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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

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  • Staging Specialist

    6 months ago

    Figure · San Jose, California, United States

    ContractEntry levelFrom $32.00 an hourData & AI

    Travel to offsite data collection locations (75%+ travel required); Set up and configure collection home environments, including furniture arrangement, prop placement, and scene staging; Ensure environments meet specifications for optimal data collection quality; Coordinate…

  • Articul8 · Dublin, California, United States

    On-siteFull-timeLead / staffData & AI

    Articul8 AI is seeking a Principal Research Scientist to define how we build, evaluate, and scale domain-specific models as a durable source of competitive advantage. You will lead research across the full model development lifecycle: domain data strategy, continued…

  • Articul8 · Dublin, California, United States

    Full-timeLead / staffData & AI

    Articul8 AI is seeking a Staff Applied AI Researcher to define how our platform reasons at runtime and how autonomous systems make trustworthy decisions in production. You will lead research across the core runtime intelligence capabilities behind ModelMesh(TM): task…

  • Zoox · Foster City, California, United States

    HybridFull-timeLead / staff$215K – $294K a yearData & AI

    Own and lead integration strategy and execution across hosted services, shared libraries, standardized tool protocols (e.g., JSON-RPC over HTTP), REST APIs, and diverse callers (vendor agents, consoles, automation workers).; Drive cross-functional delivery with backend API…

  • Articul8 · Dublin, California, United States

    On-siteFull-timeSeniorData & AI

    Articul8 AI is seeking a Senior Applied AI Researcher to solve open research problems across our domain-specific GenAI platform. You will own research projects end-to-end — from problem formulation through production deployment. This role spans model training, reinforcement…

  • Calico · South San Francisco, California, United States

    Lead / staff$220K – $290K a yearData & AI

    Calico seeks Machine Learning Research Engineers to join our rapidly growing ML team. You will play a critical role establishing the engineering culture for frontier ML research in drug discovery. You will bring a high level of engineering rigor to our machine learning efforts…

  • Articul8 · Dublin, California, United States

    Full-timeMid levelData & AI

    Articul8 AI is seeking an Applied AI Researcher to advance our domain-specific GenAI platform. You will design and run experiments, build training and evaluation pipelines, and ship research into production. This role spans model training, reinforcement learning, multimodal…

  • Preference Model · San Francisco, California, United States

    On-siteFull-timeLead / staff$165K – $200K a yearData & AI

    We’re hiring new graduate Machine Learning Engineers to design and build reinforcement learning environments to safely advance model capabilities in machine learning research and engineering. Specifically, you'll be teaching frontier models to do the work of an ML engineer or…

  • Xaira Therapeutics · South San Francisco, California, United States

    $252K – $308K a yearData & AI

    We are building foundation models for biological systems, focusing on learning from complex, multimodal data. Our approach combines representation learning and generative modeling to capture structure, variation, and latent organization in high-dimensional settings. We work…

  • Bedrock Robotics Inc · San Francisco, California, United States

    HybridFull-timeSeniorData & AI

    At Bedrock, we're moving AI out of the lab and onto real job sites. Our team includes veterans who helped launch Waymo, scaled Segment to a $3.2B acquisition, and grew Uber Freight to $5B in revenue. We retrofit the heavy equipment contractors already own, starting with…

  • Calico · South San Francisco, California, United States

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

    Design and train deep learning models for biological sequence analysis, with emphasis on gene regulation, single-cell genomics, and variant interpretation; Partner with experimental scientists to connect model predictions to biological mechanisms — designing validation…

  • Data Scientist

    6 months ago

    Middesk · San Francisco, California, United States +1

    HybridFull-timeSenior$175K – $210K a yearData & AI

    We’re building AI-driven applications that simplify customer workflows, starting with business onboarding. With our proprietary identity data and deep domain expertise, we’re in a strong position to expand into a broader set of intelligent, risk-aware products.

  • StackAI · San Francisco, California, United States +1

    HybridFull-timeMid level$153K – $200K a yearData & AI

    StackAI (by Asana) is a no-code AI workflow platform that empowers companies to build, deploy, and scale AI-powered workflows easily. With thousands of users and rapidly growing enterprise adoption, our mission is to democratize access to LLMs and bring AI into the hands of…

  • Character.AI · Redwood City, California, United States +1

    HybridFull-timeLead / staff$250K – $300K a yearData & AI

    Character.AI is building the future of open-ended interactions between people and intelligent agents. As our platform scales, so does the opportunity to build sustainable, user-aligned monetization through subscriptions, advertising, and virtual currency economies.

  • Gusto, Inc. · Denver, Colorado, United States +2

    HybridManager$185K – $217K a yearData & AI

    Gusto is looking for an experienced, hands-on people manager to lead a data science and analytics team supporting Growth product initiatives. This role sits at the heart of how we use data — and increasingly AI — to understand, shape, and scale Gusto's products. You’ll both…

  • Eventual · San Francisco, California, United States

    Full-time$150K – $300K a yearData & AI

    As a Research Engineer on the Visual Understanding team, you'll own the layer that makes petabytes of video queryable by content. Physical AI teams have video, lidar, radar, and sim outputs scattered across object stores with no way to find what they need without weeks of human…

  • Atoms · Mountain View, California, United States

    Senior$190K – $250K a yearData & AI

    Medical, dental, and vision insurance (multiple plans, incl. HSA options).; Company-paid life and disability insurance (short- and long-term).; Voluntary insurance: accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity.; Optional supplemental life insurance for self, spouse, and…

  • Coupang · Mountain View, California, United States

    Lead / staffFrom $171K a yearData & AI

    We are looking for a Sr. Staff ll, AI Native, AI First Engineer to pioneer and architect entirely new applications where Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) serve as the fundamental core intelligence.

  • 42dot · San Francisco, California, United States

    HybridFull-timeSenior$133K – $254K a yearData & AI

    Set technical strategy and oversee development of high scale, reliable data platform to manage, visualize and serve large-scale datasets for ML model training and validation.; Build up the data lakehouse for autonomous driving scene datasets, including the sensor data,…

  • 42dot · San Francisco, California, United States

    HybridFull-timeSenior$133K – $254K a yearData & AI

    Develop high scale, reliable data extraction pipeline to extract millions of raw data from data collection fleet and convert to high-value scene data; Develop data labeling pipelines to perform the auto labeling inferences for autonomous driving algorithms; Develop advanced…

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