Welcome to Caltech's Human Resources web site. We are pleased that you want to know more about us. People choose to work at Caltech for many reasons, and many of them find it a great place to spend an entire career. With an exceptional faculty, including four active Nobel laureates, and facilities like the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Palomar Observatory, the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, and the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatories (LIGO) in Livingston, Louisiana and Hanford, Washington. The California Institute of Technology is one of the world's major centers of research and education in the sciences and engineering.

Caltech's campus is situated in Pasadena, California, a city of about 140,000 at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains, and 10 miles northeast of the Los Angeles Civic Center. It is an independent, privately supported university.

We hope you will find the information and resources you need about Institute jobs, programs, and its people.