Research Scientist jobs in California: 88 open roles
88 open research scientist jobs in California, taken from employers’ own career sites and checked to still be open. Listings that state pay show a median of $295,000 a year.
Open research scientist jobs in California
Verified against the employer’s own career site within the last week.
- Research Scientist, Discovery (Engineering & Applied Sciences)
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA, USA
$500k–$850k · Nov 6, 2026
- Research Scientist - Salesforce AI Research
Salesforce · Palo Alto, CA
$117k–$314k · Nov 6, 2026
- Research Scientist
Latent · San Francisco, CA
$225k–$300k · Nov 6, 2026
- Research Scientist, Discovery (Engineering & Applied Sciences)
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA
$500k–$850k · Nov 5, 2026
- Research Scientist, AI/ML Chicago, IL
ESR Healthcare · Chino, CA
$143k–$181k · Nov 5, 2026
- Research Scientist, AI
Substrate · San Francisco, CA
$150k–$275k · Nov 5, 2026
- Research Scientist
David AI · San Francisco, CA
$210k–$360k · Nov 5, 2026
- Research scientist - AI Infra - Global Frontier Tech Recruitment Program - 2027 Start (PhD) Glo[...]
ByteDance · San Jose, CA
$213k–$388k · Nov 5, 2026
- Research Scientist, Applied Research
Chai Discovery · San Francisco, CA, USA
Nov 4, 2026
- Research Scientist, Neurology AI and Brain Data Science (24-Month Fixed-Term)
Stanfordlivetickets · Palo Alto, CA
Nov 4, 2026
- Research Scientist, GenAI, DeepMind
DeepMind Technologies · Mountain View, CA
$207k–$300k · Nov 4, 2026
- Research Scientist
Alexander Chapman · San Francisco, CA
Nov 4, 2026
- Research Scientist, AI for the Chemical Sciences
Caltech (California) · Pasadena, CA
$80k–$113k · Nov 3, 2026
- Research Scientist - Protein Design & ML Systems
Geodesiclab · Menlo Park, CA
Nov 3, 2026
- Research Scientist, Modeling
Tenera · San Francisco, CA
Nov 3, 2026
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Research Scientist pay in California
45 of the 88 open listings state pay, and their median is $295,000 a year. See the national research scientist salary breakdown.
Employers hiring research scientists in California
- Anthropic 5
- Google 5
- Luma AI 5
- Periodic Labs 5
- DeepMind 4
- Scale AI 4
- Stanford University 4
- Nvidia 3
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