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Variant Jobs in California (NOW HIRING)

Fladger Associates

Packaging Technician - I

El Segundo, CA · On-site

$18 - $22/hr

Takes variant action only with approval of department management. * Receives well-defined instructions on majority of assigned work. Experience: * High School Diploma and 1-2 years of related ...

Natera

Laboratory Director

San Carlos, CA · On-site

$128K - $167K/yr

Strong familiarity with professional guidelines for somatic variant interpretation (e.g., AMP/ASCO/CAP tiering). * Understanding of statistical measures and bioinformatic concepts utilized in genetic ...

Vast

Senior Structural & Mechanical Engineer

Long Beach, CA

$105K - $143K/yr

Own payload mechanical integration - mounting interfaces, structural accommodation, and mechanical ICDs for every customer payload variant * Own the separation system - define the approach, design or ...

OpenReq

Software Engineer, LLM Compilation

Cupertino, CA · On-site

$128K - $172K/yr

Responsibilities : • Write an optimized kernel to compute a new attention variant on our hardware • Implement HuggingFace's `CohereForCausalLM` class using Etched's transformer building blocks ...

Apple

Software Quality Engineer

Sunnyvale, CA · On-site

... variant Track record of shipping great consumer products Previous experience with software measurement tools to analyze performance and memory usage Ability to thrive in uncertain, rapid project ...

Apple

Software Quality Engineer

Sunnyvale, CA · On-site

... variant Track record of shipping great consumer products Previous experience with software measurement tools to analyze performance and memory usage Ability to thrive in uncertain, rapid project ...

Natera

Associate Laboratory Director

San Carlos, CA · On-site

$128K - $167K/yr

Oversee the review of genetic and CNV variant data: interpret NGS results in the context of medical literature, online variant databases and other references along with relevant patient demographic ...

Integrated Resources INC

Packaging Tech

San Dimas, CA

$17 - $20.75/hr

Takes variant action only with approval of department management. * Receives well-defined instructions on majority of assigned work. Additional Information Feel free to forward my email to your ...

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How much do variant jobs pay per hour?

As of Aug 5, 2026, the average hourly pay for variant in California is $21.01, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $16.59 and $23.03 per hour, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a variant analyst?

To thrive as a Variant Analyst, you need a solid understanding of genetics, molecular biology, and bioinformatics, often supported by a relevant degree in life sciences or computational biology. Familiarity with genomic analysis tools (like GATK, ANNOVAR), databases (ClinVar, gnomAD), and scripting languages such as Python or R is typically required. Strong attention to detail, analytical thinking, and effective communication help distinguish top performers in this role. These competencies are crucial for accurately interpreting genetic variants, ensuring reliable results, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams in clinical or research settings.

What is a variant?

Variant jobs typically refer to roles within companies that focus on genetic variant analysis, such as bioinformatics specialists, geneticists, or data analysts working with genomic data. These professionals analyze and interpret genetic variants—differences in DNA sequences—to understand their impact on health, disease, and traits. Responsibilities may include utilizing specialized software, conducting research, and collaborating with other scientists or healthcare professionals to translate genetic findings into actionable insights. Variant jobs are commonly found in research institutions, healthcare organizations, and biotechnology companies.

What are some typical challenges faced by professionals working in genetic variant interpretation roles?

Professionals in genetic variant interpretation often encounter challenges such as managing large volumes of complex genomic data, staying current with rapidly evolving scientific literature, and ensuring accurate classification of novel variants. Collaboration with clinicians, bioinformaticians, and laboratory staff is essential to resolve ambiguous findings and provide actionable results. Additionally, balancing the need for thoroughness with timely reporting is a common challenge, especially in clinical or diagnostic settings.
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Infographic showing various Variant job openings in California as of July 2026, with employment types broken down into 90% Full Time, 6% Part Time, and 4% Contract. Highlights an 91% Physical, 4% Hybrid, and 5% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $43,702 per year, or $21 per hour.

Applications Engineer

Radical Numerics, Inc

San Francisco, CA • On-site

Full-time

Posted 8 days ago

Job description

About Us
Radical Numerics is an AI research lab building general biological intelligence. Our mission is to master the code of life, and our purpose is to reduce human suffering.
Our team created Evo, and started the field of generative genomics. Our work was featured on the cover of Science, and presented by our CEO on the main stage of TED2025. Evo was used to create the first AI gene therapy tool CRISPR-Cas9, and the first AI whole genome from scratch. Evo 2, featured in Nature, is the largest fully open source AI project across any domain.
Radical Numerics is bringing the rigor of distributed systems, model architecture, and numerics research to the challenges of biology. We've redesigned the foundation model training stack to turn the world's raw scientific data (e.g. biological sequences, experiments, and physical processes), into intelligible, generative models that can expand and accelerate what humanity can understand, design, and cure.
The same generative breakthroughs that enable life-saving cures also lowers the barrier to creating engineered threats and AI-generated bioweapons. We believe these forces are inseparable. Radical Numerics was founded to develop both the power to design and the responsibility to defend.
About the Role
You build what our partners use. Our models produce variant scores; you build everything between those scores and the scientist who needs to act on them.
The science team owns the model itself. You own the pipelines that run it on partner data, the interfaces people use to work with the results, and the evaluations that demonstrate how the scores hold up. Our inference infrastructure and core API are out of scope for this role.
You'll be paired with a product lead who owns a customer lane. You'll present your own work directly in partner meetings, which means fielding technical objections yourself. Expect to ship on a weekly cadence.
What You'll Do
  • Develop the application surface for your area of ownership, including interactive workbenches, variant scoring and ranking pipelines, and other tools that make model output usable by scientists unfamiliar with our API.
  • Run our models on partner data and present results with enough interpretability for a computational biologist to trust the output.
  • Build the evaluation infrastructure that makes our claims verifiable, including held-out benchmarks, blind retrospectives on solved cases, and head-to-head comparisons against tools partners currently use.
  • Present your own work directly in partner meetings, field technical objections in real time, and return with fixes.
  • Ship on a weekly cadence. Most features begin as prototypes developed live in partner conversations.
What We're Looking For
  • You build across the stack. Python for data and model work, TypeScript, React or similar for the interfaces.
  • You have worked with real genomic data. VCFs, reference builds, variant annotation, and the specific ways this data is messy in practice.
  • Comfortable engaging a partner's computational biology team as a technical peer, including in skeptical or challenging technical discussions.
  • Comfortable operating without a finished spec, and able to take a rough direction and a partner conversation and turn them into a working system within a week.
Nice to Have
  • Experience designing model evaluations, and an opinion about what makes a benchmark honest.
  • You've handled sensitive human data under strict access controls and understand the limits that comes with.
  • A forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, or founding engineer background at an AI or infrastructure company.

Radical Numerics is committed to equal employment opportunity and does not discriminate in any employment opportunities or practices based on an individual's race, color, creed, gender (including gender identity and gender expression), religion (all aspects of religious beliefs, observance or practice, including religious dress or grooming practices), marital status, registered domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry (including language use restrictions and possession of a driver's license issued under California Vehicle Code section 12801.9), natural hair, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, medical condition (including cancer or a record or history of cancer, and genetic characteristics), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical condition), genetic information, sexual orientation, military and veteran status or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. It also prohibits unlawful discrimination based on the perception that anyone has any of those characteristics, or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics.
Radical Numerics participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.

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