Entry Level Research Software Engineer Jobs
New grad research software engineer jobs welcome recent graduates and entry level candidates with zero to two years of experience, where a strong portfolio or internship work can matter more than a long resume. Most openings reflect a mix of on-site, remote, and hybrid settings across Technology & Software, Education, and Artificial Intelligence, with employers like OpenAI, Stifel, and TikTok hiring at this level now.
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Top stateNew York
Top employerOpenAI
Top cityNew York, NY
Work type75% On-site
Top industryTechnology
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KBW Research Associate II - Real Estate Technology and Fintech Software
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Stifel
KBW Research Associate II - Real Estate Technology and Fintech Software
New York, New York
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Research Scientist / AI Software Engineer
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TikTok
Research Scientist / AI Software Engineer
San Jose, California
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Research Faculty - 12 Month Salaried (Open Rank) - Bioinformatics and Proteomics Software Development (NHMFL)
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Florida State University
Research Faculty - 12 Month Salaried (Open Rank) - Bioinformatics and Proteomics Software Development (NHMFL)
Tallahassee, Florida
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US Equity Research - Security Software - Associate
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JPMorganChase
US Equity Research - Security Software - Associate
New York, New York
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Software Engineer, Research
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OpenAI
Software Engineer, Research
San Francisco, California
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KBW Research Associate II - Real Estate Technology and Fintech Software
Stifel·New York, New York
Job functions:
$100k - $150k/yr
2+ yrs exp.
On-Site
Bachelor's degree
Full Time
5,001-10,000 employees
Job Description
Why Stifel:
Let’s talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success.
What You'll Be Doing:
Actual salaries may vary, and may be based on several factors, including but not limited to each candidate’s qualifications, skills, and overall competencies for the position. The base salary is one component of Stifel’s overall compensation package for each individual employee. Other benefits and offerings include, but not limited to, discretionary bonuses, health / dental / vision / prescription insurance offerings, Stifel Total Health Connect, flexible spending accounts, tuition & certification assistance programs, paid time off, and much, much more! To view a more comprehensive list of Stifel’s current offerings, please visit https://www.stifel.com/careers/benefits. Applications are accepted until the position is filled. About Stifel:
KBW, the Force Driving Financial Services Forward
Stifel strives for a culture that puts its clients and associates first: a culture where everyone belongs, everyone is welcome, and everyone contributes to the success of our clients, their careers, and the firm as a whole.
Let’s talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success.
Under general supervision, responsible for providing information, data gathering, analysis, modeling, and organizational support to the senior level Research Analysts. Has mastered the foundational skills required of an Associate level 1. At this level, assumes significantly more writing and modeling responsibilities. Is responsible for developing a solid understanding of the assigned sector and can clearly state and defend the investment thesis for all stocks in the assigned sector. Must be able to handle basic question from Sales and Clients and is beginning to represent the associates in internal research presentations.
What We're Looking For:
- Build and maintain Excel-based financial models, including income statements, balance sheets, cash flow statements, and discounted cash flow analysis.
- Formulate mathematical or simulation models of problems, relating constants and variables, restrictions, alternatives, conflicting objectives, and their numerical parameters.
- Analyze information obtained from management in order to conceptualize and define operational problems.
- Perform validation and testing of models to ensure adequacy; reformulate models as necessary.
- Building and updating comp sheets.
- Managing the databases and electronic data services (i.e. Bloomberg, FactSet, etc.)
- Must be able to clearly state and defend the Analyst's investment thesis and outlook for each of the stocks under coverage.
- Respond to basic questions from institutional sales and clients regarding covered companies, and industry questions and data requests.
- Develop written product with modest direction from the senior level Research Analyst.
- Able to evaluate basic valuation methodologies to stocks under coverage and the broader sector.
- Meets the special projects demands of the senior level Research Analysts.
- Uses all resources to determine and locate relevant data.
- Continues to build industry knowledge.
- Continues to develop external sources (management teams, suppliers, and customers). Must be able to integrate these sources in the research product. Will be assigned a small client contact list and will be responsible for meeting the needs of those clients.
- Some travel by car and/or air in conjunction with local, regional and/or national travel, up to 20%.
- Inductive Reasoning - The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions.
- Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Judgment and Decision Making - Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Time Management - Managing one's own time and priorities to ensure the meeting of deadlines
- Oral and Written Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas in spoken or written form so that others will understand.
- Economics, Accounting, Finance, and Securities Analysis - Knowledge of economic, accounting, and financial principles and practices, the financial markets, the industry, the analysis and reporting of financial data, and associated terminology.
- Minimum Required: Bachelor's degree
- Minimum Required: 2 to 4 years of relevant industry experience and/or proven experience at the Associate I level
- Minimum Required: None
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook
Actual salaries may vary, and may be based on several factors, including but not limited to each candidate’s qualifications, skills, and overall competencies for the position. The base salary is one component of Stifel’s overall compensation package for each individual employee. Other benefits and offerings include, but not limited to, discretionary bonuses, health / dental / vision / prescription insurance offerings, Stifel Total Health Connect, flexible spending accounts, tuition & certification assistance programs, paid time off, and much, much more! To view a more comprehensive list of Stifel’s current offerings, please visit https://www.stifel.com/careers/benefits. Applications are accepted until the position is filled. About Stifel:
In June of 1962, Harry Keefe, Jr., Gene Bruyette, and Norbert Woods founded Keefe, Bruyette & Woods (KBW) along with five other employees and $50,000 in capital. Together, the founders launched KBW with a vision of the future and a belief in personal accountability during a time when investors purchased bank stocks for the dividend yield alone. Few banks published balance sheets or earnings statements, and research was nearly nonexistent. With the addition of sales, trading, and research operations, and a clear focus on regional banks, the company has branched out since its founding. KBW is now widely considered the leading expert on all financial sub-sectors.
KBW, the Force Driving Financial Services Forward
- #1 Best U.S. SMID Research for Banks
- #1 Best U.S. SMID Research for Non-Bank Financials
-
#1 Best U.S. Industry Trading for Financials
** 2024 Coalition Greenwich Survey Results**
Stifel
KBW Research Associate II - Real Estate Technology and Fintech Software
New York, New York
Added 1w ago5,001-10,000 employees
Job functions:
$100k - $150k/yr
2+ yrs exp.
On-Site
Bachelor's degree
Full Time
Job Description
Why Stifel:
Let’s talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success.
What You'll Be Doing:
Actual salaries may vary, and may be based on several factors, including but not limited to each candidate’s qualifications, skills, and overall competencies for the position. The base salary is one component of Stifel’s overall compensation package for each individual employee. Other benefits and offerings include, but not limited to, discretionary bonuses, health / dental / vision / prescription insurance offerings, Stifel Total Health Connect, flexible spending accounts, tuition & certification assistance programs, paid time off, and much, much more! To view a more comprehensive list of Stifel’s current offerings, please visit https://www.stifel.com/careers/benefits. Applications are accepted until the position is filled. About Stifel:
KBW, the Force Driving Financial Services Forward
Stifel strives for a culture that puts its clients and associates first: a culture where everyone belongs, everyone is welcome, and everyone contributes to the success of our clients, their careers, and the firm as a whole.
Let’s talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success.
Under general supervision, responsible for providing information, data gathering, analysis, modeling, and organizational support to the senior level Research Analysts. Has mastered the foundational skills required of an Associate level 1. At this level, assumes significantly more writing and modeling responsibilities. Is responsible for developing a solid understanding of the assigned sector and can clearly state and defend the investment thesis for all stocks in the assigned sector. Must be able to handle basic question from Sales and Clients and is beginning to represent the associates in internal research presentations.
What We're Looking For:
- Build and maintain Excel-based financial models, including income statements, balance sheets, cash flow statements, and discounted cash flow analysis.
- Formulate mathematical or simulation models of problems, relating constants and variables, restrictions, alternatives, conflicting objectives, and their numerical parameters.
- Analyze information obtained from management in order to conceptualize and define operational problems.
- Perform validation and testing of models to ensure adequacy; reformulate models as necessary.
- Building and updating comp sheets.
- Managing the databases and electronic data services (i.e. Bloomberg, FactSet, etc.)
- Must be able to clearly state and defend the Analyst's investment thesis and outlook for each of the stocks under coverage.
- Respond to basic questions from institutional sales and clients regarding covered companies, and industry questions and data requests.
- Develop written product with modest direction from the senior level Research Analyst.
- Able to evaluate basic valuation methodologies to stocks under coverage and the broader sector.
- Meets the special projects demands of the senior level Research Analysts.
- Uses all resources to determine and locate relevant data.
- Continues to build industry knowledge.
- Continues to develop external sources (management teams, suppliers, and customers). Must be able to integrate these sources in the research product. Will be assigned a small client contact list and will be responsible for meeting the needs of those clients.
- Some travel by car and/or air in conjunction with local, regional and/or national travel, up to 20%.
- Inductive Reasoning - The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions.
- Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Judgment and Decision Making - Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Time Management - Managing one's own time and priorities to ensure the meeting of deadlines
- Oral and Written Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas in spoken or written form so that others will understand.
- Economics, Accounting, Finance, and Securities Analysis - Knowledge of economic, accounting, and financial principles and practices, the financial markets, the industry, the analysis and reporting of financial data, and associated terminology.
- Minimum Required: Bachelor's degree
- Minimum Required: 2 to 4 years of relevant industry experience and/or proven experience at the Associate I level
- Minimum Required: None
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook
Actual salaries may vary, and may be based on several factors, including but not limited to each candidate’s qualifications, skills, and overall competencies for the position. The base salary is one component of Stifel’s overall compensation package for each individual employee. Other benefits and offerings include, but not limited to, discretionary bonuses, health / dental / vision / prescription insurance offerings, Stifel Total Health Connect, flexible spending accounts, tuition & certification assistance programs, paid time off, and much, much more! To view a more comprehensive list of Stifel’s current offerings, please visit https://www.stifel.com/careers/benefits. Applications are accepted until the position is filled. About Stifel:
In June of 1962, Harry Keefe, Jr., Gene Bruyette, and Norbert Woods founded Keefe, Bruyette & Woods (KBW) along with five other employees and $50,000 in capital. Together, the founders launched KBW with a vision of the future and a belief in personal accountability during a time when investors purchased bank stocks for the dividend yield alone. Few banks published balance sheets or earnings statements, and research was nearly nonexistent. With the addition of sales, trading, and research operations, and a clear focus on regional banks, the company has branched out since its founding. KBW is now widely considered the leading expert on all financial sub-sectors.
KBW, the Force Driving Financial Services Forward
- #1 Best U.S. SMID Research for Banks
- #1 Best U.S. SMID Research for Non-Bank Financials
-
#1 Best U.S. Industry Trading for Financials
** 2024 Coalition Greenwich Survey Results**
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Entry Level Research Software Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get an entry level research software engineer job?
Entry level research software engineer roles favor candidates who can demonstrate applied skills through a GitHub portfolio, research publications, or internship projects. Employers at this stage look for proficiency in Python or C++, familiarity with machine learning or scientific computing libraries, and evidence of independent problem-solving. Contributing to open-source projects or completing a relevant research capstone can give a new candidate a real edge over applicants with similar academic backgrounds.
Which companies hire entry level research software engineers?
Companies hiring entry level research software engineers right now include OpenAI, Stifel, and TikTok, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. At this level, hiring comes from a range of employers including technology companies, university-affiliated research labs, national laboratories, and startups building AI or scientific computing products.
Are there remote entry level research software engineer jobs?
Yes, though on-site and hybrid roles are still common at this level, particularly at research institutions and labs. About 25% of entry level research software engineer openings are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, so candidates who need location flexibility have real options without limiting themselves to a single city or region.
Are these new grad research software engineer jobs?
Yes, these listings include new grad, recent graduate, and junior research software engineer roles. A posting is typically new-grad friendly when it welcomes zero to two years of experience, accepts internship or academic project work in place of professional experience, or explicitly invites applications from candidates with a strong portfolio rather than a long employment history.
Which industries hire the most entry level research software engineers?
Entry Level research software engineer roles concentrate in Technology & Software, Education, and Artificial Intelligence, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These sectors drive hiring at this level because they invest heavily in applied research and need engineers who can build, test, and iterate on experimental systems alongside domain scientists and senior researchers.