Jobs in San Diego, CA

San Diego has built a genuinely distinctive economy. The biotech and pharmaceutical cluster here is world-class - Illumina, Dexcom, and dozens of smaller firms are all based in the Torrey Pines and Sorrento Valley corridors, and UCSD feeds the pipeline with research talent. The military presence is enormous too. Naval Base San Diego is the principal homeport of the Pacific Fleet, and defense contractors like General Atomics and Northrop Grumman have major operations. Tourism is a steady employer thanks to the weather and beaches, but the higher-paying jobs tend to cluster in life sciences and defense tech. Housing costs are steep - this is still Southern California - but they're lower than LA or San Francisco. And the weather really is that good, every single day.