I have 10 years of experience working with ML in major web search engine companies. My passion is ML/AI research though (think DeepMind, Google Brain, OpenAI etc). The problem is that I'm not doing any real research at work. Microsoft has MSR, but most of other companies are just doing infra around here. What are some opportunities for ML research work around Seattle that still have compensation comparable to Google T4/T5?
FB has a computational photography team in Seattle that may be of your interest.