Counted October 19, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Applied Researcher: $234K median posted pay.
From 20 salary bands employers posted on 30 open applied researcher roles in research. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
| Level | Open roles | Median posted band | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| Staff | 2 | — (2 of 8 bands) | — |
| Senior | 1 | — (0 of 8 bands) | — |
Levels as the postings name them. A rung shows a median only where eight or more postings at that level carried a band.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open.
| Employer | Open roles | Entry level |
|---|---|---|
| Capital One | 19 | — |
| TCGplayer (Apply) | 9 | — |
| Dyna Robotics | 1 | — |
| Cartesia | 1 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open applied researcher roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Machine Learning | 28 | — |
| Deep Learning | 27 | — |
| Natural Language Processing | 24 | — |
| Electrical Engineering | 22 | — |
| Cloud Infrastructure | 20 | — |
| Data Science | 19 | — |
| Design Tokens | 19 | — |
| Help Desk Support | 19 | — |
| AI Transparency | 19 | — |
| Python | 9 | — |
Where the work is
0% of these roles are remote.
- Remote0%0 roles
- Hybrid0%0 roles
- On site27%8 roles
- Not stated73%22 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 30 open postings read from employers’ own job boards on October 19, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model — and 20 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Applied Researcher (Nights)” counts here too. 100% of roles with this title sit in research, which is why this page belongs to that career. A title gets a page only where twenty-five or more roles are open, eight or more of them posted a band, three or more employers are hiring for it and four in five of its postings sit in one career, so no page here is a guess.