Principal Scientist Jobs in California
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Principal Scientist - Structural Biology
- South San Francisco, CA
- 3 days ago
Principal Scientist, In Vivo Pharmacology
- San Diego, CA
- 2 days ago
Principal Scientist, Emerging Viruses
- Foster City, CA
- 2 days ago
Senior Scientist II / Principal Scientist I
- Irvine, CA
- 1 day ago
Principal Scientist, Pharmacology
- San Diego, CA
- 1 day ago
Principal Scientist (Molecular Cell Biologist), Senior Scientist, and Scientist
- San Francisco, CA
- 1 day ago
- San Diego, CA
- 1 day ago
Principal/Senior Principal Scientist/Toxicologist
- San Francisco, CA
- 1 hour ago
Principal/Senior Principal Scientist/Toxicologist
- South San Francisco, CA
- 1 hour ago
- La Jolla, CA
- 1 day ago
Senior/Principal Scientist - Quantitative Clinical Pharmacology
- South San Francisco, CA
- 1 hour ago
- Carlsbad, CA
- 2 days ago
Associate Director / Principal Scientist, Analytical and Formulation Development
- South San Francisco, CA
- 1 day ago
Senior Principal Scientist Team Leader, Tumor Biology
- San Diego, CA
- 1 day ago
Principal Scientist, Neuroscience
- San Diego, CA
- 1 hour ago
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Highest Education Level
- Doctorate Degree (47.2%)
- Bachelor's Degree (28.8%)
- Master's Degree (22.4%)
- Associate's Degree (0.7%)
- High School or GED (0.5%)
- Vocational Degree or Certification (0.3%)
- Some College (0.1%)
- Some High School (0.0%)
Average Work Experience
- None (32.8%)
- Less than 1 year (18.1%)
- 1-2 years (16.9%)
- 4-6 years (11.4%)
- 6-8 years (7.8%)
- 2-4 years (7.0%)
- 10+ years (6.0%)
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= trending- Analytical Chemistry
- Assay Development
- Biochemistry
- Bioinformatics
- Biology
- Biophysics
- Cell Biology
- Cell Culture
- Chemical Characterization
- Chromatography
- Communication Skills
- Data Analysis
- Design of Experiments
- Drug Development
- Drug Discovery
- Education Experience
- Engineering
- Enzyme-Linked ImmunoSorbent Assay
- Experimental Design
- Flow Cytometry
- Genomics
- Good Laboratory Practice
- Good Manufacturing Practices
- Hazardous Materials
- Healthcare Management
- Hematology
- High-Performance Liquid Chromatography
- Immunohistochemistry
- Immunology
- Investigation
- Leadership
- Liquid Chromatography
- Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry
- Mass Spectrometry
- Materials Management
- Medicinal Chemistry
- Method Development
- Microsoft Excel
- Molecular Biology
- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
- Optimization
- Organic Chemistry
- Organization
- Pharmaceutical Sales
- Process Development
- Product Development
- Project Management
- Protein Expression
- Purification
- Reporting
- Research and Development
- Research Skills
- Scale-Up
- SDS-PAGE
- Standard Operating Procedures
- Statistics
- Synthesis
- Toxicology
- Training and Development
- Troubleshooting
- Validation
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