Research Scientist Jobs in California

98 Research Scientist jobs in California, taken from 54 employers' own career pages.

Open roles: 98
Employers: 54
Remote: 3%
Typical pay: $150k–346k
Verified live (7d): 93

Pay is advertised by 82% of these postings (80 of 98 in USD), so read it as what is offered rather than what is paid.

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Research Scientist, Multiregional Electrophysiology of Rodent CognitionAsteraAlameda, CA$125k–175kPosted 54 days agovia ashby
Research Scientist - Humanoid RoboticsAppliedSunnyvale, CA$250k–423kPosted 58 days agovia ashby
Research ScientistTessera LabsSan Jose Office (HQ), CA$200k–300kPosted 58 days agovia ashby
Research Scientist/Engineer, Deep Brain Two Photon Imaging and OptogeneticsAsteraAlameda, CA$135k–220kPosted 62 days agovia ashby
Research Scientist I/II, ImmunologySan Diego HQ, CA$113k–156kPosted 62 days agovia ashby
Research Scientist, Human Data & EvaluationContraSan Francisco, CARemote$150k–200kPosted 62 days agovia ashby
Research Scientist, All-Optical Investigation of Rodent CognitionAsteraAlameda, CA$80k–150kPosted 63 days agovia ashby
Research Scientist / Engineer, Functional Ultrasound ImagingAsteraAlameda, CA$120k–220kPosted 63 days agovia ashby
Research Scientist II/Senior, Computational ChemistrySan Diego HQ, CARemote$124k–172kPosted 65 days agovia ashby
Research Scientist, Life Sciences (Chemistry)AnthropicSan Francisco, CA$300k–320kPosted 65 days agovia greenhouse
2027 Principal Research Scientist - Directed Energy and Thermal Physics - Manhattan Beach CACORP-Corporate OfficeManhattan Beach, CA$114k–171kPosted 67 days agovia workday
Research Scientist (post-training)GenmoSan Francisco HQ, CAPosted 67 days agovia ashby
Research Scientist (diffusion)GenmoSan Francisco HQ, CAPosted 67 days agovia ashby
Senior Principal Research Scientist, Computational ChemistryIDEAYA Biosciences, Inc.South San Francisco HQ, CA$196k–242kPosted 68 days agovia workday
Principal Research Scientist - Frontier Industrial AIAVEVA SolutionsSan Leandro, CA$214k–356kPosted 73 days agovia workday
Research Scientist, Robot Foundation ModelWayveSunnyvale, CA$370k–419kPosted 73 days agovia greenhouse
Principal Research Scientist, Robot Foundation ModelWayveSunnyvale, CA$407k–512kPosted 73 days agovia greenhouse
Senior Research Scientist – Molecular DiagnosticsBosch GroupSunnyvale, CA$170k–200kPosted 74 days agovia smartrecruiters
Research Scientist – Molecular DiagnosticsBosch GroupSunnyvale, CA$150k–170kPosted 74 days agovia smartrecruiters
Staff Research Scientist - VLM / VLAGeneral Motors (GM)Sunnyvale, CA$219k–335kPosted 74 days agovia workday

Showing 20 of 98. 93 were confirmed live on the employer’s own board in the last 7 days.

Skills in demand

Across 144 research scientist postings that named at least one skill

Python62%
PyTorch44%
Large Language Models33%
C++22%
TensorFlow16%
Natural Language Processing10%
Google Cloud Platform7.6%
RSS6.9%
The MathWorks MATLAB6.9%
pandas5.6%

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