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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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841–860 of 886 jobs
Research Scientist (Research)
14 months agoApplied Intuition · Sunnyvale, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeEntry level$126K – $423K a yearScience & researchWe are looking for multiple passionate Research Scientists to join the Research Group at Applied Intuition. The mission of the group is to create cutting-edge technology enabling next-generation physical AI, with emphasis on the two most challenging applications reshaping our…
Alignment Research Manager
15 months agoAE Studio · Los Angeles, California, United States +1
Remote$180K – $240K a yearScience & researchYou will be the person who makes the research acceleration model actually run. You own projects end to end: turning abstract research ideas into clear roadmaps, keeping technical teams unblocked and moving fast, and making sure progress is visible to leadership, collaborators,…
Irvine Clinical Research · Riverside, California, United States
On-siteFull-time$66.6K – $80K a yearScience & researchManage daily operations for assigned clinical trial projects; Perform study procedures in accordance with GCP and study protocols; Organize and maintain study data in a complete and correct manner in CRIO eSource/CTMS; Cultivate enthusiastic and professional relationships with…
Research Scientist - Reinforcement Learning
15 months agoInstitute of Foundation Models · Sunnyvale, California, United States
On-siteFull-time$150K – $450K a yearScience & researchWe 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 (Organ Perfusion)
15 months agoUntil · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeMid level$120K – $150K a yearScience & researchWe are seeking a Scientist to join our whole organ preservation team. You will apply your experience in perfusion, preservation, viability assessment and your passion for rapid protocol development to make successful large organ cryopreservation a reality.
Ambient.ai · Redwood City, California, United States
HybridFull-timeSenior$180K – $230K a yearScience & researchAmbient.ai is hiring a Senior Applied Research Scientist to build the next generation of foundation models for computer vision. You will join a team responsible for building multimodal models with state-of-the-art performance on real-world vision benchmarks. In this role,…
Applied Scientist (ML)
15 months agoSamaya AI · Mountain View, California, United States
$190K – $275K a yearScience & researchAs an Applied Scientist (ML) at Samaya, you will collaborate closely with our product and engineering teams, and use cutting-edge ML research to transform how users interact with Samaya in their daily workflows. You'll drive impact across the entire ML lifecycle: from problem…
Research Scientist
16 months agoATG · New York, United States +1
HybridFull-time$200K – $300K a yearScience & researchYou’ll drive original research at the boundaries of AI, working on new models, algorithms, and architectures for reasoning in complex environments. Your work will shape the scientific agenda of the lab and inform everything we build. You’ll have autonomy to pursue fundamental…
Researcher, Interpretability
16 months agoOpenAI · San Francisco, California, United States
HybridFull-timeMid level$380K – $500K a yearScience & researchThe Interpretability team studies internal representations of deep learning models. We are interested in using representations to understand model behavior, and in engineering models to have more understandable representations. We are particularly interested in applying our…
Director of Formulation Chemistry
17 months agoMonarch · Emeryville, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeDirectorScience & researchWe offer opportunities to do your life’s work while helping solve one of the most important technical and moral challenges of our time.
Research Scientist
17 months agoLead Allies Inc · San Francisco, California, United States
HybridFull-timeScience & researchThe Client is seeking a variety of Machine Learning Scientist to help advance how we evaluate and understand AI models. You’ll help design and analyze experiments that uncover what makes models useful, trustworthy and capable through human preference signals. Your work will…
Research Scientist
17 months agoGoodfire · San Francisco, California, United States
$200K – $400K a yearScience & researchWe’re looking for a Research Scientist to join our team and develop new techniques for understanding and steering large AI models. You’ll work closely with a small, mission-driven team of scientists and engineers to conduct novel research, build practical tools, and push the…
Researcher, Training
18 months agoOpenAI · San Francisco, California, United States
HybridFull-time$300K – $600K a yearScience & researchOpenAI's Training team is responsible for producing the large language models that power our research, our products, and ultimately bring us closer to AGI. Achieving this goal requires combining deep research into improving our current architecture, datasets and optimization…
Research Scientist - World Modeling
18 months agoInstitute of Foundation Models · Sunnyvale, California, United States
On-siteFull-time$150K – $450K a yearScience & researchWe 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.
Research Scientist
19 months agoOpenAI · San Francisco, California, United States
Full-time$250K – $445K a yearScience & researchAs a Research Scientist here, you will develop innovative machine learning techniques and advance the research agenda of the team you work on, while also collaborating with peers across the organization. We are looking for people who want to discover simple, generalizable ideas…
Research Scientist
19 months agoFAR.AI · Berkeley, California, United States +2
HybridFull-time$150K – $250K a yearScience & researchWe organize our team as Members of Technical Staff, with significant overlap between scientist and engineer roles. As a scientist, you will take ownership of and accelerate existing AI alignment research agendas. You can publish research findings broadly and engage with the AI…
Research Scientist - NLP
19 months agoInstitute of Foundation Models · Sunnyvale, California, United States
On-siteFull-time$150K – $450K a yearScience & researchWe 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.
Lab Technician
20 months agoOmni Design Technologies · Milpitas, California, United States
On-siteContractScience & researchAssist in setting up and maintaining test automation infrastructure for ASIC validation.; Operate and maintain temperature chambers, oscilloscopes, power supplies, digital multimeter and other lab equipment.; Assemble, rework, and debug PCB prototypes and test setups.; Conduct…
AI Senior Scientist
21 months agoVivodyne · San Francisco, California, United States
Senior$220K – $270K a yearScience & researchThe AI Team at Vivodyne tackles some of the hardest and most interesting challenges in science and engineering. With access to extraordinarily feature-rich and massive-scale Vivodyne human tissue imagery, we are advancing the frontiers of artificial intelligence and its…
DigitalFish, Inc · San Francisco, California, United States
HybridFull-time$110K – $150K a yearScience & researchAs part of a small and dynamic team, you'll advance imaging technology for camera capture and display systems used in wearable MR/AR devices, enabling and enhancing the augmented reality experiences possible on the device. Projects will include camera color processing, camera…
Updated 07 Nov 2026 10:21 UTC from the OptiTalent job library.