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Aduril Industries

Costa Mesa, California, USA

Full-time

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century's most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril's family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and c

Lead Research Engineer

Aduril Industries

Mountain View, California, USA

Full-time

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century's most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril's family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and c

(Python Based) Lead Research Engineer

Thomson Reuters U.S. Inc.

Remote or Eagan, Minnesota, USA

Full-time

Lead Research Engineer Do you love creating innovative solutions for customers? We are seeking a passionate Lead Research Engineer who will bring expertise in AI and ML and is interested in building data-driven capabilities that drive transformation. As a member of Thomson Reuters Labs you will have a direct impact on our company by helping to create new and innovative capabilities that will delight our customers. What does Thomson Reuters Labs do? We experiment, we build, we deliver. We suppor

Senior Research Engineer, Computer Vision & Robotics

Autodesk Inc.

San Francisco, California, USA

Full-time

Job Requisition ID # 25WD90537 Autodesk Research is seeking a software engineer with computer vision expertise. We are developing next-generation tools, within various disciplines including robotics, to support bringing Research ideas to life. The ideal candidate will have expertise working with computer vision algorithms, deep learning models, and modern AI frameworks for image and video analysis. They should be comfortable understanding and integrating existing codebases, designing scalable

Senior/Lead Fullstack Engineer - AI Research

Salesforce

Palo Alto, California, USA

Full-time

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts. Job Category Software Engineering Job Details About Salesforce We're Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too - driving you

Staff Research Engineer, Speech Machine Learning (TTS)

Samsung Electronics America

Mountain View, California, USA

Full-time

Lab Summary: Bixby is an intelligent personal assistant which is only available as a built-in application on Samsung flagship devices and wearables. This application uses Natural Language Understanding to perform tasks on these devices using voice/ text, including but not limited to making phone calls, sending text messages, setting up meetings, opening apps, setting alarms and timers, getting directions, answering general questions, providing information about restaurants and other businesses,

Senior Generative AI Research Engineer

NVIDIA Corporation

California, USA

Full-time

At NVIDIA, we're not just building the future, we're generating it. Our Cosmos generative AI engineering team is pushing the boundaries of what's possible across multimodal learning, video generation, synthetic data, intelligent simulation, and agentic systems. We are looking for exceptionally driven engineers and applied scientists with deep experience in generative modeling to help define the next era of AI computing. What you'll be doing: Design, post-train, and optimize foundation models (e

Senior Research Engineer - Foundation Models, Ads Integrity

TikTok

San Jose, California, USA

Full-time

Location : San Jose Employment Type : Regular Job Code : A177519 Apply to this job Share this listing: Responsibilities Our Business Integrity team has a strong user focus and a dedication to technical excellence. We aim to meet our users' needs with reliable and high-performing platforms and services. We are looking for strong machine learning engineers who are excited to grow their business understanding, build highly scalable machine learning models, and partner across disciplines with

Senior Research Engineer - Enterprise Products

NVIDIA Corporation

Washington, USA

Full-time

We are now looking for a Senior Research Engineer passionate about Generative AI inference. Are you excited to change the way people infuse AI into products and services? NVIDIA is at the forefront of generative AI models, from language to images. NVIDIA provides building blocks to democratize AI and make generative AI easy to develop, integrate, and deploy. Our team is dedicated to developing optimized inferencing technologies to support our growing generative AI needs. We contribute to all ste

Senior Staff Research Engineer, Speech Machine Learning (ASR)

Samsung Electronics America

Mountain View, California, USA

Full-time

Lab Summary: Bixby is an intelligent personal assistant which is only available as a built-in application on Samsung flagship devices and wearables. This application uses Natural Language Understanding to perform tasks on these devices using voice/ text, including but not limited to making phone calls, sending text messages, setting up meetings, opening apps, setting alarms and timers, getting directions, answering general questions, providing information about restaurants and other businesses,

Senior Research Engineer, TikTok AI Video Editing

TikTok

San Jose, California, USA

Full-time

Location : San Jose Employment Type : Regular Job Code : A193376A Apply to this job Share this listing: Responsibilities Team & Project Introduction: We are developing a next-generation AI-powered video editing tool designed to make high-quality video creation accessible to everyone. At the core of this initiative is an intelligent assistant embedded within creative workflows, capable of understanding user intent and automating complex editing tasks. As a member of this mission-driven tea

Sr. Marine Robotic Research Engineer

OSI Engineering, Inc.

San Jose, California, USA

Full-time

A global research institute is seeking a Senior Marine Robotics Research Engineer to lead strategic R&D initiatives and real-world validation for next-generation autonomous marine systems. This role is central to Hondas long-term vision for marine autonomy, bridging early-stage research and future production. Youll work at the intersection of robotics, mobility, and marine innovation, directly influencing technology direction and collaborating with global teams. Responsibilities: Define and exec

Senior Software Engineer, Research Systems

Gilead Sciences, Inc.

Foster City, California, USA

Full-time

At Gilead, we're creating a healthier world for all people. For more than 35 years, we've tackled diseases such as HIV, viral hepatitis, COVID-19 and cancer - working relentlessly to develop therapies that help improve lives and to ensure access to these therapies across the globe. We continue to fight against the world's biggest health challenges, and our mission requires collaboration, determination and a relentless drive to make a difference. Every member of Gilead's team plays a critical ro

GPU Research Engineer

Qualcomm Technologies

San Diego, California, USA

Full-time

Company: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Job Area: Engineering Group, Engineering Group > GPU ASICS Engineering General Summary: As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm GPU Engineer, you may architect, design, implement, verify, and/or optimize the performance and power of GPU cores. Qualcomm Engineers collaborate wi

Senior Optimization Engineer (Operations Research)

Uber Corporate

San Francisco, California, USA

Full-time

About the Role The mission of the Surge team is to maintain overall marketplace reliability by balancing supply/demand in real-time through dynamic pricing. We build scalable real-time systems to understand the state of the market, forecast future demand, make predictions using ML models, solve network optimization programs, and eventually make pricing decisions for each rider session. Surge plays a critical role in service of Uber's mission to make transport accessible. We generate billions o

Foundation Model, Research Engineer Graduate (Monetization Technology - Ads Integrity) - 2026 Start (PhD)

TikTok

San Jose, California, USA

Full-time

Location : San Jose Employment Type : Regular Job Code : A257235A Apply to this job Share this listing: Responsibilities TikTok Ads Business Integrity team has a strong user focus and a dedication to technical excellence. We aim to meet our users' needs with reliable and high-performing platforms and services. We are excited to grow our advertisers' and users' business understanding, build highly scalable machine learning models, and partner across disciplines with global teams, in pursui

SATCOM Research Engineer

Lockheed Martin Corporation

Sunnyvale, California, USA

Full-time

Job Description Protecting what matters most is the mission that matters most. Space is a critical domain, connecting our technologies, our security and our humanity. While others view space as a destination, we see it as a realm of possibilities, where we can do more- we can innovate, invest, inspire and integrate our capabilities to transform the future. At Lockheed Martin Space, we aim to harness the full potential of space to cultivate innovation, reduce costs, and push the boundaries of w

Senior Research Engineer, TikTok AI Search (LLM Pretraining/Alignment/Inference)

TikTok

San Jose, California, USA

Full-time

Location : San Jose Employment Type : Regular Job Code : A211546A Apply to this job Share this listing: Responsibilities About the team On the TikTok Search Team, you will have the opportunity to develop and apply cutting edge machine learning technologies in real-time large-scale systems, which serve billions of search requests every day. Via advanced NLP and multi-modal models, our projects impact and improve the search experience for hundreds of millions of users globally. We embrace a

Staff Research Engineer, LLM - TikTok Ads Core ML, Ranking

TikTok

San Jose, California, USA

Full-time

Location : San Jose Employment Type : Regular Job Code : A68131A Apply to this job Share this listing: Responsibilities TikTok Ads Core ML Team aims at creating automatic delivery products for the next generation and developing advertising as a business, instead of just a monetization tool to consolidate the delivery funnel framework allowing multiple teams to iterate parallel. We're looking for innovative Staff Research Engineers to join our Core ML Ranking team. Ads Core Ranking team sp

Machine Learning/Research Engineer Graduate (Ads Core Global) - 2026 Start (BS/MS)

TikTok

San Jose, California, USA

Full-time

Location : San Jose Employment Type : Regular Job Code : A70461A Apply to this job Share this listing: Responsibilities We are Ads Core ML Team from TikTok Global Monetization Technology. Our core mission is to generate revenue and optimize the user experience on the world's leading short-form video platform. Within the global monetization and advertising landscape, we are responsible for accelerating TikTok revenue growth through advanced machine learning technology and delivering optima