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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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Research Dermatologist / Principal Investigator
2 months agoPlatinum Dermatology Partners - Physicians · Chula Vista, California, United States
Lead / staff$400K – $500K a yearScience & researchChula Vista means “beautiful view” and there is more to see and do here than you can imagine! Great year-round weather, miles of trails, coastline, mountains, and open space beckon runners, hikers, cyclists, birders, and outdoors enthusiasts from the bay to the lakes. Visit the…
Research, Safety
2 months agoThinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-time$350K – $475K a yearScience & researchAs a safety researcher, you'll work toward ensuring our models are safe and trustworthy. The role sits at the intersection of research and hands-on technical work. A central question is how models come to handle harmful or dual-use requests: what they learn from data, how…
Research Scientist, Reinforcement Learning
2 months agoPramaana Labs · Palo Alto, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeScience & researchWe're training foundation models to natively interact with symbolic world models. As an RL Post-Training Researcher, you'll take foundation models and scale their reasoning capabilities: applying RLVR to new domains using verified rewards from the Lean kernel, pushing the…
Senior Director, Disease Biology
2 months agoArc Institute · Palo Alto, California, United States
Director$263.5K – $325.5K a yearScience & researchArc is seeking an experienced Senior Director of Disease Biology to lead target discovery through preclinical development for the Alzheimer's Disease Initiative (ADI). The core of the role is building a new team and the workflows that carry validated targets through hit to lead…
California State University · San Marcos, California, United States
HybridFull-timeEntry level$6,031.00 – $6,400.00 a monthScience & researchGrants and Contracts Development is the central office responsible for supporting faculty and staff principal investigators/project directors to submit proposals to external sponsors, particularly federal, state and local agencies. The Pre-Award Specialist facilitates the…
Research Staff, LLMs
2 months agoDeepgram · United States +2
RemoteFull-timeLead / staff$150K – $250K a yearScience & researchDeepgram is the leading platform underpinning the emerging trillion-dollar Voice AI economy, providing real-time APIs for speech-to-text (STT), text-to-speech (TTS), and building production-grade voice agents at scale. More than 200,000 developers and 1,300+ organizations build…
Research Staff, Voice AI Foundations
2 months agoDeepgram · United States +2
RemoteFull-timeLead / staff$150K – $250K a yearScience & researchDeepgram is the leading platform underpinning the emerging trillion-dollar Voice AI economy, providing real-time APIs for speech-to-text (STT), text-to-speech (TTS), and building production-grade voice agents at scale. More than 200,000 developers and 1,300+ organizations build…
Personalis, Inc · Fremont, California, United States
Senior$85K – $115K a yearScience & researchIn this role, you will collaborate with a multidisciplinary R&D team of scientists, assay developers, and clinicians to plan, execute, and analyze cutting-edge oncology solutions. You will provide hands-on NGS equipment operation and library preparation using real-world samples…
Research Scientist - Humanoid Robotics
2 months agoApplied Intuition · Sunnyvale, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeEntry level$250K – $423K a yearScience & researchWe are looking for a founding senior Research Scientist with a TL growth path within the Research Group at Applied Intuition. Robotics is a core vertical of our physical AI platform alongside autonomous vehicles — early stage, but with the full backing, resources, and…
Director of Research, Text-to-Speech
2 months agoDeepgram · United States +2
RemoteFull-timeDirector$234K – $361K a yearScience & researchDeepgram is the leading platform underpinning the emerging trillion-dollar Voice AI economy, providing real-time APIs for speech-to-text (STT), text-to-speech (TTS), and building production-grade voice agents at scale. More than 200,000 developers and 1,300+ organizations build…
Research, RL Scaling
2 months agoThinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-time$350K – $475K a yearScience & researchOur team scales reinforcement learning for frontier models. Progress in RL is increasingly set by how well it scales: more rollouts, larger models, and training loops that keep large fleets of accelerators doing useful work. We are particularly interested in people working on…
Research Scientist
2 months agoTessera Labs · San Jose, California, United States
Full-time$200K – $300K a yearScience & researchWe're looking for a Research Scientist to set and pursue a research agenda for reliable long-horizon agents operating inside real enterprises.
Microbiology Lab Manager
2 months agoCertified Group · Burbank, California, United States
$100K – $135K a yearScience & researchThe Microbiology Laboratory Manager is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Burbank Microbiology laboratory, ensuring accurate, compliant, and timely testing for the local and national customer base. Burbank is a GMP-registered facility supporting microbiological…
AI Research Resident
2 months agoNormal Computing Corporation · New York, United States +3
On-siteFull-time$150K a yearScience & researchDevelop recursive self-improvement strategies. Design and test strategies where AI systems improve the tools, workflows, and hardware used to build the next generation of AI systems, closing the loop between design tools, silicon, and the models that run on it.; Apply AI to…
Computational Physicist
2 months agoFuse · San Leandro, California, United States
RemoteFull-time$150K – $200K a yearScience & researchAs a Computational Physicist at Fuse, you'll develop the models and simulations that explore how our pulsed-power systems actually behave — turning physics, mathematics, and computational methods into predictions the team can build on.
Shoot Your Shot
2 months agoConstellation · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeScience & researchWe're building something ambitious at Constellation, and we know that exceptional talent doesn't always fit neatly into predefined job descriptions. If you're passionate about the intersection of AI and human understanding, and you have skills that could help us push the…
Revolution Medicines · Redwood City, California, United States
Senior$170K – $212K a yearScience & researchWe are seeking a creative and experienced biophysicist to accelerate target validation, hit confirmation, and drug discovery across our oncology discovery portfolio. This role will leverage orthogonal biophysical approaches to characterize protein quality and molecular…
Vice President, Early Discovery Chemistry
2 months agoRevolution Medicines · Redwood City, California, United States
Executive$294K – $367K a yearScience & researchThe Vice President, Early Discovery Chemistry will report to the Senior Vice President of Medicinal Chemistry and Screening Platform Technologies and serve as the scientific and organizational leader for Revolution Medicines' Early Discovery Chemistry organization. The role…
Research Scientist
2 months agoConstellation · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-time$180K – $300K a yearScience & researchWe are looking for a Research Scientist to decode the human experience. You will get to work closely with the richest multimodal dataset ever collected, and tackle truly unique problems that no one has solved before. This is a hybrid Research and Engineering role. You will be…
Scientist, Biochemistry
2 months agoElement Biosciences · San Diego, California, United States
Full-timeMid level$116K – $149K a yearScience & researchLead the development, optimization, and validation of protein-based assays supporting sequencing and multiomic workflows; Design, execute, and interpret experiments focused on protein reagents, antibodies, enzymes, and other biologically derived reagents; Develop and optimize…
Updated 07 Nov 2026 10:21 UTC from the OptiTalent job library.