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AI Research roles U.S. employers hire international talent for

Frontier models, safety, red-teaming and founding AI roles. Each profile describes the work, what employers screen for, and how a career like it maps to the O-1. These are role profiles, not job openings.

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AI Research listings

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Red Team Researcher, Cyber Capabilities and SafeguardsAI research and deployment company; investigations team focused on detecting and mitigating abuse of its productsSan Francisco, CA (Bay Area) · Hybrid · Full-timeO-1A fitAdded week of Nov 9, 2026Red Team Engineer, AI Product SafeguardsAI safety-focused public benefit corporation, headquartered in the Bay AreaSan Francisco, CA (Bay Area) · Hybrid · Full-timeO-1A fitAdded week of Nov 9, 2026Founding Full-Stack Software Engineer, Legal AI ProductsAI research and deployment company building AI-powered products, Bay AreaSan Francisco, CA (Bay Area) · On-site · Full-timeO-1A fit (senior candidates)Added week of Nov 9, 2026Founding Full Stack Software Engineer, AI for Physical Product EngineeringAI research and deployment company, San Francisco; small founding team inside an enterprise verticals organizationSan Francisco, CA (Bay Area) · On-site · Full-timeO-1A fitAdded week of Nov 9, 2026Senior Researcher, Multimodal SafetyAI research and deployment company with a chat and multimodal safety research team, San FranciscoSan Francisco, CA (Bay Area) · Hybrid · Full-timeO-1A fitAdded week of Nov 2, 2026Senior Alignment Researcher, Chain-of-Thought MonitorabilityAI research and deployment company with a frontier-model alignment group, San FranciscoSan Francisco, CA (Bay Area) · Hybrid · Full-timeO-1A fitAdded week of Nov 2, 2026Research Manager, Biological SafetyAI safety and research company organized as a public benefit corporation, hiring a research manager in the Bay AreaSan Francisco, CA (Bay Area) · Hybrid · Full-timeO-1A fit (senior candidates)Added week of Nov 2, 2026Senior Research Scientist, Health AI (Pretraining, RL and Evals)AI research and deployment company with a dedicated health research teamSan Francisco, CA (Bay Area) · Hybrid · Full-timeO-1A fitAdded week of Nov 2, 2026Senior Research Scientist, Agent Post-Training for Computer UseAI research and deployment company with a team post-training frontier agent modelsSan Francisco, CA (Bay Area) · On-site · Full-timeO-1A fitAdded week of Nov 2, 2026Senior Research Engineer, RL Distributed SystemsAI research company organized as a public benefit corporation, building large language models and AI safety researchSan Francisco, CA (Bay Area) · Hybrid · Full-timeO-1A fit (senior candidates)Added week of Nov 2, 2026Senior Research Engineer, Chip Design Reinforcement LearningAI research and safety company organized as a public benefit corporation, Bay AreaSan Francisco, CA (Bay Area) · Hybrid · Full-timeO-1A fitAdded week of Nov 2, 2026

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Foundation Model Research Scientist

Train and study the large language, vision and multimodal models that frontier labs ship. You own a research agenda, a real…

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AI Safety & Alignment Researcher

Work out why models do what they do, and make them do it safely: interpretability, oversight, evaluations and red-teaming for…

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Founding AI Engineer / Head of AI

Be the first dedicated AI hire at a venture-backed company: pick the stack, ship the first model-powered product, and build the…

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AI Red Team / ML Security Researcher

Break language models before attackers do: prompt injection, jailbreaks, model extraction, data poisoning, and the defenses that…

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