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Foster City, CA6 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.

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Foster City, CA6 days ago

$169,100–$270,800 Per Year

The ideal candidate will focus on conducting advanced research in one or more subfields, for example, quantum error correction, quantum optimization, quantum simulation, quantum machine learning, distributed quantum computing and/or quantum security and privacy with the aim of applying their research outcomes to financial services and payments. 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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San Ramon, CA6 days ago

$23–$25 Per Hour
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p tabindex="0">Food science, science, or engineering ideally in a fast-moving consumer goods market. o Identifying problems proactively and creating and implementing solutions independently (problem solving).

Santa Clara, CA8 days ago

Remote

$82,000–$136,000 Per Year
Full-time

Since 2010, Synergisticit has helped thousands of candidates land full-time jobs at tech leaders like Google, Apple, PayPal, Visa, Western Union, Wells Fargo, Intel, Paypal, JPMC, Wayfair, BOA, CITI and hundreds more with Job offers of $95k to $154k. Currently, We are looking for entry-level software programmers, Java Full stack developers, Python/Java developers, Data analysts/Data Engineers/ Data Scientists, Machine Learning engineers for full time positions with clients.

Berkeley, CA19 days ago

$82,860–$132,588 Per Year

You will have an opportunity to help drive JGI's transition from static genome catalogs to predictive microbiome science by building scalable workflows for longitudinal genomics, collaborating with JGI programs and external researchers, and contributing to research that advances the mission of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in understanding ecosystem function, resilience, and environmental change. D. (or equivalent knowledge/training) in Microbiology, Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, or a related field and a minimum of 2 years of relevant research experience in Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) methodologies and bioinformatics tools, including metagenomics and genome binning or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Berkeley, CA30+ days ago

$142,116–$157,068 Per Year

p>Misconduct Disclosure Requirement: As a condition of employment, the finalist will be required to disclose if they are subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct, are currently being investigated for misconduct, left a position during an investigation for alleged misconduct, or have filed an appeal with a previous employer.

Additional information:

Appointment type: This is a full-time, 1 year, career-track term appointment that may be renewed to a maximum of five years and that may be converted to career based upon satisfactory job performance, continuing availability of funds, and ongoing operational needs.

Berkeley, CA30+ days ago

$126,324–$176,832 Per Year

p>The Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering (CCSE) develops and applies advanced computational methodologies to solve large-scale scientific and engineering problems arising in DOE mission areas involving energy, environment, and industrial technology. You will also develop AMReX-based multiphysics/multiscale PDE solvers, steer large-scale simulation campaigns, and work with experimental and public research databases to accelerate scientific discovery.

Martinez, CA30+ days ago

$6,942–$9,799

Under the general supervision of the Research Scientist (RS) Supervisor I of the Chemical Sciences Unit II (Unit), in the Cannabis Testing Laboratory Office (Office) part of the Laboratory Services Branch (Branch), in the Compliance Division (Division) within the Department of Cannabis Control (Department), RS, will plan, organize, and conduct scientific research studies of moderate scientific scope and complexity for the Department. Using the online application system as specified in the announcement is the preferred method of applying for civil service job opportunities; however, applicants may instead apply by way of U.S. mail, parcel delivery or courier service, or in person, as set forth in this announcement.

Berkeley, CA30+ days ago

$104,887–$179,806 Per Year

From more resource efficient factories resilient supply chains and smarter buildings and grids to sustainable transportation as well as advanced healthcare we create technology with purpose adding real value for customers.

Deep technical knowledge of modern model architectures specifically Transformers VLAs VLMs and Diffusion Models with experience in large-scale training.

Martinez, CA19 days ago

$8,327–$10,779 Per Year

OLPPP provides services statewide to prevent and reduce lead poisoning in California workplaces, including tracking blood lead levels in adults; investigating work-related lead poisoning cases; and providing information and technical assistance to employers, workers, physicians, and others.

If you are unable to submit your application electronically through your CalCareers account, please email apply@cdph.ca.gov for assistance and a CDPH Human Resources Division staff member will contact you to assist with the online application process or, a hard copy application package may be submitted through an alternative method as explained in the How to Apply section below.

Pleasanton, CA19 days ago

$75–$83 Per Hour

In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. The work is project-based, research-driven, and highly collaborative, requiring a high level of technical breadth and autonomy to help researchers translate scientific questions into operational workflows.

San Francisco, CA30+ days ago

$158,000–$269,000 Per Year

p>With offices in Toronto, San Francisco, Dallas, and Pittsburgh, Waabi is growing quickly and looking for diverse, innovative and collaborative candidates who want to impact the world in a positive way. As a Research Scientist on the Behaviors team, you will work closely with our multidisciplinary team of research scientists and engineers to invent the next generation of models and algorithms that power Waabi World.

Burlingame, CA30+ days ago

p>• Drive research on improved machine learning models for speech quality • Run computational experiments and report findings • Implement ML models that emulate aspects of human auditory perception • Develop next-gen audio quality models • Independently implement ML training pipelines, models, and evaluation frameworks • Regularly report on project progress, dependencies, and risks to stakeholders • Support research scientists and engineers within the team • Execute on applied coding tasks in support of the teams goals.

The role requires independently implementing end-to-end ML pipelines, data preparation, model training, hyperparameter tuning, and evaluation using metrics like Mean Absolute Error (MAE), Pearson correlation, Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SI-DR), PESQ, and STOI.

Martinez, CA30+ days ago

$9,578–$12,343 Per Year

p>If you are unable to submit your application electronically through your CalCareers account, please email apply@cdph.ca.gov for assistance and a CDPH Human Resources Division staff member will contact you to assist with the online application process or, a hard copy application package may be submitted through an alternative method as explained in the How to Apply section below.

For experience/education to qualify during the application screening process, and to ensure that minimum qualifications can be determined, applicants should include all employment history on the Employment Application (STD 678) and/or Resume, including detailed job descriptions, hours worked per week, and start/end dates (MM/DD/YYYY).

CA30+ days ago

From creating experiments and prototyping implementations to designing new architectures, our research scientists work on real-world problems that span the breadth of computer science, such as machine (and deep) learning, data mining, natural language processing, hardware and software performance analysis, improving compilers for mobile platforms, as well as core search and much more. As a Research Scientist, you"ll also actively contribute to the wider research community by sharing and publishing your findings, with ideas inspired by internal projects as well as from collaborations with research programs at partner universities and technical institutes all over the world.

CA21 days ago

As a Research Scientist, you"ll also actively contribute to the wider research community by sharing and publishing your findings, with ideas inspired by internal projects as well as from collaborations with research programs at partner universities and technical institutes all over the world.

Mountain View, CA30+ days ago

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Mountain View, CA4 days ago

San Francisco, CA30+ days ago

$155,000–$269,000 Per Year

As a Research Scientist in Neural Reconstruction, you will develop the next generation of neural scene-representation and reconstruction algorithms that transform sparse, noisy, and partially observed driving data into realistic and controllable digital worlds. Your work will directly power Waabi Worlds ability to build high-fidelity scene assets, recover geometry and dynamics from sensor data, and support realistic simulation and rendering at scale.

San Francisco, CA30+ days ago

$155,000–$269,000 Per Year

p>This role focuses on large-scale world models for temporal reasoning and generation, including video models, multimodal generative models, LLM/VLM/VLA models, and predictive models of traffic participants and scenes. Your work will directly power Waabi Worlds ability to model future evolution, synthesize realistic safety-critical scenarios, and provide rich generative priors for downstream planning, testing, and training.

San Francisco, CA30+ days ago

The WorkSelected researchers willEvaluate advanced scientific reasoning produced by state-of-the-art AI systemsAssess multi-step derivations proofs theoretical arguments and domain-specific outputsIdentify subtle conceptual flaws or logical inconsistenciesProvide research-grade corrective feedbackThis requires deep subject mastery. Minimum ThresholdCandidates must demonstrate the followingPhD or near completion in Mathematics Physics Neuroscience or ChemistryPeer-reviewed publications in respected journalsMeaningful citation record indicating research impactInternational academic distinction such as Olympiad medalistFaculty position at a leading universityAll credentials will be verified.

Santa Clara, CA30+ days ago

Come join a diverse research group that collaboratively works on hard and meaningful interdisciplinary problems with passion, drive and curiosity; that consistently publishes and demonstrates cutting-edge technology at top venues in computer vision, artificial intelligence and graphics; and that values real impact on NVIDIA products and the industry at large.

We are now looking for a Senior Research Scientist for AI-Mediated Reality and Interaction:

NVIDIA Research's AI-Mediated Reality and Interaction team is looking for senior research scientists.

Santa Clara, CA30+ days ago

p>What you'll be doing:

Pioneer revolutionary generative AI algorithms for physical AI applications, with a focus on advanced video generative models and video-language models.
Ways to stand out from the crowd:
- Publications or contributions to major AI conferences (ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, ECCV, SIGGRAPH, ICCV, etc.).

Stanford, CA30+ days ago

$77,124–$84,000 Per Year

The Yang Lab in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine is currently recruiting for an experienced virologist to join our lab as a Basic Life Science Research Scientist and work with a team of medicinal chemists, virologists, and structural biologists in developing prototype drugs to combat chronic viral infection. The pay offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on factors including but not limited to the experience and qualifications of the selected candidate, including equivalent years since their applicable education, field or discipline, departmental budget availability, internal equity, among other factors.

Mountain View, CA30+ days ago

p>In order to set you up for success as a Research Scientist on the Gemini Safety team, we look for the following skills and experience:

PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Key Responsibilities:
- Post-training / instruction tuning state of the art LLMs, focusing on text-to-text, image/video/audio-to-text modalities and agentic capabilities.

Mountain View, CA30+ days ago

At Google DeepMind, were a team of scientists, engineers, machine learning experts and more, working together to advance the state of the art in artificial intelligence and ultimately achieve Artificial General Intelligence.

We are seeking strong Research Scientists with expertise in AI research and experience in interdisciplinary sociotechnical modeling to join a multimodal safety research effort within Google DeepMinds Frontier AI unit.

Menlo Park, CA30+ days ago

$236,000–$339,200 Per Year

p>At the intersection of autonomous agents and large language models (LLMs), you will build the models and systems that turn enterprise data into self-directed, decision-making agents-shifting from passive data access to autonomous execution. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset - who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results.

Mountain View, California28 days ago

You will lead the design, training, and optimization of state-of-the-art models that allow vehicles to deeply understand complex visual scenes, reason through open-ended scenarios, and translate multimodal inputs directly into safe, actionable driving decisions.

Drive the technical strategy for onboard model optimization, leading initiatives in model quantization, pruning, knowledge distillation, and compilation to ensure high-parameter models execute with ultra-low latency on vehicle edge hardware.

San Francisco, California30+ days ago

Backed by multi-million-dollar funding and direct sponsorship from AMD with hands-on support from AMD engineers the team is scaling rapidly to build the full stack powering frontier AI models and real-time applications.

Proven track record of impactful research, evidenced by publications in NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, or similar top-tier venues.

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San Francisco, California1 day ago

Genmo, Inc. is an E-Verify company and you may review the Notice of E-Verify Participation and the Right to Work posters in English and Spanish.

Key responsibilities:
Lead research initiatives in advanced diffusion models for text-to-video generation, focusing on improving visual quality, temporal consistency, and semantic fidelity.

San Mateo30+ days ago

Genesis has also signed category-leading AI-pharma deals, the most recent of which was a significant expansion with Incyte (see coverage in Forbes and GEN) with a total potential deal value of several billion dollars.

Design and develop novel models and algorithms, building upon the latest literature in diffusion models, flow matching, RL, LLMs, and other cutting-edge areas.

Mountain View, CA24 days ago

Participate in a wide variety of research, including learning from simulation, reinforcement learning, learning from demonstrations, vision-language-action (VLA) models, transformers, video generation, robot control, humanoid robots, and more. You will be working on enabling robots to perform human level manipulation, using frontier robotics models for general purpose dexterous tasks reaching human level performance on real world applications.

Mountain View, CA30+ days ago

Our teams aspire to make discoveries that impact everyone, and core to our approach is sharing our research and tools to fuel progress in the field -- we publish regularly in academic journals, release projects as open source, and apply research to Google products.

New!

San Francisco, California4 days ago

Genmo, Inc. is an E-Verify company and you may review the Notice of E-Verify Participation and the Right to Work posters in English and Spanish.

Key responsibilities:
Lead research initiatives in alignment and post-training methods for video generation models, focusing on improved quality, reliability, and adherence to human intent.

San Francisco, California30+ days ago

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Every role at Eight Sleep is a chance to create cutting-edge technology, collaborate with world-class talent, and help shape a future where sleep isn’t passive - it’s a powerful tool for living better. Our mission is to make people’s sleep count for more, using innovative technology, minimalistic design, and proven clinical science to personalize and improve each night for everybody—changing the way people sleep forever and for better.

Palo Alto, CA30+ days ago

$126,000–$248,000 Per Year

MongoDBs unified database platformthe most widely available, globally distributed database on the markethelps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. It is backed by a strong team of AI researchers from Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, Princeton, and CMU, who have conducted over five years of cutting-edge research on training embedding models.

Santa Clara, CA30+ days ago

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Deep understanding of robot kinematics, dynamics, and sensors;

Ability to safely operate robot hardware, lab equipment, and tools;

Knowledge of control methods, including PID, model predictive control, and whole-body control;

Familiarity with physics simulation frameworks such as MuJoCo and Isaac Sim;

Robot hardware design and hands-on building experience.

Hands-on training experience and publications in at least one of the following topics: LLMs; Large vision-language models; Video generative models and diffusion algorithms; or Action-based transformers.

Palo Alto, CA30+ days ago

$151,000–$297,000 Per Year

MongoDB's unified database platform-the most widely available, globally distributed database on the market-helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI.

With offices worldwide and nearly 60,000 customers-including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups-relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we're powering the next era of software.

San Francisco, CA29 days ago

$200,000–$325,000 Per Year

Research and implement reinforcement learning techniques - including GRPO, RLHF, RLAIF, DPO, and reward modeling - and translate them into data products (preference datasets, reward signals, verifiable rewards) that customers can use to train and fine-tune large language models. Stay current with the latest developments in large-scale muli-node LLM training, alignment research, and scalable RL methods (on complex environments such as Terminal-Bench), bringing relevant advances into Snorkel''s data-as-a-service approach.

San Francisco, CA30+ days ago

$250,000–$350,000 Per Year

Whether you're looking to deepen your technical expertise, explore leadership opportunities, or learn new skills across multiple functions, you're fully supported in building your career in an environment designed for growth, learning, and shared success. D. in machine learning or a related field with a strong publication record is preferred, but we also welcome applications from those with equivalent expertise gained through industry experience, research labs, or other career paths.

Santa Clara, CA30+ days ago

$192,000–$304,750 Per Year

p>What we need to see:

PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience), with 3+ years of post-PhD research experience and a strong record of impactful publications in top circuit, architecture, EDA, or AI/ML venues; with a proven ability to set research direction and translate ideas into tools or products.

Leadership & Collaboration: experience in leading research projects or teams, with a track record of mentoring junior scientists or interns, driving cross-functional initiatives with circuits/VLSI/architecture groups, and fostering collaborations with academia or industry.

Santa Clara, CA30+ days ago

$170,500–$315,490 Per Year

This role focuses on modeling, prototyping, and defining architectures and algorithms that enable transformative gains for real-world customer applications in edge computing, signal processing, and autonomous systems. Job Details: Job Description: Intel's Neuromorphic Computing Lab has been at the forefront of brain-inspired computing for nearly a decade, working alongside a global ecosystem of 250+ research groups.

San Francisco, CA30+ days ago

From pre-training large diffusion models and architecture design, to post-training and inference time scaling, we draw upon the best ideas from within our domain and across the field as we scale up our models and our ambitions.

Our view is that executing on a long-term research program requires bringing together the right people, with access to the best resources, aligned towards common objectives.

San Francisco, CA30+ days ago

In this role, you will set and execute a 24-month research vision spanning deterministic planners, self-healing automations, retrieval-augmented workflow graphs, and agent evaluation frameworks, while ensuring these innovations translate into real-world impact. You will partner closely with Product and Engineering teams to productionize prototypes within six months of proof of concept and engage directly with lighthouse customers to validate ideas and convert insights into scalable reference architectures.

Santa Clara, CA30+ days ago

As the Center of Excellence CoE we define and shape key technology domains setting strategic directions that foster impactful internal and external partnerships to deliver measurable business value. The Cryptography Research Scientist will be working on next-generation cryptographic technologies with a primary focus on Fully Homomorphic Encryption FHE and additional involvement in Post-Quantum Cryptography PQC.

Mountain View, CA30+ days ago

$109,000–$147,000 Per Year

You will be responsible for the end-to-end process, including design, high-temperature synthesis, and rigorous characterization & testing of their optical and structural properties for our application of interest. Dopant functionalization: optimize the incorporation of functional dopants to achieve targeted photosensitivity and refractive index modulation.

San Francisco, CA11 days ago

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The instincts and orientation that match WRITERs values: you Connect - you collaborate openly across research, engineering, and product and communicate complex ideas with clarity to both technical and non-technical audiences; you Challenge - you ask the hard questions, push back on conventional wisdom, and pursue the research directions others havent tried yet; you Own - you drive your projects end-to-end with urgency, take accountability for results, and care deeply about the impact your work has on real customers.

Founded in 2020 with office hubs in San Francisco, New York City, Austin, Chicago, and London, our team thinks big and moves fast, and were looking for smart, hardworking builders and scalers to join us on our journey to create a better future of work with AI.

Redwood City, California19 days ago

li style="font-family:'helvetica' , 'arial' , sans-serif">Build post-training systems that drive biological discovery: RL, reward modeling, reasoning, and multi-agent orchestration for long-horizon scientific tasks.

Engage the wider scientific community through impactful publications, open-source releases, and collaborations worldwide.

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Redwood City, New York6 days ago

Success requires excellence across five interconnected pillars: training frontier AI models specifically for biology; building engineering systems that maximize research velocity and efficiency; executing a sophisticated data strategy that fuels AI development; operating a world-class AI compute platform; and creating impactful products that transform AI capabilities into accessible scientific tools. You will leverage state-of-the-art AI to accelerate discovery and drive transformative insights in biology—developing novel AI models purpose-built for biological research, engineering robust systems that enable breakthrough science at unprecedented scale, and translating these advances into practical tools that empower researchers worldwide.

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Scientist Jobs in Oakland, CA

Lead Research Scientist Visa Technology and Operations LLC

Staff Research Scientist Visa Technology and Operations LLC

Associate Food Scientist kyyba

Data Scientist/Engineer - Junior (Remote) SynergisticIT

Bioinformaticist Research Scientist (Microbiome Data Science Group - Joint Genome Institute) University of California

Physicist Research Scientist University of California

Computational Research Scientist University of California

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Research Scientist - Embodied AI Siemens AG

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Research Data Scientist StratAcuity Staffing Partners Inc

Research Scientist, Simulation Agents Waabi

Research Scientist IV PROLIM Global Corporation

RESEARCH SCIENTIST SUPERVISOR I State Of California

Research Scientist/Engineer, Autonomous Security, DeepMind Google LLC

Gemini Audio Research Scientist, DeepMind Google LLC

Research Scientist, Evaluations, Security and Privacy, DeepMind Google LLC

Research Scientist, Stitch Google LLC

Research Scientist, Recommendation Systems, DeepMind Google LLC

Research Scientist, Neural Reconstruction Waabi

Research Scientist, World Models Waabi

Elite Research Scientist - Frontier AI Evaluation Perle Inc

Senior Research Scientist, AI-Mediated Reality and Interaction NVIDIA Corp

Research Scientist, Generative AI for Physical AI - PhD New College Grad 2026 NVIDIA Corp

Research Scientist (1 Year Fixed Term) Stanford University

Research Scientist, Gemini Safety DeepMind Technologies Ltd

Research Scientist, Multimodal Alignment, Safety, and Fairness DeepMind Technologies Ltd

Staff Research Scientist, AI Agents & LLMs Snowflake Inc

Staff Research Scientist - VLM / VLA GM

Senior Research Scientist Sciforium

Research Scientist (diffusion) Genmo

Key responsibilities: Lead research initiatives in advanced diffusion models for text-to-video generation, focusing on improving visual quality, temporal consistency, and semantic fidelity.

ML Research Scientist, Foundation Models (Senior / Staff / Principal) Genesis Molecular AI

Research Scientist, Manipulation for Robotics, DeepMind Google LLC

Research Scientist, Efficient AI Google LLC

Research Scientist (post-training) Genmo

Key responsibilities: Lead research initiatives in alignment and post-training methods for video generation models, focusing on improved quality, reliability, and adherence to human intent.

ML Research Scientist (Health & Sensing) Eight Sleep

Senior Research Scientist MongoDB Inc

Senior Research Scientist, Multimodal Foundation Models and Robotics NVIDIA Corp

Staff Research Scientist MongoDB Inc

Research Scientist - RL Training Snorkel AI Inc

Staff/Principal Research Scientist Snorkel AI Inc

Senior Research Scientist, AI Accelerator Design and VLSI NVIDIA Corp

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Key responsibilities:
Lead research initiatives in advanced diffusion models for text-to-video generation, focusing on improving visual quality, temporal consistency, and semantic fidelity.

Key responsibilities:
Lead research initiatives in alignment and post-training methods for video generation models, focusing on improved quality, reliability, and adherence to human intent.