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Research Leader Jobs in Walnut Creek, CA

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Novato, CA5 days ago

$40–$47 Per Hour

Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry, Biochemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Chemical Engineering or related field with 6+ years of relevant experience, OR Master’s Degree with 4+ years of relevant experience. • Support the Separations and Biophysical Assays team within the Analytical Sciences group in method development and routine testing for biologics such as proteins, peptides, and conjugates.

San Francisco, CA8 days ago

$50–$55 Per Hour

Most recently, we were recognized Stevie Employer of the Year 2025, SIA Best Staffing Firm to work for 2025, Inc 5000 Best Workspaces in US (2025 & 2024) and Glassdoor's Best Places to Work (2023 & 2022)! This role involves coordinating with stakeholders, managing participant logistics, tracking key metrics, and maintaining accurate documentation throughout the research lifecycle.

San Francisco, CA8 days ago

$65–$75 Per Hour

Most recently, we were recognized Stevie Employer of the Year 2025, SIA Best Staffing Firm to work for 2025, Inc 5000 Best Workspaces in US (2025 & 2024) and Glassdoor's Best Places to Work (2023 & 2022)! Primary Skills: Program Management (Intermediate), Cross-functional Collaboration (Proficient), Detailed Tracking (Advanced), Stakeholder Communication (Proficient), Operational Efficiency (Intermediate).

Walnut Creek, CA30+ days ago

$150,000–$165,000 Per Year

This is an exciting opportunity to play a hands-on leadership role in a growing, values-driven food brand — partnering cross-functionally to deliver consumer-loved innovation that fuels Kinder's continued success. TheSenior Manager, Research & Development will be responsible for leading the development and execution of new and improved products across retail, club, and foodservice channels.

Foster City, CA27 days ago

Over 3 months, you'll conduct 15-20 customer interviews, perform competitive analysis, synthesize findings, and deliver a prioritized roadmap of feature improvements. Send us your resume, portfolio (or link to research samples), and a brief note about why you're interested in this role and what you hope to gain from the experience.

Foster City, CA12 days ago

$169,100–$270,800 Per Year

Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD • PhD in Computer Science, Operations Research, Statistics, or highly quantitative field with strength in Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Data Analytics, Statistical or other mathematical analysis • Extensive experience in machine learning, deep learning, and generative models • Strong publication record in top-tier conferences and journals • Proficiency in programming languages such as Python and expertise in deep learning frameworks and large language models • Proven track record of leading research projects and delivering innovative solutions • Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in a team • Experience in payments or related industry is a plus. We engage with the company's numerous technology and product teams, world-wide business partners, academics, and governments, to explore and develop technologies that will shape the future of the payments industry and impact the lives of billions of people.

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Foster City, CA4 days ago

$215,300–$344,600 Per Year

We engage with the company's numerous technology and product teams, world-wide business partners, academics, and governments, to explore and develop technologies that will shape the future of the payments industry and impact the lives of billions of people.   . Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Oakland, California30+ days ago

$96,096–$100,235 Per Year

Research Engineers are building scientists and engineers a few years into their career who work side by side with more experienced staff to learn about the clean energy industry, learn new analytic skills, engage in sophisticated research projects, and participate in the evolution of our business. Our research consulting projects are focused on how advanced energy solutions like energy efficiency, demand management, distributed energy resources, emerging tech, microgrids, storage, and electrification can help drive the clean energy transformation.

San Bruno, CA16 days ago

Full-time
Employee

In this role, you will understand both the execution and business aspects of our products, collaborating with leaders across UX, Engineering, and Product Management to create innovative experiences, leveraging your passion for brand, craft, and design quality. In this role, you will drive a user-centered goal, influence cross-functional partners and hold a high bar for product excellence to deliver experiences for YouTube's viewers and creators.

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San Francisco, CA5 days ago

Full-time
Employee

Design and oversee a wide range of research studies, including usability testing, user interviews, surveys, and contextual inquiries, to gather insights into user needs, behaviors, and pain points. Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: San Francisco, CA, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA.Minimum qualifications: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

San Francisco, CA30+ days ago

Remote

$125,000–$135,000 Per Year

Develop and manage databases and connect data sources to each-other, implementing new tools and solutions, especially AI driven, that allow us to store and analyze new data sources and join to our existing data sources in new ways. This person will be responsible for developing our programs and learning research strategy, developing research approaches to measure our impact and managing our impact data and organizational dashboards.

Foster City, CA12 days ago

$258,100–$451,800 Per Year

You will build and lead a world-class team of researchers, establish Visa as a thought leader in GenAI for commerce and payments, and translate cutting-edge research into transformative products and services. Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Dublin, CA27 days ago

Full-time

The Advanced Development and Design (ADD) team within XRM is responsible for long-term research into the technologies underlying our X-ray imaging devices, as well as novel imaging modalities and applications. The pay offered for this role may be influenced by factors such as job location, scope of role, qualifications, education, experience, & complexity/specialization/scarcity of talent.

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San Francisco, CAToday

$100,000–$115,000 Per Year

Duties include, but are not limited to: managing the full scope of the 12-month long certificate training program of 200+ students: scheduling of teachers, developing curricular initiatives, some teaching in the program, overseeing maintenance of the CPTR website content, creating the certificate program and student evaluations, newsletters, supervising the clinical mentors, certificate staff, and the volunteer programs, acting as a liaison between staff and faculty. This position requires attention to detail, good memory, ability to work under deadline pressure, sitting and standing for long periods of time, oral and written communication, keyboarding for significant portions of the workday, pushing, pulling, bending, stooping, reaching, patience, and tact to perform the essential functions.

San Francisco, CA30+ days ago

At Appodeal, we're more than just a company—we're a team united by a common mission: Help people discover and grow their talents through products that enable successful mobile app businesses! We are looking for a technology or product leader who has built ML-driven product organizations where data science plays a central role in revenue generation and product optimization.

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San Francisco, CA2 days ago

Full-time

Headquartered in Irvine, California, HQCA has been rapidly expanding its business in North America through the expansion of products and solutions, including distributed energy solutions, direct-to-homeowner solar sales and financing, and EPC services. This role requires a visionary strategist who can translate business objectives into actionable AI roadmaps, developing and implementing AI solutions that create measurable business value and differentiate our company from the competition.

San Rafael, California30+ days ago

$33–$53 Per Hour

As an Arborist Crew Leader, you will be an integral member of the team, serving as the leader of a tree care crew with the primary responsibility of performing all tree care services safely and efficiently. Location : Name: San Rafael Location : State/Province: CA Category: Production Arborist Latest Post Date: englishcareers: 1/28/2026 Type: Regular Full-Time

Concord, CA30+ days ago

You'll have the opportunity to learn every day from our highly-skilled technical staff and project managers, participate in our mentoring program, and drive your professional development and gain skills through our Leadership Academy and extensive trainings available within the CDM Smith University. In this position, you will be joining teams locally and across the West Coast, working on a portfolio of large diameter water, water reuse, and wastewater conveyance projects with our Water Services Group.

San Francisco, CA8 days ago

By developing tailored engagement plans, building trusted relationships, and orchestrating multi-functional solution development, the Regional BD Leader drives both immediate impact and develops long-term value. Collaborates closely with cross-functional teams—including operations, therapeutic strategy, deal strategy, and delivery —to co-develop solutions that address client-specific challenges.

LIVERMORE, CA30+ days ago

$46–$59

The successful candidate will use composite and mechanical skills for component fabrication/repair general technical support for new and ongoing programmatic activities working independently or with team members performing component and part fabrication/repair, equipment setup, operations, maintenance, and system testing. - Associate degree in engineering, mechanical, industrial, or manufacturing technology, or the equivalent combination of education and related experience; or a technology related certificate or diploma with related work experience and related course work; or equivalent combination of education and experience in a technical or engineering field that includes mechanical training.

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Research Leader Jobs in Walnut Creek, CA

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Sr Lead, Research & EvaluationThe AI Education Project

Head of Generative AI ResearchVisa

ADD Summer Research Intern (Laminography applications)Zeiss Group

Director of the Psychedelic Therapies and Research Certificate Program - California Institute of Integral StudiesCalifornia Institute of Integral Studies

Independent Board Director (ML-Driven Product & Data Platform Leader)Appodeal

Sr. Manager, AI Evangelist and Strategy LeaderQcells

Arborist Crew LeaderBartlett Tree Experts

Civil Engineer 5 - Project Technical Leader / Conveyance (SME)CDM Smith

West Coast Regional BD LeaderTaylor Strategy Partners

Engineering Technician VI – Composite Worker (NWS 00880)North Wind Group

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