Asking for a cousin who is senior at FAANG and looking to switch. Which are best companies with good pay and WLB for ML Scientists who are good in their domain. I know Microsoft can be a good WLB but pay is probably not the best to beat inflation. My cousin has experience in Network communications, Video-Audio communications (like Zoom) and in NLP massive text processing, ASR/CV from few years experience. Over 12 years of industry experience. Not interested in just publishing. More interested to move to managing research. Already paid well at 500K. Looking for atleast 200k+ increase in TC. #researchscientist #ML #ai
Google. Meta - WLB can be a bit bad, but lots of opportunities depending on the domain.
Microsoft Research pays top $ for researchers. But it's really competitive. You better have 6-7 ICML, Neurips at the very least.
levels.fyi has not data on research scientist
researchers at MSR start a L63. Same pay as engineers at similar level.
Amazon Applied Scientist. He could be a good fit for some teams in Alexa AI. L6 offers will beat his current TC, but to get a big increment, he would need L7 offer.
Which domain?