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413,194 H-1B & PERM records for "SCIENTIST", sourced from U.S. Department of Labor disclosures.

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UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO RESEARCH ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ALBUQUERQUE, NM $750000 H-1B Nov 13, 2013
The Acton Institute for the Study of Re… Data & Artificial Intelligence Analyst Grand Rapids, MI $744000 - $80000 H-1B Aug 26, 2025
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY VISITING SENIOR RESEARCH SCIENTIST BETHLEHEM, PA $742320 H-1B Apr 8, 2016
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI ASSISTANT RESEARCH SCIENTIST LUTHERVILLE-TIMONIUM, MD $740000 H-1B Oct 15, 2015
D. E. Shaw Research, LLC Member of the Technical Staff New York, NY $731000 H-1B May 26, 2026
D. E. Shaw Research, LLC Member of the Technical Staff New York, NY $731000 H-1B Nov 4, 2025
THE HENRY M. JACKSON FOUNDATION STAFF SCIENTIST BETHESDA, MD $730000 H-1B Jun 20, 2017
Magnit, LLC AI Strategy & Governance V - Consulting Professor Princeton, NJ $728000 H-1B Feb 24, 2026
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Sr. Advanced Analytics Engineer Boston, MA $728000 - $15000 H-1B Nov 11, 2025
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES POSTDOCTORAL SCHOLAR LOS ANGELES, CA $726000 H-1B Jan 4, 2017
SUSQUEHANNA PHYSICIAN SERVICES NEUROSURGEON WILLIAMSPORT, PA $725000 H-1B Mar 9, 2017
W.M. Rice University Postdoctoral Associate Houston, TX $720000 H-1B Apr 30, 2025
Lehigh University Research Scientist 2 Bethlehem, PA $720000 - $67000 H-1B Mar 12, 2025
ByteDance Inc. Research Scientist, Foundation Model(LLM) San Jose, CA $720000 H-1B Sep 11, 2025
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Research Fellow New York, NY $720000 - $70000 H-1B Jan 26, 2024
AbbVie Inc. Associate Scientist II, Computational Toxicology N Chicago, IL $720000 - $760000 H-1B Apr 13, 2021
BAKECO, LLC QUALITY CONTROL TECHNOLOGIST STERLING, VA $720000 H-1B Mar 4, 2014
University of Pittsburgh Postdoctoral Associate Pittsburgh, PA $715104 H-1B Oct 26, 2023
UT Southwestern Medical Center Research Scientist Dallas, TX $714198 H-1B Oct 14, 2019
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE … ASSISTANT PROFESSOR HOUSTON, TX $710000 H-1B Feb 4, 2016
ADCOCK AGI INC. AI ENGINEER SAN JOSE, CA $700000 H-1B Nov 11, 2025
Core Automation Inc Member of Technical Staff, AI Engineering San Francisco, CA $700000 H-1B Apr 17, 2026
Core Automation, Inc. Member of Technical Staff, AI/ Co-founder San Francisco, CA $700000 H-1B Mar 24, 2026
Incept Labs, Inc. Senior Machine Learning Engineer Hayward, CA $700000 H-1B Mar 6, 2026
The Henry M. Jackson Foundation Scientist Bethesda, MD $700000 - $800000 H-1B Mar 4, 2021
UPMC SUSQUEHANNA NEUROSURGEON WILLIAMSPORT, PA $700000 H-1B May 1, 2018
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN RESEARCH INVESTIGATOR ANN ARBOR, MI $700000 H-1B Oct 5, 2011
NMC, INC. RESEARCH SCIENTIST LOS ALAMOS, NM $700000 H-1B Aug 31, 2011
UT Southwestern Medical Center Research Scientist Dallas, TX $692000 H-1B Jul 24, 2024
Anthropic, PBC Research Engineer San Francisco, CA $690000 E-3 Jan 6, 2025
AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC AMAZON SCHOLAR ITHACA, NY $689998 H-1B May 21, 2026
OpenAI OpCo, LLC Member of Technical Staff (Research Scientist) San Francisco, CA $685000 H-1B May 16, 2025
Northwestern University Postdoctoral Scholar Chicago, IL $683400 H-1B May 13, 2025
The Pennsylvania State University Postdoctoral Scholar Hershey, PA $682560 H-1B Oct 30, 2023
OKBL USA Technology Inc. Sr Director, Data Science San Jose, CA $678000 H-1B Sep 23, 2025
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PHYSICIANS ASSISTANT PROFESSOR- CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY Pittsburgh, PA $675000 H-1B Jan 11, 2019
ZIONS BANK / ZMSC DATA SCIENTIST SALT LAKE CITY, UT $675000 H-1B Jun 5, 2012
Simons Foundation Distinguished Research Scientist New York, NY $670238 H-1B Jun 17, 2024
MAYO CLINIC SURGEON/RESEARCHER PHOENIX, AZ $670000 H-1B Sep 11, 2018
Miromind, Inc. Lead Scientist Bellevue, WA $666667 H-1B Apr 7, 2026
Advocado, Inc. Junior Data Scientist Studio City, CA $666602 H-1B Jun 13, 2024
University of Pittsburgh Research Scientist Pittsburgh, PA $663520 H-1B Apr 6, 2020
Columbia University Associate Research Scientist New York, NY $661000 H-1B Sep 27, 2021
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY--A COMMONWEALTH UNIVE… ASSOCIATE SCIENTIST Philadelphia, PA $651004 H-1B Sep 4, 2019
Amazon.com Services LLC Amazon Scholar Pittsburgh, PA $650000 H-1B Aug 21, 2025
BYTEDANCE INC. Research Scientist Bellevue, WA $650000 H-1B Apr 15, 2025
Amazon.com Services LLC Amazon Scholar Pittsburgh, PA $650000 H-1B May 9, 2025
Allen Institute for Artificial Intellig… Visiting Research Scientist Seattle, WA $650000 H-1B Apr 5, 2024
OpenAI OpCo, LLC Member of Technical Staff San Francisco, CA $650000 E-3 Sep 1, 2023
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN NEUROSURGEON Milwaukee, WI $650000 H-1B Apr 1, 2019
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