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Foundation Models Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 13+ foundation models jobs at companies offering half-day Fridays and compressed weeks—for a better work-life balance. 4 new this week. Hiring companies include Sigma Computing, Samsara, and Block.

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half-day Fridays 2
compressed weeks 2
unlimited PTO 10
best places to work 3
generous parental leave 2

Updated August 22, 2026

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Principal Engineer, Core - Pinner Journeys

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Pinterest · Remote · USA

60 · GoodUnlimited PTO$243k – $450k

Principal Product Manager - Pricing and Personalization

23d

Hopper · Remote · Ireland

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Principal Product Manager - Pricing and Personalization

23d

Hopper · Remote · USA

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO$150k – $350k

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Research Staff, Voice AI Foundations

3mo

Deepgram · Remote · USA

60 · GoodUnlimited PTO$150k – $250k

Research Scientist, Simulation Agents

1mo

Waabi · Remote · USA or Canada

58 · GoodUnlimited PTO$158k – $269k

Agentic AI Lead – Disease Biology & Target Discovery

Amgen · Hybrid · Hyderabad, India

59 · GoodGenerous PTO

Agentic AI Lead – Protein Design & Molecular Engineering

Amgen · Hybrid · Hyderabad, India

59 · GoodGenerous PTO

Executive Director, Frontier AI

Amgen · Hybrid · New York, USA

59 · GoodGenerous PTO$304k – $411k

Strategic Business Development Lead

Anthropic · Hybrid · San Francisco, CA, USA

55 · GoodGenerous Parental Leave

Principal Research Scientist - Frontier Industrial AI

17d

AVEVA · Hybrid · London +2 more

66 · GoodGenerous PTO

Member of Technical Staff - ML Scientist, Japanese Multimodal

23d

Liquid AI · Hybrid · Tokyo, Japan

61 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Account Executive

1mo

Liquid AI · Hybrid · San Francisco, CA or Boston, MA

61 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Research Scientist) - DFAI

2mo

Plaid · Hybrid · San Francisco, CA +2 more

59 · GoodUnlimited PTO$249k – $368k

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Employers hiring for Foundation Models on this page include Sigma Computing, Samsara, and Block. Foundation Models roles appear most frequently in engineering, data, and platform teams at companies that have adopted a reduced-hours schedule. Each listing indicates the seniority level and whether Foundation Models is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Foundation Models roles span the full seniority range — we list 22 open roles requiring Foundation Models across entry-level, mid-level, senior, lead, and staff/principal positions. Senior and above tend to dominate because employers offering reduced-hours schedules often lean toward experienced individual contributors who can deliver consistently in fewer hours. Filter by level in the sidebar to narrow the list above.

Lead with measurable outcomes over time spent — Foundation Models hiring managers at reduced-hours companies care about delivered value, not hours worked. Highlight projects where you shipped at a steady cadence, collaborated asynchronously, or reduced engineering toil through automation or tooling. Include concrete metrics (latency improvements, adoption numbers, cost reductions) rather than vague duty descriptions. Expand listings above to see the exact framing each employer uses in their job descriptions.

For the full-pay schedules here — 4-day weeks and 9-day fortnights — yes: you keep a full-time salary for a shorter week. Part-time and pro-rata roles instead scale pay to hours, and each listing makes the arrangement clear. Foundation Models roles in tech and data typically command premium rates at both reduced-hours and traditional employers; specific ranges depend on seniority, location, and sub-specialty (e.g. backend vs frontend, infra vs ML). Individual listings above show exact bands where the employer publishes them.

Depends on the role, but Foundation Models candidates who also demonstrate async communication, clean documentation, and cross-functional collaboration are typically strong fits for reduced-hours employers — those companies rely on written-first communication and high-context handoffs to operate on a compressed schedule. Technical-adjacent skills vary by stack. Browse the top skills shown in the sidebar to see which tags co-occur most often with Foundation Models on current listings.

Foundation Models Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 13+ foundation models jobs at companies offering half-day Fridays and compressed weeks—for a better work-life balance. 4 new this week. Hiring companies include Sigma Computing, Samsara, and Block.

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