Research Engineer

Langley Research Center

Sandusky County, Ohio; Hampton, Virginia; Wallops Island, Virginia; Fairmont, West Virginia; Huntsville, Alabama; Edwards AFB, California; Moffett Field, California; Pasadena, California; Washington, District of Columbia; Kennedy Space Center, Florida; New Orleans, Louisiana; Greenbelt, Maryland; Stennis Space Center, Mississippi; Las Cruces, New Mexico; New York, New York; Cleveland, Ohio; Houston, Texas · $151,661 – $217,332

NASA seeks an exceptionally experienced cryogenics engineer to serve as the agency's principal technical authority on cryogenic systems, leading independent risk assessments and teams across NASA centers and external partners. The role combines hands-on expertise in cryogen production, storage, and microgravity behavior with strategic leadership responsibilities, publishing research and mentoring the next generation of cryogenics specialists.

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Cognition AI

San Francisco, CA

This role leads safety and alignment work for Devin, an autonomous AI agent that writes code and takes actions in production systems. You'll design evaluations, red-team the agent, develop alignment methods, and partner with the agent team to ensure safe behavior at scale—a hands-on research engineering position where safety work directly influences a deployed product.

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Assort Health

San Francisco, CA · $190,000 – $240,000 · Remote

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Menlo Ventures Portfolio

Full-time · New York, NY · $300,000 – $400,000

This role bridges Anthropic's AI research and customer needs by embedding with product teams to validate new capabilities, build demos and evaluations, and translate field insights back to inform product development. It suits experienced technical professionals who enjoy moving between deep technical work and cross-functional collaboration, with a proven ability to learn new domains quickly and communicate complex topics clearly.

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Johns Manville

Internship · Littleton, CO · $41,600 – $52,600

Johns Manville's R&D team seeks a summer intern to support process improvement and engineering analysis projects, including data platform development and operational support. This role suits engineering undergraduates interested in manufacturing processes, data analysis, and collaborative problem-solving.

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NVIDIA

Internship · Santa Clara, CA · $38 – $94 / hour

NVIDIA is seeking Ph.D. students for a summer internship focused on accelerated computing research, including GPU architecture, AI systems, and related technologies. This role suits ambitious researchers eager to design and prototype novel computing systems while collaborating with experienced teams on work that transitions to real products.

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LangChain

New York, NY · $240,000 – $280,000

This role involves improving LangChain's LangSmith Engine—an AI agent that learns from production failures and recommends fixes—by designing benchmarks, running experiments, and shipping improvements that balance performance with cost and latency. It suits experienced ML researchers who can work from prototype to production impact and understand both agent capabilities and real-world system tradeoffs.

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Together AI

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $200,000 – $290,000

Together AI seeks a Research Engineer to transform efficient training techniques from research into production systems that optimize large-scale model fine-tuning. The role suits engineers who combine deep ML systems knowledge with practical infrastructure work, partnering with researchers to profile, optimize, and deploy training workloads at scale.

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Ando

Full-time · San Francisco, CA

A research role building evaluation frameworks and benchmarks for AI agents in a messaging platform, working with real production data to measure whether agent behavior improvements actually help teams. Best suited for researchers who have shipped evaluation systems and can bridge the gap between offline benchmarks and live product performance.

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Cohere

Full-time · New York, NY · CA$250,000 – CA$535,000

This role builds data infrastructure and tooling for AI safety research, focusing on data synthesis, analysis, and management for model training and evaluation. It suits experienced software engineers who enjoy working at the intersection of data engineering and machine learning research, with strong opinions about code quality and the ability to own complex projects end-to-end.

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