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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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161–180 of 886 jobs
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…
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…
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.
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…
Hardware Lab Manager
2 weeks agoMatX · Mountain View, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeSenior$160K – $275K a yearScience & researchWe are seeking a hands-on Lab Manager to oversee daily operations and organization for our hardware lab. This is an active role focused on maintaining equipment, board rework, bench organization, inventory, and remote support. The ideal candidate handles technical…
DoorDash USA · California, United States +3
Full-timeLead / staff$193.8K – $285K a yearScience & researchThe Decision Systems team helps DoorDash teams make faster, more rigorous, and more trustworthy decisions. We build the analytical systems, statistical methods, and product experiences that power experimentation, causal inference, rollout analysis, metric interpretation, and…
Staff / Senior Scientist, Assay Research
3 weeks agoGlyphic Biotechnologies · Berkeley, California, United States
Full-timeLead / staff$123K – $187.6K a yearScience & researchWork environment:
Scientist II, Screening
3 weeks agoProfluent · Emeryville, California, United States
On-siteMid level$144K – $160K a yearScience & researchProfluent is seeking a motivated, rigorous, and collaborative scientist to establish and lead a centralized gene editor screening function. High-quality experimental data is a core input to our protein design models, and this role will own the screening operations that produce…
Scientist, Discovery Cheminformatics
3 weeks agoOctant Bio · Emeryville, California, United States
Mid level$145K – $185K a yearScience & researchOctant is seeking a scientist with a strong background across the chemical and computational domains. You will apply established and emerging cheminformatics and machine learning methods to drive Octant’s small molecule drug discovery programs. This is a unique opportunity to…
Project Geologist
3 weeks agoApex Companies · Pleasant Hill, California, United States
Full-timeSenior$100K – $130K a yearScience & researchConduct and manage environmental investigations, soil and groundwater remediation, soil gas and indoor air evaluations, etc., for a variety of clients with complex technical and regulatory issues; Meet with clients and regulatory agencies, including the US Environmental…
Senior Research Manager
3 weeks 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 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 across a variety…
Bioengineer, Lead Scientist
3 weeks agoLatchBio · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeLead / staffScience & researchOur mission is to advance humanity's ability to engineer biology. We approach this by understanding and improving AI’s application to biology across basic research, drug discovery, and biosecurity. We are a team of engineers, scientists, and operations specialists who are…
Research Scientist – Diffusion Models
3 weeks agoGranica · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-time$160K – $240K a yearScience & researchDiffusion models have transformed image, video, and multimodal AI.
Associate Director, Computational Chemistry
3 weeks agoRevolution Medicines · Redwood City, California, United States
Director$186K – $233K a yearScience & researchWe are seeking an accomplished and creative Associate Director to join our Computational Chemistry team, reporting to the Head of Computational Chemistry. A core priority of this role is to lead computational support for drug discovery programs, using structure-based drug…
Mecka · Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada +2
HybridFull-time$185K – $210K a yearScience & researchWe're looking for an experienced Research Scientist to advance the capabilities of large-scale vision-language and multimodal foundation models.
HTL Materials Synthetic Chemist
3 weeks agoTandem PV · Fremont, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeMid levelScience & researchThe HTL Materials Synthetic Chemist will report to the Vice President of Quality and drive technical advancement and continuous improvement of our HTL and its successful integration into devices. This role combines hands-on work in the R&D laboratory with cross-functional…
Q-CTRL · Los Angeles, California, United States
HybridFull-timeLead / staff$185K – $265K a yearScience & researchThe Quantum Computing Research team is dedicated to developing innovative methods to get the best possible performance from contemporary and next generation quantum computers. We push toward quantum advantage by developing cutting-edge applications, employing AI, control…
General Manager, Research Operations
3 weeks agoPhysical Intelligence · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeExecutiveScience & researchResearch Operations supports the hands-on work behind our research, from collecting and evaluating data to testing and deploying our own tools and systems. The work changes quickly as our research evolves, so the team needs to be both highly organized and adaptable. The…
Scientist I, Medicinal Chemistry
3 weeks agoRevolution Medicines · Redwood City, California, United States
Entry level$119K – $149K a yearScience & researchRevolution Medicines is seeking a scientifically talented individual to join our world-class Discovery Research organization as a Scientist I, Medicinal Chemistry. This individual contributor role will work as a key member of an integrated, multidisciplinary drug discovery team…
Updated 07 Nov 2026 10:21 UTC from the OptiTalent job library.