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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 Scientist
5 months agoEleos AI Research · Berkeley, California, United States
HybridFull-time$201.6K – $429K a yearScience & researchEleos is hiring scientists to do foundational and applied machine learning research into the potential well-being and moral status of AI systems. You will work at the intersection of machine learning, cognitive science, and philosophy of mind, doing original, rigorous research…
Director of Translational Science
5 months agoValius Sciences · San Francisco, California, United States +1
On-siteFull-timeDirector$160K – $250K a yearScience & researchAt Valius, we believe that the future of cancer care will be defined by “maximalist” diagnostics: deep, comprehensive assessments of DNA, RNA, and protein designed to give patients and their care teams the best possible understanding of how their tumor works and what its…
Staff Research Scientist
5 months agoMongoDB · Palo Alto, California, United States
HybridFull-timeLead / staff$151K – $297K a yearScience & researchWe are seeking a Staff Research Scientist to join our team and contribute to the development of next-generation AI models. This position offers a unique opportunity to work on challenging problems at the intersection of machine learning research and practical deployment of…
Until · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeSenior$175K – $210K a yearScience & researchWe are seeking a Senior Scientist, Cardiac Preservation to lead our heart preservation efforts within the whole organ preservation team. You will own a large domain and play a vital role in shaping how Until preserves, recovers, and assesses the viability of the heart through…
Member of Technical Staff - Research
5 months agoTrajectory · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeLead / staffScience & researchAs a Member of Technical Staff (Research) at Trajectory, you will design and build the post‑training stack that lets our customers’ models continually learn from real production workflows. You will own end‑to‑end experiments across data, training, and evaluation: shaping…
Glyphic Biotechnologies · Berkeley, California, United States
Full-timeLead / staff$123K – $187.6K a yearScience & researchWork environment:
Glyphic Biotechnologies · Berkeley, California, United States
Full-timeSenior$111.7K – $161.9K a yearScience & researchWork environment:
Safety Case Research - Product Development Lead
5 months agoWaymo · Mountain View, California, United States +1
HybridLead / staff$241K – $297K 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…
Senior Geologist
5 months agoTerra AI · Redwood City, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeSenior$185K – $250K a yearScience & researchInterpret and integrate geological, geochemical, and geophysical datasets across regional, district, and deposit scales; Develop and refine mineral systems and exploration models that support probabilistic targeting and resource discovery workflows; Provide geological input…
Research Associate - Biosensing
5 months agoConvergent Research · Pasadena, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeEntry level$65K – $95K a yearScience & researchMelody is an early-stage focused research organization engineering continuous molecular monitoring technology and designing closed-loop interventions for human health. We leverage protein engineering, medical device engineering, and physiology modeling. As a FRO, we uniquely…
General Prism Job Application
5 months agoAstera Institute · Emerybille, California, United States
Full-time$100K – $300K a yearScience & researchDiffraction data processing and structural data pipelines; Multiconformer and heterogeneity analysis from large datasets; Data standards work (mmCIF and related); Macromolecular ensemble metrics
Research Manager (Ongoing Recruitment)
5 months agoFuel Cycle · Los Angeles, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeMid level$70K – $95K a yearScience & researchAs a Research Manager, you will serve as the primary analyst on a range of quantitative and qualitative research projects, managing the full execution of projects that address the major business questions for our Fortune 500 clients across a variety of industries. While being a…
Vmax AI Corp · San Francisco, California, United States
HybridFull-timeScience & researchLLMs are fantastically powerful and there is a rapidly growing corpus of work devoted to understanding their internal representations and computations. We use the tools of mechanistic interpretability to enhance reinforcement learning by generating intrinsic rewards as a…
Vmax · San Francisco, California, United States
HybridScience & researchLLMs are fantastically powerful and there is a rapidly growing corpus of work devoted to understanding their internal representations and computations. We use the tools of mechanistic interpretability to enhance reinforcement learning by generating intrinsic rewards as a…
Research Associate (Organ Perfusion)
5 months agoUntil · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeEntry level$90K – $100K a yearScience & researchWe are seeking an experienced and dedicated full-time Research Associate to join our whole organ preservation team. As Research Associate, you will play a vital role in the scientific progress of our research program. The primary focus of this role is on developing organ…
RESEARCHER, POST-TRAINING
5 months agoMakerMaker · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeSeniorScience & researchWe're building autonomous research agents for recursive self-improvement (multi-agent systems that propose, run, and analyze machine learning experiments). We're a small, well-funded team that works onsite in San Francisco.
RESEARCHER (GENERAL)
5 months agoMakerMaker · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeSeniorScience & researchWe're building autonomous research agents for recursive self-improvement (multi-agent systems that propose, run, and analyze machine learning experiments). We're a small, well-funded team that works onsite in San Francisco.
Rhoda AI · Mountain View, California, United States
Full-timeLead / staffScience & researchDesign and train large-scale causal video generation models on web-scale video data; Develop and validate training objectives, model architectures, and data mixtures for video prediction at scale; Research scaling laws and data efficiency for web-scale video pretraining;…
Rhoda AI · Mountain View, California, United States
Full-timeLead / staff$200K – $300K a yearScience & researchWork directly with customers and partners to understand application requirements and translate them into concrete model adaptation strategies; Fine-tune and adapt our foundation world models for domain-specific tasks, environments, and operational constraints; Design and run…
Rhoda AI · Mountain View, California, United States
Full-timeLead / staffScience & researchDesign and implement RL training pipelines to improve robot policy performance beyond what imitation learning alone achieves — reward design, online data collection, and policy optimization; Develop and apply RL algorithms (PPO, GRPO, or similar) adapted to the video prediction…
Updated 07 Nov 2026 10:21 UTC from the OptiTalent job library.