How many AI roles reference Frontier research right now?

390 active AI roles across 71 companies in our index reference Frontier research as of today. New postings fell 29% in the last 30 days versus the prior 30 (112 → 80).

Which companies are hiring for Frontier research roles?

The companies with the most active Frontier research listings are: Amazon (44 roles), Meta (39 roles), NVIDIA (34 roles), Microsoft (32 roles), Google (28 roles).

What AI lifecycle stage does Frontier research belong to?

Frontier research primarily belongs to the pre-training stage of the AI lifecycle. In current hiring, Frontier research roles concentrate at: pre-training (40%), post-training (34%).

What sectors invest most in Frontier research?

The sectors with the most active Frontier research hiring are: Big Tech, AI Frontier, Semiconductors.

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Frontier research

Research on the largest, most capable foundation models — typically pre-release, large-scale, and exploratory; the work that defines next-generation model behavior.

Primary AI lifecycle stage: pre-training.

As of today, 390 active AI roles across 71 companies in our index reference Frontier research. Hiring concentrates at the pre-training (40%) and post-training (34%) stages. Most common sectors: Big Tech, AI Frontier, Semiconductors. New postings fell 29% in the last 30 days versus the prior 30 (112 → 80).

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Company	Title	Sector	AI score	Other tags
Google	Post-Doctoral Researcher, PhD, 2026 Start, DeepMind (Fixed-Term Contract) -	Big Tech	10	Pretraining
Google	Research Scientist, Frontier AI, DeepMind	Big Tech	10	Multimodal · Model serving · Evals
Meta	AI Research Scientist, VLM (vision language models)	Big Tech	10	Multimodal · Vision
Meta	Postdoctoral Researcher (PhD) - FAIR - Core Learning	Big Tech	10	Pretraining · Fine-tuning · Interpretability
Meta	Staff Research Scientist, FAIR (RL / LLM's)	Big Tech	10	Pretraining · Vision · Multimodal · Audio & speech · Code gen
Meta	Research Scientist, FAIR SGT - New York	Big Tech	10	Pretraining · Fine-tuning · Evals
Meta	Research Scientist, Artificial Intelligence	Big Tech	10	Pretraining · Fine-tuning · Agent research · Multimodal
Apple	AIML - Machine Learning Researcher, MLR	Big Tech	10	Pretraining · Interpretability · Multimodal
Meta	AI Research Scientist —Generative AI for Materials Discovery	Big Tech	10	Fine-tuning · Agent research · Agent orchestration · Multimodal
Meta	AI Research Scientist, Robotics	Big Tech	10	Embodied AI · Multimodal
Google	Research Scientist, Generative AI, DeepMind	Big Tech	10	Fine-tuning · Multimodal
Microsoft	Research Intern - AI Frontiers	Big Tech	10	Agent orchestration · Agent research · RL post-training · Fine-tuning · Multimodal
Google	Research Scientist, Frontier AI, Google DeepMind	Big Tech	10	Multimodal · Vision · Interpretability · Evals · Fine-tuning
Google	Research Scientist, Applied ML, Quantum Error Correction	Big Tech	10	Synthetic data · Evals
Google	Frontier AI Research Scientist, DeepMind	Big Tech	10
Meta	Fundamental AI Researcher - FAIR	Big Tech	10	Interpretability · Multimodal · Pretraining
Meta	Research Scientist - FAIR	Big Tech	10	Agent research · Multimodal · Embodied AI
Meta	AI Research Scientist, Video Generation and Post Training, FAIR	Big Tech	10	Multimodal · Fine-tuning · Model serving
Meta	Research Engineer - FAIR, SGT	Big Tech	10	Pretraining · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Evals · Code gen
Apple	AIML - Machine Learning Researcher, MLR	Big Tech	10	Pretraining · RL post-training · Multimodal · Audio & speech
Meta	AI Research Scientist, FAIR \| Chercheur(se) en IA, FAIR	Big Tech	10	Embodied AI · Vision · Multimodal
Meta	Postdoctoral Researcher, Fundamental AI Research (PhD)	Big Tech	10	Interpretability
Meta	AI Research Scientist - Meta Superintelligence Labs	Big Tech	10	Audio & speech · Pretraining · RL post-training · Fine-tuning · Evals
Meta	AI Research Scientist, Computer Vision	Big Tech	10	Vision
Meta	Research Scientist, FAIR	Big Tech	10	Pretraining · Fine-tuning
Meta	Research Scientist, FAIR SGT - Paris	Big Tech	10	Pretraining · Fine-tuning · Evals
Meta	Research Scientist, AI, Formal and informal Reasoning	Big Tech	10	Agent research · RL post-training · Synthetic data · Fine-tuning · Evals
Microsoft	Senior Researcher - Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning - Microsoft Research	Big Tech	10	Pretraining · Interpretability · Evals
Google	Senior Research Scientist, Google Research	Big Tech	10	Search & ranking
Meta	AI Research Scientist, Audio-Visual Understanding, FAIR	Big Tech	10	Multimodal · Vision · Audio & speech · Evals

Frequently asked questions

What is Frontier research in AI?
Research on the largest, most capable foundation models — typically pre-release, large-scale, and exploratory; the work that defines next-generation model behavior. Primary AI lifecycle stage: pre-training.
How many AI roles reference Frontier research right now?
390 active AI roles across 71 companies in our index reference Frontier research as of today. New postings fell 29% in the last 30 days versus the prior 30 (112 → 80).
Which companies are hiring for Frontier research roles?
The companies with the most active Frontier research listings are: Amazon (44 roles), Meta (39 roles), NVIDIA (34 roles), Microsoft (32 roles), Google (28 roles).
What AI lifecycle stage does Frontier research belong to?
Frontier research primarily belongs to the pre-training stage of the AI lifecycle. In current hiring, Frontier research roles concentrate at: pre-training (40%), post-training (34%).
What sectors invest most in Frontier research?
The sectors with the most active Frontier research hiring are: Big Tech, AI Frontier, Semiconductors.