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Science jobs in San Mateo, United States
12 open roles read nightly from companies’ own hiring pages. Each one links to the original ad.
Science jobs in San Mateo at a glance
- Open roles
- 12
- Remote
- 8%
- Posted in the last 30 days
- 2
- Advertised pay, middle half
- $217K – $330Kmedian $300K
From the 11 science jobs here that state yearly pay in USD: the top of each advertised range. Updated nightly.
Hiring most here
- Generalist 4
- InMobi 2
- DatologyAI 2
- XDOF 1
- Skild AI 1
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1–12 of 12 jobs
Applied Scientist
9 days agoGeneralist · San Mateo, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeScience & researchApplied Scientists own the mastery of new frontier model capabilities. This includes developing post-training recipes for learning a wide range of dexterous tasks — from pushing the frontiers of science lab automation, to generalizing manufacturing and warehouse logistics, to…
XDOF · San Mateo, California, United States
HybridFull-timeLead / staff$200K – $330K a yearScience & researchDevelop and evaluate representations that bridge visual perception, language, and low-level robot action conditioned on different modalities Collaborate directly with partner labs to define data requirements and close the loop between data quality and downstream policy…
Research Scientist, Post-Training
4 weeks agoDatologyAI · San Mateo, California, United States
HybridFull-timeMid level$180K – $300K a yearScience & researchModels 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.
Khan Academy · San Mateo, California, United States +1
RemoteTemporarySenior$137.9K – $155.1K a yearScience & researchKhan Academy Kids is looking for a Senior Efficacy Research and Psychometrics Analyst (24 months fixed-term) to strengthen the evidence base behind our assessments and learning content for children in PreK through 2nd grade.
Applied Scientist – User Intelligence
7 weeks agoInMobi · San Mateo, California, United States
Full-time$182.3K – $218.5K a yearScience & researchWe are looking for an Applied Scientist to develop and improve our user personalization intelligence through architectural and data research aimed at optimizing the efficacy of our targeting and pricing systems. More specifically, our team is exploring state-of-the-art…
Research Scientist: Post-Training
2 months agoGeneralist · San Mateo, California, United States
On-siteFull-time$240K – $350K a yearScience & researchPretraining gives us a general model. Post-training makes it useful, controllable, safe, and performant in the real world. You will train large pretrained robot models into production-ready systems via fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, steering, human feedback, task…
Member of Technical Staff, Research
3 months agoFireworks · San Mateo, California, United States +1
HybridFull-timeLead / staff$210K – $320K a yearScience & researchAs a Member of Technical Staff on the Research team, you’ll push the boundaries of generative AI, advancing LLMs and multimodal systems through foundational research. Your work will enhance model efficiency, accuracy, and scalability, directly shaping our high-performance AI…
Research Assistant
4 months agoGeneralist · San Mateo, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeEntry level$150K – $200K a yearScience & researchWe are looking for a Research Assistant to help design, run, and analyze experiments at the intersection of machine learning and robotics. This is an entry-level research role for individuals with less than 3 years of machine learning research experience, and is designed to be…
Research Scientist
6 months agoDatologyAI · San Mateo, California, United States +1
HybridFull-timeMid level$180K – $300K a yearScience & researchModels 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.
Research Scientist: Pretraining
8 months agoGeneralist · San Mateo, California, United States
On-siteFull-time$240K – $350K a yearScience & researchYou will build the base intelligence layer for robotics. We train large-scale robot foundation models from massive multimodal datasets spanning video, proprioception, action traces, language, and more. You will design and run the core large-scale training efforts that give our…
Applied Scientist III
13 months agoInMobi · San Mateo, California, United States
Full-timeSenior$148.2K – $216.5K a yearScience & researchWe are looking for an Applied Scientist III to join our algorithmic and research science team. You’ll work on mathematically rigorous, research-driven problems at production scale. This role sits at the intersection of theory and application, designing algorithms that combine…
Research Scientist
25 months agoSkild AI · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States +1
$100K – $300K a yearScience & researchAt Skild AI, we are building the world's first general purpose robotic intelligence that is robust and adapts to unseen scenarios without failing. We believe massive scale through data-driven machine learning is the key to unlocking these capabilities for the widespread…
Updated 07 Nov 2026 10:21 UTC from the OptiTalent job library.