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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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2 months agoConvergent Research · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeScience & researchWe're a small organization with a lot to do. The postings above are one way to divide the work. If your skills and interests would cut it another way, or you think there’s something else we should be doing, tell us.
Research Administrator
2 months agoGrayMatter Robotics · Carson, California, United States
HybridFull-timeMid level$90K – $120K a yearScience & researchGrayMatter Robotics is a well-capitalized Physical AI company headquartered in Los Angeles, building Factory SuperIntelligence (FSI) through systems that learn, adapt, and develop genuine process intelligence across every part they touch. Our robots take on the tedious,…
Ramp · New York, United States +1
HybridFull-timeSenior$140K – $190K a yearScience & researchRamp Economics Lab is the go-to source for understanding how businesses spend on and adopt AI. Built on Ramp’s $200B+ business spend dataset, our flagship Ramp AI Index tracks the AI economy through actual business spend data. We help CFOs and finance teams understand what…
Research Program Manager
2 months agoOpenAI · San Francisco, California, United States
HybridFull-timeSenior$239K – $328K a yearScience & researchOpenAI’s Research Program Management team partners with researchers and engineers to advance the development of increasingly capable, safe, and beneficial AI systems. We work alongside teams developing our core models, helping turn ambitious research goals into coordinated…
Scientist III (CTS / RLF Expert - Ecologist)
2 months agoResource Environmental Solutions LLC · Sacramento, California, United States
Senior$82.6K – $101K a yearScience & researchYou’ll spend your time outdoors in the field, working in various habitats, and play an integral role in protecting and restoring streams, wetlands, and natural ecosystems.; You’ll lead, train, and mentor field teams, helping shape the next generation of restoration…
Research Associate II, DSP
2 months agoAntheia · Menlo Park, California, United States
Entry level$80K – $100K a yearScience & researchComply with safety protocols and ensure the safety of co-workers; Comply with Regulatory and DEA requirements when required for handling, disposal and documentation; Support project teams to deliver on project goals; Perform studies following experimental protocols; Run regular…
Iambic Therapeutics, Inc · San Diego, California, United States
Full-timeMid level$113.6K – $156K a yearScience & researchWe are seeking a highly motivated Research Scientist, Bioanalytical Sciences & Assay Development to join our drug discovery team. This scientist will develop and implement mass spectrometry-based assays and bioanalytical workflows supporting Hit Identification (HitID),…
California State University · Los Angeles, California, United States
ContractEntry level$3,408.00 – $6,072.00 a monthScience & researchThe Department of Geography, Geology, and Environment seeks graduate students as applicants for Graduate Assistant to assist faculty in the instruction of geography or geology classes.
Research Scientist
2 months agoPluralis Research · San Francisco, California, United States +1
RemoteFull-timeScience & researchSolve the open problems: Identify the questions that block Protocol Learning at scale. communication efficiency, convergence under churn and staleness, heterogeneity, robustness to malicious participants.; Publish in Tier-1 venues: The problems are hard and largely unclaimed.…
Medra · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeEntry level$85K – $110K a yearScience & researchWe are looking for a Research Associate to help build and run protein production and quality control on the Medra Physical AI platform. Working alongside our scientists, you will execute the workflow that takes antibodies and alternative binders from cells to purified,…
Lab Operations Specialist
2 months agoDexmate · Fremont, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeMid levelScience & researchYou'll build and run the physical operations layer of the company: how material comes in, how it gets tracked, how it reaches the engineer who needs it, and how finished robots get out the door and to a customer in one piece. Today that means inventing the system. Later it…
Member of Technical Staff
2 months agoBuild AI · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeLead / staffFrom $2,000.00 a monthScience & researchWe’re hiring Members of Technical Staff — the general research/engineering seat. If you have a seriously compelling research bet you want to run on physical-labor, video, or world-model data, you might as well do it at Build. We have the dataset, we are scaling it by orders of…
Member of Technical Staff, Evals Lead
2 months agoBuild AI · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeLead / staffFrom $2,000.00 a monthScience & researchWe’re hiring an Evals Lead to benchmark video and world-model capabilities with and without our data. You need to deeply understand the philosophy of evals: what an eval is allowed to claim, contamination, leakage, construct validity, and whether a number actually corresponds…
Waymo · Mountain View, California, United States +3
HybridMid level$204K – $259K a yearScience & researchWaymo 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…
San Francisco Tensor Company · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeLead / staff$275K – $315K a yearScience & researchWe build the fastest GPU compiler in the world. Most compilers have to preserve correctness at every transform, constraining how far they can search, while we prove correctness at the end instead, allowing us to search a far wider space, with agents, with RL, with anything that…
Member of Technical Staff, AI-Driven Compilation
2 months agoSan Francisco Tensor Company · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeLead / staff$275K – $315K a yearScience & researchWe build the fastest GPU compiler in the world. Most compilers have to preserve correctness at every transform, constraining how far they can search, while we prove correctness at the end instead, allowing us to search a far wider space, with agents, with RL, with anything that…
Arc Institute · Palo Alto, California, United States
TemporarySenior$84.3K – $106K a yearScience & researchJoin Arc's Alzheimer's Disease Initiative as the production engine behind a first-of-its-kind 3D brain-model screening program, where the cells you make drive disease-target discovery.
In Vivo Research Associate II, Konermann Lab
2 months agoArc Institute · Palo Alto, California, United States
Entry levelFrom $75.9K a yearScience & researchWe are seeking an In Vivo Research Associate II to join the Konermann Laboratory at the Arc Institute.You will collaborate closely with experienced scientists to advance in vivo projects focused on understanding brain development.
AI Research
2 months agoVetto AI · LDN +2
RemoteScience & researchVetto builds the infrastructure for next-generation AI training data. We partner with the world’s top AI labs to push the frontier of what models can do — by designing, collecting, and delivering the highest-quality training data for the hardest problems in AI.
Sr. Staff Scientist - Protein Sciences R&D
2 months agoTwist Bioscience · South San Francisco, California, United States
Senior$180K – $232K a yearScience & researchTwist is searching for an exceptional R&D scientist with experience in cell biology and protein expression and purification, with an emphasis on antibodies, to lead and enhance our protein sciences capabilities.
Updated 07 Nov 2026 10:21 UTC from the OptiTalent job library.