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Data jobs in California, United States

2,472 open roles read nightly from companies’ own hiring pages. Each one links to the original ad.

Data jobs in California at a glance

Open roles
2,472
Remote
10%
Posted in the last 30 days
519
Advertised pay, middle half
$200K – $310Kmedian $250K

From the 2,064 data jobs here that state yearly pay in USD: the top of each advertised range. Updated nightly.

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  • Scale AI · San Francisco, California, United States +2

    $189.6K – $237K a yearData & AI

    Scale’s ML platform (RLXF) team builds our internal distributed framework for large language model training and inference. The platform has been powering MLEs, researchers, data scientists and operators for fast and automatic training and evaluation of LLM's, as well as…

  • Enigma · New York, United States +1

    Mid level$160K – $210K a yearData & AI

    This is a critical and exciting time at Enigma. We are hearing from repeated customers that our product is creating tremendous value for them and is aligned perfectly with their needs. This creates an urgent need to showcase the power of our small business data as we scale our…

  • Waymo · Mountain View, California, United States

    Lead / staff$251K – $310K a yearData & AI

    Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to…

  • Swan · San Francisco, California, United States

    On-siteFull-timeSeniorData & AI

    We are seeking an expert Machine Learning Engineer with deep experience in computer vision, model optimization, and deployment on low-cost embedded systems. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in designing, training, and optimizing deep learning models for…

  • Applied Intuition · Sunnyvale, California, United States

    On-siteFull-timeMid level$216.8K – $318K a yearData & AI

    We are looking for a software engineer with deep experience in optimizing ML models and deploying them on production-grade embedded runtime environments. You’ll work across the entire ML framework stack (e.g. PyTorch, JAX, ONNX, TensorRT, CUDA, XLA, Triton).

  • AI/ML Engineer

    20 months ago

    Air Apps · San Francisco, California, United States

    On-siteFull-timeMid level$100K – $187K a yearData & AI

    As an AI/ML Engineer, you will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and optimizing machine learning models to power our mobile applications. You will work closely with product managers, engineers, and designers to create intelligent, data-driven features that enhance…

  • Dexmate · Fremont, California, United States

    On-siteFull-timeMid level$120K – $300K a yearData & AI

    We are looking for Research Scientists to lead research that makes robots more capable and dexterous. You will develop new learning methods across reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and foundation models, run large-scale training, and take your work from simulation to…

  • Anduril Industries · Costa Mesa, California, United States

    Full-timeLead / staff$146K – $183K a yearData & AI

    Anduril Expeditionary Systems (AES) is building AI Factories and Command/Control centers—specialized, high-performance computing centers designed to process petabyte-scale data and convert it into decisions at machine speed from forward operating bases. These are not…

  • Databricks · Bellevue, Washington, United States +2

    Lead / staffData & AI

    The Backline Engineering Team serves as the critical bridge between Frontline Support and Engineering. We handle complex technical issues and escalations across the Data and AI ecosystem.

  • Scale AI · San Francisco, California, United States +2

    $165.6K – $207K a yearData & AI

    Scale works with the industry’s leading AI labs to provide high quality data and accelerate progress in GenAI research. We are looking for Research Scientists and Research Engineers with expertise in LLM post-training (SFT, RLHF, reward modeling). This role will focus on…

  • Lucid Motors · Newark, California, United States

    Lead / staff$180.9K – $265.3K a yearData & AI

    The GeoAI team is building next-generation AI-powered data automation platforms for ADAS and autonomous driving. We are seeking a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to provide technical leadership and architect scalable auto-labeling technologies that transform fleet-collected…

  • Waymo · Mountain View, California, United States

    HybridSenior$213K – $263K a yearData & AI

    Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to…

  • ZipRecruiter · Santa Monica, California, United States

    RemoteSenior$170K – $240K a yearData & AI

    Build data processing and exploration pipelines along with ML infrastructure to power our intelligence; Deploy a range of cloud-based technologies for critical projects; Write, test, instrument, and deploy code to our Kubernetes environment; Help drive the innovation and…

  • XPENG · Santa Clara, California, United States

    Senior$174.7K – $295.7K a yearData & AI

    Design and implement large-scale multi-modal architectures (e.g., vision–language–action transformers) for end-to-end autonomous driving.; Develop pretraining and fine-tuning strategies leveraging massive labeled and unlabeled fleet data (images, video, LiDAR, CAN bus, maps,…

  • XPENG · Santa Clara, California, United States

    Lead / staff$215.3K – $364.3K a yearData & AI

    Design and implement large-scale multi-modal architectures (e.g., vision–language–action transformers) for end-to-end autonomous driving.; Develop pretraining and fine-tuning strategies leveraging massive labeled and unlabeled fleet data (images, video, LiDAR, CAN bus, maps,…

  • Nuro · Mountain View, California, United States

    Full-timeSenior$193.9K – $291.2K a yearData & AI

    Our team is growing and we are looking for experienced machine learning researchers and engineers to join us. In this role, you will apply your expertise in machine learning to solve an array of challenges in Nuro's autonomy stack — detection with sensor fusion, tracking, fine…

  • AI Engineer

    22 months ago

    Collate · San Francisco, California, United States

    On-siteData & AI

    Collate is an AI document generation platform for life sciences. We automate paperwork with AI, helping our customers get life-saving innovations to patients years faster. Collate is an end-to-end solution, powering every step of drug, diagnostic, and medical device…

  • Anthropic · New York, United States +2

    HybridLead / staff$240K – $315K a yearData & AI

    As an Applied AI team member at Anthropic, you will be a Pre-Sales architect focused on becoming a trusted technical advisor helping large enterprises understand the value of Claude and paint the vision on how they can successfully integrate and deploy Claude into their…

  • Elicit · Oakland, California, United States

    RemoteContract$12K – $15K a monthData & AI

    Elicit is building a research agent that can use an unlimited amount of test-time compute while keeping its reasoning transparent and verifiable.

  • TSMG · San Francisco, California, United States

    HybridContractData & AI

    Pilot drones equipped with high-resolution cameras, LiDAR, thermal imaging, and other sensors to collect diverse datasets used for training AI algorithms, particularly for autonomous navigation, computer vision, and sensor fusion.; Capture data in various real-world conditions…

Updated 07 Nov 2026 10:21 UTC from the OptiTalent job library.