Research Scientist Jobs in California.

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Research scientists design and run the studies that create new knowledge. Find research scientist roles from employers hiring worldwide.

Total jobs
131
positions indexed
New today
7
last 24 hours
Companies
63
actively hiring
Worldwide remote
0
from anywhere
OpenAI
Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Personality and Model Behavior
OpenAI
⚡ Apply early San Francisco Hybrid $380,000–$500,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 2d ago
OpenAI
Research Engineer/Research Scientist - Personal AGI, North Stars
OpenAI
⚡ Apply early San Francisco Hybrid $380,000–$500,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 2d ago
OpenAI
Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Personalization
OpenAI
⚡ Apply early San Francisco Hybrid $380,000–$500,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 2d ago
OpenAI
Research Engineer / Research Scientist -Personal AGI, Proactivity
OpenAI
⚡ Apply early San Francisco Hybrid $380,000–$500,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 2d ago
OpenAI
Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Memory
OpenAI
⚡ Apply early San Francisco Hybrid $380,000–$500,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 2d ago
OpenAI
Research Engineer / Research Scientist- Personal AGI (Post Training)
OpenAI
⚡ Apply early San Francisco Hybrid $380,000–$500,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 2d ago
Generalist
Research Scientist: Pretraining
Generalist
⚡ Apply early San Francisco Bay Area (San Ma... Onsite $240,000–$350,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 2d ago
Cohere
Senior Research Scientist, Model Evaluation
Cohere
⚡ Apply early Toronto Hybrid CA$250,000–CA$535,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 2d ago
Generalist
Research Scientist: Post-Training
Generalist
⚡ Apply early San Francisco Bay Area (San Ma... Onsite $240,000–$350,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 3d ago
LS
Principal Scientist / Associate Director, Agentic AI Research for Materials Science
Lila Sciences
⚡ Apply early Cambridge, MA USA; San Francis... Onsite $288,000–$420,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 3d ago
LS
Research Scientist, Frontier Capabilities
Lila Sciences
⚡ Apply early Cambridge, MA USA; San Francis... Onsite $176,000–$304,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 3d ago
SA
Senior / Staff Machine Learning Research Scientist, Agents
Scale AI
⚡ Apply early San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA... Onsite $218,400–$273,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 3d ago
OpenEvidence
Research Scientist
OpenEvidence
⚡ Apply early San Francisco Onsite
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 3d ago
Apolloresearch
Research Scientist/Engineer (Science of Scheming)
Apolloresearch
⚡ Apply early London & San Francisco Onsite
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 3d ago
Apolloresearch
Research Scientist/Engineer (Evaluations)
Apolloresearch
⚡ Apply early London & San Francisco Onsite
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 3d ago
Labelbox
Forward Deployed Research Scientist
Labelbox
⚡ Apply early San Francisco Bay Area Onsite $200,000–$300,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 4d ago
SA
Research Scientist - Frontier Benchmarks
Snorkel AI
⚡ Apply early New York City, NY (Hybrid); Sa... Hybrid $200,000–$350,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 4d ago
OpenAI
People Research Data Scientist, AI Fairness & Bias
OpenAI
⚡ Apply early San Francisco Hybrid $198,000–$220,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 4d ago
Iambic Therapeutics, Inc
Research Scientist I/II, Bioanalytical Sciences & Assay Development
Iambic Therapeutics, Inc
⚡ Apply early San Diego HQ Onsite $113,600–$156,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 4d ago
Chai Discovery
Research Scientist
Chai Discovery
⚡ Apply early San Francisco office Onsite
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 6d ago
Mercor
Research Scientist, APEX Benchmarks
Mercor
⚡ Apply early San Francisco Onsite $200,000–$500,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 1w ago
Idler
Research Scientist
Idler
⚡ Apply early San Francisco Onsite $200,000–$500,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 1w ago
Nuro
Senior/Staff Machine Learning Research Scientist: Generative Modeling for Planning
Nuro
⚡ Apply early Mountain View, California (HQ) Onsite $193,930–$352,290
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 1w ago
Nuro
Machine Learning Research Scientist: Generative Modeling for Planning
Nuro
⚡ Apply early Mountain View, California (HQ) Onsite $160,360–$240,540
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 1w ago
Nuro
ML Research Scientist, Prediction & Smart Agents
Nuro
⚡ Apply early Mountain View, California (HQ) Onsite $193,930–$291,150
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 1w ago

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