Senior Research Scientist jobs in California: 26 open roles
26 open senior 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 $241,500 a year.
Open senior research scientist jobs in California
Verified against the employer’s own career site within the last week.
- Senior Research Scientist, Intelligent Editing (Multimodality)
TikTok · San Jose, California, United States
Nov 13, 2026
- Senior Research Scientist, TikTok - Trust and Safety
TikTok · San Jose, California, United States
Nov 13, 2026
- Senior Research Scientist/AI Software Engineer, LLM/Agent Platform (TikTok-Content Ecology AI Innovation & Platform) - TikTok Content Ecology
TikTok · San Jose, California, United States
Nov 13, 2026
- Senior Research Scientist/Software Engineer, TikTok-Neural Graphics and World Models
TikTok · San Jose, California, United States
Nov 13, 2026
- Senior Research Scientist, Conversational and Agentic Systems, Google Research
Google · Mountain View, CA, USA
Nov 12, 2026
- Senior Research Scientist, Silicon Spin Qubits
Q-Ctrl · Los Angeles, CA, USA
$150k–$225k · Nov 7, 2026
- Senior Research Scientist, Security and Privacy
NVIDIA · Santa Clara, CA
$184k–$299k · Nov 6, 2026
- Senior Research Scientist
Pixar · Emeryville, CA
$220k–$285k · Nov 6, 2026
- Senior Research Scientist
General Motors · Sunnyvale, California, United States of America
Nov 6, 2026
- Senior Research Scientist, Quantum Compilation
Q-Ctrl · Los Angeles, CA, USA
$150k–$225k · Nov 5, 2026
- Senior Research Scientist, Quantum Demonstration Workflows, Quantum AI
CompliancePoint · Goleta, CA
$174k–$252k · Nov 4, 2026
- Senior Research Scientist, AI Systems & AGI Strategy
DeepMind Technologies · Mountain View, CA
Nov 4, 2026
- Senior Research Scientist, EDA and AI
Nvidia Corporation in · Santa Clara, CA
$192k–$305k · Nov 4, 2026
- Senior Research Scientist, AI-Enabled Secure Systems
Nvidia · Santa Clara, CA
$224k–$357k · Nov 4, 2026
- Senior Research Scientist, Generative Video AI
Odyssey · Santa Clara, CA
Nov 4, 2026
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Senior Research Scientist pay in California
13 of the 26 open listings state pay, and their median is $241,500 a year. See the national senior research scientist salary breakdown.
Employers hiring senior research scientists in California
- TikTok 4
- Nvidia 3
- NVIDIA 2
- Q-Ctrl 2
- Airbus Ventures 1
- ByteDance 1
- CompliancePoint 1
- DeepMind Technologies 1
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