Top Research Jobs in Seattle, WA

Lead design and implementation of end-to-end evaluation platforms for agentic security workflows: build benchmarks, deterministic validators, graders, telemetry, CI/CD integration, and production feedback loops to measure safety, correctness, cost, latency, and human-review effort. Partner with engineering and product teams to detect regressions, compare configurations, and provide release-readiness evidence and reusable playbooks.

Conduct research on situated interaction, social computing, ubiquitous computing, and human-centered AI. Design real-time multimodal research prototypes, develop generative AI and machine learning models, conduct user studies, analyze multimodal data, and contribute to publications. The intern will collaborate with Microsoft Research scientists on adaptive human-AI interaction involving conversational agents, sensing, behavioral signals, and physical-world systems.

Conduct applied research in databases, big data, cloud systems, machine learning for systems, query optimization, resource management, and related areas. Build systems, design and analyze large-scale experiments, collaborate with researchers and product teams, present findings, and contribute to publications or production technologies during a 12-week internship.

Conduct end-to-end research on improving coding agents through reinforcement learning, fine-tuning, distillation, compression, and inference optimization. Build experiments, evaluate agentic coding models on realistic benchmarks, collaborate with researchers and engineers, present findings, and contribute toward publications or product integrations. The role focuses on making coding agents more reliable, efficient, and affordable at scale.

Conduct research and engineering for large language model pre-training, including model architectures, algorithms, data processing, optimizers, experiments, and training infrastructure. Lead research projects, optimize large-scale GPU systems, improve developer tooling, and contribute across the stack. The role emphasizes reliable, interpretable, steerable, and safe AI systems, with collaboration across research and engineering teams.

Own sales enablement across Prolific’s AI and research businesses. Build onboarding, training, launch-readiness programs, sales toolkits, competitive intelligence, win-loss analysis, customer proof, and buyer interview programs. Use CRM and call data to identify deal insights, improve messaging, support product feedback, and measure win rates, deal velocity, rep ramp time, and content usage. Partner closely with sales, product, customer success, and RevOps to improve seller effectiveness and revenue outcomes.

Leads a team of intelligence analysts and translates security priorities into threat intelligence requirements. Oversees intelligence production workflows, establishes standards, reviews finished intelligence products, tracks sophisticated adversaries and ransomware campaigns, and partners with engineering and external organizations to improve customer protection. The role also manages escalations, communicates technical findings and business impact, and supports security objectives across Microsoft and its customers.

Coordinates education administration processes including appointments, applications, interviews, scheduling, orientation, committee support, and learner or faculty data maintenance. Interprets policies, supports accreditation requirements, facilitates communications and meetings, trains users on technology systems, prepares reports, and manages multiple priorities independently. Maintains confidentiality and represents Mayo Clinic professionally.

Conduct complex environmental and investigative research from planning through execution; manage research projects, analyze literature and datasets, and translate findings into conservation strategies. Produce accessible reports, analysis briefs, data visualizations, blogs, presentations, and other communications. Collaborate with clients, partners, allies, Indigenous advocates, and frontline communities while exploring innovative research methods and supporting Stand.earth’s campaigns and profile-building efforts.

Research and develop AI models for music generation, transformation, remixing, and creative interaction. Investigate generative audio and music understanding, design evaluation frameworks, and translate research prototypes into product capabilities. Collaborate with engineers, music technologists, producers, and musicians while addressing audio quality, musicality, controllability, music rights, artist consent, data provenance, and responsible AI practices.

Research and prototype AI-powered tools for music generation, transformation, remixing, and audio understanding. Build and evaluate machine learning models using Python and modern frameworks, process audio datasets, assess model performance and musical quality, and collaborate with engineering, music technology, product, and creative teams. The intern will also document findings and contribute to responsible AI practices involving artist consent, music rights, and ethical data use.

Conduct a two-year postdoctoral research project developing environmental DNA methods for early detection of invasive green crab. Responsibilities include study design, field sampling, sample integrity, occupancy modeling, statistical and sensitivity analyses, data management, laboratory support, and communicating findings through publications, reports, and presentations. The role requires collaboration with USGS, field teams, and multi-agency stakeholders, along with swimming, GPS use, driving, and occasional physically demanding fieldwork.

Temporary part-time Research Assistant supporting a project on heat-related mortality among construction workers. Responsibilities include obtaining and managing health, climate, and population data; cleaning and merging datasets; conducting SAS-based statistical analyses; preparing tables, figures, reports, and presentations; and assisting with IRB applications and communications with the project principal investigator.

Lead a research engineering team developing synthetic data pipelines, AI benchmarks, evaluation harnesses, and reinforcement learning environments. Partner with research scientists and frontier AI labs to design rigorous experiments, validate data quality, measure model impact, and publish findings. Responsibilities include hiring and coaching engineers, setting technical standards, building scalable Python-based systems, reviewing code, directing research agendas, and determining whether model improvements are statistically meaningful.

Research and develop AI models for music generation, transformation, remixing, and creative interaction. Explore generative audio, music understanding, and audio representation learning; design evaluation frameworks for quality, musicality, controllability, and creative usefulness; and translate research into production-ready tools. Collaborate with engineers, music technologists, producers, and musicians while applying responsible AI practices involving rights, consent, attribution, and data provenance.

Supports research, evaluation, communications, and media initiatives by coordinating projects, creating written and visual content, summarizing findings, preparing reports and presentations, and helping implement campaigns. The role translates data into accessible narratives for varied audiences, collaborates with marketing and internal teams, and supports organizational events and initiatives. This is a remote, two-year grant-funded position requiring up to 20% travel within North America.

Conduct market research and competitive intelligence on U.S. higher education trends, learner behavior, program demand, and markets. Analyze internal and external data, build and maintain Microsoft Fabric and Power BI models, create dashboards, identify meaningful trends, and develop executive-ready presentations. Partner with marketing and other teams on program reviews, proposals, and strategic questions while managing multiple research projects and ensuring data accuracy.

Edits contributor articles, prepares a monthly energy newsletter, monitors Alaska energy legislation and regulatory filings, engages statewide partners, promotes volunteer participation, supports fundraising, and maintains the project website. The editor helps provide accessible reporting and community information about electric utilities, energy policy, and cooperative governance.

Conduct life sciences research supporting advanced AI evaluation. Create rigorous scientific problems, develop reproducible Python analyses and simulations, process biological datasets, validate computational results, review scientific reasoning and code, identify methodological errors, apply statistical techniques, and document findings clearly. The role requires strong practical Python skills alongside advanced education and research experience in biology, biomedical sciences, bioinformatics, neuroscience, genetics, computational biology, or related fields.

Manages early-phase clinical research projects from start-up through closeout, leading sponsor and cross-functional teams, timelines, budgets, risks, compliance, site activities, financials, audits, and operational delivery. Serves as the primary sponsor contact, oversees study performance and documentation, supports pre-award activities, and provides guidance and training to junior project staff.

Manages clinical trial investigator sites from activation through close-out, conducting onsite and remote monitoring to ensure patient safety, protocol compliance, data quality, and regulatory adherence. Oversees site relationships, enrollment, adverse event reporting, investigational product accountability, issue resolution, CAPA, audit support, documentation, and database release. Collaborates with study teams, investigators, vendors, and safety groups, and may mentor Clinical Research Associates. Requires extensive travel across the assigned region.

Lead research at the intersection of AI, cybersecurity, and computer systems. Define research problems, develop hypotheses, build prototypes, design rigorous experiments, evaluate AI and security methods, and translate findings into practical systems. Research areas may include AI agents, autonomous penetration testing, attack-path reasoning, cyber deception, AI safety, and security evaluation. Mentor junior researchers, collaborate with engineering and product teams, and communicate findings through reports, presentations, prototypes, or publications.

Directs clinical research and REMS projects, departmental strategy, staffing, project finances, quality, regulatory compliance, client relationships, proposals, audits, and cross-functional teams. Supervises and mentors managers and project teams, resolves operational issues, supports protocol and REMS document development, monitors project performance, and drives process improvements. Requires extensive CRO project management and leadership experience, clinical research knowledge, FDA/ICH expertise, and approximately 10% travel.

Conducts clinical trial site visits and monitoring activities to ensure protocol, regulatory, data quality, and patient safety compliance. Manages site relationships, evaluates performance metrics, provides study and protocol training, reconciles serious adverse events, supports audits and inspections, and communicates progress to clinical study teams. Mentors less experienced CRAs and helps deliver study milestones across startup, recruitment, database analysis, and closeout. Requires up to 70% travel and experience in global oncology trials is preferred.

Implements and maintains university research security and export control compliance programs. Advises faculty, staff, and institutional leaders on ITAR, EAR, OFAC, CUI, federal funding, and contracting requirements. Conducts risk assessments, manages export licenses and restricted-party screening, reviews research agreements and proposals, develops technology control plans and training, supports international travel and visitor compliance, and prepares required federal reports.