Principal Research Scientist
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The Principal Research Scientist will work with a multidisciplinary team and business partners to study how agents are changing work, roles, judgment, and decision-making. The role develops research questions and sustained programs of inquiry into the business and human experience of agentic transformation, including longitudinal and comparative research, and examines how agents affect decision quality, business outcomes, trust, and accountability.
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Working within our multidisciplinary team, alongside design, applied AI, engineering, program leadership and business transformation, and with partners across the business, to study how agents are changing work, roles, judgement and decision-making. Research direction and emerging questions Co-evolve areas of enquiry and research questions focused on the business and human experience of agentic transformation, building evidence about how AI and agents are changing work, organisations, roles and ways of operating. Identify new and consequential questions as agentic ways of working evolve, using what the research reveals to open new lines of enquiry and continually deepen our understanding of the business and human experience of an agentic world. Develop sustained programmes of enquiry that go beyond individual studies, including longitudinal and comparative research where valuable, to understand what is changing, why, and under what conditions. Build evidence on how agents shape the quality of decisions and business outcomes, examining the changes in judgement, trust and accountability that usage metrics cannot capture. Doctorate in relevant field AND 3+ years related research experience OR Master's Degree in relevant field AND 4+ years related research experience OR Bachelor's Degree in relevant field AND 6+ years related research experience Doctorate in relevant field AND 5+ years related research experience OR Master's Degree in relevant field AND 8+ years related research experience OR Bachelor's Degree in relevant field AND 12+ years related research experience OR equivalent experience. Experience participating in a top conference in relevant research domain.
How this job compares
Set against the 2,216 open Research Scientist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Washington median$157–232K/yr126 salary ranges
- US median$34–43/hr48 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 197 open Research Scientist jobs in Washington and 2,216 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Washington
- Meta65 open
- Amazon40 open
- Microsoft Corporation15 open
- Experience
- Research Scientist postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 6 years (1,148 postings).
- Education
- 1,097 of the 2,216 open Research Scientist jobs (50%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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