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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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1,741–1,760 of 2,472 jobs
Applied AI Engineer, Startups
5 months agoOpenAI · San Francisco, California, United States +1
HybridFull-timeSenior$211K – $278K a yearData & AIThe Applied AI Engineering team is responsible for ensuring the safe and effective deployment of Generative AI applications for developers and startups. We act as a trusted advisor and thought partner for our customers, working to build an effective backlog of GenAI use cases…
Senior Analyst, Growth Analytics
5 months agoOmnicom Media · Los Angeles, California, United States +1
Senior$75K – $85K a yearData & AIWe believe in the power of media to reshape our industry and orchestrate a brand’s entire consumer experience, by balancing both what unites people and what makes them different. When brands unite people in culture, they build Fame, and when brands connect individuals to their…
Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Consumer
5 months agoDoorDash USA · San Francisco, California, United States +2
Full-timeLead / staff$282.1K – $414.8K a yearData & AIThe Consumer Engineering Team is responsible for helping consumers discover and order everything they love globally. Our work spans the entire consumer journey across homepage, search, store discovery, item exploration, checkout and post checkout. We aim to craft a…
Data Scientist, GTM
5 months agoAnthropic · New York, United States +1
On-site$285K – $380K a yearData & AIAs part of our growing Data Science & Analytics team, you will play an instrumental role in Anthropic's mission of building safe and beneficial AI — this time by driving data-informed decisions across the commercial customer lifecycle. This role sits at the intersection of…
Principal AI Engineer, Special Programs
5 months agoSpaceX · Palo Alto, California, United States
Full-timeLead / staff$220K – $350K a yearData & AIDesign, build, and optimize integrations between AI frontier models (e.g., Grok family) and government systems, platforms, and data environments; Collaborate on custom SDKs, APIs, developer tools, and documentation tailored for government and enterprise developers; Partner with…
Senior Staff AI Builder
5 months agoArtera · Seattle, Washington, United States +3
On-siteFull-timeLead / staff$207K – $300K a yearData & AIArtera is hiring a Senior Staff AI Builder to help define what comes next for our agentic platform. You'll be the recognized AI-native expert whose influence compounds across squads — a senior IC who turns ambitious AI strategy into the production systems our customers count on…
Waymo · Mountain View, California, United States +1
HybridDirector$272K – $336K a yearData & AIWaymo 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…
Staff ML Systems Engineer, Distributed Systems
5 months agoFieldAI · Seattle, Washington, United States +1
On-siteFull-timeLead / staff$195K – $230K a yearData & AIFieldAI’s Irvine team is where embodied AI meets real robots, real sensors, and real field deployments. Based in the heart of Southern California’s robotics ecosystem, we build risk-aware, reliable, field-ready AI systems that solve the hardest problems in robotics and unlock…
Sr. Machine Learning Engineer, Anonymization
5 months agoMercor · San Francisco, California, United States +1
On-siteFull-timeSenior$180K – $500K a yearData & AIFrontier AI companies are increasingly bottlenecked on expert judgment — capturing it reliably, validating it at scale, and turning it into durable model behavior. This role sits at the center of that problem.
RE/RS, Data Understanding (MM)
5 months agoOpenAI · San Francisco, California, United States
HybridFull-time$380K – $500K a yearData & AIThe Data Understanding team is responsible for creating the high quality datasets and their quantized representation for OpenAI. This includes synthesizing multimodal data, building VQ representations, and processing, filtering, deduplication, quality control, and tokenization…
Software Engineer, ML Inference Optimization
5 months agoZoox · Foster City, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeMid level$177K – $270K a yearData & AIAre you excited to drive our ML Inference Optimization initiatives and make our ML models that enable autonomous driving as fast and efficient as possible? You will get to work with SOTA accelerators, cutting-edge techniques in distributed training, quantization, distillation,…
Helix AI Engineer, Backend
5 months agoFigure · San Jose, California, United States
Senior$200K – $400K a yearData & AIDesign and build the core auth and identity service, including KYC integration.; Build payments and billing infrastructure: payouts, transactions, disputes, and reconciliation.; Own the media ingestion and delivery pipeline for high-volume data ingestion.; Own the cloud…
Head of Finance Systems & Data
5 months agoFaire · New York, United States +1
Full-timeDirector$236K – $324.5K a yearData & AIWe are looking for an experienced and versatile leader to lead Finance Systems & Data at Faire. The right candidate will combine deep technical fluency across finance systems with a track record of driving modernization and AI adoption in finance contexts. You will be central…
Senior Technical Recruiter, AI/ML Research
5 months agoTogether AI · San Francisco, California, United States
Senior$165K – $210K a yearData & AITogether AI is building the AI Native Cloud — an end-to-end platform for generative AI lifecycle, integrating fast, reliable inference, and model-shaping services with cutting-edge AI cloud infrastructure. We are looking for a seasoned Senior Technical Recruiter to partner…
AI/ML Engineer
5 months agoEllo · San Francisco, California, United States
Full-timeMid level$165K – $230K a yearData & AIWe’re looking for an AI/ML Engineer to join our product engineering and applied research team. Our team operates at the intersection of research and production, solving open-ended problems while delivering real-world products. We use the best tool for the job, whether that’s a…
Applied AI Engineer
5 months agoSlash Financial · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-time$250K – $350K a yearData & AISlash is building an AI-native financial platform, and we're forming Slash AI Labs, a small, high-leverage team responsible for bringing AI deeply into every surface of the product. We've already shipped Twin, our agent platform powered by a custom orchestration runtime,…
Forward Deployed AI Engineer (Post-Sales)
5 months agoDatologyAI · San Mateo, California, United States
HybridFull-timeSenior$230K – $300K a yearData & AIModels are what they eat. But a large portion of training compute is wasted training on data that are already learned, irrelevant, or even harmful, leading to worse models that cost more to train and deploy.
AI Engineer, Agent Platform
5 months agoNewsBreak · Mountain View, California, United States
$120K – $220K a yearData & AIWe're building the agent platform that powers NewsBreak's next-generation AI products — from local-news synthesis agents that millions of Americans wake up to, to paid-growth agents that autonomously decide what to advertise and where. One platform, several agentic products,…
Senior Data Scientist
5 months agoDatabricks · Mountain View, California, United States +1
Senior$123.2K – $218K a yearData & AIAt Databricks, we are obsessed with enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems, from security threat detection to cancer drug development. We do this by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform, so our customers can focus on the…
Staff AI Engineer
5 months agoStrava · San Francisco, California, United States
HybridFull-timeLead / staff$260K – $280K a yearData & AIBuild for a Well Loved Consumer Product: Work at the intersection of AI and fitness to launch and optimize product experiences that will be used by tens of millions of active people worldwide.; Build the GenAI + Discovery Platform: Set the vision, Design and the shared genAI…
Updated 07 Nov 2026 10:21 UTC from the OptiTalent job library.