Top Research Jobs in Seattle, WA

Design and research agentic AI and reinforcement learning systems: build auto-research and coding agents, develop recursive self-improvement and multi-agent frameworks, run RL experiments (RLHF, DPO, PPO), curate training data pipelines, and publish results at top ML venues.

As a Lead Data Scientist, you'll apply advanced analytics and machine learning to enhance advertising technology, drive innovations, and develop data-driven insights while mentoring team members.

Develop and optimize generative AI applications and traditional ML models for advertising. Lead innovations, mentor engineers, and ensure system robustness.

The postdoc will develop novel superconducting detectors for particle physics, involving design, nano-fabrication, device testing, and data analysis.

The Postdoctoral Research Associate will investigate age-related memory changes using fMRI and may develop independent research projects. Responsibilities include study design, data analysis, manuscript writing, and lab communication.

Develop AI compiler solutions, optimize GPU programming, build training pipelines, collaborate on integrating AI policies, and conduct rigorous performance benchmarking.

Support senior researchers to run qualitative and quantitative market and competitive intelligence studies using AI and analytics. Collect and analyze primary and secondary data, maintain CI platforms, recruit/interview customers, produce market opportunity and competitor insights, and recommend research process improvements. Share findings with stakeholders across the organization.

Design and implement a virtual access layer to enable remote use of a physical AI lab, building scalable, secure infrastructure to process 100,000+ documents/day with LLMs, optimize GPU/LLM throughput, provide customizable interfaces, implement authentication/access controls, and lead projects from design to production.

Lead end-to-end product design for data-driven healthcare platforms: translate concepts into user flows, wireframes, prototypes and high-fidelity UI; coach and lead designers; represent user needs while balancing business and technical constraints; present design work to cross-functional teams and integrate design into agile processes.

Design, implement, and maintain global hybrid infrastructure integrating Azure, Microsoft 365, and on-prem Windows. Administer identity, endpoint management (Intune, Jamf, SCCM), Azure IaaS, networking, core services (AD, DNS, DHCP), monitoring, and patching. Lead governance, documentation, disaster recovery, mentor junior engineers, and participate in on-call rotation while ensuring security, scalability, and operational excellence.

Lead and oversee accounting operations including financial statement preparation, cash management, audits, tax compliance, AP/AR processing, policy implementation, and partnering with FP&A and department heads. Supervise and mentor a small accounting team to scale processes and strengthen financial controls.

Support financial data processing and reporting using SQL, SSRS, and Power BI; design BI reports and dashboards; analyze and automate business systems; write specifications and technical documentation; collaborate across finance, IT, operations, and legal to improve and scale processes.

Design, implement, and maintain on-premises and Azure infrastructure including VMs, networking, identity, and core services. Lead virtualization and migration efforts, ensure security and scalability, develop runbooks and standards, mentor engineers, and participate in on-call support and major infrastructure projects.

Lead and coach a project management team delivering quantitative online market research. Drive operational excellence, quality assurance, process automation, vendor coordination, cross-functional stakeholder communication, budgeting/gross-margin awareness, training, and support sales scoping. Ensure team performance, compliance, and scalable delivery across US and offshore operations.

Manage financial operations for Convergent and its FROs, overseeing monthly close, reconciliations, treasury, AR/AP, payroll, grant financial oversight and reporting, audit readiness including 990s, and improvements to systems, controls, and SOPs while translating finance to non-finance stakeholders.

Support JMI's marketing team by creating customer profiles, helping develop targeting strategies for other interns, and completing a flexible, course-aligned market research project under mentor guidance.

Lead and scale communications across a portfolio of Focused Research Organizations and Convergent's own channels: coach scientific founders, run workshops, manage internal newsletters and digital channels, curate vendor networks, coordinate press, and build repeatable systems using AI and operations discipline.

Support digital marketing and community efforts in MENA: gather and manage data for content and campaigns, handle community queries on Telegram/Discord, use campaign portals (Task On, Galaxy, Zealy), conduct data research, assist lead generation, monitor campaign metrics, and follow the content plan to improve engagement and ROI.

Lead on-site and remote clinical monitoring and site management for complex studies, ensuring GCP and regulatory compliance, data integrity, and audit-readiness. Mentor CRAs, support site selection, conduct SIVs/close-outs, manage queries and deviations, develop study documents and monitoring tools, and coordinate with sponsors and PMs. Travel up to 80%.

Perform iOS reverse engineering and software engineering to build mobile security tools. Analyze apps and frameworks for jailbreak detection, runtime protection, PII leakage, and vulnerabilities. Adapt large codebases, write Frida scripts, collaborate across R&D to develop and upgrade mobile security solutions, and present research externally.

Perform fundamental equity research across US Industrials sub-sectors: develop primary sources, analyze financials, build valuation and comparable models, quantify risk/reward, assess sector and macro risks, and communicate investment ideas.

Build and own a versioned, documented gold data layer from silver Lakehouse sources for AI research. Transform, validate, and curate multi-modal datasets, build reusable Databricks/PySpark pipelines, automate quality and labeling, support researcher workflows, and maintain lineage and dataset snapshots for model development and evaluation.

Conduct in-depth research and due diligence on crypto projects, produce comprehensive reports and risk assessments, analyze on-chain and internal data, evaluate TradFi intersections with tokenization, engage with project teams, and monitor market trends to inform Binance Research and cross-functional stakeholders.

Source and evaluate blockchain and crypto projects for listing, build relationships with founders and VCs, support due diligence and tokenomics analysis, drive internal approvals, negotiate terms, and represent Binance at global events.

Lead long-horizon R&D to define future decision intelligence: explore reasoning architectures, prototype and formalize system primitives, evaluate new signal classes, and translate research into reusable components aligned to strategic product direction.