Lead AI research jobs
36 live roles · 25 companies · 1 remote · 12 with stated pay · 7 posted this week
36 lead AI research roles are open right now across 25 companies. Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd., Blackrock and United Overseas Bank are hiring most. 17 were posted in the last 30 days.
For 2 of the rest we show an estimated range from comparable roles.
Every posting here is mid-level or above, and 100% are senior or lead. 1 is advertised as remote; 25 do not specify where the work happens.
Market snapshot
- Hiring
- Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd. (4)·Blackrock (3)·United Overseas Bank (3)·Motorolasolutions (2)·Ocbc (2) · 20 more
- Levels
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- C-Suite4
- VP12
- Director20
- Cities
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- Central Region3
- Markham3
- New York3
- San Francisco3
- Bengaluru2
- Remote
- 1 of 36 (3%)
- Stated pay
- 12 of 36 · $167,500–$410,000 (9 in USD)
- Posted
- 17 in the last 30 days
- Verified
- Oct 22, 2026
Pay marked e is our estimate. Everything else is the employer's own figure.
this job's payour estimatewhere most pay sits here, $167,500–$410,000scale $100,000–$580,000
Director of Computer Vision Motorolasolutions · Waltham $250,000–$290,000 1d ago Data Scientist, Platform AI Squad, Group Data Office (AVP/VP) Ocbc · OCBC Singapore Pay not stated 3d ago Data Scientist, AI Lab (AVP/VP) Ocbc · OCBC Singapore Pay not stated 3d ago 
Senior Safety Scientist/Associate Safety Director - Early Development Roche · Beijing Pay not stated 3d ago 
Director, Applied Science Tekion · Bengaluru Pay not stated 3d ago Senior Data Scientist | S4 | Chief Data & AI Office | Milton Keynes Santander · Milton Keynes £76,000–£114,000 6d ago Lead AI/ML Data Scientist - VP Citi · Mississauga Ontario Canada CA$120,800–CA$170,800 7d ago 
Director of Applied Science and Engineering - Knowledge Graphs & AI Outreach · Remote · India Pay not stated 8d ago 
Risk Modeling Services - AI Data Scientist Director PwC · NY-New York In listing 9d ago 
Vice President, AI Data Scientist, Private Markets Blackrock · Bengaluru Pay not stated 2w ago AI & GenAI Data Scientist-Director PwC · NY-New York $155,000–$410,000 2w ago 
Head of Applied Science Rohlik · Prague Pay not stated 2w ago Head of Applied Science Rohlik · Munich Pay not stated 2w ago Head of Applied Science - Ranking Zalando · Berlin Pay not stated 2w ago 
VP / AVP, GenAI Engineer/Scientist, Innovation Group United Overseas Bank · Central Region Pay not stated 3w ago First VP, GenAI Engineer/Scientist Lead, Innovation Group United Overseas Bank · Central Region Pay not stated 3w ago Senior Applied AI Researcher, Vice President Blackrock · BU3-Budapest-GTC White House Pay not stated 3w ago 
Corporate Vice President - Data Scientist - Model Validation and AI Governance New York Life Insurance · New York $147,500–$211,000 4w ago VP, Data Scientist, Enterprise AI, Innovation Group United Overseas Bank · Central Region Pay not stated 7w ago 
Director, Data Scientist - Generative AI Systems Capital One · McLean In listing 7w ago Modelling Data Scientist, Vice President - AI Labs Blackrock · New York $167,500–$225,000 2mo ago Principal Scientist (Comp. Bio/ML) - Director Level Helical · London Pay not stated 2mo ago Vice President, Robot Learning HIKINEX · Palo Alto $236,725–$324,900e 3mo ago Principal Scientist / Associate Director, Agentic AI Research for Materials Science Lila Sciences · Cambridge $288,000–$420,000 3mo ago 
Head of Applied Science / Data Science Attentive · San Francisco $320,000–$380,000 3mo ago Director, Reinforcement Learning & Agentic Post-Training Jda · Paris Pay not stated 3mo ago 
Senior Director, Engineering & Applied Science - VenturaOS The Trade Desk · San Jose $243,400–$446,200 4mo ago Director of Computer Vision Motorolasolutions · Vancouver CA$230,000–CA$270,000 4mo ago 
Senior Director, Robotics & Computer Vision (Global Operations Technology) Coupang · Seoul Pay not stated 4mo ago 
Principal AI Research Scientist, Research Director - AI Scaling Databricks · Mountain View $270,000–$340,000 5mo ago 
Chief Scientist - Physical AI Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd. · Ottawa Pay not stated 6mo ago Chief Scientist - Physical AI Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd. · Markham Pay not stated 6mo ago Chief Scientist - Foundation Models Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd. · Markham Pay not stated 9mo ago 
Director, Applied Science - Ad Optimization & ML Systems Viant Technology · Irvine $225,000–$275,000 1y ago Senior Technical VP - AI & Efficient Deep Learning Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd. · Markham Pay not stated 3y ago Associate Director Student Recruitment, College of Engineering & Applied Science University of Cincinnati · Cincinnati $236,725–$324,900e