Experimental Design Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

RemoteUSA

62 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Data Scientist, Lifecycle

10d

RemoteCanada

62 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Data Scientist - Inference, Community Support

25d

RemoteUSA

64 · Good5 day weekVery Flexible

Senior Staff Data Scientist, Guest & Host Marketplace AI

3mo

RemoteUSA

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

Senior Staff Machine Learning Scientist, Assets

1mo

Webflow

RemoteUSA or Canada

63 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$205k – $290k

Staff ML Engineer

28d

Cloudbeds

RemoteEurope

62 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Applied Scientist, Pro Growth

1mo

RemoteCanada

62 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Research Staff, LLMs

2mo

RemoteUSA or Canada

60 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Research Staff, Voice AI Foundations

2mo

RemoteUSA or Canada

60 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Sr. Data Scientist II

13d

RemoteUSA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Research Associate

University of Manchester

HybridManchester, UK

70 · GreatCompressed week

Stem Cell Research Scientist

14h

Vertex Pharmaceuticals

HybridBoston, USA

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Scientist

General Atomics

OnsiteSan Diego, USA

58 · Good9 day fortnight

Senior Scientist, Respiratory Biology (Discovery Research)

HybridSouth San Francisco, USA

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Senior Scientist, Respiratory Discovery (Biology & Translational Models)

HybridSouth San Francisco, USA

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Engineer II

Amgen

HybridThousand Oaks, USA

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO$103k – $118k

Senior Statistician

Sanofi

HybridHyderabad, India

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Research Fellow, Chemical Biology & Proteomics

HybridCambridge, USA

60 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Senior Scientist, Immunology

HybridSan Francisco, USA

60 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Senior Systems Engineer – Performance & Reliability (Analysis)

HybridLondon, UK

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Systems Engineer – Performance & Reliability (Analysis)

HybridBristol, UK

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Large Systems)

HybridCambridge, UK

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Research Scientist, Life Sciences (Computational)

HybridSan Francisco, USA

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Data Scientist, Underwriting

Parafin

HybridSan Francisco, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Postdoctoral Research Associate - Thermal Energy Storage Group

1mo

OnsiteOak Ridge, USA

63 · Good9 day fortnight

Postdoctoral Research Associate - LEGEND

2mo

OnsiteOak Ridge, USA

63 · Good9 day fortnight

Member of Technical Staff - Multi-Modal, Vision

1mo

Liquid AI

HybridSan Francisco, USA

61 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Postdoctoral Associate

1mo

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

2mo

OnsiteWashington, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week

Sr. Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Monetization Engineering

23d

HybridSan Francisco +2 more

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Data Scientist, Pricing

1mo

HybridSeattle, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Applied Scientist - Pricing

1mo

HybridToronto, Canada

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Applied Scientist - Pricing

1mo

HybridSeattle, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Manager, Data Analytics

1mo

Headspace

HybridSanta Monica, USA

59 · Good5 day weekFlex Fridays

Senior Data Scientist, Content + Social

2mo

Suno

OnsiteNew York City, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Research Engineer - Video Agents

1mo

Canva

HybridSan Francisco, USA

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Data Scientist: Mission Engineering

1mo

CHAOS Industries

OnsiteEl Segundo, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Sr Principal Data Scientist

1mo

HybridBangalore, India

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

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 Science Team Lead

1mo

Riskified

HybridTel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Staff AI Designer

1mo

Fin

HybridDublin, Ireland

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Researcher, Education Labs

16d

HybridSan Francisco or New York City

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Research Engineer, Visual Knowledge Work

27d

HybridNew York City +2 more

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Research, Post-Training Data

2mo

Thinking Machines Lab

OnsiteSan Francisco, USA

54 · Decent5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Large Systems)

HybridLondon, UK

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

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Employers hiring for Experimental Design on this page include Anthropic, Opendoor, and Graphcore. 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 66 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.

Research Engineer, Data Foundations

Runway

RemoteUSA

62 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Data Scientist, Lifecycle

10d

RemoteUSA

62 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Data Scientist, Lifecycle

10d

RemoteCanada

62 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Data Scientist - Inference, Community Support

25d

RemoteUSA

64 · Good5 day weekVery Flexible

Senior Staff Data Scientist, Guest & Host Marketplace AI

3mo

RemoteUSA

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

Senior Staff Machine Learning Scientist, Assets

1mo

Webflow

RemoteUSA or Canada

63 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$205k – $290k

Staff ML Engineer

28d

Cloudbeds

RemoteEurope

62 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Applied Scientist, Pro Growth

1mo

RemoteCanada

62 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Research Staff, LLMs

2mo

RemoteUSA or Canada

60 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Research Staff, Voice AI Foundations

2mo

RemoteUSA or Canada

60 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Sr. Data Scientist II

13d

RemoteUSA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Research Associate

University of Manchester

HybridManchester, UK

70 · GreatCompressed week

Stem Cell Research Scientist

14h

Vertex Pharmaceuticals

HybridBoston, USA

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Scientist

General Atomics

OnsiteSan Diego, USA

58 · Good9 day fortnight

Senior Scientist, Respiratory Biology (Discovery Research)

HybridSouth San Francisco, USA

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Senior Scientist, Respiratory Discovery (Biology & Translational Models)

HybridSouth San Francisco, USA

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Engineer II

Amgen

HybridThousand Oaks, USA

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO$103k – $118k

Senior Statistician

Sanofi

HybridHyderabad, India

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Research Fellow, Chemical Biology & Proteomics

HybridCambridge, USA

60 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Senior Scientist, Immunology

HybridSan Francisco, USA

60 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Senior Systems Engineer – Performance & Reliability (Analysis)

HybridLondon, UK

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Systems Engineer – Performance & Reliability (Analysis)

HybridBristol, UK

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Large Systems)

HybridCambridge, UK

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Research Scientist, Life Sciences (Computational)

HybridSan Francisco, USA

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Data Scientist, Underwriting

Parafin

HybridSan Francisco, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Postdoctoral Research Associate - Thermal Energy Storage Group

1mo

OnsiteOak Ridge, USA

63 · Good9 day fortnight

Postdoctoral Research Associate - LEGEND

2mo

OnsiteOak Ridge, USA

63 · Good9 day fortnight

Member of Technical Staff - Multi-Modal, Vision

1mo

Liquid AI

HybridSan Francisco, USA

61 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Postdoctoral Associate

1mo

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

2mo

OnsiteWashington, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week

Sr. Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Monetization Engineering

23d

HybridSan Francisco +2 more

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Data Scientist, Pricing

1mo

HybridSeattle, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Applied Scientist - Pricing

1mo

HybridToronto, Canada

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Applied Scientist - Pricing

1mo

HybridSeattle, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Manager, Data Analytics

1mo

Headspace

HybridSanta Monica, USA

59 · Good5 day weekFlex Fridays

Senior Data Scientist, Content + Social

2mo

Suno

OnsiteNew York City, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Research Engineer - Video Agents

1mo

Canva

HybridSan Francisco, USA

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Data Scientist: Mission Engineering

1mo

CHAOS Industries

OnsiteEl Segundo, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Sr Principal Data Scientist

1mo

HybridBangalore, India

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

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 Science Team Lead

1mo

Riskified

HybridTel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Staff AI Designer

1mo

Fin

HybridDublin, Ireland

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Researcher, Education Labs

16d

HybridSan Francisco or New York City

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Research Engineer, Visual Knowledge Work

27d

HybridNew York City +2 more

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Research, Post-Training Data

2mo

Thinking Machines Lab

OnsiteSan Francisco, USA

54 · Decent5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Large Systems)