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
265
positions indexed
New today
8
last 24 hours
Companies
123
actively hiring
Worldwide remote
0
from anywhere
NVIDIA
Principal Research Scientist, Synthetic Data Generation
NVIDIA
⚡ Apply early US, CA, Santa Clara Onsite
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 1mo ago
CO
Research Scientist, Data Analysis
Convergentresearch
⚡ Apply early San Francisco, CA Onsite
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 1mo ago
SN
Principal / Staff Applied Research Scientist
Snowflake
⚡ Apply early US-CA-Menlo Park Onsite $236,000–$339,200
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 1mo ago
Rad AI
Senior ML Research Scientist
Rad AI
⚡ Apply early San Francisco - Onsite Hybrid $170,000–$220,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 1mo ago
OpenAI
Research Engineer/Research Scientist- Personal AGI, Model Experience
OpenAI
⚡ Apply early San Francisco Hybrid $380,000–$500,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 1mo ago
OpenAI
Research Engineer/Research Scientist - Personal AGI, North Stars
OpenAI
⚡ Apply early San Francisco Hybrid $380,000–$500,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 1mo ago
OpenAI
Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Personalization
OpenAI
⚡ Apply early San Francisco Hybrid $380,000–$500,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 1mo ago
OpenAI
Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Memory
OpenAI
⚡ Apply early San Francisco Hybrid $380,000–$500,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 1mo ago
OpenAI
Research Engineer / Research Scientist- Personal AGI (Post Training)
OpenAI
⚡ Apply early San Francisco Hybrid $380,000–$500,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 1mo ago
Generalist
Research Scientist: Pretraining
Generalist
⚡ Apply early San Francisco Bay Area (San Ma... Onsite $240,000–$350,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 1mo ago
Generalist
Research Scientist: Post-Training
Generalist
⚡ Apply early San Francisco Bay Area (San Ma... Onsite $240,000–$350,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 1mo ago
OpenEvidence
Research Scientist
OpenEvidence
⚡ Apply early San Francisco Onsite
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 1mo ago
Apolloresearch
Research Scientist/Engineer (Science of Scheming)
Apolloresearch
⚡ Apply early London & San Francisco Onsite
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 1mo ago
Apolloresearch
Research Scientist/Engineer (Evaluations)
Apolloresearch
⚡ Apply early London & San Francisco Onsite
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 1mo ago
Labelbox
Forward Deployed Research Scientist
Labelbox
⚡ Apply early San Francisco Bay Area Onsite $200,000–$300,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 1mo ago
Astera Institute
Research Scientist - Simplex
Astera Institute
⚡ Apply early Emeryville HQ Onsite $140,000–$200,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 1mo 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 1mo ago
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Medicinal Chemistry Senior Principal Research Scientist
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
⚡ Apply early San Diego, CA Onsite $164,400–$246,600
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 1mo ago
Idler
Research Scientist
Idler
⚡ Apply early San Francisco Onsite $200,000–$500,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 1mo ago
NVIDIA
Senior Applied Research Scientist, Data Curation
NVIDIA
⚡ Apply early US, CA, Santa Clara Onsite
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 2mos ago
Centific
Principal Research Scientist, Reinforcement Learning
Centific
⚡ Apply early East Palo Alto, CA Onsite
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 2mos ago
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Computational Genomics Senior Research Scientist
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
⚡ Apply early San Diego, CA Hybrid $129,900–$194,900
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 2mos ago
Roche
Principal Machine Learning Scientist, Frontier Research, AI for Drug Discovery (AIDD)
Roche
⚡ Apply early South San Francisco Onsite $192,500–$357,500
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 2mos ago
IF
Senior Scientist, Biochemistry & Research Applications
IFF
⚡ Apply early Palo Alto, CA, USA Onsite
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 2mos ago
Anthropic
Research Scientist, Life Sciences (Chemistry)
Anthropic
⚡ Apply early San Francisco, CA Onsite $300,000–$320,000
● New 👁 Seen ✓ Applied 2mos ago

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