Transformers Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

RemoteCanada

57 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave$153k – $189k

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, AI Studio

Amgen

RemoteUSA

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

4mo

Loka

RemoteNorth Macedonia +2 more

74 · GreatRotating 4 day week

Engineering Manager, Machine Learning Platform

12d

RemoteCanada

61 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$181k – $241k

Senior Staff Machine Learning Scientist, Assets

2mo

Webflow

RemoteUSA or Canada

63 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$205k – $290k

Manager, Machine Learning Engineering (Repayment & Recovery)

1mo

RemoteUK

61 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work£142k – £190k

Machine Learning Engineer

1mo

RemoteIreland

61 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Machine Learning Engineer

1mo

RemoteSpain

61 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Engineering Manager, Machine Learning Platform

2mo

RemoteUSA

61 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$236k – $296k

Sr. Backend Engineer - Engine Team: API

27d

RemoteUSA

60 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$150k – $220k

Backend Engineer- Inference Services

27d

RemoteUSA

60 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$150k – $220k

Open-Source Machine Learning Engineer (EMEA)

2mo

RemoteFrance

60 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Open-Source Machine Learning Engineer

2mo

RemoteUSA

60 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Sr. Machine Learning Engineer, Responsible AI– Applied Research Science

3mo

RemoteUSA

60 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$190k – $332k

Sr Data Scientist, AI Products

1mo

RemoteCanada

57 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave$151k – $189k

Tech Lead Applied Scientist

2mo

Samsara

RemoteUSA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$200k – $358k

Vice President, Data Science

2mo

Five9

RemoteUSA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Manager, Machine Learning Engineering (Fraud)

2mo

RemoteCanada

61 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$181k – $241k

Manager, Machine Learning Engineering (Fraud)

2mo

RemoteUSA

61 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$204k – $264k

Senior Research Scientist, AI & Workforce Intelligence

1mo

Wonderlic

HybridVernon Hills, USA

88 · Excellent4 day week100% pay

Senior Forward Deployed Applied Scientist I (Agentic AI)

DigitalOcean

HybridBengaluru, India

62 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

AI Scientist/Senior, Clinical & Molecular Genomics Modeling, BRAID

Genentech

HybridSouth San Francisco, USA

60 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO$128k – $274k

Algorithm and Applied AI Scientist (DSP)

2mo

HybridHaifa, Israel

77 · GreatRotating 4 day week

AI Applied Scientist – Insights & Recommendations

2mo

HybridHaifa or Tel Aviv

77 · GreatRotating 4 day week

AI/ML Applied Researcher – Insights & Recommendations

2mo

HybridHaifa or Tel Aviv

77 · GreatRotating 4 day week

Director of Software Development

S&P Global

HybridNew York City, USA

56 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave$180k – $220k

Artificial intelligence Engineer

iCapital

OnsiteNew York, USA

54 · Decent5 day weekUnlimited PTO$170k – $200k

Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning (Ads)

18d

Discord

HybridSan Francisco, USA

67 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO$220k – $275k

AI Research Engineer

2mo

PostHog

HybridLondon, UK

65 · Good5 day weekVery Flexible

Staff Software Engineer, Applied AI

3mo

HackerOne

HybridSeattle +3 more

62 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$230k – $280k

Staff Research Scientist, AdTech Product Innovation

19d

Cognitiv

HybridBellevue, USA

60 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$200k – $270k

Machine Learning Engineer (UK)

19d

Bumble

HybridLondon, UK

60 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Applied Scientist AI/ML

1mo

HybridToronto, Canada

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Applied Scientist AI/ML

1mo

HybridSeattle, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$157k – $355k

Applied Scientist AI/ML

1mo

HybridMiami, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$157k – $355k

Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Research Scientist) - DFAI

2mo

Plaid

HybridSan Francisco +2 more

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$249k – $368k

Creative Tech Researcher

2mo

HybridLos Angeles, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$466k – $750k

Machine Learning Scientist - GenAI for Games

3mo

HybridLos Gatos, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Staff Applied Scientist - AI/ML

15d

HybridSan Jose, USA

58 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave$243k – $352k

LLM Agent Research Scientist

26d

HybridBeijing, China

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Research Scientist - Efficient AI

26d

HybridBeijing, China

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Principal Product Manager, AI

1mo

OnsiteBellevue, USA

58 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Director of Product, AI

1mo

OnsiteBellevue, USA

58 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$215k – $269k

Research Scientist

1mo

Waabi

HybridToronto, Canada

58 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$158k – $269k

Lead Applied Researcher

1mo

HybridSan Jose, USA

58 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave$243k – $352k

Engineering Manager, ML Recommendations

1mo

Etsy

HybridBrooklyn, USA

58 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave$226k – $294k

AI Research Scientist

2mo

HybridBeijing, China

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Software Development Engineer II

1mo

Esri

HybridSharjah, United Arab Emirates

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior AI Research Scientist

1mo

Workato

HybridSan Francisco, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Staff Product Engineer, AI

2mo

Fin

HybridLondon, UK

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

Employers hiring for Transformers on this page include Anthropic, Affirm, and Fin. Transformers 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 Transformers is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Transformers roles span the full seniority range — we list 64 open roles requiring Transformers 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 — Transformers 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. Transformers 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 Transformers 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 Transformers on current listings.

Senior Software Developer, ML Ops

RemoteCanada

57 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave$153k – $189k

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, AI Studio

Amgen

RemoteUSA

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

4mo

Loka

RemoteNorth Macedonia +2 more

74 · GreatRotating 4 day week

Engineering Manager, Machine Learning Platform

12d

RemoteCanada

61 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$181k – $241k

Senior Staff Machine Learning Scientist, Assets

2mo

Webflow

RemoteUSA or Canada

63 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$205k – $290k

Manager, Machine Learning Engineering (Repayment & Recovery)

1mo

RemoteUK

61 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work£142k – £190k

Machine Learning Engineer

1mo

RemoteIreland

61 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Machine Learning Engineer

1mo

RemoteSpain

61 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Engineering Manager, Machine Learning Platform

2mo

RemoteUSA

61 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$236k – $296k

Sr. Backend Engineer - Engine Team: API

27d

RemoteUSA

60 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$150k – $220k

Backend Engineer- Inference Services

27d

RemoteUSA

60 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$150k – $220k

Open-Source Machine Learning Engineer (EMEA)

2mo

RemoteFrance

60 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Open-Source Machine Learning Engineer

2mo

RemoteUSA

60 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Sr. Machine Learning Engineer, Responsible AI– Applied Research Science

3mo

RemoteUSA

60 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$190k – $332k

Sr Data Scientist, AI Products

1mo

RemoteCanada

57 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave$151k – $189k

Tech Lead Applied Scientist

2mo

Samsara

RemoteUSA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$200k – $358k

Vice President, Data Science

2mo

Five9

RemoteUSA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Manager, Machine Learning Engineering (Fraud)

2mo

RemoteCanada

61 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$181k – $241k

Manager, Machine Learning Engineering (Fraud)

2mo

RemoteUSA

61 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$204k – $264k

Senior Research Scientist, AI & Workforce Intelligence

1mo

Wonderlic

HybridVernon Hills, USA

88 · Excellent4 day week100% pay

Senior Forward Deployed Applied Scientist I (Agentic AI)

DigitalOcean

HybridBengaluru, India

62 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

AI Scientist/Senior, Clinical & Molecular Genomics Modeling, BRAID

Genentech

HybridSouth San Francisco, USA

60 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO$128k – $274k

Algorithm and Applied AI Scientist (DSP)

2mo

HybridHaifa, Israel

77 · GreatRotating 4 day week

AI Applied Scientist – Insights & Recommendations

2mo

HybridHaifa or Tel Aviv

77 · GreatRotating 4 day week

AI/ML Applied Researcher – Insights & Recommendations

2mo

HybridHaifa or Tel Aviv

77 · GreatRotating 4 day week

Director of Software Development

S&P Global

HybridNew York City, USA

56 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave$180k – $220k

Artificial intelligence Engineer

iCapital

OnsiteNew York, USA

54 · Decent5 day weekUnlimited PTO$170k – $200k

Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning (Ads)

18d

Discord

HybridSan Francisco, USA

67 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO$220k – $275k

AI Research Engineer

2mo

PostHog

HybridLondon, UK

65 · Good5 day weekVery Flexible

Staff Software Engineer, Applied AI

3mo

HackerOne

HybridSeattle +3 more

62 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$230k – $280k

Staff Research Scientist, AdTech Product Innovation

19d

Cognitiv

HybridBellevue, USA

60 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$200k – $270k

Machine Learning Engineer (UK)

19d

Bumble

HybridLondon, UK

60 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Applied Scientist AI/ML

1mo

HybridToronto, Canada

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Applied Scientist AI/ML

1mo

HybridSeattle, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$157k – $355k

Applied Scientist AI/ML

1mo

HybridMiami, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$157k – $355k

Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Research Scientist) - DFAI

2mo

Plaid

HybridSan Francisco +2 more

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$249k – $368k

Creative Tech Researcher

2mo

HybridLos Angeles, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$466k – $750k

Machine Learning Scientist - GenAI for Games

3mo

HybridLos Gatos, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Staff Applied Scientist - AI/ML

15d

HybridSan Jose, USA

58 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave$243k – $352k

LLM Agent Research Scientist

26d

HybridBeijing, China

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Research Scientist - Efficient AI

26d

HybridBeijing, China

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Principal Product Manager, AI

1mo

OnsiteBellevue, USA

58 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Director of Product, AI

1mo

OnsiteBellevue, USA

58 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$215k – $269k

Research Scientist

1mo

Waabi

HybridToronto, Canada

58 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$158k – $269k

Lead Applied Researcher

1mo

HybridSan Jose, USA

58 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave$243k – $352k

Engineering Manager, ML Recommendations

1mo

Etsy

HybridBrooklyn, USA

58 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave$226k – $294k

AI Research Scientist

2mo