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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 II, Antibody Discovery (Phage Display)
3 months agoXaira Therapeutics · South San Francisco, California, United States
Mid level$124K – $155K a yearScience & researchAt Xaira, we're building antibody discovery engines that feed AI-driven design at scale. We're looking for an accomplished protein biochemist to own phage display campaigns end-to-end within our Display Technologies group — designing selection strategies, cracking difficult…
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Container Nursery (Ornamental plant production) Weed Management
3 months agoUniversity of Florida · Orange, California, United States
Entry levelScience & researchThe appointee shall have received the doctorate in a field appropriate to the assigned duties and responsibilities.
Nebius · Palo Alto, California, United States
Senior$195.2K – $262.2K a yearScience & researchNebius Token Factory is looking for scientists who can turn frontier LLM and VLM inference bottlenecks into research questions, conduct rigorous experiments, and translate their findings into production capabilities. You will own focused research and optimization projects,…
Research Operations, Code
3 months agoMercor · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-time$130K – $250K a yearScience & researchIn the Research Operations role at Mercor, you will work at the intersection of engineering and applied AI research. This role will own multi-million-dollar data programs end to end with responsibilities to:
Retro · Redwood City, California, United States
On-siteFull-time$75K – $95K a yearScience & researchOwn execution of day-to-day isolation of immune cells from animal tissues — blood, bones, and spleen — giving you a direct view into engraftment results.; Coordinate closely with the in vivo team so material for preclinical studies are handled promptly and correctly.; Support…
Applied Researcher - Deployment Intelligence
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…
Member of Technical Staff — Research, Physics
3 months agoCausal Labs · San Francisco, California, United States +1
On-siteFull-timeLead / staffScience & researchBring physical principles to bear on the model — assessing consistency with conservation laws and physical constraints, and where physics-informed inductive biases help or hinder; Develop evaluations that test whether the model's behavior is physically coherent, not just…
Liquid I.V. · El Segundo, California, United States
HybridLead / staff$116.1K – $174.1K a yearScience & researchLiquid I.V. is looking for a creative and highly technical Associate Principal Scientist, Innovation - Scientific Affairs to help lead and execute delivery of our exciting new product innovation pipeline. Reporting to the Manager of Innovation and Claims, this role is highly…
Applied Scientist, AI
3 months agoSprinter Health · San Francisco, California, United States
HybridFull-time$180K – $260K a yearScience & researchWe’re looking for an Applied Scientist, AI to turn messy, high-stakes healthcare problems into machine learning models and AI systems that improve access to care and help Sprinter operate more effectively.
Causal Labs · San Francisco, California, United States +1
On-siteFull-timeLead / staffScience & researchGuide the sourcing and validation of atmospheric data, advising on observation systems, their characteristics, and their pathologies; Define what forecast quality means, bringing rigorous verification methodology to how we evaluate the model; Run case studies on high-impact…
Causal Labs · San Francisco, California, United States +1
On-siteFull-timeLead / staffScience & researchFormulate the objectives, constraints, and decision problems that our reasoning models optimize toward; Develop methodology for evaluating decision quality under uncertainty, including counterfactual reasoning about outcomes; Translate the realities of complex operational…
Equity Research Associate – FinTech
3 months agoFinancial Technology Partners · San Francisco, California, United States +1
Entry levelScience & researchFinancial Technology Partners (FT Partners) is the only investment bank focused exclusively on the dynamic and rapidly growing financial technology (FinTech) sector. Founded by senior Goldman Sachs alumni, FT Partners is consistently recognized as a top-tier advisor, having…
Senior Prospect Research Analyst (Advancement Professional III, Range 1) - Development Office
3 months agoCalifornia State University · San Francisco, California, United States
Senior$5,797.00 – $6,658.00 a monthScience & researchThe Senior Development Research and Management Analyst plays a key role in the planning and implementation of the
Technical Program Manager, Research
3 months agoFAR.AI · United States +1
RemoteFull-timeMid level$130K – $200K a yearScience & researchWe are looking for Technical Program Managers to define programs for both our foundational research and research infrastructure teams. Our Research organization is scaling up by expanding our portfolio of research agendas, including model deception, applied interpretability,…
Researcher, Compute Scaling
3 months agoFluidstack · Austin, Texas, United States +2
On-siteFull-time$224K – $264K a yearScience & researchSupply tens of gigawatts of compute, the largest build out of compute in history. Qualify and dual-source across every critical equipment category, with lead-time and capacity thresholds tied directly to the forward build pipeline.; Make supply chain the reason we build faster…
People Research Scientist
3 months agoWealthfront · Palo Alto, California, United States +1
HybridFull-time$140K – $155K a yearScience & researchRun qualitative and small-N quantitative research on performance, career progression, manager effectiveness, and retention, using interviews, focus groups, surveys, and our people data.; Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to turn findings into programs. Design and…
Applied Scientist, Optimization & Logistics
3 months agoSprinter Health · San Francisco, California, United States
HybridFull-time$160K – $220K a yearScience & researchWe’re looking for an Applied Scientist to turn Sprinter’s hardest logistics problems into optimization models and decision systems that get the right clinician to the right patient at the right time. Sprinter runs a two-sided operation — clinicians on one side, patients who…
AI Research Scientist
3 months agoSprinter Health · San Francisco, California, United States +1
HybridFull-time$160K – $220K a yearScience & researchWe’re looking for an AI Research Scientist to advance the methodological frontier of AI in healthcare. This role is ideal for someone who has demonstrated strong research taste, deep technical foundations, and the ability to turn open-ended problems into rigorous scientific…
Computational Scientist, Biology
3 months agoAxiom · South San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeScience & researchLead the analysis of large, multimodal toxicity datasets, turning noisy, high-dimensional imaging, transcriptomic, proteomic, and biochemical measurements into biological insights and features for predictive models.; Characterize drug responses in primary human cells and…
Research Lead, Training
3 months agoGoodfire · San Francisco, California, United States
Lead / staff$400K – $600K a yearScience & researchWe're hiring a Research Lead, Training to lead Goodfire's model training organization and define the research agenda behind how we train more capable, aligned, and interpretable AI systems, including exploring the research frontier of intentional design.
Updated 07 Nov 2026 10:21 UTC from the OptiTalent job library.