ML analysis methods applied to complex biological data Proven track record of innovation and technical leadership in complex method development projects Expertise in deep learning and multimodal foundation models Proficient in Python and its scientific computing ecosystem Scientific rigor throughout the R&D process, with eagerness to teach and learn new computational methods and biology Excellent co

Natera’s Research team is building tests that can detect many cancers from a single blood draw. We are looking for a Staff Machine Learning and Bioinformatics Scientist to help design the models at the heart of that effort. You’ll work with large-scale, multi-modal genomic datasets from clinical cohorts and partner closely with molecular biologists and clinical scientists. Your research will advance the state-of-the-art and you will drive new methods from prototype, through scalable implementation, toward clinical validation and, ultimately, to patients. PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES: Lead the development of novel statistical and machine learning methods for cancer signal detection on multi-modal genomic data Build interpretable, well-calibrated models, setting the standard for uncertainty estimation and reproducibility across the group Prototype, test and productionize ML models using scalable infrastructure Own key technical deliverables within larger projects and help shape the team’s research roadmap Collaborate closely with molecular biologists and clinical experts on design and analysis of experiments and validation studies Keep raising the bar through code and design reviews across projects Translate complex results into clear stories for technical and non-technical audiences Mentor junior scientists and champion a culture of curiosity, collaboration, and scientific excellence QUALIFICATIONS: PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, Bioinformatics, or a related quantitative field with 6-12 years of experience post-PhD Hands-on experience developing novel statistical / ML analysis methods applied to complex biological data Proven track record of innovation and technical leadership in complex method development projects Expertise in deep learning and multimodal foundation models Proficient in Python and its scientific computing ecosystem Scientific rigor throughout the R&D process, with eagerness to teach and learn new computational methods and biology Excellent co

We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam. We are the Fraud Data team within Plaid's Fraud organization. We leverage relationships and activity across Plaid’s network to develop machine learning models that help customers detect and prevent fraud while minimizing friction for legitimate users. Our team owns the full model lifecycle, from data processing and experimentation to feature pipelines, model serving, and monitoring. In this research role, you’ll partner closely with Machine Learning Engineers and Data Scientists to uncover new signals, explore and evaluate innovative modeling approaches, and translate promising research into production-ready solutions that strengthen fraud detection across Plaid’s network. As a Senior Research Scientist, you will lead applied research to develop next-generation fraud detection models across relational graphs, sequential events, images, and video data. You’ll design rigorous experiments and evaluation methodologies that reflect real-world fraud dynamics, while exploring state-of-the-art approaches such as Graph Neural Networks and Transformer-based foundation models. In close partnership with Machine Learning Engineers, you’ll translate promising research into production-ready solu

We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam. We are the Data Foundation & AI team within Plaid’s Data organization. Our mission is to build the shared ML and AI infrastructure that powers intelligent capabilities across Plaid’s product suite. We develop the foundational systems, models, and data assets that transform Plaid’s unique financial network data into scalable, general-purpose representations that teams across the company can leverage. Our work spans the full ML lifecycle — from large-scale data curation and model pretraining to production serving, evaluation, and monitoring. As part of the team, you’ll work at the intersection of machine learning infrastructure, applied AI, and distributed systems, helping establish the core AI platform that enables innovation across Plaid. As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer, you will lead the technical strategy and development of Plaid’s foundation models, driving key decisions across pretraining objectives, model architecture, and fine-tuning approaches that power a wide range of downstream product applications. You will serve as the technical lead for the full machine learning lifecycle, overseeing everything from data curation and experimentation to production deployment,

We offer a hybrid work environment. Most US-based positions can also be performed remotely (any exceptions will be noted in the Minimum Qualifications below.) Our Mission: To actively connect people to their next great opportunity. Who We Are: ZipRecruiter is a leading online employment marketplace. Powered by AI-driven smart matching technology, the company actively connects millions of all-sized businesses and job seekers through innovative mobile, web, and email services, as well as through partnerships with the best job boards on the web. ZipRecruiter has the #1 rated job search app on iOS & Android. Summary : At ZipRecruiter, we sit on a massive universe of data—over a billion archived job postings, tens of millions of dynamic job seekers, and billions of impressions, clicks, and application events. Connecting the right job seeker with the right employer in real time is a complex two-sided marketplace problem , where precision, scale, and latent intent prediction directly impact millions of lives. We are seeking a Staff Machine Learning Engineer / Data Scientist to serve as a technical anchor for our machine learning and AI capabilities. Reporting directly to the Director of Recommendation Systems, you will be a core partner in shaping our multi-year ML roadmap, driving foundational algorithmic architecture, and translating complex machine learning research into high-throughput, low-latency production systems. This is a high-visibility role with org-wide reach. Beyond delivering core algorithmic gains, you will mentor Machine Learning Engineers across the organization and establish best practices for how ML models are built, deployed, and evaluated at scale. Key Responsibilities & Strategic Impact Drive ML Strategy & Roadmap: Partner directly with Engineering and Product Leadership to define and execute the technical vision for core components in the marketplace, including but not limited to recommendation engines and matching alg

A Career with point72’s Surveillance team Point72’s Surveillance team sets the industry standard for intelligence-driven surveillance by proactively identifying, monitoring, and assessing various sources of compliance risk using proprietary tools and specialized tradecraft. We support senior management by providing strategic assessments, actionable recommendations, and real-time escalations. At Point72, members of the Surveillance team conduct integrated trade and communication surveillance and collaborate to turn information into intelligence for our internal customers. The team also monitors employee activity for evidence of violations of applicable federal securities laws, internal compliance policies and procedures, and relevant rules and regulations enforced by the SEC, FINRA, and other organizations. What you’ll do As a Machine Learning Engineer - Applied Scientist you will play a critical role in developing algorithmic solutions and models for production-ready applications that support our front office investment professionals. You will specialize in natural language processing (NLP) solutions that extract insights from unstructured text data, with additional capabilities in predictive modeling, clustering, and time series analysis. You will manage all aspects of the research process including methodology selection, data collection and analysis, implementation and testing, prototyping, and performance evaluation. You will apply, adapt, and extend existing results in the broad field of NLP, while also conducting novel research as required. Specifically, you will: Contribute to projects across various machine learning (ML) disciplines, including NLP, unstructured data analysis, predictive modeling, and classic machine learning. Implement GenAI solutions, utilize ML infrastructure, and contribute to modeling, data preparation, optimization, and performance enhancements. Work with sparse data and apply techniques to improve model accuracy and generali