Experimental Design Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

HybridSydney, Australia

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Scientist / Principal Scientist, Complex in Vitro Systems

Genentech

HybridSouth San Francisco, USA

60 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Senior Data Scientist - Payment Risk/Fraud Embedded Insights

Plaid

HybridSan Francisco +2 more

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Member of Technical Staff - Multi-Modal, Vision

Liquid AI

HybridSan Francisco, USA

61 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Research Engineer, Rule of Law

HybridSan Francisco, USA

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Data Scientist, Pricing

11d

HybridSeattle, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Applied Scientist - Pricing

11d

HybridToronto, Canada

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Applied Scientist - Pricing

11d

HybridSeattle, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Applied Research Engineer - Media Quality

1mo

Spotify

HybridLondon, UK

64 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Postdoctoral Associate

15d

OnsiteWashington, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week

Postdoctoral Researcher - Soft Matter Physics

1mo

OnsiteSyracuse, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week

Postdoctoral Researcher - Intrinsically Disordered Proteins

1mo

HybridSyracuse, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week

Postdoctoral Associate, Maggirwar Lab

1mo

OnsiteWashington, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week

Staff Data Scientist - Growth

2mo

Gusto

HybridSan Francisco or New York

61 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$138k - $189k

Senior Data Scientist, Content + Social

1mo

Suno

OnsiteNew York City, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Research Engineer - Video Agents

1mo

Cambridge Mobile Telematics

HybridSan Francisco, USA

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Liquid Development Intern

15d

Diageo

HybridBishops Stortford, UK

57 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Data Scientist: Mission Engineering

15d

CHAOS Industries

OnsiteEl Segundo, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Sr Principal Data Scientist

18d

Smartsheet

HybridBangalore, India

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Principal Data Scientist, Customer Analytics

1mo

HybridCambridge, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$154k - $192k

Manager, Strategy & Analytics

1mo

HybridChicago, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$119k - $163k

Manager of Marketing Analytics

1mo

HybridChicago, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$113k - $165k

Director of Strategy & Analytics

1mo

HybridChicago, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Data Scientist

1mo

HybridLisbon, Portugal

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Data Science Team Lead

1mo

HybridTel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Data Science Team Lead

1mo

HybridLisbon, Portugal

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Staff AI Designer

1mo

Fin

HybridDublin, Ireland

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Research Scientist, Interpretability

15d

HybridSan Francisco, USA

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Research Engineer, Code RL

19d

HybridSan Francisco or New York City

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Research, Post-Training Data

1mo

Thinking Machines Lab

OnsiteSan Francisco, USA

54 · Decent5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Applied Scientist - Pricing

11d

HybridMiami, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Applied Scientist AI/ML

11d

HybridToronto, Canada

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Applied Scientist AI/ML

11d

HybridSeattle, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Lead Data Scientist, Platform Product

1mo

HybridNew York City +2 more

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Data Scientist, GTM

1mo

HybridNew York City or San Francisco

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Research Lead, Training Insights

1mo

HybridSan Francisco or New York City

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Applied Scientist AI/ML

11d

HybridMiami, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Pre-training

1mo

HybridZürich, Switzerland

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Research Engineer, Pretraining Scaling

1mo

HybridLondon, UK

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

Employers hiring for Experimental Design on this page include Anthropic, Opendoor, and Beyond Finance. Experimental Design roles appear most frequently in engineering, data, and platform teams at companies that have adopted a reduced-hours schedule. Each listing indicates the seniority level and whether Experimental Design is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Experimental Design roles span the full seniority range — we list 49 open roles requiring Experimental Design across entry-level, mid-level, senior, lead, and staff/principal positions. Senior and above tend to dominate because employers offering reduced-hours schedules often lean toward experienced individual contributors who can deliver consistently in fewer hours. Filter by level in the sidebar to narrow the list above.

Lead with measurable outcomes over time spent — Experimental Design hiring managers at reduced-hours companies care about delivered value, not hours worked. Highlight projects where you shipped at a steady cadence, collaborated asynchronously, or reduced engineering toil through automation or tooling. Include concrete metrics (latency improvements, adoption numbers, cost reductions) rather than vague duty descriptions. Expand listings above to see the exact framing each employer uses in their job descriptions.

For the full-pay schedules here — 4-day weeks and 9-day fortnights — yes: you keep a full-time salary for a shorter week. Part-time and pro-rata roles instead scale pay to hours, and each listing makes the arrangement clear. Experimental Design roles in tech and data typically command premium rates at both reduced-hours and traditional employers; specific ranges depend on seniority, location, and sub-specialty (e.g. backend vs frontend, infra vs ML). Individual listings above show exact bands where the employer publishes them.

Depends on the role, but Experimental Design candidates who also demonstrate async communication, clean documentation, and cross-functional collaboration are typically strong fits for reduced-hours employers — those companies rely on written-first communication and high-context handoffs to operate on a compressed schedule. Technical-adjacent skills vary by stack. Browse the top skills shown in the sidebar to see which tags co-occur most often with Experimental Design on current listings.

Staff ML Engineer

Cloudbeds

RemoteEurope

62 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Staff Data Scientist, Guest & Host Marketplace AI

2mo

Airbnb

RemoteUSA

64 · Good5 day weekVery Flexible$224k - $280k

Applied Scientist, Pro Growth

1mo

Thumbtack

RemoteCanada

62 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Research Staff, Voice AI Foundations

1mo

Deepgram

RemoteUSA or Canada

60 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Data Scientist II, Experimentation

1mo

RemoteUSA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Research Technician

University of Manchester

HybridManchester, UK

70 · GreatCompressed week

Director, Quantitative Pharmacology and Pharmacometrics – Oncology

Merck

HybridRahway, USA

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

63 · Good9 day fortnight

Data Scientist - Personalisation

HybridSydney, Australia

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Scientist / Principal Scientist, Complex in Vitro Systems

Genentech

HybridSouth San Francisco, USA

60 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Senior Data Scientist - Payment Risk/Fraud Embedded Insights

Plaid

HybridSan Francisco +2 more

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Member of Technical Staff - Multi-Modal, Vision

Liquid AI

HybridSan Francisco, USA

61 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Research Engineer, Rule of Law

HybridSan Francisco, USA

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Data Scientist, Pricing

11d

HybridSeattle, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Applied Scientist - Pricing

11d

HybridToronto, Canada

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Applied Scientist - Pricing

11d

HybridSeattle, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Applied Research Engineer - Media Quality

1mo

Spotify

HybridLondon, UK

64 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Postdoctoral Associate

15d

OnsiteWashington, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week

Postdoctoral Researcher - Soft Matter Physics

1mo

OnsiteSyracuse, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week

Postdoctoral Researcher - Intrinsically Disordered Proteins

1mo

HybridSyracuse, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week

Postdoctoral Associate, Maggirwar Lab

1mo

OnsiteWashington, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week

Staff Data Scientist - Growth

2mo

Gusto

HybridSan Francisco or New York

61 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$138k - $189k

Senior Data Scientist, Content + Social

1mo

Suno

OnsiteNew York City, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Research Engineer - Video Agents

1mo

Cambridge Mobile Telematics

HybridSan Francisco, USA

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Liquid Development Intern

15d

Diageo

HybridBishops Stortford, UK

57 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Data Scientist: Mission Engineering

15d

CHAOS Industries

OnsiteEl Segundo, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Sr Principal Data Scientist

18d

Smartsheet

HybridBangalore, India

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Principal Data Scientist, Customer Analytics

1mo

HybridCambridge, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$154k - $192k

Manager, Strategy & Analytics

1mo

HybridChicago, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$119k - $163k

Manager of Marketing Analytics

1mo

HybridChicago, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$113k - $165k

Director of Strategy & Analytics

1mo

HybridChicago, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Data Scientist

1mo

HybridLisbon, Portugal

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Data Science Team Lead

1mo

HybridTel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Data Science Team Lead

1mo

HybridLisbon, Portugal

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Staff AI Designer

1mo

Fin

HybridDublin, Ireland

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Research Scientist, Interpretability

15d

HybridSan Francisco, USA

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Research Engineer, Code RL

19d

HybridSan Francisco or New York City

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Research, Post-Training Data

1mo

Thinking Machines Lab

OnsiteSan Francisco, USA

54 · Decent5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Applied Scientist - Pricing

11d

HybridMiami, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Applied Scientist AI/ML

11d

HybridToronto, Canada

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Applied Scientist AI/ML

11d

HybridSeattle, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Lead Data Scientist, Platform Product

1mo

HybridNew York City +2 more

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Data Scientist, GTM

1mo

HybridNew York City or San Francisco

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Research Lead, Training Insights

1mo

HybridSan Francisco or New York City

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Applied Scientist AI/ML

11d

HybridMiami, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Pre-training

1mo

HybridZürich, Switzerland

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Research Engineer, Pretraining Scaling

1mo