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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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Warfighter Research & Systems Analyst
8 months agoAnduril Industries · Costa Mesa, California, United States
Full-timeSenior$147K – $196K a yearScience & researchAnduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry,…
Astera Institute · Emerybille, California, United States
HybridFull-time$150K – $300K a yearScience & researchWe are seeking brilliant, unconventional thinkers to join us. In this role, you will not be chasing incremental gains on standard benchmarks. Instead, you will be tasked with developing the foundational principles of Artificial General Intelligence. We believe that…
Research Scientist: Hierarchical RL Agents
8 months agoAstera Institute · Emerybille, California, United States
HybridFull-time$150K – $300K a yearScience & researchWe are seeking brilliant, unconventional thinkers to join us. In this role, you will not be chasing incremental gains on standard benchmarks. Instead, you will be tasked with developing the foundational principles of Artificial General Intelligence. We believe that…
Research Scientist: Energy Based Models
8 months agoAstera Institute · Emerybille, California, United States
HybridFull-time$150K – $300K a yearScience & researchWe are seeking brilliant, unconventional thinkers to join us. In this role, you will not be chasing incremental gains on standard benchmarks. Instead, you will be tasked with developing the foundational principles of Artificial General Intelligence. We believe that…
Computational Scientist
8 months agoVoltai · Palo Alto, California, United States
Full-timeScience & researchBacked by Silicon Valley’s top investors, Stanford University, and CEOs/Presidents of Google, AMD, Broadcom, Marvell, etc. We are a team of previous Stanford professors, SAIL researchers, Olympiad medalists (IPhO, IOI, etc.), CTOs of Synopsys & GlobalFoundries, Head of Sales &…
Lab Operations Manager
8 months agoGeneral Proximity · San Francisco, California, United States
Full-timeManagerScience & researchWe are seeking an experienced Lab Operations Manager to support our Biology, Chemistry, and Platform teams. In this position, you will work at the intersection of lab management, operations, and biological research. This job requires strong skills and demonstrable experience in…
Calico · South San Francisco, California, United States
TemporaryLead / staffFrom $95K a yearScience & researchLead Independent Research: Focus on their own project(s), which should pursue new research directions with dedicated resources for innovative and potentially high-risk/high-reward research; Contribute to Calico’s Core Mission: Contribute to furthering an understanding of aging…
Calico · South San Francisco, California, United States
TemporaryLead / staffFrom $95K a yearScience & researchLead Independent Research: Focus on their own project(s), which should pursue new research directions with dedicated resources for innovative and potentially high-risk/high-reward research; Contribute to Calico’s Core Mission: Contribute to furthering an understanding of aging…
Postdoctoral Fellow, Hahn Lab - Brain Aging
8 months agoCalico · South San Francisco, California, United States
TemporaryLead / staffFrom $95K a yearScience & researchLead Independent Research: Focus on their own project(s), which should pursue new research directions with dedicated resources for innovative and potentially high-risk/high-reward research; Contribute to Calico’s Core Mission: Contribute to furthering an understanding of aging…
Sr. Bioinformatics Scientist
8 months agoVeracyte · South San Francisco, California, United States
RemoteFull-timeSenior$150K – $189K a yearScience & researchWe are seeking an experienced and motivated Bioinformatics Scientist to join our Bioinformatics and Data Science Team focused on developing regulated diagnostics products. The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in NGS technologies with a strong understanding of…
Allergist Immunologist Physican
8 months agoModena Allergy + Asthma · Alhambra, California, United States
Entry level$130K – $250K a yearScience & researchWe are seeking a highly skilled and compassionate Allergist/Immunologist Physician to join our growing practice at our Alhambra and Hacienda Heights location. As a key member of our healthcare team, you will be responsible for diagnosing and treating patients with a wide range…
Research Scientist: Pretraining
8 months agoGeneralist · San Mateo, California, United States
On-siteFull-time$240K – $350K a yearScience & researchYou will build the base intelligence layer for robotics. We train large-scale robot foundation models from massive multimodal datasets spanning video, proprioception, action traces, language, and more. You will design and run the core large-scale training efforts that give our…
Research Scientist - Simplex
8 months agoAstera Institute · Emerybille, California, United States
On-siteFull-time$140K – $200K a yearScience & researchAt Simplex, we're building a science of intelligence. Our aim is to develop and apply a rigorous theory of latent internal structure in neural networks, and how that structure relates to computation and behavior.
Research Scientist
8 months agoOpenEvidence · San Francisco, California, United States +1
On-siteFull-timeScience & researchAs a Research Scientist working at OpenEvidence, you will push the boundaries of what modern models are capable of, bringing a research background focused on building real systems instead of writing papers. You will own problems end-to-end with autonomy, treating evaluation and…
California State University · San Bernardino, California, United States
Entry level$17.86 – $23.84 an hourScience & researchThe Instructional Student Assistant will staff the Philosophy department’s Logic Lab. They will be responsible for participating in the preparatory seminar, keeping the lab open and assisting students who visit the lab seeking help with their philosophy coursework. They may…
Scientist/Senior Scientist, Immunology
9 months agoNewLimit · South San Francisco, California, United States
Senior$130K – $180K a yearScience & researchNewLimit is seeking a highly motivated Scientist/Senior Scientist in Immunology to lead and execute key discovery-to-preclinical research efforts in inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, with a strong emphasis on T cell and regulatory T cell (Treg) biology. This role will…
Senior Food Scientist
9 months agoEVERY™ · San Francisco, California, United States
Full-timeSenior$115K – $135K a yearScience & researchThe Senior Food Scientist plays a crucial role on our research and development team, focusing on providing customer support through technical onboarding, trouble shooting, and formula development, management of the egg white replacement in bakery portfolio of solutions, and the…
Innovation Researcher
9 months agoTrace3 · Irvine, California, United States
$66.5K – $80.5K a yearScience & researchTrace3 is an innovation partner to more than 2000 companies and growing at a double-digit rate for over a decade. Trace3 Research collaborates with the industry, VC and start-up community, clients and internal Trace3 teams to identify, analyze and offer insights into emerging…
Senior Research Manager (Ongoing Recruitment)
9 months agoFuel Cycle · Los Angeles, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeSenior$85K – $110K a yearScience & researchAs a Senior Market Research Manager, you will lead a diverse range of quantitative and qualitative research projects, serving as the primary point of contact, and managing the complete execution of projects that address the major business questions for our Fortune 500 clients…
Research Scientist
9 months agoScaled Cognition · Mountain View, California, United States +2
HybridFull-timeScience & researchScaled Cognition is the world’s only model lab dedicated exclusively to customer experience and pioneering agentic models purpose-built for reliable action-taking enterprise applications. Backed by Khosla Ventures, the company’s flagship Agentic Pretrained Transformer (APT)…
Updated 07 Nov 2026 10:21 UTC from the OptiTalent job library.