How many AI Research Engineer jobs are open?

We currently track 60 active AI Research Engineer job postings from 6 companies (dataset: public employer career pages, updated Sep 29, 2026).

What skills does a AI Research Engineer need?

The most requested skills in current AI Research Engineer postings are: Evaluation, LLM, Python, AI Agents, Fine-Tuning, PyTorch.

AI Research Engineer

Implements and scales research ideas into working models and systems.

Also seen as: Research Engineer, AI, AI Research Scientist

open jobs tracked

companies hiring

remote openings

$58–310K

advertised range

Market status: established · Last updated Sep 29, 2026 · Source: public employer job postings tracked by AI Career Observatory

What does a AI Research Engineer do?

AI Research Engineers work inside research teams to implement, train and evaluate models — bridging the gap between paper ideas and large-scale experiments. Unlike pure research scientists, research engineers emphasize implementation quality, compute scale and reproducibility.

Job titles we classify into this role

Real, current titles from tracked postings — role names vary by employer; this is what a AI Research Engineer actually looks like in the market right now.

Systems Research Engineer Intern - GPU Programming (Winter 2027) Together AI
Systems Research Engineer Intern - GPU Programming (Summer 2027) Together AI
Research Engineer, Takeoff Intel Anthropic
Research Engineer, Cybersecurity RL (Reinforcement Learning) Anthropic
Senior Research Engineer AssemblyAI
Staff+ Research Engineer, RL Data Platform Anthropic
Machine Learning Research Scientist, Evaluations Scale AI
Research Scientist, Life Sciences (Chemistry) Anthropic

Title variants normalized into this role: Research Engineer, AI · AI Research Scientist — plus employer-specific patterns matched with evidence. See classification methodology.