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Research Associate
A Research Associate supports scientific or academic research projects, working in a university lab, research institute, or corporate R&D department under a principal investigator or senior scientist. Typical duties include running lab techniques and experiments, analyzing data with statistical software like R or SPSS, conducting literature reviews, and contributing to scientific writing for papers or reports. The role is usually held by someone with a graduate or advanced undergraduate science background who is detail-oriented and comfortable with rigorous methodology.
How much does a Research Associate make?
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Research Associate in the job market
Last checked October 27, 2026
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Open Research Associate roles (4)
Research Associate
Forrester Research
Cambridge, MA
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Research Associate
Eight Sleep
Full-time · San Francisco, CA
A hands-on role managing clinical and product research studies for a sleep technology company, involving subject recruitment, data collection, and regulatory compliance. This suits someone with research experience who enjoys operational details and can work flexible hours to support user testing and prototype validation.
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Lead Research Associate, Inkjet – Billerica, MA Onsite
Cabot Corporation
Full-time · Billerica, MA · $70,400 – $96,800
A research role supporting the development and scaling of inkjet pigment dispersions, working hands-on in laboratory and pilot plant settings. This position suits someone with a chemistry or chemical engineering background who wants to grow as a technical contributor while gaining experience in product development, process optimization, and equipment automation.
Listed on Cabot Corporation’s careers site · Apply there ↗
Sr. Research Associate, In Vivo Pharm
Moderna
Full-time · $74,000 – $118,400
Moderna is hiring a hands-on research associate to execute preclinical in vivo studies in autoimmune and inflammatory disease models, performing procedures like dosing, blood collection, and tissue harvest. This role suits someone with 2+ years of vivarium experience who wants to develop deeper expertise in immunology pharmacology within a collaborative biotech environment.
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Where Research Associates commonly go next: Research Scientist.
Research Scientist
KLA-Tencor
Ann Arbor, MI
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Research Scientist
NVIDIA
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Research Scientist
Schreiber Foods
Green Bay, WI
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Senior R&D Technologist
Smithfield Foods
Saint Charles, IL · $70,000 – $97,500
Lead applied research and experimentation within a meat processing plant to optimize products, processes, and equipment while providing technical support to operations teams. This role suits experienced food scientists or meat industry technologists who thrive solving practical manufacturing challenges and collaborating across scientific and operational disciplines.
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Applied Research Scientist, AI Research
Descript
San Francisco, CA · $197,000 – $262,500 · Remote
This is a research scientist role focused on building multimodal AI systems that help an editing agent understand video and audio content the way human editors do. The role suits someone with a strong deep learning background who wants to work on specialized models that ship to production, from research concept through to features used by millions of creators.
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Research Staff, Voice AI Foundations
Deepgram
Ann Arbor, MI · $150,000 – $250,000 · Remote
This role develops novel approaches to audio AI through research on Latent Space Models, focusing on neural audio codecs, generative speech synthesis, and efficient training methods that can scale voice AI across billions of hours of data. The position suits researchers who thrive on solving fundamental technical challenges in multimodal learning and have the drive to move from concept to production-grade systems rapidly.
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Research Scientist, Life Sciences (Chemistry)
Menlo Ventures Portfolio
Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $300,000 – $320,000
Anthropic seeks a medicinal chemist to lead hands-on synthesis and characterization work for their life sciences research group, designing and testing small molecules informed by AI. You'll bridge computational predictions and wet-lab validation, working across chemistry, AI research, and external partners to accelerate drug discovery.
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Research Scientist
FLIR Systems
Durham, NC
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Working Student (f/m/d) - Quantum Machine Learing Researcher
SAP
Part-time · Walldorf, DE, 69190
SAP is seeking a mathematics student to support early-stage quantum machine learning research, validating mathematical concepts and exploring practical applications of quantum computing in business. The role suits someone with strong math skills who is curious about quantum computing and comfortable learning in an exploratory, research-driven environment.
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Lead Research Scientist
Visa Inc.
Full-time · US - Foster City, CA · $215,300 – $344,600
This role leads Visa's quantum computing research agenda, focusing on applications to payments and finance. It suits researchers with advanced quantum computing expertise and a track record of published research who want to guide strategic technology development at a major payments company.
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Student Trainee (Energy Industry Analysis)
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Internship · Washington, DC · $41,659 – $54,160
FERC's Pathways Internship Program places students in energy regulatory analysis roles across multiple offices, where they'll assist with litigation support, market analysis, or data engineering depending on placement. This suits undergraduates or graduate students seeking practical experience in federal energy policy and market regulation.
Via USAJOBS · Apply there ↗
Economics (Student Trainee)
Economic Research Service
Internship · Anywhere in the U.S. (remote job), United States
This is a semester-long volunteer opportunity for students to maintain a federal database of food assistance program distribution schedules using public data sources and statistical software. It suits undergraduates or vocational students looking to gain practical experience in research support and data management within a government agency.
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Research Assistant
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
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Clinical Research Associate
IQVIA
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Research Assistant 3 - ON SITE
Vanderbilt University & Medical Center
Full-time · Nashville, TN
A research laboratory role at Vanderbilt Health's antibody therapeutics center where you'll conduct molecular biology experiments, manage cell cultures, and support scientific discovery under minimal supervision. This position suits someone with solid hands-on lab experience ready to take on independent project work while contributing to vaccine and antibody research.
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Senior Analyst, Financials (I&G)
Voya Financial
San Diego, CA · $136,000 – $190,500
Voya Investment Management seeks a research analyst to provide investment insights on US financial institutions, developing valuations and recommendations that drive portfolio construction decisions. This role suits someone with 7-10 years of equity or credit research experience who can balance deep sector expertise with the ability to influence senior investment managers.
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Research Technician
Inotiv
Evansville, IN
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Research Healthcare Lead - Research & Strategy
Clarion Partners
$150,000 – $250,000
Clarion Partners seeks an experienced healthcare real estate researcher to lead strategic analysis across medical office, senior housing, life sciences, and related sectors. This senior role shapes investment theses, oversees market forecasting and deal underwriting for a global investment manager, and requires deep healthcare sector knowledge combined with data analytics expertise.
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Sector Specialist - Healthcare, Directed Content
AlphaSense
New York, NY · $110,000 – $130,000 · Remote
A healthcare sector specialist role at AlphaSense supporting the creation and quality assurance of expert research content, particularly around AI-conducted interviews and market intelligence. This suits someone with deep healthcare industry knowledge and equity research or strategy experience who enjoys working cross-functionally to improve processes and content quality.
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Research Assistant II
Vanderbilt University & Medical Center
Full-time · Nashville, TN
This laboratory research role involves designing and executing experiments in molecular biology and immunology at an academic medical center's antibody research center. You'd be responsible for cell culture, DNA work, protein purification, and data documentation while contributing to vaccine and antibody development projects.
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