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Palo Alto, California8 days ago

Remote

$20–$55 Per Hour

Prepare, format, and review complex documents in Word and PDF, utilizing advanced features such as tracked changes, form filling, and data extraction. Demonstrated expertise in preparing and reviewing Word and PDF documents (tracked changes, formatting, data extraction, document review).

Los Angeles, CA30+ days ago

The Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences at UCLA Samueli invites highly qualified applicants for Visiting Researcher, Visiting Project Scientist, and Visiting Scholar positions (all ranks) during the 2025-2026 Academic Year. The level of appointment will be commensurate with the applicant's qualifications.

Berkeley, CA30+ days ago

$138,200–$228,000 Per Year

Duties will include: 1) fundraising with private and public organizations, including serving as Principal Investigator and writing grants to support faculty and graduate students in health and aging technologies and services; 2) coordinating and implementing collaborative programs between industry and academic partners; 3) ensuring that project activities work seamlessly, as appropriate, across all four CITRIS campuses; 4) acting as a CITRIS liaison to UC Davis Health clinical programs; 5) organizing conferences, workshops, etc. in the above domain areas, including digital health and age tech, with the aim of recruiting faculty, student, and industrial interest, showcasing research and advancing the field; and 6) expanding the reputation of CITRIS as an international leader in technology-enabled programs for health, aging and digital health innovation. As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts a conditional offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; received notice of any allegations or are currently the subject of any administrative or disciplinary proceedings involving misconduct; have left a position after receiving notice of allegations or while under investigation in an administrative or disciplinary proceeding involving misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of misconduct with a previous employer.

Livermore, CA30+ days ago

Experience developing, implementing and applying advanced statistical or machine learning models and algorithms using modern software libraries such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or similar as evidence through medium to large scale deep learning models and experiments. Demonstrated ability and desire to obtain substantial domain knowledge in fields of application to enable effective communication with subject matter experts, and to identify novel, impactful applications of machine learning.

San Francisco, CA11 days ago

You'll play a critical role in helping your team understand user needs and will drive impact at all stages of product development, ensuring products are useful, usable, and helpful. You will explore user behaviors and motivations by conducting primary research, including: field studies, interviews, diary studies, ethnography, surveys, usability testing, and logs analysis.

Livermore, CA30+ days ago

An employees position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs. Our mission spans four critical national security areas: nuclear deterrence, threat preparedness, energy security, and multi-domain defense, empowering teams to take on the toughest challenges of today and tomorrow.

Livermore, CA30+ days ago

$122,028–$143,328 Per Year

Develop and extend mathematical programming (e.g., mixed-integer programming, nonlinear programming, and mixed-integer nonlinear programming) formulations of core critical infrastructure operations and planning optimization models. You will be an integral part of a multi-disciplinary team of researchers, with skill sets ranging from computer and climate science to power and industrial engineering; projects are typically collaborative with partner academic institutions and other national labs.

San Francisco, CA30+ days ago

$90,000–$102,000 Per Year

Responsibilities may include: designing and building quantitative models and applying econometric analysis to economic and financial data; valuation analyses; reviewing, summarizing, and analyzing industry trends; creating trial exhibits and presentation materials; writing code for complex data analysis; participating in client meetings; and drafting memos and expert reports. NERA's experts assess and, when appropriate, testify regarding the economic aspects of various competitive competition-related questions involving, for example, mergers and acquisitions, foreclosure and exclusionary conduct (e.g., tying, bundling, and refusals to deal), horizontal and vertical restraints, monopolization and abuse of dominant position, and collusion.

Mountain View, CA30+ days ago

$153,000–$157,000 Per Year

For more than 30 years, we have been helping our customers integrate electronics and controls with mechanical design to expand product value, develop AI, simulation and data-driven digital twins to drive better decisions, and deliver advanced HPC and cloud solutions to support unlimited idea exploration. With more than 3,000 engineers, scientists, and creative thinkers in 25 countries, we help solve our customer's toughest challenges and deliver unparalleled service, helping the innovators innovate, drive better decisions, and turn today's problems into tomorrow's opportunities.

San Jose, CA30+ days ago

$262,500–$299,600 Per Year

technical reports of pre-trained LLMs, SSL techniques, model pre-training optimization) Member of team that has trained a large language model from scratch (10B + parameters, 500B+ tokens) Publications in deep learning theory Publications at ACL, NAACL and EMNLP, Neurips, ICML or ICLR Behavioral Models: PhD focus on topics in geometric deep learning (Graph Neural Networks, Sequential Models, Multivariate Time Series) Multiple papers on topics relevant to training models on graph and sequential data structures at KDD, ICML, NeurIPs, ICLR Worked on scaling graph models to greater than 50m nodes Experience with large scale deep learning based recommender systems Experience with production real-time and streaming environments Contributions to common open source frameworks (pytorch-geometric, DGL) Proposed new methods for inference or representation learning on graphs or sequences Worked datasets with 100m+ users. Optimization (Training & Inference): PhD focused on topics related to optimizing training of very large deep learning models Multiple years of experience and/or publications on one of the following topics: Model Sparsification, Quantization, Training Parallelism/Partitioning Design, Gradient Checkpointing, Model Compression Experience optimizing training for a 10B+ model Deep knowledge of deep learning algorithmic and/or optimizer design Experience with compiler design.

Santa Barbara, CA30+ days ago

$119,800–$234,700 Per Year

Required qualifications: Do you have a Bachelors Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years related experience (e.g., statistics predictive analytics, research) OR Masters Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research) OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 1+ year(s) related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research) OR equivalent experience?. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $158,400 - $258,000 per year.

Stanford, CA30+ days ago

In this era of burgeoning social-science research, the Stanford Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (IRiSS) facilitates first-rate interdisciplinary collaborations, trains the next generation of scholars, and incubates medium- to long-term research projects to address critical social challenges. The Predoctoral Researchers Program at the Stanford Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (IRiSS) aims to expand research capacity in the social sciences, and strengthen the pool of scholars, while providing opportunities through mentorship of new research scholars.

Mountain View, CA30+ days ago

Whether we"re shaping the future of sustainability, optimizing algorithms, or pioneering AI systems, our teams strive to continuously progress science, advance society, and improve the lives of billions of people. When you apply, you will be considered for Student Researcher positions across all of Google"s research teams - including Google DeepMind, Google Research, Google Cloud and more.

Davis, CA30+ days ago

$30.60–$53.69 Per Hour

Misconduct Disclosure Requirement: As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts a conditional offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; received notice of any allegations or are currently the subject of any administrative or disciplinary proceedings involving misconduct; have left a position after receiving notice of allegations or while under investigation in an administrative or disciplinary proceeding involving misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of misconduct with a previous employer. Skills to analyze options and solve problems independently on assigned projects while utilizing available resources to complete work as assigned efficiently; skills and ability to develop creative solutions to general problems.

San Francisco, California30+ days ago

Lost Hills, CA30+ days ago

$70,500–$75,000 Per Year

Wonderful Orchards is a part of The Wonderful Company, a privately held $5 billion global company dedicated to harvesting health and happiness around the world through its iconic consumer brands which include Wonderful Pistachios, Wonderful Halos, POM Wonderful, FIJI Water, Teleflora, and JUSTIN Wine. As a member of R&D team which is responsible for validating and creating farming innovations, Technical Services Researchers implement daily, seasonal and yearly technical and research tasks at their base location and as needed across all farming locations.

Los Angeles, CA30+ days ago

$17.90–$47 Per Hour

The Semel Institute is seeking a motivated Student Researcher interested in gaining hands-on experience in a human genetics laboratory focused on the study of neurobehavioral traits and neurodevelopmental disorders. At least sophomore standing in the life sciences at an accredited four-year college.

San Jose, CA30+ days ago

$140,000–$150,000 Per Year

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San Francisco, CA30+ days ago

Minimum Qualification(s) - Excellent ability to see the big picture of cultural and societal issues and deliver research outputs: the researcher will need to be able to provide in-depth and interdisciplinary research covering areas such as comparative cultural and philosophical studies, world civilizations, and global affairs, and to identify their long-term implications for our company. Preferred Qualification(s) - No specific academic background is required, but candidates for Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) majors, or having a similar extensive understanding of social sciences and humanities, are preferred.

Los Angeles, CA30+ days ago

$17.90–$47 Per Hour

The Semel Institute is seeking a motivated Student Researcher interested in gaining hands-on experience in a human genetics laboratory focused on the study of neurobehavioral traits and neurodevelopmental disorders. Required: At least sophomore standing in the life sciences at an accredited four-year college.

Novato, CA10 days ago

Full-time

Globally recognized as a pioneer and leader in efforts to target aging — the number one risk factor for diseases including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, cancer, macular degeneration, heart disease, and diabetes — the Buck seeks to help people live better longer. The Buck Institute for Research on Aging is seeking a full-time Bioinformatics and Data Scientist or Postdoctoral Researcher to join a collaborative research team focused on aging, multi-omics, computational biology, and translational data science.

San Francisco, CA24 days ago

Aurora expects commitment to our safety policies from every employee, and seeks candidates who take an active responsibility, can contribute to building an atmosphere of trust, and invest in the organization's long-term success by prioritizing working safely, no matter what. Aurora hires talented people with diverse backgrounds who are ready to help build a transportation ecosystem that will make our roads safer, get crucial goods where they need to go, and make mobility more efficient and accessible for all.

Mountain View, CA30+ days ago

$152,908–$172,022 Per Year

Design and product fluency: A sophisticated understanding of the product development lifecycle (PDLC) and software development lifecycle (SDLC), enabling you to integrate research checkpoints into the existing workflows of designers and engineers seamlessly. We are looking for an expert who can lead our transition into AI-enhanced research operations-acting as the essential "Human-in-the-Loop" to ensure that as we accelerate our workflows, our insights remain grounded, ethical, and highly actionable.

San Francisco, California30+ days ago

Experience Building a Wide Breadth of Systems: You’ve built across many paradigms—retrieval pipelines, reasoning agents, evaluation harnesses, multimodal integrations, or workflow graph systems—and can abstract what makes each effective. Strong Programming and Data Analysis Skills: While you might not consider yourself a software engineer you need to be able to build prototypes of your ideas and then perform the experiments to prove the effectiveness to a F500 Head of AI.

San Francisco, California30+ days ago

This requires creative researchers who don’t just want to drive incremental improvements on benchmarks or optimize an existing process but instead are looking to creatively redefine how software is used. Strong Programming and Data Analysis Skills: While you might not consider yourself a software engineer you need to be able to build prototypes of your ideas and then perform the experiments to prove the effectiveness to a F500 Head of AI.

Mountain View, CA23 days ago

You will explore user behaviors and motivations by conducting primary research, including: field studies, interviews, diary studies, ethnography, surveys, usability testing, and logs analysis. You'll play a critical role in helping your team understand user needs and will drive impact at all stages of product development, ensuring products are useful, usable, and helpful.

San Francisco, California30+ days ago

Researchers integrate diverse components (LLMs, retrievers, evaluators, memory systems, and execution agents) into robust, scalable systems that perform reliably across dynamic enterprise workflows. This requires creative researchers who don’t just want to drive incremental improvements on benchmarks or optimize an existing process but instead are looking to creatively redefine how software is used.

San Francisco, California30+ days ago

Their work identifies the mechanics behind effective communication, delegation, and coordination, in effect establishing the design language for how systems of agents can operate as cohesive, high-performing teams, with capabilities that arise from interaction rather than individual performance. The Multi-Agent Systems team focuses on designing architectures in which multiple agents coordinate to solve problems that require structured interaction across multiple reasoning processes.

San Francisco, California30+ days ago

San Francisco, CA17 days ago

GBO includes the commercial arms of Ads sellers, business development teams, and customer services and support, as well as overlay programs that enable coordinated engagement with Google"s most complex and important customers and partners. You'll play a critical role in helping your team understand user needs and will drive impact at all stages of product development, ensuring products are useful, usable, and helpful.

Los Angeles, CA30+ days ago

$150,000–$175,000 Per Year

The role partners closely with fixed‑income investment teams to support investment thesis development and enhance alpha generation, while clearly communicating research findings to a wide range of stakeholders and staying current on relevant academic literature and market developments. The Quantitative Fixed Income Researcher role is highly collaborative, working closely with senior quantitative researchers, the head of quantitative research to design, test, and implement models and investment strategies.

Santa Cruz, CA9 days ago

The core technical challenges include building metric-semantic maps of complex environments, performing robust visual relocalization under appearance change, maintaining long-term map consistency, and achieving accurate monocular localization using both geometric and learning-based approaches-all under real-time constraints on real hardware. We are building solutions that enable devices and agents to understand, localize within, and navigate complex real-world environments-from indoor spaces with dynamic layouts to large-scale outdoor settings.

Mountain View, CA11 days ago

Our team focuses on post-training code specific models like code completion, code embedding models and agentic research for Copilot Coding Agent, Copilot CLI and Copilot Code Review. We are a diverse, entrepreneurial, and multi-disciplinary group of scientists, researchers, and engineers with a passion for using AI to improve the productivity of millions of developers around the world.

Mountain View, CA30+ days ago

This role will work closely with our product, solutions architecture, and engineering teams to generate impactful performance analysis, create high-performance rack-scale designs, and publish cutting-edge ML systems research. Lead a small team of Machine Learning engineersQualifications:PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field and at least 10 years of industry or research experience in the field.

San Diego, CA30+ days ago

Remote

$79,000–$127,650 Per Year

Characterize and integrate biomedical data modalities - digital pathology (whole slide images), neuroimaging (PET, structural and functional MRI), omics (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics), and longitudinal clinical data to develop specialized, domain-specific models for neurodegeneration. All Job Posting Locations: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America, San Diego, California, United States of America, Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America.

Sacramento, California20 days ago

$500–$1,500

Run entirely online, INFOASSA brings together researchers, security practitioners, and academics from diverse backgrounds and walks of life to investigate today’s most pressing issues. Long-term cooperation: For outstanding partners who maintain stable delivery quality, we will sign contracts with them, offer long-term and stable work, and provide additional rewards.

San Francisco, CA30+ days ago

You'll collaborate across research, engineering, product, legal, compliance, and risk teams to design technical guardrails, evaluation frameworks, and monitoring systems that set industry benchmarks for fairness, transparency, and trust. As a Sr Responsible AI Researcher, you will bridge the gap between regulation, ethical principles, and technical innovation, shaping how AI is safely and ethically deployed across our products and services.

Stanford, CA30+ days ago

Project Unleaded within the Center for Human and Planetary Health at the Woods Institute for the Environment is seeking an Applied Scientific Researcher to support and advance research to identify and prioritize the most important sources of lead poisoning globally, develop and test interdisciplinary interventions to mitigate and eliminate these sources, and advance field-appropriate rapid measurement techniques to detect lead in humans and the environment. Working on campus and around the globe, the Woods Institute and its hosted centers and programs combine cutting-edge scholarship, diverse partnerships, and deep engagement across sectors and disciplines to advance just practical solutions for people and the planet.

Los Angeles, CA30+ days ago

Dr. Young is on the steering committee member of the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium (SSGAC), a cooperative enterprise between medical researchers and social scientists that coordinates genetic association studies across the biomedical and social sciences, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration. Daniel Benjamin (UCLA Human Genetics and Anderson School of Management), as well as other prominent SSGAC researchers including Patrick Turley (USC) and Aysu Okbay (Amsterdam UMC).

San Francisco, California30+ days ago

Our mission is to advance the capabilities of frontier AI models on economically meaningful healthcare tasks by building novel datasets, environments, and models. Develop novel evals, RL environments, and benchmarks to reflect real-world healthcare workflows.

CA30+ days ago

Rubrik Agent Cloud accelerates trusted AI agent deployments at scale by monitoring and auditing agentic actions, enforcing real-time guardrails, fine-tuning for accuracy, and undoing agentic mistakes. Academic-to-Industry Bridge Act as a knowledge hub for the team bring SOTA academic concepts recent paper findings and novel techniques into the teams toolkit.

Cupertino, CA18 days ago

In this role, you will play a critical role shaping the future of our LLM efforts, specifically in transforming our models into highly capable, intelligent assistants that power billions of Apple products. Demonstrated expertise in deep learning with a focus on LLMs, post-training, or reinforcement learning, backed by a strong record of academic or real-world accomplishments in these or closely related domains.

Novato, CA9 days ago

$80,000–$85,000 Per Year

Globally recognized as a pioneer and leader in efforts to target aging - the number one risk factor for diseases including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, cancer, macular degeneration, heart disease, and diabetes - the Buck seeks to help people live better longer. The Buck Institute for Research on Aging is seeking a full-time Bioinformatics and Data Scientist or Postdoctoral Researcher to join a collaborative research team focused on aging, multi-omics, computational biology, and translational data science.

Los Angeles, CA24 days ago

Temporary, Part-Time Positions for Visiting Researchers - University of California Los Angeles.

Palo Alto, CA30+ days ago

Rubrik Agent Cloud accelerates trusted AI agent deployments at scale by monitoring and auditing agentic actions, enforcing real-time guardrails, fine-tuning for accuracy and undoing agentic mistakes. Long-Horizon Research: Lead specific, deep-dive research initiatives that require advanced methodology (e.g., novel anomaly detection architectures or LLM-based reasoning for security threats) without the pressure of daily sprint cycles.

Milpitas, CA16 days ago

$181,000–$270,300 Per Year

You will investigate new architectures, new training approaches, optimization methods, and interpretability techniques, then turn research insight into reliable systems through rigorous experimentation, measurement, and collaboration. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows: 75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota; 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%; 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and.

Los Angeles, California30+ days ago

When extending an offer of employment, the University of Southern California considers factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the candidate’s work experience, education/training, key skills, internal peer equity, federal, state, and local laws, contractual stipulations, grant funding, as well as external market and organizational considerations. If you are a current USC employee, please apply to this USC job posting in Workday by copying and pasting this link into your browser: https://wd5.myworkday.com/usc/d/inst/1$9925/9925$131069.htmld

Claremont, California30+ days ago

Collaborate with internal and external research partners, including University of Maryland collaborators on a large MURI project, to formulate research objectives, analyze complex scientific issues, compare engineered and optimal neural network topologies, and develop new topologies for practical implementation. Prepare publication-quality manuscripts, research reports, presentations, and open-source computational tools that communicate original scientific findings for leading journals and professional audiences in biophysics, applied mathematics, and related disciplines.

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Academic Researcher Jobs in California

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Visiting Researchers, Visiting Project Scientists, Visiting Scholars 2025-2026AY-1 University of California Los Angeles

Senior Principal Researcher, Health Informatics & Digital Health Innovation (0379U) - CITRIS University of California

Machine Learning - Postdoctoral Researcher Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Senior UX Researcher, Hardware Google LLC

Uncertainty Quantification for Surrogate Models Postdoctoral Researcher Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Operations Research Postdoctoral Researcher Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

NERA Researcher - AT/Healthcare (Immediate Hire) Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc

3GPP RAN1 Researcher Altair Engineering Inc

Applied Researcher II Capital One Financial Corp

Quantum Error Correction Researcher Microsoft Corp

IRiSS Predoctoral Researcher Stanford University

Student Researcher, 2026 Google LLC

Academic HR Analyst 2 University of California

NERA Researcher – AT/Healthcare (Immediate Hire) Marsh McLennan

R&D Technical Services Researcher The Wonderful Company LLC

Student Researcher UCLA Health System

UX Researcher, Roku TV Roku Inc

Researcher - Interdisciplinary - San Francisco Beijing ByteDance Technology Co Ltd

Student Researcher University of California

Bioinformatics & Data Scientist or Postdoctoral Researcher- Furman lab Buck Institute

Applied Researcher, Perception Aurora Innovation Inc

Staff User Experience Researcher, Foundations and Enablement Khan Academy

Applied AI Researcher, System Discovery Distyl AI

Applied AI Researcher, Benchmarking Distyl AI

Qualitative UX Researcher, Customer Engagement and AI Google LLC

Applied AI Researcher, System Self-Construction Distyl AI

Applied AI Researcher, AI Systems Distyl AI

Applied AI Researcher, Multi-Agent Systems Distyl AI

Applied AI Researcher, Post-Training Distyl AI

Applied AI Researcher, System Self-Improvement Distyl AI

Senior UX Researcher, GP Studio Google LLC

Quantitative Fixed Income Researcher The TCW Group, Inc.

Postdoctoral Researcher - Visual Localization & Navigation | Amazon Last Mile Amazon.com Inc

Researcher Intern Microsoft Corp

Principal Machine Learning Infrastructure Researcher Lightmatter Inc

Translational Post Doctoral Researcher - Agentic AI for Neurodegeneration Johnson & Johnson

Senior Researcher Infoassa

Sr. Responsible AI Researcher, AI.x The Charles Schwab Corp

Applied Scientific Researcher Stanford University

Postdoctoral Scholar/Researcher in Statistical Genetics - Human Genetics - Young Lab University of California Los Angeles

Member of Technical Staff (AI Researcher) Kinetic Systems

Data Science Researcher (Part-Time 25%) Rubrik Inc

AIML Researcher/Engineer - Foundation Model Post-Training Apple Inc

Bioinformatics & Data Scientist or Postdoctoral Researcher- Furman lab Buck Institute for Research on Aging

Temporary, Part-Time Positions for Visiting Researchers University of California Los Angeles

Data Science Researcher (Part-Time 25%) Rubrik

AI Researcher PhD (Full Time) United States Cisco Systems Inc

Postdoctoral Researcher - Dr. Jianfu Chen's Lab University of Southern California

Post-Doctoral Researcher Scripps College

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