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Science jobs in California, United States
886 open roles read nightly from companies’ own hiring pages. Each one links to the original ad.
Science jobs in California at a glance
- Open roles
- 886
- Remote
- 7%
- Posted in the last 30 days
- 235
- Advertised pay, middle half
- $126K – $300Kmedian $190K
From the 708 science jobs here that state yearly pay in USD: the top of each advertised range. Updated nightly.
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Scientist, Organic Chemistry
2 months agoCapable Labs · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeFrom $500.00 a monthScience & researchYou will synthesize, purify, and characterize compounds for Capable’s small-molecule and adjacent therapeutic programs. You will own defined chemistry from route planning through material ready for biological testing, troubleshoot reactions and instruments, and contribute…
Senior Computational Scientist
2 months agoTwist Bioscience · South San Francisco, California, United States
Senior$150.7K – $180.8K a yearScience & researchTwist is seeking a Senior or Staff Computational Scientist to develop AI and computational solutions for protein design, discovery, and characterization.
Capable Labs · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeFrom $500.00 a monthScience & researchYou will originate and lead new therapeutic programs from scientific concept through early validation. You will identify ambitious opportunities, turn them into testable programs with clear targets, modalities, assays, biomarkers, budgets, timelines, and kill criteria, and stay…
(Senior / Principal) Scientist, RNA Therapeutics
2 months agoCapable Labs · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeFrom $500.00 a monthScience & researchYou will lead RNA-therapeutics programs from target biology and oligonucleotide design through chemistry selection, assay strategy, quality control, and in vivo validation. You will build coherent programs—not isolated sequences—by connecting mechanism, tissue, potency,…
In Vivo Research Technician (Night Shift)
2 months agoCapable Labs · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeFrom $500.00 a monthScience & researchYou will support mouse studies and vivarium operations on a dedicated night-shift schedule, enabling overnight timepoints and around-the-clock study execution. You will perform careful animal work, collect and preserve samples for the day team, monitor animal welfare, and leave…
In Vivo Research Technician
2 months agoCapable Labs · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeFrom $500.00 a monthScience & researchYou will support the day-to-day execution of mouse studies used to evaluate potential therapies for safety and effectiveness. You will perform careful animal work, maintain a clean and reliable vivarium, collect and organize study samples and records, and help the in vivo team…
Scientist, Peptide Chemistry (Night Shift)
2 months agoCapable Labs · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeFrom $500.00 a monthScience & researchYou will run peptide-synthesis workflows on a dedicated night-shift schedule so compounds are ready for characterization, biological testing, or handoff the next day. You will own careful overnight execution, troubleshoot issues independently, maintain complete records, and…
Capable Labs · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeFrom $500.00 a monthScience & researchYou will lead peptide design and synthesis from sequence selection through production, purification, quality control, and biological handoff. You will own difficult chemistry and analytical problems, scale reliable workflows, and use SAR and biological results to help decide…
Capable Labs · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeFrom $500.00 a monthScience & researchYou will lead peptide-chemistry execution on a dedicated night-shift schedule, keeping synthesis, purification, characterization, and biological handoffs moving around the clock. You will make sound technical decisions independently, solve difficult chemistry and instrument…
Scientist, Peptide Chemistry
2 months agoCapable Labs · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeFrom $500.00 a monthScience & researchYou will make and characterize peptide candidates that move directly into biological testing. You will execute the full synthesis workflow—from resin loading through purification, quality control, and sample handoff—while troubleshooting failures and contributing observations…
Alector · South San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeSenior$125K – $140K a yearScience & researchOur mission is to develop therapies that empower the immune system to combat neurodegeneration and our team is focused on developing treatments for some of the most challenging diseases facing our society. By harnessing advancements in genetics, immunology and neuroscience, we…
Product Researcher - Insurance
2 months agoMatter Intelligence · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeScience & researchInsurance is one of Matter’s first commercial verticals. We are working with leading property and casualty carriers to transform how they operate with data products that reveal real roof condition, material degradation, and hazard exposure at scale. We are looking for a Product…
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…
Research Manager, Biological Safety
2 months agoAnthropic · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteManager$405K – $485K a yearScience & researchAnthropic's Safeguards organization builds the policies, evaluations, and enforcement systems that keep our models from contributing to catastrophic harm. We are hiring a manager to lead the research engineering team responsible for biological safety: the evaluations, datasets,…
Scientist, Cheminformatics
2 months agoOctant Bio · Emeryville, California, United States
Mid level$150K – $190K a yearScience & researchWe are seeking a scientist with cheminformatics expertise to join our dynamic and multidisciplinary research team. A core focus of your role will be to guide assay development and evaluate the resulting data using chemical reasoning, expanding the capabilities of the Octant…
Researcher, Alignment Interpretability
2 months agoOpenAI · San Francisco, California, United States
Full-timeMid level$295K – $500K a yearScience & researchThe Interpretability team studies internal representations of deep learning models. We are interested in using representations to understand model behavior, and in engineering models to have more understandable representations. We are particularly interested in applying our…
Head of Research
2 months agoAmbral · New York, United States +1
On-siteFull-timeDirector$250K – $400K a yearScience & researchAmbral Labs helps enterprises own the intelligence behind their most important workflows.
Staff Applied Scientist
2 months agoBraze · San Francisco, California, United States
Lead / staff$184K – $299.8K a yearScience & researchBraze is seeking a Staff Applied Scientist to join our Predictive and Generative AI (PGAI) team. The team's mission is to deliver a truly engaging and personalized customer experience through the creation of ML and AI enhanced marketing solutions. We own those solutions end to…
Research Scientist (Control)
2 months agoApollo Research · London, England, United Kingdom +1
On-siteFull-timeMid level$204K – $385K a yearScience & researchJoin our new AGI safety product team and help transform AI control research into practical tools that directly reduce risks from AI. As an Research Scientist (Control), you’ll work closely with Marius (CEO & currently leads the monitoring efforts), other control researchers and…
Senior Laboratory Director, Oncology
2 months agoBillionToOne · Menlo Park, California, United States
Full-timeDirector$250.2K – $272K a yearScience & researchJoin a team of brilliant, passionate innovators determined to transform healthcare. At BillionToOne, we've built a category-defining, publicly traded company on Nasdaq where transparency fuels trust, collaboration drives breakthroughs, and every contribution moves the needle on…
Updated 07 Nov 2026 10:21 UTC from the OptiTalent job library.