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Science jobs in California, United States

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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

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Director, Research
4 months ago
Stellar Development Foundation · San Francisco, California, United States +4
RemoteFull-timeDirector$210K – $350K a yearScience & research
Shape the research vision: Define and lead a long-term scientific research agenda that supports SDF’s mission while contributing to broader conversations in computer science and decentralized systems. Identify both mission-aligned applied challenges and foundational open…
Biomechanics Researcher
4 months ago
1X · San Carlos, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeSenior$200K – $250K a yearScience & research
1X Labs exists to provide the science and technology that enables human-level, general-purpose humanoids.
Principal Scientist, Analytical Development
4 months ago
Sana Biotechnology · South San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeLead / staff$200K – $240K a yearScience & research
Sana Biotechnology is growing, and we are hiring new team members who believe in the potential of engineered cells as medicines, who are passionate about delivering the possible to patients, and who lead with the desire to work on novel ideas. As a Principal Scientist, Potency,…
Senior Member of Research Staff, Optimization
4 months ago
The Voleon Group · Berkeley, California, United States +2
HybridFull-timeLead / staff$300K – $325K a yearScience & research
Design, implement, and improve large-scale constrained optimization methods that determine trading decisions under forecasts, risk, costs, liquidity, and operational constraints; Demonstrate strategic vision and perspective to oversee work that affects one or more complex…
Senior Scientist I, Product Development
4 months ago
Alamar Biosciences · Fremont, California, United States
Senior$150K – $165K a yearScience & research
Design and execute verification and validation (V&V) studies to assess precision, sensitivity, linearity, robustness, and other key performance characteristics.; Lead end-to-end product development with ownership across the full product lifecycle.; Design, develop, and optimize…
Member of Technical Staff, Research
4 months ago
The Token Company · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeLead / staffScience & research
As a Member of Technical Staff on the research team, you own the model training stack end to end: data, architecture, training, evaluation, and shipping compression models into production. This is a from-scratch model training role. You will spend your time designing and…
Senior Research Scientist, Perception
4 months ago
Waymo · Mountain View, California, United States +3
HybridSenior$213K – $263K a yearScience & research
Waymo 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…
Experimental Scientist
4 months ago
Oratomic, Inc. · Pasadena, California, United States
On-siteFull-time$200K – $350K a yearScience & research
Oratomic is on a mission to build the world's first fault-tolerant quantum computer.
Laboratory Director
4 months ago
Natera · San Carlos, California, United States
On-siteDirector$225K – $280K a yearScience & research
As an Associate Lab Director or Lab Director of Oncology, you have clinical oversight of Natera’s laboratory testing related to cancer testing. You ensure that testing is properly performed, and applicable regulatory standards are met. You are responsible for ensuring that the…
Senior Scientist, Surface Chemistry
4 months ago
Ultima Genomics · Fremont, California, United States
Full-timeSenior$120K – $140K a yearScience & research
Ultima Genomics is a rapidly growing company that is developing ground-breaking genomics technologies. Our mission is to continuously drive the scale of genomic information to enable unprecedented advances in biology and improvements in human health. We have developed a…
Senior Scientist, Immunoassay Development, Antibody Critical Reagents & Reference Materials
4 months ago
Vaxcyte · San Carlos, California, United States
On-siteSenior$165K – $193K a yearScience & research
Vaxcyte is seeking an accomplished Senior Scientist, Immunoassay Critical Reagents and Reference Standards to join the CMC Immunoassay group. This role will provide scientific and strategic leadership for the development, qualification, characterization, governance, and…
Research Scientist
5 months ago
ChipAgents · San Jose, California, United States +1
On-siteFull-timeFrom $150K a yearScience & research
We are seeking Research Scientists with deep expertise in AI and machine learning to pioneer the next generation of AI-assisted electronic design automation. In this role, you'll conduct research that directly impacts chip designers, working at the intersection of cutting-edge…
AI in Business, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
5 months ago
California State University · San Diego, California, United States
Full-timeLead / staff$65K – $67.5K a yearScience & research
The James Silberrad Brown Center for Artificial Intelligence (JSB AI Center) seeks a full-time Research Fellow to play a central role in advancing its interdisciplinary AI research agenda. This position is designed for a technically strong researcher who can provide leadership…
Research Scientist, Life Sciences
5 months ago
Anthropic · San Francisco, California, United States
On-site$300K – $320K a yearScience & research
Build and ship agentic tools and integrations that let Claude execute real life science workflows — bioinformatics pipelines, database queries, analysis notebooks, literature review; Design and build evaluation benchmarks that measure model capabilities on biology tasks —…
Executive Researcher
5 months ago
CoreWeave · New York, United States +2
Senior$150K – $190K a yearScience & research
CoreWeave is the Essential Cloud for AI at the center of the AI compute buildout supporting AI pioneers. Our Executive Recruiting team hires the leaders who will shape how the world’s AI cloud gets built — partnering directly with our CEO, ELT, and the leaders of every critical…
Senior Research Scientist
5 months ago
adaption · United States +9
RemoteFull-timeSeniorScience & research
This is a research role focused on building models that continuously evolve with the world. Our frontier work centers on efficiency, gradient-free exploration, real-time learning, and interface design. The most intelligent systems will increasingly be defined not just by what…
Research Scientist - Vision Language Model
5 months ago
Institute of Foundation Models · Sunnyvale, California, United States
On-siteFull-time$150K – $450K a yearScience & research
We are a dedicated research lab for building, understanding, using, and risk-managing foundation models. Our mandate is to advance research, nurture the next generation of AI builders, and drive transformative contributions to a knowledge-driven economy.
Scientist, Medicinal Chemistry
5 months ago
General Proximity · San Francisco, California, United States
Science & research
We are seeking a medicinal chemist to be a member of our Chemistry/Drug Discovery Team. In this position, you will work with both our Chemistry and Platform Teams in the development of our core drug discovery technology and the generation of a completely novel class of…
Scientist, Mechanistic Biology
5 months ago
General Proximity · San Francisco, California, United States
SeniorScience & research
We are seeking an experienced mechanistic biologist to join our Discovery Biology Team. In this position, you will work closely with our Platform and Chemistry Teams to drive mechanistic understanding of our lead compounds and support core drug discovery efforts. This is an…
Member of Research Staff, Reinforcement Learning, Voleon Securities
5 months ago
The Voleon Group · Berkeley, California, United States +1
HybridFull-timeLead / staff$250K – $275K a yearScience & research
Develop a rich understanding of Voleon’s challenges and methodologies and propose RL research innovations and experiments to build, maintain and optimize the models that govern our trading strategy; Prepare and analyze new datasets to assess their predictive efficacy; Develop,…

Updated 07 Nov 2026 10:21 UTC from the OptiTalent job library.