Mid Level Research and Development (R&D) Jobs in California

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154 research and development (r&d) roles open in California right now. The hard part is picking which ones to chase.

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All10,083 Engineering1,381 Sales1,168 Software Development625 Information Technology656 Project and Program Management646 Finance and Accounting550 Healthcare Services - Allied Health544 Business Operations590 Product Management229 Customer Service168 Education services330 Data and Analytics292 Supply Chain / Logistics / Procurement278 Administrative & Clerical Support256 Food and Beverage Services185 Research and Development (R&D)154 Marketing206 Human Resources178 Healthcare Services - Nursing257 Skilled Trades - Manufacturing and Industrial206 Legal and Compliance137 Protective Services76 Skilled Trades - General Labor80 Business Development104 Environment, Health, and Safety97 Quality Assurance123 Skilled Trades - Construction108 Creative and Art Services88 Transportation Services61 Healthcare Services - Advanced Practice91 Communications and Public Affairs50 Skilled Trades - Maintenance and Repair53 Design31 Skilled Trades - Mechanical and Electrical49 Social Services34 Custodial Services1 Healthcare Services - Pharmacy1

Company	Job	Location	Salary	Posted
Lam Research	Lam ResearchMetrology Engineer (Fremont, CA, US, 94538) HybridFull Time1mo	Fremont, California	$73k - $159k/yr	1mo	View
Iqvia	IqviaClinical Research Associate, Sponsor Dedicated OnsiteFull Time1mo	Durham or Aurora or San Fernando or Clinton or Mansfield or Santa Cruz or Santa Fe or South Shore or Elk Grove or Hudson or Englewood or Bellingham or Marysville or Overland Park or Evanston or La Habra or Prescott or Westchester or Mount Vernon or Warren or Linden or Fremont or Del Mar or Lake Tahoe or Northfield or Fort Pierce or Wilkes Barre or Camden or Lancaster or Clarksville or Adair or Fort Collins or Breckenridge or Littleton or Liverpool or Ft Lauderdale or Springfield or Long Island or Gloucester or West Point or O'Fallon or Cheyenne or Manhattan or New City or Parsippany or Queens or New York City or Escondido or Oak Brook or Merritt Island or El Cajon or Ontario or Afton or Abilene or Orangevale or Abingdon or Orland Park or Shenandoah or Akron or Paradise Valley or Newark or Hollywood or Port Saint Lucie or Lawton or Portland or Chino Hills or Belmar or Sonora or Berkley or Springfield or Springfield or San Jose or Beverly Hills or Melbourne or Colorado Springs or St. Petersburg or Panama City or Redondo Beach or Crystal Lake or Rochester or Ada or Kansas City or Ainsworth or Carlsbad or Denver	$72k - $189k/yr	1mo	View
Berkeley Lab	Berkeley LabPhysicist Research Scientist HybridFull Time1mo	Berkeley, California	$142k - $157k/yr	1mo	View
Lila Sciences	Lila SciencesScientist I / II, Foundation Models for Life Sciences OnsiteFull Time1mo	San Francisco, California	$176k - $304k/yr	1mo	View
Anthropic	AnthropicResearch Engineer, Model Evaluations RemoteFull TimeVisa Sponsorship1mo	San Francisco or New York City	$320k - $485k/yr	1mo	View
UCSF Campus BU	UCSF Campus BUPROJECT POLICY ANL 5 RP OnsitePart Time1mo	San Francisco, California	----	1mo	View
Apple	AppleAIML - Machine Learning Researcher, MLR OnsiteFull Time1mo	Cupertino or San Francisco	----	1mo	View
Apple	AppleComputer Vision Research Engineer - Apple Maps 3D Vision Team OnsiteFull Time1mo	Cupertino, California	----	1mo	View
LLNL	LLNLNumerical Data Compression Postdoctoral Researcher HybridFull Time1mo	Livermore, California	$143k/yr	1mo	View
Bdx	BdxTechnician 2 - Product Development Engineering OnsiteFull Time1mo	Brea, California	$53k - $83k/yr	1mo	View
Intuitive	IntuitiveSenior Clinical Scientist HybridFull Time1mo	Sunnyvale, California	$150k - $216k/yr	1mo	View
PaloAltoNetworks	PaloAltoNetworksPrincipal Security Researcher (Malware Research - Antivirus Systems) OnsiteFull TimeVisa Sponsorship1mo	Santa Clara, California	$163k - $263k/yr	1mo	View
Zoom	ZoomResearch Scientist - AI Incubation HybridFull Time1mo	Seattle or San Jose	$138k - $275k/yr	1mo	View
LLNL	LLNLMetallographer/Fractographer - Staff Scientist OnsiteFull Time, Contract, Temporary, Internship, Seasonal, VolunteerVisa Sponsorship1mo	Livermore, California	$176k - $267k/yr	1mo	View
Icf	IcfArchaeologist HybridFull Time1mo	Sacramento, California	$61k - $104k/yr	1mo	View
Anthropic	AnthropicResearch Engineer, Safeguards Labs HybridFull TimeVisa Sponsorship1mo	New York City or San Francisco	----	1mo	View
California State University	California State UniversityNWIC Researcher, Research Technician I, Temporary OnsiteFull Time, Temporary1mo	Sonoma, California	$55k - $80k/yr	1mo	View
Nvidia	NvidiaOffensive Hardware Security Researcher OnsiteFull Time1mo	Santa Clara, California	$184k - $288k/yr	1mo	View
Iqvia	IqviaMedical Science Liaison - San Francisco RemoteFull Time1mo	San Francisco or Parsippany	$130k - $210k/yr	1mo	View
LLNL	LLNLHigh Explosive Modeler - Staff Scientist HybridFull Time1mo	Livermore, California	$176k - $267k/yr	1mo	View
OpenAI	OpenAIResearcher, Safety & Privacy OnsiteFull Time1mo	San Francisco, California	$295k - $445k/yr	1mo	View
Anthropic	AnthropicSafeguards Policy Analyst, Fraud & Scams HybridFull TimeVisa Sponsorship1mo	San Francisco, California	$245k - $285k/yr	1mo	View
Vertex Pharmaceuticals	Vertex PharmaceuticalsPharmacology Research Scientist OnsiteFull Time1mo	San Diego, California	$111k - $166k/yr	1mo	View
Capital One	Capital OneApplied Researcher I (AI Foundations, LLM Core and Agentic AI) OnsiteFull Time1mo	New York or Cambridge or San Francisco or San Jose or McLean	----	1mo	View
IQVIA	IQVIASr. Clinical Research Associate, IQVIA OnsiteFull Time2mo	Durham or Cleveland or Tampa or Marietta or Chicago or Kansas City or Overland Park or New York City or Ithaca or Lexington or Dallas or South Bend or Lakewood or Boston or Fairfax or San Antonio or Rosemont or Indianapolis or Lenexa or Bloomington or Rockville or Houston or Parsippany or Franklin or Austin or Carlsbad or Orchard Park	$102k - $169k/yr	2mo	View
Iqvia	IqviaClinical Research Associate, Sponsor Dedicated, IQVIA RemoteFull Time2mo	Overland Park or Carlsbad or Durham	$72k - $169k/yr	2mo	View
California State University	California State UniversitySpecial Collections & Archives Assistant OnsiteFull Time2mo	Fresno, California	$48k - $70k/yr	2mo	View
HDR, Inc.	HDR, Inc.Cultural Resources Specialist 2 (Part-time) OnsitePart Time2mo	San Diego or Los Angeles	$69k - $104k/yr	2mo	View
Icf	IcfOn-Call Wildlife Biologist: Santa Cruz and Monterey counties OnsitePart Time2mo	San Jose, California	$55k - $152k/yr	2mo	View
Lilly	LillySr. Scientist - Lab Automation Scientist OnsiteFull Time2mo	San Diego, California	$71k - $187k/yr	2mo	View
Capitalone	CapitaloneApplied Researcher I (AI Foundations, LLM Customization, Finetuning, Reinforcement Learning) OnsiteFull Time2mo	Cambridge or McLean or New York or San Jose	$219k - $272k/yr	2mo	View
Intuitive	IntuitiveSenior Clinical Study Manager HybridFull Time2mo	Sunnyvale, California	$152k - $218k/yr	2mo	View
Thomson Reuters	Thomson ReutersApplied Scientist HybridFull Time2mo	Eagan or McLean or New York or Toronto or Ann Arbor or London or Zug or Frisco	$102k - $190k/yr	2mo	View
UCSF Campus BU	UCSF Campus BUMotion Lab Manager Biomechanist OnsiteFull Time2mo	San Francisco, California	$101k - $217k/yr	2mo	View
UCSF Campus BU	UCSF Campus BUSenior Research Administrator HybridFull Time2mo	San Francisco, California	$91k - $194k/yr	2mo	View
UCSF Campus BU	UCSF Campus BUClinical Research Coordinator - Cancer Immunotherapy Program OnsiteFull Time2mo	San Francisco, California	----	2mo	View
Sandisk	SandiskSenior Principal AI Solutions Architect HybridFull Time2mo	Milpitas, California	$194k - $275k/yr	2mo	View
Sandisk	SandiskSenior Principal AI System Architect HybridFull Time2mo	Milpitas, California	$194k - $275k/yr	2mo	View
Netflix	NetflixResearcher - Games OnsiteFull Time2mo	Los Angeles, California	$220k - $360k/yr	2mo	View
OpenAI	OpenAIApplied AI Engineer, Codex Core Agent HybridFull Time2mo	San Francisco or Seattle or New York City or London	$230k - $325k/yr	2mo	View
Scale AI	Scale AIResearch Scientist, Frontier Risk Evaluations OnsiteFull Time2mo	San Francisco or New York	$197k - $247k/yr	2mo	View
Intuitive	IntuitiveSr. Clinical Study Manager RemoteFull Time2mo	Sunnyvale, California	$148k - $181k/yr	2mo	View
LLNL	LLNLMachine Learning - Postdoctoral Researcher OnsiteFull Time2mo	Livermore, California	$138k/yr	2mo	View
Scale AI	Scale AIResearch Scientist, Agent Robustness OnsiteFull Time2mo	San Francisco or New York	$197k - $247k/yr	2mo	View
Scale AI	Scale AIResearch Scientist, AI Controls and Monitoring OnsiteFull Time2mo	San Francisco or New York	$197k - $247k/yr	2mo	View
Notion	NotionUser Researcher, Growth HybridFull Time2mo	San Francisco or New York	$160k - $200k/yr	2mo	View
Novartis	NovartisPrincipal Scientist I or II, PK Sciences Therapeutic Areas (DUAL LEVEL POSTING) HybridFull Time2mo	Cambridge or San Diego	$109k - $222k/yr	2mo	View
BlackRock	BlackRockAssociate, Quantitative Research HybridFull Time2mo	San Francisco or Sausalito	$133k - $162k/yr	2mo	View
Mercor	MercorResearch Engineer – Benchmarking, Evals & Failure Analysis OnsiteFull Time2mo	San Francisco, California	$130k - $500k/yr	2mo	View
Iqvia	IqviaSr. CRA 1, Oncology, IQVIA Biotech OnsiteFull Time2mo	Durham or San Francisco or Austin or Tampa or St Louis or Jefferson City or Collegeville or Chicago or Overland Park or Cleveland or New York or Ithaca or Houston or Lexington or Dallas or Philadelphia or South Bend or Las Vegas or Indianapolis or Boston or Salt Lake City or San Antonio or Rosemont or Franklin or Carlsbad or Orchard Park	$87k - $169k/yr	2mo	View
Danaher	DanaherField Applications Scientist- Microscope and Digital Imaging RemoteFull Time2mo	San Francisco, California	$80k - $85k/yr	2mo	View
Precision Castparts	Precision Castparts1st Shift Lab Tech Level 1 OnsiteFull Time2mo	North Hollywood, California	----	2mo	View
Edison Scientific	Edison ScientificApplied AI Engineer OnsiteFull Time2mo	San Francisco, California	$160k - $280k/yr	2mo	View
OpenAI	OpenAIResearch Engineer/Scientist - Human Alignment, Consumer Devices HybridFull Time2mo	San Francisco, California	$380k - $445k/yr	2mo	View

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Mid Level Research and Development (R&D) Jobs in California, updated daily

154 open research and development (r&d) roles in California, pulled directly from company career pages and refreshed daily, newest first. Pick a role and apply with a resume tailored to it using ApplyBolt.