AI Research jobs in Santa Clara

12 live roles · 9 companies · 11 with stated pay

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Hiring now

12 AI research roles in Santa Clara are open right now across 9 companies. Applied Materials, Paloaltonetworks and PlusAI are hiring most. 2 were posted in the last 30 days.

More roles here state pay than the 35% that do site-wide. For 1 of the rest we show an estimated range from comparable roles.

Every posting here is mid-level or above, and 75% are senior or lead.

Hiring most

Applied Materials2 Paloaltonetworks2 PlusAI2 d-Matrix1 Eeho1 Integrated Resources INC1

Market snapshot

Hiring: Applied Materials (2)·Paloaltonetworks (2)·PlusAI (2)·d-Matrix·Eeho · 4 more
Levels: Senior9
Mid3
Remote: 0 of 12
Stated pay: 11 of 12 · $150,000–$272,000
Market range: $202,088–$247,638 · median $214,300 (Santa Clara, Senior, n=10) · All ranges
Posted: 2 in the last 30 days
Verified: Oct 22, 2026

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Pay marked ^e is our estimate. Everything else is the employer's own figure.

this job's payour estimatewhere most pay sits here, $150,000–$272,000scale $90,000–$390,000

Principal Machine Learning Engineer (AI-ML Data Scientist - ADEM) Paloaltonetworks · Santa Clara $163,200–$264,000 4d ago

Principal Applied AI Researcher (Prisma AIRS) Paloaltonetworks · Santa Clara $163,200–$264,000 2w ago Data Scientist - Agentic AI / ML Applied Materials · Santa Clara $170,000–$234,000 5w ago Senior/Staff Research Engineer — Vision-Language-Action Models (Autonomous Driving) PlusAI · Santa Clara $170,000–$260,000 5w ago Senior Perception Engineer John Deere · Santa Clara $124,584–$186,864 5w ago

Staff Research Engineer/Scientist ServiceNow · Santa Clara $202,500–$354,400 7w ago Lead Principal Applied Scientist Eeho · Santa Clara $158,300–$355,400 8w ago Physics AI Scientist III Applied Materials · Santa Clara $142,500–$196,500 2mo ago

Sr. Staff ML Researcher, LLM Algorithmic Optimization d-Matrix · Santa Clara $175,000–$265,000 3mo ago

Senior Staff / Principal Machine Learning Scientist, AI Inference & Optimization netskope · Santa Clara $124,500–$272,000 3mo ago Senior Research Engineer, Controls PlusAI · Santa Clara $150,000–$200,000 8mo ago

Software Research Engineer Integrated Resources INC · Santa Clara $135,000–$232,000^e 9y ago