What is Frontier Research and how common is it in AI job postings?

Frontier Research is a skill in the "Research & Credentials" category. It currently appears in 195 active AI roles across 58 companies in our index.

Which companies are hiring for Frontier Research?

The top employers with active AI roles mentioning Frontier Research are: Capital One (23), Meta (15), Amazon (15), Anthropic (14), OpenAI (10).

Is demand for Frontier Research growing?

Over the last 12 weeks, 117 new AI postings mentioned Frontier Research. Demand is rising — up 211% in the last four weeks compared to the earliest four weeks in the window.

At which stage of AI development is Frontier Research used?

Roles requiring Frontier Research are concentrated in: agents (34%), serving infrastructure (22%), post-training (16%). These stages follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle from data preparation through to shipped product.

What skills are commonly paired with Frontier Research?

Job postings that mention Frontier Research most often also require: Machine Learning, Production ML Systems, Large Language Models (LLMs), Agentic Systems, Python.

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Frontier Research

195 active AI roles across 58 companies mention Frontier Research. Category: Research & Credentials.

Demand trend

New AI postings mentioning Frontier Research per week — 117 total over 12 weeks.

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All Engineering · 112 Research · 66 Product · 17

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195 AI roles requiring this skill.

Company	Title	Sector	AI score	Stage
Meta	Research Scientist, AI, Formal and informal Reasoning	Big Tech	10	L1
Anthropic	Research Engineer, Pretraining	AI Frontier	10	L1
OpenAI	Researcher, Synthetic RL	AI Frontier	10	L2
Anthropic	Research Engineer/Research Scientist, Pre-training	AI Frontier	10	L1
Google	Research Engineer, Frontier Safety Mitigations, DeepMind	Big Tech	9	L4
Unity	Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Computer Vision & Multi-Modal AI	Enterprise	9	L3
Google	Research Scientist, Frontier Safety Loss of Control, DeepMind	Big Tech	9	L4
Perplexity	Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Agent Capabilities)	AI Frontier	9	L4
Apple	Machine Learning Engineer - Large Language Models & Generative AI Inference	Big Tech	9	L3
Perplexity	Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Agents)	AI Frontier	9	L4
Snowflake	Post-Doctoral Researcher (Fixed-Term)	Data AI	9	L2
Microsoft	Cambridge Residency Programme - Researcher in Agentic AI Systems & Infrastructure	Big Tech	9	L4
Anthropic	Software Engineer, Safeguards Evals	AI Frontier	9	L4
Google	Research Engineer, Frontier Safety Loss of Control, DeepMind	Big Tech	9	L4
Snowflake	Staff Research Scientist, Exotic AI	Data AI	9	L0
Amazon	Sr. Applied Scientist, Trust CX Innovations&AI Policy	Big Tech	9	L2
Mistral AI	Applied AI, Technical Lead, Forward Deployed AI Engineer - Munich	AI Frontier	9	L4
Meta	Postdoctoral Researcher, AI and Systems Co-design Team	Big Tech	9	L3
Meta	Research Scientist, Post-Training (Tech Leadership)- Meta Superintelligence Labs	Big Tech	9	L2
Google	Product Manager, New Product Incubations, Frontier AI, DeepMind	Big Tech	9	L6
Autodesk	Principal AI Research Scientist Post-Training Alignment	Enterprise	9	L2
Autodesk	Principal AI Research Scientist Post-Training · Alignment · Reinforcement Learning Autodesk AI Lab: London · San Francisco · Toronto · Remote (US/CA/EU	Enterprise	9	L2
Johnson & Johnson	JJT Intern	Pharma	9	L2
Amazon	Member of Technical Staff - Hardware Science, Frontier AI & Robotics (FAR)	Big Tech	9	L6
Lila Sciences	Principal ML Research Engineer	AI Frontier	9	L4
Writer	Security engineer, detection and response (US)	AI Frontier	9	L3
Writer	Security engineer, detection and response (UK)	AI Frontier	9	L3
Snorkel AI	AI Advocate, Open-Source & Research	Data AI	9	L2
Mistral AI	Applied AI, Technical Lead, Forward Deployed AI Engineer - Abu Dhabi	AI Frontier	9	L4
Cognition	Research, Mid-Training	Coding AI	9	L1

Frequently asked questions

What is Frontier Research and how common is it in AI job postings?
Frontier Research is a skill in the "Research & Credentials" category. It currently appears in 195 active AI roles across 58 companies in our index.
Which companies are hiring for Frontier Research?
The top employers with active AI roles mentioning Frontier Research are: Capital One (23), Meta (15), Amazon (15), Anthropic (14), OpenAI (10).
Is demand for Frontier Research growing?
Over the last 12 weeks, 117 new AI postings mentioned Frontier Research. Demand is rising — up 211% in the last four weeks compared to the earliest four weeks in the window.
At which stage of AI development is Frontier Research used?
Roles requiring Frontier Research are concentrated in: agents (34%), serving infrastructure (22%), post-training (16%). These stages follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle from data preparation through to shipped product.
What skills are commonly paired with Frontier Research?
Job postings that mention Frontier Research most often also require: Machine Learning, Production ML Systems, Large Language Models (LLMs), Agentic Systems, Python.

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