599 live roles · 85 fully remote · freshest first

Research Scientist jobs

Live research scientist openings from company career pages and remote boards. Apply at the source. What the role pays, across markets and seniority: research scientist salary.

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What 599 postings say

Computed from the live board on the date of the nightly build · 83 added in the last 7 days · median listing is 36 days old.

Seniority	Live roles	State pay	Posted band
Entry	13	—	—
Untagged (mid)	519	58	$147k–$348k
Senior / lead	67	23	$122k–$286k

Seniority is read from posting titles; roles with no level in the title are counted as mid. Bands cover only postings that state pay, and only where five or more do.

Skills named most

Python19%
Machine Learning17%
Data Analysis16%
Event Planning15%
Teaching12%
LLMs / Generative AI12%
Deep Learning10%
Statistics9%

Share of postings naming each skill, from the posting text itself.

Hiring the most right now

ETH Zurich45
Jobup43
Universität Zürich32
Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI)20
Roche18
Anthropic14

Routes into research scientist

The measured pivots that lead here, ranked by how much of the destination a typical origin profile already covers.

Data Scientist → Research Scientist55% readiness
NLP Engineer → Research Scientist53% readiness
Computer Vision Engineer → Research Scientist47% readiness

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Quick answers

How many research scientist jobs are open right now?

Right now there are 599 research scientist openings on our board, and 83 of them arrived in the last seven days. 85 of them are fully remote (remote research scientist jobs). The board refreshes every night, so the count moves with the market.

How much do research scientist jobs pay?

81 of the 599 openings state a salary. Across those, the middle half of posted pay runs from $146k to $310k a year. We only count postings that state pay, so this is what employers are advertising today, not an estimate. For the fuller picture by seniority and market, see the research scientist salary page.

What skills do research scientist postings ask for?

The three skills research scientist postings name most often are Python (19% of postings), Machine Learning (17%) and Data Analysis (16%). Those percentages are simply how many of the postings we read mention each one, so you can see which are near-universal and which are nice to have. Every skill, defined: the glossary.

Can I move into research scientist work from an adjacent role?

Yes, and we can tell you from where. 3 measured routes lead into research scientist work. The closest is from data scientist: a typical data scientist profile already covers 55% of what research scientist postings ask for, and the route page lists the exact skills that make up the rest.

Listings backfilled from re-displayable sources (company career pages, remote-job boards, and public-sector postings), freshest first, refreshed with the nightly scrape. Each links out to apply at the original posting; PivotHop does not host applications. Salary shown where the posting states it.