The demand for a senior research engineer continues to grow across the USA as companies invest heavily in innovation and applied technology. This remote position offers 500+ open positions for professionals eager to contribute to advanced research initiatives from anywhere in the country. With organizations increasingly embracing distributed teams, this is an ideal moment to explore senior research engineer vacancies that combine flexibility with meaningful technical impact.
Successful candidates typically bring deep expertise in experimental design, data analysis, and applied engineering methodologies, paired with strong programming skills in languages such as Python or C++. Employers seeking to hire a senior research engineer often look for a proven ability to lead complex projects, publish research findings, and collaborate across interdisciplinary teams. Strong problem-solving instincts, adaptability to emerging technologies, and clear technical communication remain essential for thriving in this senior-level role.
Remote work has become a defining feature of senior research engineer positions throughout the USA, allowing companies to access top-tier talent regardless of geography. Many organizations now support fully distributed research teams, offering flexible schedules and virtual collaboration tools that mirror in-office innovation hubs. As industries such as biotech, AI, and advanced manufacturing expand their research footprints, hiring outlook for remote research talent remains strong nationwide.
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Jobgether
Lead complex health services research and evaluation projects, providing expertise on health policies and healthcare delivery models. Oversee project operations, ensuring timely deliverables and coordination among team members.
remote, DC, United States$63k – $105k/yrPart TimeSenior (5+ years)Jobgether
Lead research execution and technical delivery on emerging risks related to frontier AI systems. Oversee complex research projects, ensuring quality of technical deliverables and communicating findings to clients.
remote, United StatesFull TimeSenior (5+ years)
Olsson
Lead design efforts for federal civil projects, ensuring compliance with federal standards. Prepare planning and design documents, perform design calculations, and oversee quality assurance/quality control.
remote, AR, United StatesFull TimeSenior (5+ years)
Guardz
Conduct research on emerging attack techniques and vulnerabilities, translating findings into detection rules and security controls. Lead complex investigations and incident response as a senior technical escalation point for the global MDR team.
remote, United StatesFull TimeSenior (5+ years)
Alice
Lead the execution of red-teaming datasets and technical risk reports, ensuring quality assurance across various workflows. Allocate tasks among subject-matter experts and maintain delivery velocity under tight deadlines.
remote, United StatesFull TimeSenior (5+ years)
Tennessee Board of Regents
Lead analyses to understand regional workforce opportunities and employment outcomes. Develop and maintain dashboards and reports translating labor-market information into actionable resources.
remote, TN, United StatesFull TimeSenior (5+ years)
MimoLabs
Build and train models for manufacturable geometry, integrating physics-driven optimization. Own the training pipeline from data curation to evaluation, ensuring quality metrics are met.
remote, United States$170k – $220k/yrFull TimeSenior (5+ years)
FAR.AI
Lead projects in AI safety research, focusing on detecting and preventing deception in models, mitigating risks in frontier AI, and building frameworks for rapid experimentation. Conduct adversarial evaluations and develop tooling for fine-tuning workflows.
remote, United States$225k – $350k/yrFull TimeSenior (5+ years)
The Copper River Family of Companies
Lead multidisciplinary teams and coordinate with clients, designers, and contractors throughout project lifecycles. Direct design and constructability reviews, oversee field QA, inspections, and testing. Review technical submittals and provide recommendations to clients.
remote, United States$181k – $222k/yrPart TimeSenior (5+ years)
SOVRA
Plan and execute a quarterly research agenda aligned with product roadmaps. Establish research protocols, participant recruitment processes, and maintain a searchable insight library.
remote, United StatesFull TimeSenior (5+ years)The Regents of the University of California on behalf of their Los Angeles Campus
Lead complex evaluation and research projects, shape research designs, and implement data collection strategies. Conduct advanced analyses and develop reporting products.
remote, United StatesFull TimeSenior (5+ years)
Miratech
Research, design, and develop optimization models for workforce planning and scheduling. Implement the schedule optimization engine using OR-Tools/CP-SAT and build a production-grade solver as a service.
remote (anywhere)Full TimeSenior (5+ years)
Humana
Design and execute outcomes studies to evaluate clinical program performance. Apply statistical and epidemiologic methods to analyze large datasets and generate evidence for decision-making.
remote, United States$104k – $143k/yrFull TimeSenior (5+ years)Integrated Business & Technical Consultants
Lead the design and execution of systematic evidence reviews, conduct causal study assessments, and develop comprehensive evidence syntheses. Mentor analytical review teams and critically review experimental and quasi-experimental impact evaluation studies.
remote, DC, United States$134k – $180k/yrFull TimeSenior (5+ years)Spectrum Brands
Establish and lead R&D-focused consumer science capability. Develop strategies for consumer understanding, validate product performance, and translate consumer feedback into actionable recommendations.
remote, MO, United StatesFull TimeSenior (5+ years)
dentsu
Oversee research programs including questionnaire design, analysis, and reporting. Act as co-lead for key client accounts, maintaining client relationships. Develop reports from quantitative and qualitative data, and present findings to clients.
remote, PA, United States$90k – $115k/yrFull TimeSenior (5+ years)FAR.AI
Lead research projects on deception detection and monitoring, defining research questions, setting milestones, and assessing results. Conduct post-training experiments on large models, diagnose issues, and design model organisms.
remote, United StatesFull TimeSenior (5+ years)
RTX
Develop and implement research-grade algorithms for RF signal processing. Conduct statistical signal processing, detection techniques, and adaptive signal processing. Model RF propagation and signatures, and apply machine learning for optimal control.
remote, United States$132k – $252k/yrFull TimeLead / Manager
ECS Tech Inc
Collaborate with the ARPA-H Program Manager to develop and manage R&D programs. Conduct scientific evaluations of the R&D landscape to identify research gaps. Monitor progress towards established metrics and prepare briefings for diverse audiences.
remote, WY, United States$125k – $185k/yrFull TimeSenior (5+ years)
Microsoft
Drive research agenda development on machine learning in molecular sciences. Develop strategies for integrating large-scale model data from simulations and experiments. Write research code for testing new approaches and prepare technical papers and presentations.
remote, United States$120k – $261k/yrFull TimeSenior (5+ years)
Elastic
Research emerging attacker techniques and develop protections against them. Build endpoint visibility by instrumenting event sources across various operating systems. Write production code in C/C++ for endpoint security solutions and reverse engineer malware to enhance security measures.
remote, United States$71k – $113k/yrFull TimeSenior (5+ years)
Cambium Biomaterials, Inc.
Lead design, fabrication, prototyping, and testing of technology for directed energy protection. Supervise a team of engineers/scientists, develop and execute a technology roadmap, and participate in strategic planning.
remote, United States$135k – $166k/yrFull TimeSenior (5+ years)
Endor Labs
Conduct offensive security research on software supply chain threats, identifying zero-day vulnerabilities. Develop exploit techniques to understand attack vectors targeting software supply chains. Collaborate with Product Management to translate research findings into security capabilities.
remote, United StatesFull TimeSenior (5+ years)
TuxCare
Lead the development of SecureChain's malicious-code detector, including alert review and classification. Build pipelines for vulnerability discovery in open-source software, focusing on high and critical risks. Conduct research, reproduce findings, and prepare technical write-ups for publication.
remote (anywhere)Full TimeSenior (5+ years)
Horizon3
Lead and scale the Proactive Offense engineering organization, translating the charter into a technical strategy and roadmap. Partner with teams to prioritize work across offensive research and automation, ensuring capabilities transition from proof of concept to production.
remote, United States$315k – $370k/yrFull TimeDirector
HUD
Build infrastructure for agent behavior research, including environment execution and trajectory collection. Develop reusable tools, APIs, and pipelines for experiment management and data inspection. Transform research prototypes into documented software for reuse.
remote, United States$105k – $260k/yrFull TimeSenior (5+ years)
Morning Consult
Manage execution of custom quantitative studies across multiple projects, ensuring high-quality deliverables. Build and maintain client relationships, contributing to proposals and identifying growth opportunities.
remote, DC, United States$82k – $130k/yrFull TimeSenior (5+ years)
Silicon Ranch Corporation
Oversee civil engineering design for utility-scale PV solar projects, ensuring compliance with specifications and jurisdictional standards. Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders, lead design review meetings, and conduct site visits to resolve field issues.
remote, United StatesFull TimeSenior (5+ years)
Troveo AI
Monitor and synthesize trends in AI and machine learning, conduct experiments with emerging models and tools, and identify opportunities to enrich existing data assets. Translate research into actionable outputs, advance a research program, and partner with product and engineering teams.
remote, United StatesFull TimeSenior (5+ years)
Geronimo Power, LLC
Lead civil engineering activities from site evaluation to construction and operations. Conduct design reviews for grading, drainage, and stormwater management; evaluate third-party civil designs for compliance.
remote, MN, United States$121k – $150k/yrFull TimeSenior (5+ years)
Planful
Conduct generative and evaluative research, including interviews and usability tests. Synthesize findings into actionable deliverables like personas and journey maps. Design wireframes, user flows, and prototypes, ensuring adherence to the Planful Design System.
remote (anywhere)$180k – $210k/yrFull TimeSenior (5+ years)
TerraForm Power
Lead technical execution for utility-scale renewable energy projects from development through construction and commissioning. Oversee EPC design deliverables and ensure compliance with engineering standards and quality specifications.
remote, United States$117k – $146k/yrFull TimeSenior (5+ years)
Prime Intellect
Find and evaluate training data from various sources, building scalable pipelines for data extraction, cleaning, and filtering. Develop quality checks for data and collaborate with researchers on data mixtures and sampling strategies.
remote, CA, United States$150k – $350k/yrFull TimeJunior (<2 years)Prime Intellect
Design and build evaluations for coding and long-horizon agents. Develop executable environments and scoring logic, investigating model failures and reward hacks. Build and scale RL data pipelines for challenging tasks, collaborating with researchers to improve model performance.
remote, CA, United States$150k – $350k/yrFull TimeJunior (<2 years)Prime Intellect
Build and extend pretraining code, evaluate model architecture changes, profile training jobs for throughput, ensure resilience in long runs with checkpointing, investigate training dynamics, and run controlled ablations for reproducibility.
remote, CA, United States$150k – $350k/yrFull TimeJunior (<2 years)
Blue Matter
Oversee and execute all aspects of primary market research including proposal design, research design, data collection, analysis, and report creation. Manage project timelines and budgets, coordinating with internal and external parties.
remote, United States$135k – $185k/yrFull TimeSenior (5+ years)Blue Matter
Execute all aspects of primary market research including research design, questionnaire development, data collection, analysis, and report creation. Participate in project scoping, develop market research proposals, and recommend best practices for data collection.
remote, United States$105k – $145k/yrFull TimeSenior (5+ years)
Fingerprint
Conduct independent research on device-identification and bot-detection techniques in modern browsers. Own findings from initial discovery through engineering implementation, providing actionable recommendations based on data.
remote, United States$174k – $235k/yrFull TimeSenior (5+ years)
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health
Lead complex health services research projects, providing expertise to clients and health care organizations. Oversee data collection and analysis, interpret findings, and translate evidence into actionable recommendations.
remote, DC, United States$63k – $105k/yrFull TimeSenior (5+ years)
YouGov
Lead end-to-end quantitative research engagements, including proposal development, study design, questionnaire development, fieldwork, analysis, reporting, and presentation of findings. Manage multiple complex projects while balancing quality, timelines, budgets, and client expectations.
remote, United States$110k – $160k/yrFull TimeSenior (5+ years)10,000,000+ more jobs available!
