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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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541–560 of 886 jobs
Nurix · Brisbane, California, United States
Entry level$123.8K – $143.1K a yearScience & researchNurix Therapeutics is seeking a Scientist to lead bioanalytical strategies supporting the discovery and development of next-generation degrader antibody conjugates (DACs). This role will focus on LC-MS/MS and hybrid assay strategies for quantitative and qualitative analysis of…
Principal, Insights & Innovation
3 months agoSamba · Chicago, Illinois, United States +3
On-siteFull-timeLead / staff$160K – $180K a yearScience & researchDesign and build new media intelligence solutions using internal Samba data assets and external data sourced through licensing and partnerships. Solutions include behavioral and contextual targeting, media planning and insights, measurement, and optimization.; Partner with…
Researcher, Alignment CoT Monitorability
3 months agoOpenAI · San Francisco, California, United States
HybridFull-time$295K – $500K a yearScience & researchThe CoT Monitorability team at OpenAI studies whether and when the chain-of-thought of frontier reasoning models is monitorable enough to support scalable oversight. We study how to measure monitorability, which training mechanisms affect monitorability, and speculative methods…
Product Applications Scientist
3 months agoGator Bio · Palo Alto, California, United States
On-siteFull-time$90K – $110K a yearScience & researchCustomer Technical Support & Application Enablement
Sr. Applied Behavioral Scientist
3 months agoVesync · Tustin, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeSeniorFrom $200K a yearScience & researchWe are seeking a Senior Applied Behavioral Scientist to join our growing US-based Behavioral Science team as the senior technical lead for key components of our system. This role combines two functions that are closely intertwined in our product: owning the decision logic that…
Research Scientist, Simulation
3 months agoDyna Robotics · Redwood City, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeScience & researchDyna Robotics builds general-purpose robots powered by a proprietary embodied AI foundation model with top-in-industry generalization and real-world performance. Already deployed with customers across multiple industries, our robots do commercial-grade work in the physical…
Research, Audio Expertise
3 months agoThinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-time$400K – $500K a yearScience & researchThinking Machines builds multimodal-first. For us, there is no separate multimodal work. It’s at the core of everything we do, from the scientific goals we’re setting to the infrastructure we’re building. We’re looking for researchers to advance the frontier of audio…
Research, Vision Expertise
3 months agoThinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-time$350K – $475K a yearScience & researchThinking Machines builds multimodal-first. We’re looking for new team members to advance the science of visual perception and multimodal learning. We think about how vision and language interact at scale. We design architectures that fuse pixels and text, build datasets and…
Member of Technical Staff
3 months agoDiscovery Loop · Palo Alto, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeLead / staffScience & researchWe're building systems that automate entire experimental loops, closing the gap between hypothesis and discovery in machine learning, science, and engineering. The faster we can move through that loop, the faster real breakthroughs reach the people who need them.
Sr. Professional Geologist
3 months agoSpaceX · Hawthorne, California, United States
HybridFull-timeSenior$130K – $190K a yearScience & researchDevelop, implement, improve, and maintain environmental compliance programs related to construction and remediation at SpaceX’s Hawthorne, CA location, supporting Falcon/Dragon, Raptor/Starship and Starlink/Starshield teams site wide.; Oversee and own day-to-day environmental…
Member of Technical Staff, Lead Researcher
3 months agoDoorDash USA · San Francisco, California, United States +1
Full-timeLead / staff$203.5K – $299.3K a yearScience & researchDoorDash is building an AI Research org from the ground up, and we're hiring our founding researchers. This is not a role inside an existing team — it's a role that defines what the team becomes. You'll have an outsized influence on the research agenda, hiring, culture,…
Medra · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeMid level$140K – $175K a yearScience & researchWe're a team of passionate, mission-driven engineers and scientists from companies like Tesla, Amazon, SpaceX, and Neuralink. We're collaborative and love moving fast, both with our product and on team trips skiing or go-karting!; As a team, we love nerding out about…
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…
Waymo · Mountain View, California, United States +2
HybridLead / staff$251K – $310K 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…
Hardware Lab Manager
3 months agoAnthropic · San Francisco, California, United States +1
On-site$320K – $405K a yearScience & researchForagers is a new Field Services team within our physical infrastructure organization. We're the boots on the ground for Anthropic's physical infrastructure: the people who get hardware into racks, gear commissioned, and sites handed over. The team is being stood up now, so…
Associate Director, Research Project Management
3 months agoVir Biotechnology · San Francisco, California, United States
HybridDirector$162.5K – $227.5K a yearScience & researchThe Research Strategic Planning & Operations (ReSPO) team serves as a strategic partner to Research, enabling effective portfolio management, operational excellence, and cross-functional execution across Vir Bio's research organization.
Intelligence · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeLead / staffScience & researchYou'll invent new ways to detect and scale the data that makes frontier AI models smarter. As frontier models continue to improve, model capability is increasingly driven by the quality of training data. You'll develop scalable systems that generate, curate, and improve…
Applied Scientist
3 months agoMistral · Palo Alto, California, United States +1
HybridFull-timeScience & researchMistral AI is seeking Applied Scientists and Research Engineers to drive innovative research and collaborate with clients on complex research projects.
Researcher, Multimodal Safety
3 months agoOpenAI · San Francisco, California, United States
HybridFull-time$380K – $500K a yearScience & researchOpenAI is at the center of some of the highest-impact multimodal work in AI. ChatGPT serves a massive global audience, and enables diverse interactions via text, speech, and visuals. As interactive surfaces grow, models also need to adapt to emerging harm, understand user…
AI Research Scientist
3 months agoCogent Security · San Francisco, California, United States +1
HybridFull-time$100K – $300K a yearScience & researchCogent Research is the applied AI lab at the heart of Cogent's mission. As a Research Scientist, you will drive foundational and applied research at the frontier of automated reasoning and AI-driven code analysis — producing work that is both scientifically rigorous and…
Updated 07 Nov 2026 10:21 UTC from the OptiTalent job library.