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Science jobs in United States
2,708 open roles read nightly from companies’ own hiring pages. Each one links to the original ad.
Science jobs in United States at a glance
- Open roles
- 2,708
- Remote
- 10%
- Posted in the last 30 days
- 877
- Advertised pay, middle half
- $85K – $230Kmedian $160K a year
Pay from the 1,837 science jobs here that state yearly pay in USD: the top of each advertised range. Updated nightly.
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By state
- California909
- New York265
- Massachusetts262
- Michigan134
- Virginia127
- Texas114
- Washington76
- Maryland65
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681–700 of 2,708 jobs
Pre-Doctoral in Economics Program (PREP) · Chicago, Illinois, United States
Full-time$59K – $62K a yearScience & researchThe Becker Friedman Institute (BFI) is seeking a Research Professional (RP) to work on new and ongoing research projects in and related to urban economics, international trade, and industrial organization. The Research Professional will primarily work under the guidance of…
Applied Researcher - Sovereign AI
2 weeks agoPrime Intellect · San Francisco, California, United States +3
RemoteFull-time$150K – $300K a yearScience & researchNational institutions, public-sector organizations, and regulated industries need capable models and agents that operate within strict boundaries around data, deployment, access, auditability, and human authority. They also need the ability to improve those systems on their own…
Applied Researcher - Robotics
2 weeks agoPrime Intellect · San Francisco, California, United States +3
RemoteFull-time$150K – $300K a yearScience & researchYou will build environments, evaluations, agent systems, and post-training methods with an external robotics team. You will train and evaluate agents with reinforcement learning, world modeling, imitation learning, planning, and multimodal perception, using feedback from…
Lead Applied Researcher - New York
2 weeks agoPrime Intellect · New York, United States
Full-timeLead / staff$150K – $300K a yearScience & researchWe are looking for a senior regional player-coach who can establish that group through personally led research and field programs. You will begin close to the work: shape consequential external problems into coherent research programs, lead the hardest early experiments and…
Applied Researcher - Forward-Deployed RL
2 weeks agoPrime Intellect · San Francisco, California, United States +3
RemoteFull-time$150K – $300K a yearScience & researchYou will own applied RL programs from the first ambiguous customer problem through a deployed improvement loop. You will understand the workflow and business stakes, decide what can be measured and learned, build the environment and evaluation, run post-training experiments,…
Applied Researcher - Continual Learning
2 weeks agoPrime Intellect · San Francisco, California, United States +3
RemoteFull-time$150K – $300K a yearScience & researchYou will build continual learning systems that turn agent trajectories, corrections, and failures into new tasks and model updates. You will compare streaming RL, batched post-training, and distillation, and determine which improvements belong in model weights or persistent…
Applied Researcher - Computer Use
2 weeks agoPrime Intellect · San Francisco, California, United States +3
RemoteFull-time$150K – $300K a yearScience & researchComputer-use agents must understand changing interfaces, maintain intent over long workflows, recover from mistakes, manage permissions and side effects, and know when an outcome is actually complete. You will build post-training and evaluation systems for multimodal agents…
Applied Researcher - Agentic RL
2 weeks agoPrime Intellect · San Francisco, California, United States +3
RemoteFull-time$150K – $300K a yearScience & researchYou will work on reinforcement learning for agents that reason over long horizons, use tools, coordinate with other agents, recover from failure, and improve from experience. This is Prime's broad, cross-domain Applied Research role, focused on RL and ML systems. Your work…
Pre-Doctoral in Economics Program (PREP) · Chicago, Illinois, United States
Full-time$59K – $62K a yearScience & researchThe Becker Friedman Institute for Economics (BFI) is seeking to hire a full-time Research Professional to work with Brent Neiman and Milena Almagro (Year 1), and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg and Rodrigo Adao (Year 2) on ongoing and new research projects related to international…
Entry-level Environmental Scientist
2 weeks agoWoodard & Curran · Duluth, Georgia, United States
On-siteFull-timeEntry level$48K – $56K a yearScience & researchDelineation of wetlands using the appropriate regional supplements to the USACE Wetland Delineation Manual; Identification of ephemeral, intermittent, and perennial streams; Completion of biological assessments such as aquatic and terrestrial habitat field surveys; GPS/GIS data…
Hourly Wage Lab Technician
2 weeks agoVirginia Tech · Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
Part-time$19.00 – $22.00 an hourScience & researchThe Craige Lab research group at Virginia Tech is seeking a highly organized and proactive Lab Technician with wet lab experience to join our collaborative and dynamic team. This position is ideal for someone who thrives on wet lab bench science, is interested in creating…
Research Staff, Applied Voice AI
2 weeks agoDeepgram · United States +2
RemoteFull-timeLead / staff$216K – $338K 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…
Agricultural Tech II Research
2 weeks agoKansas State University · Tribune, Kansas, United States
On-siteFull-timeMid level$16.76 – $22.62 an hourScience & researchThis position provides technical support for agronomic research at this center in Tribune, Kansas with regard to project development, treatment application, data collection and preparation, and information dissemination. This position is directly involved in a research and…
Senior Scientist
2 weeks agoVivodyne · San Francisco, California, United States
Full-timeSenior$120K – $160K a yearScience & researchThis is a full-time, onsite role in San Francisco.
Research Analyst - Enterprise Tech
2 weeks agoQualitate · New York, United States
On-siteFull-timeEntry level$130K – $170K a yearScience & research1–3 years of professional experience in data-driven research, such as equity research, financial analysis, market research, and/or consulting. Exposure to software, internet, semiconductors, or IT services coverage is a strong plus but not required.; Familiarity with enterprise…
Senior Product Scientist
2 weeks agoDatavant · United States
RemoteSenior$140K – $175K a yearScience & researchDatavant is the data collaboration platform trusted for healthcare. Guided by our mission to make the world’s health data secure, accessible and actionable, we provide critical data solutions for organizations across the healthcare ecosystem - including providers, health plans,…
Virginia Tech · Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
Entry levelFrom $65K a yearScience & researchThe Virginia Tech National Security Institute (VTNSI) seeks applications for a Postdoctoral Associate to conduct research in computational modeling and uncertainty quantification as part of a multidisciplinary research program. The successful candidate will help develop…
Environmental Specialist
2 weeks agoTriumvirate Environmental · New Braunfels, Texas, United States
Full-timeMid levelScience & researchDevelop an understanding of OSHA regulations as well as Triumvirate’s Health and Safety practices; Preparation of chemical and biological waste for shipment and disposal, including creation of all federal/state waste documents and managing the paperwork for the material.; Safe…
Precede · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
HybridFull-timeDirector$180K – $240K a yearScience & researchWe are seeking a Director-level computational scientist to drive the analytical and regulatory dimensions of diagnostic test development at Precede Biosciences. Reporting to the Senior Director of Computational Test Development, this role sits at the center of our effort to…
FieldAI · Irvine, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeScience & researchFieldAI’s Irvine team is where embodied AI meets real robots, real sensors, and real field deployments. Based in the heart of Southern California’s robotics ecosystem, we build risk-aware, reliable, field-ready AI systems that solve the hardest problems in robotics and unlock…
Updated 08 Nov 2026 12:14 UTC from the OptiTalent job library.