Research Scientist and Research Engineer jobs in California

Open Research Scientist and Research Engineer positions at AI companies and labs with a listed location in California, matched on the employer’s job title.

271 open jobs at 46 employers, newest first · Updated Oct 24, 2026 · page 1 of 3 · Atom feed

• Lead UX Researcher, AI & Digital ExperiencesSalesforce · California - San Francisco · HybridPosted Oct 23, 2026
• Research Scientist - Salesforce AI ResearchSalesforce · California - Palo Alto · California - San Francisco · HybridPosted Oct 23, 2026
• Computational Materials Scientist - Postdoctoral ResearcherLawrence Livermore National Laboratory · Livermore, CA, United States · On-sitePosted Oct 22, 2026
• Atomistic and Data-Driven Modeling of Materials for Energy Applications - Postdoctoral ResearcherLawrence Livermore National Laboratory · Livermore, CA, United States · On-sitePosted Oct 22, 2026
• SI/ML Computational Biologist - Postdoctoral ResearcherLawrence Livermore National Laboratory · Livermore, CA, United States · On-sitePosted Oct 22, 2026
• Hyperspectral Geology - Postdoctoral ResearcherLawrence Livermore National Laboratory · Livermore, CA, United States · On-sitePosted Oct 22, 2026
• Computational Fault Mechanics - Postdoctoral ResearcherLawrence Livermore National Laboratory · Livermore, CA, United States · HybridPosted Oct 22, 2026
• Researcher, Misalignment Monitoring LeadOpenAI · San FranciscoPosted Oct 22, 2026
• Particle Beam Physics – Postdoctoral ResearcherLawrence Livermore National Laboratory · Livermore, CA, United States · HybridPosted Oct 22, 2026
• Senior Research Scientist, AI for CybersecurityNVIDIA · US, CA, Santa Clara · US, MA, WestfordPosted Oct 22, 2026
• Senior Research Scientist, AI-Enabled Secure SystemsNVIDIA · US, CA, Santa Clara · US, MA, WestfordPosted Oct 22, 2026
• Research Scientist / Research Engineer, Search IntegrityOpenAI · San FranciscoPosted Oct 21, 2026
• Research Scientist / Research Engineer, Search - Knowledge GraphsOpenAI · San FranciscoPosted Oct 21, 2026
• Applied Scientist, Product PolicyOpenAI · San Francisco · HybridPosted Oct 21, 2026
• Research Engineer, Chip Design RLAnthropic · San Francisco, CA · On-sitePosted Oct 21, 2026
• Research Engineer, RL FrontiersEtched · San Jose · On-sitePosted Oct 21, 2026
• Senior AI Systems Architect/ResearcherIntel · US, California, Folsom · US, California, Santa Clara +1 morePosted Oct 21, 2026
• Security Engineer / Research Engineer, RL SecurityAnthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY |… · On-sitePosted Oct 20, 2026
• Nondestructive Evaluation Ultrasound - Postdoctoral ResearcherLawrence Livermore National Laboratory · Livermore, CA, United States · On-sitePosted Oct 20, 2026
• Senior Research Scientist - AI SecurityNVIDIA · US, CA, Remote · US, CO, Remote +4 morePosted Oct 20, 2026
• Security Research Engineer, AI Safety and Security EngineeringNVIDIA · US, CA, Remote · US, CA, Santa Clara +4 morePosted Oct 20, 2026
• Offensive Hardware Security ResearcherNVIDIA · US, CA, Santa ClaraPosted Oct 20, 2026
• 2027 Intern - Applied and Research Scientist/EngineerAdobe · Cambridge · College Park +4 morePosted Oct 20, 2026
• Research Scientist (post-training)Genmo · San Francisco HQPosted Oct 19, 2026
• Research Scientist (diffusion)Genmo · San Francisco HQPosted Oct 19, 2026
• 2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Research Scientist, Visual ReasoningWaymo · Mountain View, CA, USAPosted Oct 19, 2026
• Research Engineer - RL InfrastructurePrime Intellect · San Francisco · United StatesPosted Oct 19, 2026
• 2027 Intern - Experience ResearcherAdobe · San JosePosted Oct 19, 2026
• Research Engineer - Pre-training DataPrime Intellect · San Francisco · United StatesPosted Oct 16, 2026
• Research Engineer - Data and EvaluationPrime Intellect · San Francisco · United StatesPosted Oct 16, 2026
• Research Engineer - Pre-trainingPrime Intellect · San Francisco · United StatesPosted Oct 16, 2026
• Research Engineer - InferencePrime Intellect · San Francisco · United StatesPosted Oct 16, 2026
• Research Engineer / Scientist - Reinforcement LearningPrime Intellect · San Francisco · United StatesPosted Oct 16, 2026
• Principal UX Researcher, MoveworksServiceNow · Santa Clara, California, United States · On-sitePosted Oct 16, 2026
• Astronomy & Astrophysics - Postdoctoral ResearcherLawrence Livermore National Laboratory · Livermore, CA, United States · On-sitePosted Oct 15, 2026
• Internal Acceleration, Research Engineer (Production)Etched · San Jose · On-sitePosted Oct 15, 2026
• Internal Acceleration, Research Engineer (Hardware)Etched · San Jose · On-sitePosted Oct 15, 2026
• Internal Acceleration, Research Engineer (ASIC)Etched · San Jose · On-sitePosted Oct 15, 2026
• Internal Acceleration, Research Engineer (Kernels)Etched · San Jose · On-sitePosted Oct 15, 2026
• Winter 2027 Research Engineer Co-opAnduril Industries · Santa Ana, California, United StatesPosted Oct 14, 2026
• Research Engineer -- Vision and Vision-Language ModelsZyphra · San Francisco · On-sitePosted Oct 14, 2026
• Staff Research ScientistServiceNow · Santa Clara, California, United States · On-sitePosted Oct 14, 2026
• Researcher, Safety - Frontier AssuranceOpenAI · San FranciscoPosted Oct 13, 2026
• Laser Postdoctoral Researcher - Advanced Photon TechnologiesLawrence Livermore National Laboratory · Livermore, CA, United States · On-sitePosted Oct 13, 2026
• Protein Bioinformatics - Postdoctoral ResearcherLawrence Livermore National Laboratory · Livermore, CA, United States · HybridPosted Oct 12, 2026
• Computational Biologist (ML) Postdoctoral ResearcherLawrence Livermore National Laboratory · Livermore, CA, United States · HybridPosted Oct 12, 2026
• Prototype ResearcherRunway · New York, NY · San Francisco, CA +2 more · RemotePosted Oct 12, 2026
• Synthetic Chemistry Automation & Advanced Manufacturing - Postdoctoral ResearcherLawrence Livermore National Laboratory · Livermore, CA, United States · On-sitePosted Oct 12, 2026
• Research Engineer, Safety & AlignmentCognition · San Francisco · On-sitePosted Oct 9, 2026
• Research Scientist / Engineer – Performance OptimizationLuma AI · London, UK · New York, NY +4 more · HybridPosted Oct 8, 2026
• Research Scientist / Engineer – Training InfrastructureLuma AI · London, UK · New York, NY +6 more · HybridPosted Oct 8, 2026
• Post-Training Applied ResearcherBaseten · San Francisco · HybridPosted Oct 7, 2026
• Research Scientist, Autonomous Systems and Physical AI Research - PhD New College Grad 2026NVIDIA · US, CA, Santa ClaraPosted Oct 7, 2026
• Processing Science of Rare Earth Metals and Alloys - Postdoctoral ResearcherLawrence Livermore National Laboratory · Livermore, CA, United States · On-sitePosted Oct 6, 2026
• Research Engineer, Applied ResearchSierra · San Francisco, CA · On-sitePosted Oct 5, 2026
• Senior/Staff Applied ScientistGlean · Mountain View, CA · San Francisco, CAPosted Oct 5, 2026
• High-Temperature Materials Experiments and EPMA - Postdoctoral ResearcherLawrence Livermore National Laboratory · Livermore, CA, United States · On-sitePosted Oct 5, 2026
• Staff Research Engineer, Multi-Agent ScalingAnthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY |…Posted Oct 2, 2026
• Research Scientist, Fundamental Generative AI - New College Grad 2026NVIDIA · US, CA, Santa ClaraPosted Oct 2, 2026
• Research Engineer / Research Scientist, RL FrontiersAnthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY |… · On-sitePosted Sep 29, 2026
• Research Engineer / Performance Engineer, RL Distributed SystemsAnthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY |… · On-sitePosted Sep 29, 2026
• Research Scientist, Fundamental Generative AI - New College Grad 2026NVIDIA · US, CA, Santa ClaraPosted Sep 29, 2026
• Research Scientist, Applied White-Box MethodsFAR.AI · Berkeley Office · United States · On-sitePosted Sep 28, 2026
• Research Engineer, ML InfrastructureChai Discovery · San Francisco officePosted Sep 24, 2026
• Automation Materials Chemist - Postdoctoral ResearcherLawrence Livermore National Laboratory · Livermore, CA, United States · HybridPosted Sep 24, 2026
• Research Engineer, Data Infrastructure (Language Modeling)Cartesia · *HQ - San Francisco, CA · On-sitePosted Sep 24, 2026
• Research Engineer, Web CrawlingThinking Machines · New York · San Francisco · On-sitePosted Sep 24, 2026
• Metrology/Precision Research EngineerLawrence Livermore National Laboratory · Livermore, CA, United States · On-sitePosted Sep 23, 2026
• Research Scientist, Physical AI - Foundation Models - PhD New College Grad 2026NVIDIA · US, CA, Santa ClaraPosted Sep 23, 2026
• AI research scientistWRITER · New York City, NY · San Francisco, CA +1 more · HybridPosted Sep 22, 2026
• Research Scientist, World Model Post-TrainingWaymo · Mountain View, CA, USA · New York, NY, USA +1 morePosted Sep 22, 2026
• Energy System Modeling - Postdoctoral ResearcherLawrence Livermore National Laboratory · Livermore, CA, United States · HybridPosted Sep 21, 2026
• Systems Research Engineer Intern - GPU Programming (Winter 2027)Together AI · San FranciscoPosted Sep 18, 2026
• Systems Research Engineer Intern - GPU Programming (Summer 2027)Together AI · San FranciscoPosted Sep 18, 2026
• Senior Applied ResearcherAdobe · San JosePosted Sep 18, 2026
• Synthetic Biologist - Postdoctoral ResearcherLawrence Livermore National Laboratory · Livermore, CA, United States · On-sitePosted Sep 16, 2026
• Mesoscale Modeling - Postdoctoral ResearcherLawrence Livermore National Laboratory · Livermore, CA, United States · On-sitePosted Sep 16, 2026
• Research Engineer, Synthetic DataCursor · Palo Alto, CA · On-sitePosted Sep 15, 2026
• Research Engineer (New Grad)Genmo · San Francisco HQ · On-sitePosted Sep 14, 2026
• Senior Quantum Applied Research Scientist, Calibration and DecodingNVIDIA · US, CA, Remote · US, CA, Santa Clara +1 morePosted Sep 14, 2026
• System Technology Research Engineer - (PhD Intern)Intel · US, California, Santa Clara · US, Oregon, Hillsboro +1 morePosted Sep 14, 2026
• Researcher, Safety Training, National SecurityOpenAI · San Francisco · US - Remote +1 morePosted Sep 12, 2026
• Research Engineer, AI for Chip DesignOpenAI · San Francisco · HybridPosted Sep 11, 2026
• Senior Quantum Error Correction Research Scientist, Applied ResearchNVIDIA · US, CA, Santa Clara · US, WA, RedmondPosted Sep 10, 2026
• User Experience Researcher, PlatformAnthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY |… · On-sitePosted Sep 9, 2026
• Sr. Staff UX Researcher, AI Control TowerServiceNow · Santa Clara, CALIFORNIA, United States · On-sitePosted Sep 9, 2026
• Research Scientist, Map ScalabilityWaymo · Mountain View, CA, U.S.A · New York City, NY, U.S.A +1 morePosted Sep 8, 2026
• Principal Applied Research Engineer, Content AuthenticityNVIDIA · US, CA, Santa ClaraPosted Sep 8, 2026
• Applied AI, Research EngineerAnthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · On-sitePosted Sep 4, 2026
• Principal Research Scientist, Synthetic Data GenerationNVIDIA · US, CA, Remote · US, CA, Santa Clara +3 morePosted Sep 4, 2026
• Researcher, Agent Safety, Oversight and System MitigationsOpenAI · San FranciscoPosted Sep 3, 2026
• Researcher, Agent Safety, Training and EvaluationsOpenAI · San FranciscoPosted Sep 3, 2026
• Experimental Low-Energy Nuclear Physics - Postdoctoral ResearcherLawrence Livermore National Laboratory · Livermore, CA, United States · HybridPosted Sep 3, 2026
• Postdoctoral Researcher, Neuro-Immune Interactions, Pluvinage LabArc Institute · Palo Alto, CAPosted Sep 2, 2026
• Staff Research Engineer/ScientistServiceNow · Santa Clara, California, United States · On-sitePosted Sep 2, 2026
• Researcher, Alignment InterpretabilityOpenAI · San FranciscoPosted Sep 1, 2026
• Research Scientist, RL for Autonomous Planning & World ModelingWaymo · Kirkland, WA, USA · Mountain View, CA, USA +2 morePosted Aug 30, 2026
• Atmospheric Sciences - Postdoctoral ResearcherLawrence Livermore National Laboratory · Livermore, CA, United States · HybridPosted Aug 27, 2026
• Staff+ Research Engineer, RL Data PlatformAnthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · On-sitePosted Aug 27, 2026
• Senior Applied Research Scientist, Data CurationNVIDIA · US, CA, Remote · US, CA, Santa Clara +4 morePosted Aug 27, 2026

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• OpenAI36
• Anthropic35
• NVIDIA35
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory30
• Scale AI11
• Waymo8
• Prime Intellect7
• Zyphra7
• Arc Institute6
• Luma AI6
• Cartesia5
• Etched5

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