Remote Research Engineer salary
Base pay in the United States, from 10 postings by 5 employers that published the pay range.
Median base pay per year
$340,000
A typical posting offers $250,000 to $450,000.
10th percentile $320k – $535k
middle half $675k
90th percentile
What a Research Engineer does
Research engineers build the software and run the experiments that turn research ideas into working results, most often in machine learning. They sit between research scientists and production engineers, and are responsible for training infrastructure, evaluation code and reproducible experiments as well as contributing ideas of their own.
By employer
| Employer | Median | Postings |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | $675,000 | 3 |
| Harvey | $340,000 | 3 |
| Runway | $320,000 | 2 |
Open Research Engineer jobs with published pay
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Research Engineer, Knowledge Team
Anthropic · Remote · San Francisco, CA
Data & AI $350,000 – $850,000 per year Posted Apr 23, 2024 -
Research Engineer, Machine Learning (RL Velocity)
Anthropic · Remote · San Francisco, CA
Data & AI $500,000 – $850,000 per year Posted Apr 23, 2026 -
Research Engineer / Scientist, Pre-training
Anthropic · Remote · San Francisco, CA
Data & AI $500,000 – $850,000 per year Posted Nov 1, 2026 -
Research Engineer / Scientist, Data & Evals
Harvey · Remote (US)
Data & AI Full-time $230K - $450K Posted Nov 2, 2026 -
Research Engineer, Infrastructure
Harvey · Remote (US)
Data & AI Full-time $230K - $450K Posted Nov 2, 2026 -
Research Engineer / Scientist, Reinforcement Learning
Harvey · Remote (US)
Data & AI Full-time $230K - $450K Posted Nov 2, 2026 -
Research Engineer, Data Foundations
Runway · Remote (US)
Data & AI Full-time $270K - $370K Posted Oct 10, 2024 -
Member of Technical Staff, Research Engineer
Runway · Remote (US)
Data & AI Full-time $270K - $370K Posted Jan 9, 2026 -
Research Engineer, Post-Training
Deepgram · Remote · San Francisco, CA
Data & AI Full-time $216K - $338K Posted Oct 19, 2026 -
Research Engineer (Reinforcement Learning)
LiveKit · Remote (US)
Engineering Full-time $135K - $300K Posted Aug 18, 2026