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).
3 AI roles tagged frontier_research.
| Company | Title | Sector | AI score | Other tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AT&T | AI Research Scientist (Government) | Telecom | 8 | |
| AT&T | Senior Full Stack/AI Engineer | Telecom | 5 | LLM observability · Agent orchestration · RAG · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Recommender systems · Search & ranking · Vision · Multimodal · Audio & speech · Interpretability · Synthetic data · Agent research · RL post-training · RLHF · Reward modeling · RL robotics · Embodied AI · Code gen |
| AT&T | Full-Stack Software Engineer | Telecom | 5 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Recommender systems · Search & ranking · Vision · Multimodal · Audio & speech · Interpretability · Synthetic data · Agent research · RL post-training · RLHF · Reward modeling · RL robotics · Embodied AI · Code gen |