Research Scientist jobs in San Francisco, California

107 open Research Scientist jobs in San Francisco, California (4 posted in the last 7 days), collected from employers’ own career pages and checked twice a day. Every listing links to the company’s site to apply.

Latest openings

• Senior Embryologist

  Kindbody · San Francisco
  Posted 2026-10-19
• Senior Epidemiologist, Oncology, Real World Evidence (FSP Sponsor Dedicated)

  IQVIA · San Francisco
  Posted 2026-10-19
• Research Engineer

  Trainloop · San Francisco
  Posted 2026-10-14
• Research Scientist

  Trainloop · San Francisco
  Posted 2026-10-14
• Staff Research Associate

  University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) · San Francisco
  Posted 2026-10-16
• Research Assistant

  University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) · San Francisco
  Posted 2026-10-15
• Applied Scientist, Center for Quantum Computing, Physical Design and Simulation

  Amazon · San Francisco · Hybrid
  Posted 2026-10-15
• Anthropic STEM Fellow

  Anthropic · San Francisco · Remote
  Posted 2026-10-14
• Senior Scientist I, Cell Line Development / Molecular Biology

  Abbvie · San Francisco
  Posted 2026-10-13
• Senior/Staff Research Associate

  Pendulum™ · San Francisco
  Posted 2026-10-13
• Research Engineer

  talentpluto · San Francisco · Hybrid
  Posted 2026-10-12
• Staff Research Associate III (Ethnographer)

  Ncire · San Francisco
  Posted 2026-10-08
• Early Career Geologist

  WSP Global · San Francisco
  Posted 2026-10-08
• Member Of Technical Staff - Hardware Science, Frontier AI & Robotics (FAR)

  Amazon · San Francisco
  Posted 2026-05-19
• Member of Technical Staff - Science, Frontier AI & Robotics (FAR)

  Amazon · San Francisco
  Posted 2026-05-28
• Senior Applied Scientist, Superconducting Digital and Cryogenic Control Electronics,Center for Quantum Computing, Physical Design and Simulation, Enabling Technologies

  Amazon · San Francisco
  Posted 2026-08-31
• Senior Applied Scientist, QEC SW, MQS Center for Quantum Computing

  Amazon · San Francisco
  Posted 2026-09-17
• 2027 Applied Science Internship - United States, PhD Student Science Recruiting Frontier AI & Robotics, Frontier AI & Robotics

  Amazon · San Francisco
  Posted 2026-09-30
• Research Fellow

  Goodfire · San Francisco
  Posted 2025-01-17
• Conceptual Reasoning Fellow

  Anthropic · San Francisco · Remote
  Posted 2026-10-09
• Summer Intern - Applied Science MSc/PhD

  Terranox AI · San Francisco
  Posted 2026-05-13
• Founding Scientist

  Parasma · San Francisco
  Posted 2026-07-03
• Computational Biologist, Spatial Transcriptomics

  Origin · San Francisco
  Posted 2026-09-29
• Member of Technical Staff - Plasma Physics

  Maritime Fusion · San Francisco
  Posted 2025-04-17
• Lead Simulation Researcher (Electronics / Firmware)

  Simantic · San Francisco
  Posted 2026-07-03
• Hiring Research Scientists and Research Engineers at PerfectBit

  PerfectBit, Inc. · San Francisco
  Posted 2026-06-18
• Founding Scientist (Synthetic Genomics)

  Exonic · San Francisco
  Posted 2026-05-20
• Member of Technical Staff: Research

  Zep AI · San Francisco
  Posted 2026-08-18
• Member of the Technical Staff, Cheminformatics

  Output Biosciences · San Francisco
  Posted 2026-06-05
• Research Engineer, Human Biomechanics

  Relari · San Francisco
  Posted 2026-08-27
• Applied Researcher

  Variant · San Francisco
  Posted 2025-09-17
• Research Engineer

  SID · San Francisco
  Posted 2026-05-12
• Computational Biologist - Protein Engineering

  Tamarind · San Francisco
  Posted 2024-09-25
• Applications Scientist - Protein Design

  Tamarind · San Francisco
  Posted 2025-12-06
• Application Scientist - Computational Chemistry

  Tamarind · San Francisco
  Posted 2025-12-06
• Founding Research Scientist Biology

  Gloglo · San Francisco
  Posted 2026-09-25
• Research Engineer

  Cloudglue · San Francisco
  Posted 2026-02-11
• People Research Scientist

  Wealthfront · San Francisco · Hybrid
  Posted 2026-07-17
• Research Scientist, Data Analysis

  Convergent Research · San Francisco
  Posted 2026-09-03
• Human Neuroscientist

  Convergent Research · San Francisco
  Posted 2026-09-03
• Sr. Member Research Staff, Director Video Standards

  Dolby · San Francisco · Hybrid
  Posted 2025-07-18
• Research Associate

  ExcepGen · San Francisco
  Posted 2019-10-18
• Genomics SME

  Rxcloud · San Francisco
  Posted 2026-10-03
• Research Assistant

  University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) · San Francisco
  Posted 2026-03-26
• Staff Research Associate

  University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) · San Francisco
  Posted 2026-05-15
• Senior Staff Scientist-Quantitative Modeling, AI & Pharmacometrics

  University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) · San Francisco
  Posted 2026-06-30
• Staff Research Associate

  University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) · San Francisco
  Posted 2026-07-27
• Senior Embryologist

  University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) · San Francisco
  Posted 2026-07-29
• Epidemiology Analyst

  University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) · San Francisco
  Posted 2026-09-22
• Epidemiologist

  University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) · San Francisco
  Posted 2026-09-25

Also see

• Entry-level Research Scientist jobs in San Francisco, California 10

Research Scientist jobs in other cities

• Miami, Florida 225
• Boston, Massachusetts 217
• Los Angeles, California 204
• Cambridge, Massachusetts 157
• New York, New York 141
• Charlottesville, Virginia 115
• San Diego, California 113
• Memphis, Tennessee 109
• Houston, Texas 104
• Indianapolis, Indiana 93
• South San Francisco, California 92
• Cincinnati, Ohio 77
• Atlanta, Georgia 72
• Chicago, Illinois 70
• Tucson, Arizona 62
• Foster City, California 57
• Seattle, Washington 56
• North Chicago, Illinois 55
• Austin, Texas 55
• Durham, North Carolina 50
• Rockville, Maryland 49
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 48
• Fort Collins, Colorado 48
• Madison, Wisconsin 47

Other roles in San Francisco, California

• Software Engineer 813
• Machine Learning / AI Engineer 587
• Executive / Director 553
• Program / Project Manager 368
• Account Executive 343
• Product Manager 325
• Full-Stack Engineer 322
• Marketing Manager 247
• Intern / Trainee 217
• Lawyer / Attorney / Counsel 213
• Account Manager / Key Account 189
• DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer 182
• Backend Engineer 178
• Security Officer / Guard 167
• Product / UX Designer 163
• Recruiter / Talent Acquisition 151
• Customer Success 150
• Operations Manager 146
• Sales Representative 135
• Business Development 133
• Social Worker / Case Manager 132
• Security Engineer 130
• Engineering Manager 129
• Physician / Doctor 125
• Sales Development (SDR / BDR) 124

Questions

How many Research Scientist jobs are open in San Francisco, California right now?

107 listings are open on OpeningsFirst today, all from employers’ own career pages. 5 more were posted in the last 5 days and went to subscribers first.

Which companies are hiring for Research Scientist roles in San Francisco, California?

Recent openings here come from Kindbody, IQVIA, Trainloop, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Amazon, Anthropic, Abbvie, Pendulum™.

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