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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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Researcher, Safety Oversight
21 months agoOpenAI · San Francisco, California, United States
Full-timeMid level$380K – $500K a yearScience & researchThe Safety Systems team is responsible for various safety work to ensure our best models can be safely deployed to the real world to benefit the society, and is at the forefront of OpenAI's mission to build and deploy safe AGI, driving our commitment to AI safety and fostering…
Research Scientist - Computational Chemistry
21 months agoMonarch · Emeryville, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeScience & researchDevelop molecular representations and predictive models for compound effects on mosquito landing and related behavioral endpoints; Combine chemical structures and descriptors with formulation, dose, assay, environmental, and behavioral data; Design prospective evaluations that…
Lab Technician - Behavioral Assays
21 months agoMonarch · Emeryville, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeScience & 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 Fellow
21 months agoGoodfire · San Francisco, California, United States
TemporaryLead / staffScience & researchWe are seeking talented, early-career researchers or engineers to execute a research project in AI interpretability. Fellows will work alongside leading interpretability researchers at Goodfire, receiving structured mentorship while contributing to important work in AI…
Researcher, Models
23 months agoCartesia · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-time$180K – $350K a yearScience & researchCartesia is an equal opportunity employer. We consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected status.
Human Neuroscientist
23 months agoNudge · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeScience & researchAs a human neuroscientist at Nudge, you will:
Postdoctoral Researcher, Jain Lab
23 months agoArc Institute · Palo Alto, California, United States
From $80K a yearScience & researchThe Jain Lab is looking for motivated, hard-working and curious applicants. At a high level, we study how organisms interact with their environments – how “what we breathe” and “what we eat” affects our metabolism and disease progression. More specifically, we are focused on…
Magic · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeLead / staff$275K – $550K a yearScience & researchAs a Research Engineer on the RL Research & Environments team, you will design and operate the data, evaluation, and environment systems that improve model capabilities after pretraining.
Research Scientist
25 months agoSkild AI · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States +1
$100K – $300K a yearScience & researchAt Skild AI, we are building the world's first general purpose robotic intelligence that is robust and adapts to unseen scenarios without failing. We believe massive scale through data-driven machine learning is the key to unlocking these capabilities for the widespread…
Applied 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…
Researcher, Alignment
26 months agoOpenAI · San Francisco, California, United States
Full-time$295K – $500K a yearScience & researchThe Alignment team at OpenAI is dedicated to ensuring that our AI systems are safe, trustworthy, and consistently aligned with human values, even as they scale in complexity and capability. Our work is at the cutting edge of AI research, focusing on developing methodologies…
Research Scientist
26 months agoPhysical Intelligence · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeScience & researchWe are looking for researchers with a record of excellent research results in the fields of machine learning and robotics, at all levels. Successful candidates will have both excellent fundamentals and excellent implementation skills, with a record of both system-building and…
Applied Researcher
28 months agoHaize Labs · New York, United States +1
$175K – $265K a yearScience & researchPush the pareto frontier of model capabilities; Rapidly synthesize RL environments and reward functions / models; Fine-tune agents to hillclimb almost any task in any business you can imagine; Develop the research platform—observability, evaluation, custom reward models,…
Research Manager
30 months agoEmendata · San Francisco, California, United States
SeniorScience & researchAbout Us: At Emendata, we help bridge the gap between data and the real world. We partner with organizations that have a social mission and help them tackle their problems using analytics. Our role in these partnerships goes end to end—we handle everything from wrangling the…
Staff+ Research Scientist, Multi-Agent
30 months agoAnthropic · San Francisco, California, United States +2
HybridLead / staff$500K – $850K a yearScience & researchMulti-Agent systems are becoming an increasingly important part of how AI is deployed, whether via fast small-model subagents inside a product, or large groups of agents solving very large problems. Training Claude to be maximally effective and safe within large groups is a…
Client & Research Success Director
32 months agoSwayable · New York, United States +1
Director$150K – $170K a yearScience & researchSwayable is looking for a Client & Research Success Director to help enterprise clients turn research into stronger messaging, creative, and marketing decisions. You’ll serve as a strategic advisor to leading brands and agencies, developing pre-testing programs, guiding…
AI Anime Researcher
33 months agoSpellbrush · Tokyo, Japan +1
Full-timeScience & researchWe're looking for an experienced AI Researcher to join our team and help us push the boundaries of AI and anime. You'll design and develop large-scale diffusion models with a primary focus on images, and secondary focus on other modalities like 3d, text, video and audio.
Staff / Principal Research Scientist, Models - USA
39 months agoInworld · Mountain View, California, United States
HybridFull-timeLead / staff$270K – $500K a yearScience & researchInworld is a research lab and inference provider focused on realtime AI for consumer-facing applications. We build first-party speech models, serve LLMs, and run the inference behind modular APIs designed for high-volume, realtime workloads.
Principal Scientist
41 months agoBee Genius · San Diego, California, United States
Lead / staff$130K – $200K a yearScience & researchJob Description: We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Principal Scientist to join our team. As a Principal Scientist, you will be responsible for leading scientific research and development projects, providing technical expertise, and driving innovation in our…
Researcher, Safety Training
42 months agoOpenAI · San Francisco, California, United States +1
Full-time$380K – $500K a yearScience & researchSafety Research at OpenAI is responsible for ensuring our most capable models can be safely deployed in the real world. The Safety Training team develops the research and engineering methods that shape model behavior through post-training, reinforcement learning, evaluation,…
Updated 07 Nov 2026 10:21 UTC from the OptiTalent job library.