AI Scientist a new title on company job boards
Research · Emerging, unverified · not on Hacker News yet · 3 open roles at 2 companies · median $275k · first seen Sep 2026
Who is hiring for it
Open postings on their own job boards, read 4h ago2 of 2 companies
| # | Company | Open roles | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Obelisk AGI lab, Astera Institute | 2 | |
| 2 | Gauss Labs | 1 |
Open roles
| Role | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Principal AI Scientist (Polytope Bio)Obelisk AGI lab, Astera InstituteRemote$250k to $350k | Obelisk AGI lab, Astera Institute | Remote | $250k to $350k |
| AI Scientist - Machine Learning (KR/US)Gauss LabsPalo Alto, CA / Yeoksam, Seoul | Gauss Labs | Palo Alto, CA / Yeoksam, Seoul | Not stated |
| Senior/Staff AI Scientist (Polytope Bio)Obelisk AGI lab, Astera InstituteRemote$200k to $300k | Obelisk AGI lab, Astera Institute | Remote | $200k to $300k |
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...veterans who have brought drugs to market, drug designers/AI scientists from Nobel laureate David Baker's lab, and engineers from tech in order to...
3 open postings titled "AI Senior Scientist" or close to it at 3 companies (job-board scan, 2026-09-25). One of the postings. Not checked by hand yet.
Median posted salary $275k from 2 postings that state a base pay range (the median of their midpoints, USD a year). Not a survey of what people earn.
Sources: Hacker News Who is hiring threads and about 130 public job boards, read weekly. A title's share is not the job market's size. Logos via logo.dev; trademarks belong to their owners.