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.
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).
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).
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%).
The sectors with the most active Frontier research hiring are: Big Tech, AI Frontier, Semiconductors.
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).
41 AI roles tagged frontier_research.
| Company | Title | Sector | AI score | Other tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MongoDB | Senior Research Scientist | Enterprise | 10 | Agent research · RL post-training · Code gen · Agent orchestration |
| Salesforce | Software Engineering LMTS | Enterprise | 9 | Fine-tuning · RL post-training · Agent research · Model serving |
| MongoDB | Staff Research Scientist | Enterprise | 9 | Pretraining · RAG · Agent research · Multimodal |
| Autodesk | Principal AI Research Scientist Post-Training Alignment | Enterprise | 9 | RL post-training · Agent research · Agent orchestration · Evals · Interpretability |
| Autodesk | Research Lead / Principal Scientist & Manager Post-Training · Alignment · Reinforcement Learning Autodesk AI Lab: London · San Francisco · Toronto · Remote (US/CA/EU) - | Enterprise | 9 | RL post-training · Agent orchestration · Evals |
| Autodesk | Principal AI Research Scientist Post-Training · Alignment · Reinforcement Learning Autodesk AI Lab: London · San Francisco · Toronto · Remote (US/CA/EU | Enterprise | 9 | RL post-training · Agent research · Agent orchestration · Evals · Interpretability |
| Adobe | Research Scientist | Enterprise | 9 | Multimodal |
| Workday | Principal AI Researcher | Enterprise | 9 | Pretraining · RL post-training · Agent research · Agent orchestration · Multimodal · LLM observability · Guardrails |
| Adobe | Research Scientist | Enterprise | 9 | Multimodal · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Evals |
| Adobe | Staff Applied Scientist, Generative AI/ML | Enterprise | 9 | Multimodal · Pretraining · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Vision · Audio & speech |
| Adobe | Principal Scientist - Applied Research, ASML (Multimodal Foundation Models) | Enterprise | 9 | Multimodal · Synthetic data · Fine-tuning · Vision · Audio & speech |
| CrowdStrike | Principal Algorithms Researcher (Remote) | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · Evals |
| Salesforce | Summer 2026 Intern - AI Research | Enterprise | 9 | Pretraining |
| CrowdStrike | Data Scientist III (Remote, ROU) | Enterprise | 9 | Fine-tuning · Model serving · LLM observability |
| Handshake | AI PhD Student Researcher - Fall 2026 | Enterprise | 9 | RL post-training · Evals · Synthetic data · Fine-tuning |
| Salesforce | Research Scientist - Salesforce AI Research | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · Multimodal · Vision · Audio & speech · LLM observability · Fine-tuning · Agent research · Model serving · Evals |
| CrowdStrike | Sr. Data Scientist II, GenAI (Remote - UK, Spain or Romania) | Enterprise | 9 | LLM observability · Inference infra · Model serving · Fine-tuning |
| Adobe | Senior Applied Scientist | Enterprise | 9 | Fine-tuning · Multimodal · Vision · Evals |
| Adobe | 2026 University Graduate - Research Scientist/Engineer | Enterprise | 9 | Audio & speech · Fine-tuning · RL post-training · Multimodal |
| Adobe | Senior Research Scientist | Enterprise | 9 | Audio & speech · Multimodal · Fine-tuning · Pretraining |
| Adobe | Applied Scientist, Generative AI/ML | Enterprise | 9 | Multimodal · Fine-tuning · Pretraining · Model serving · Vision · Audio & speech |
| Adobe | Research Scientist | Enterprise | 9 | Pretraining · Fine-tuning · Multimodal |
| Canva | Research Scientist - Efficient AI 高性能AI大模型研究科学家 | Enterprise | 9 | Pretraining · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Inference infra · Multimodal · Quantization · Distillation |
| Wiz | AI Research Scientist | Enterprise | 9 | Pretraining |
| Axon | (Senior) Research Scientist | Enterprise | 9 | Multimodal · Vision · Fine-tuning |
| Canva | Senior Research Scientist - Audio & Video AI | Enterprise | 9 | Audio & speech · Vision · Multimodal · Fine-tuning · Model serving |
| Canva | Senior Research Scientist - Reinforcement Learning, MoEs | Enterprise | 9 | RL post-training · RLHF · Reward modeling · Agent orchestration · Tool use · Multimodal · Model serving · Evals |
| Canva | Senior Research Scientist - Reinforcement Learning, MoEs | Enterprise | 9 | RL post-training · Agent orchestration · Multimodal · Model serving · Fine-tuning · Evals · Reward modeling · Agent research |
| CrowdStrike | Manager, Data Science (Remote, ESP) | Enterprise | 9 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Agent research |
| MongoDB | Senior Research Scientist, Voyage AI | Enterprise | 9 | Pretraining · Fine-tuning · RAG · Agent research · Multimodal |