CRA jobs, with the travel % up front and an insider on the other end.

Every CRA opening we find on CRO, sponsor, and site career pages, re-checked all day — with the two things postings bury, travel percentage and therapeutic area, surfaced where you can see them. And because the only honest intel about a monitoring job comes from the monitors doing it, every job here comes with the CRAs who work there. Free, no card.

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822 of 822 jobs · 438 remote · median advertised $145k

Thermo Fisher Scientifictoday

Clinical Research Associate II (CRA II) – FSP Business Unit

Remote, Romania · remote

Salary not posted

mid

Pfizertoday

Senior Clinical Research Associate

Turkey - Istanbul · onsite

Salary not posted

senior

Modernatoday

Senior Research Associate, Bioanalytical & Molecular Assays

Multiple locations · onsite

Remote, Belgium · remote

Indiana · remote

Salary not posted

senior

Thermo Fisher Scientifictoday

CRA II in Romania

Remote, Romania · remote

Shanghai, China · remote

Salary not posted

senior

Worldwide Clinical Trialstoday

Senior Clinical Research Associate - CNS/Oncology - West Coast

Virtual United States Arizona · remote

US, Blue Bell (ICON) · remote

Salary not posted

senior

ICON plctoday

Country Lead Monitor

US, Blue Bell (ICON) · remote

Salary not posted

senior

AstraZenecatoday

Associate Director, Data & AI Policy, Assurance, and Monitoring

Barcelona, , Spain · onsite

Salary not posted

senior

Thermo Fisher Scientifictoday

FSP CRA(Level II)

Chengdu, China · onsite

Vietnam, Vietnam · onsite

2 Locations · onsite

Salary not posted

mid

Eli Lillytoday

Clinical Research Lead

ES: Alcobendas · onsite

Salary not posted

senior

Thermo Fisher Scientifictoday

FSP CRA (Level II)

Guangzhou, China · remote

Salary not posted

mid

Premier Researchtoday

Clinical Research Associate II - Poland

Poland · onsite

Salary not posted

mid

CTI Clinicaltoday

Clinical Research Associate II

New Cairo City, Egypt · onsite

Salary not posted

mid

Fortreatoday

Clinical Research Associate I

Maidenhead · onsite

Buenos Aires, Argentina · onsite

Salary not posted

mid

Sanofitoday

Central Clinical Research Associate

Hyderabad, India · onsite

Salary not posted

mid

Parexeltoday

Site Care Partner/Lead CRA - All US Locations - FSP

United States, North Carolina, Remote · remote

Salary not posted

senior

Premier Researchtoday

Clinical Research Associate II

Australia · onsite

Salary not posted

mid

Parexeltoday

Initiation Clinical Research Associate / 臨床試験立ち上げ担当者

Japan, Tokyo · onsite

Salary not posted

mid

Parexeltoday

Clinical Research Associate/臨床開発モニター(東京・大阪・在宅可)

Japan, Tokyo · onsite

Salary not posted

mid

Parexeltoday

Senior Initiation Clinical Research Associate

India, Bengaluru · onsite

Greenville, North Carolina, USA · onsite

Salary not posted

entry

Parexeltoday

Research Associate - Mandarin Fluent

United States, Glendale, California · onsite

Salary not posted

mid

Biogentoday

Medical Research Specialist

Shanghai, China · onsite

Salary not posted

mid

ICON plctoday

Study Start Up Clinical Research Associate

Kenya · remote

Salary not posted

mid

Thermo Fisher Scientifictoday

Clinical Research Associate (Level II) and above

Remote, Portugal · remote

Salary not posted

mid

Thermo Fisher Scientifictoday

CRA I - FSP

Mumbai, India · remote

United States, California, Remote · remote

2 Locations · onsite

Greece, Athens · remote

Salary not posted

mid

Care Accesstoday

Study Nurse/Pielęgniarka / Pielęgniarz Badań Klinicznych

Warszawa, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland · onsite

2 Locations · remote

Quebec, Canada · remote

Salary not posted

senior

Thermo Fisher Scientifictoday

Clinical Research Associate (CRA) – Multiple Levels

Remote, Poland · remote

Salary not posted

mid

Johnson & Johnsontoday

Associate Site Manager (CRA - Monitor de Pesquisa Clinica I)

São Paulo, Brazil · onsite

Salary not posted

entry

ICON plctoday

Senior CRA - Phase I Oncology Chicago or Milwaukie

US, Blue Bell (ICON) · remote

Salary not posted

senior

Parexeltoday

Senior Clinical Research Associate (Contractor)

Australia, Remote · remote

Salary not posted

senior

Premier Researchtoday

Senior CRA, Onc/Neuro/Rare/Derm (West Coast, Midwest, Northeast)

United States of America · onsite

Salary not posted

senior

Mercktoday

Associate Principal Scientist, Clinical Research

4 Locations · onsite

$142k–$224k

senior

Thermo Fisher Scientifictoday

FSP CRA(Level II)

Chengdu, China · onsite

Salary not posted

mid

Thermo Fisher Scientifictoday

FSP CRA(Level II)

Chengdu, China · onsite

Salary not posted

mid

Thermo Fisher Scientifictoday

FSP CRA(Level II)

Chengdu, China · onsite

Salary not posted

mid

CTI Clinicaltoday

Clinical Research Associate II / Senior Clinical Research (CRA) (m/w/x) Germany

Ulm, Germany · onsite

2 Locations · onsite

Chengdu, China · remote

India - Hyderabad · onsite

Salary not posted

mid

AstraZenecatoday

Clinical Research Associate (CRA) (m/w/d) – Zelltherapie

Hamburg, , Germany · onsite

United States - California - Foster City · onsite

$210k–$272k

senior

Thermo Fisher Scientifictoday

Senior Clinical Research Associate (Melbourne or Sydney)

Melbourne, Australia · onsite

Shanghai, China · onsite

Salary not posted

mid

Mercktoday

Clinical Research Associate I (CRA I) - São Paulo/SP

BRA - Sao Paulo - Sao Paulo (Torre Z) · remote

Vienna, Vienna · onsite

2 Locations · onsite

United States · remote

Remote, Argentina · remote

Salary not posted

entry

ICON plctoday

Clinical Research Associate 2

Romania, Bucharest · remote

Virtual United States Arizona · remote

$97k–$193k

senior

Thermo Fisher Scientifictoday

Experienced Clinical Research Associate (CRA II / SR CRA I / SR CRA II) - US West - FSO

Remote, California, USA · remote

Remote, Germany · remote

Salary not posted

senior

Every job comes with the people who work there, and a message ready to send them.

What a CRA actually does

A Clinical Research Associate is the industry's road-warrior quality check. You're the person who travels to hospitals, clinics, and research sites to make sure a trial is being run correctly: site initiation visits (SIVs) to get a site started, interim monitoring visits to verify data against source documents (SDV), and close-out visits when a site finishes. You review regulatory binders, check drug accountability, query discrepancies, and write the visit reports that sponsors live by.

Most CRAs are home-based — you work from home when you're not on the road, which for CRO roles means 50–80% travel depending on the contract. Sponsors' CRAs tend to travel less and pay more; CRO CRAs see more studies and more variety. The title inflation is real and fast: CRA I → CRA II → senior CRA in three to five years is a normal pace.

CRA vs. CRC — the mix-up worth un-mixing

People say "CRA" when they mean coordinator all the time. The difference matters because the careers are different jobs:

The CRC works at one site, with patients, running visits. On-site, one employer, home every night.
The CRA works for the sponsor or CRO, visiting many sites, checking the CRC's work. Home-based, heavy travel, car and airport.

The good news: CRC is the standard on-ramp to CRA. If you're a coordinator today, you're on the exact ladder most monitoring job postings describe. If you're not in the field yet, start at entry-level clinical research jobs — there is no realistic straight-from-school path into monitoring.

The coordinator-to-CRA path

Most postings ask for "2+ years of clinical research experience, monitoring preferred." Here's how sitting CRCs cross that gap:

Bake monitoring into your current role. Host the monitor's visits, own the regulatory binder, close out queries in the EDC. Every one of those lines is CRA résumé material.
Get on record with GCP and your EDC systems. Medidata Rave, Oracle Clinical, Veeva — system names on your résumé survive the first screen.
Move internally first if you can. CROs promote CTAs and site staff into CRA I roles from inside far more often than they hire external "entry-level" monitors.
Talk to CRAs when they visit your site. The monitor across the table knows exactly what her manager wants in a candidate — that's the conversation we help you start.

Entry-level CRA jobs exist — they're just called other things

Search "entry level CRA jobs" and you'll mostly find listings wanting 2 years anyway. The genuine on-ramps wear different labels: CRA I (the true entry title), Clinical Monitor, Study Start-Up Specialist, Clinical Trial Specialist, and the CTA → CRA pipeline at nearly every large CRO. If a CRO has an office near you, its CTA and trial specialist postings are the honest way in the front door. We tag those here when we find them.

Reading the posting: the lines that matter

Travel %: the difference between a life and a schedule. 50–60% is livable for most; 80% with a two-year contract is a decision.
"Home-based" vs "office-based": home-based means your commute is an airport. Office-based CRO roles usually mean regional travel with a desk between trips.
"Regional" means a defined territory — fewer flights, more driving. Often the best quality-of-life deals in monitoring.
Therapeutic area: oncology, vaccines, cardiology, CNS all have distinct rhythms. The area you monitor in tends to become the area you're stuck in; insiders can tell you which ones are hiring and which are shrinking.

Ask an insider before you sign

Job postings are written by recruiters; CRAs tell the truth. Five questions worth asking the monitors already at the company — all findable, all messagable, first message drafted for you:

What was your actual travel % last quarter — not the contract's?
Did you get your laptop, phone, and travel setup in week one, or month three?
How much say do you get over your territory?
What's the real path and timeline from CRA I to CRA II here?
Why are people leaving — or staying?

One good conversation before you accept beats a year of finding out. And if you're moving site → CRO or coordinator → monitor, you're exactly who the referral mechanic was built for: in one large U.S. company's hiring data, referred candidates were 6% of applicants but 29% of hires (Brown, Setren & Topa, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 2013; Journal of Labor Economics, 2016).

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Questions

What is a CRA? A Clinical Research Associate — also called a clinical monitor — the person a sponsor or CRO sends to research sites to verify a trial is being conducted correctly: checking data against source documents, reviewing regulatory files, and reporting on each site. Expect heavy travel in the first years.

How do I get a CRA job with no experience? You almost always don't — not directly. The standard path is coordinator, CTA, or site experience for 1–2 years, then CRA I or a CRO's internal monitor-track role. Our no-experience CRC jobs page is the first rung of that ladder.

Are CRA jobs remote? Mostly home-based, which is not the same as remote-without-travel. When you're not at a site, you work from home; the travel is the job. Genuinely low-travel monitoring jobs exist — they're called central/remote monitoring and they're competitive. See remote clinical research jobs.

What do CRA jobs pay? From postings we see daily: CRA I roles commonly advertise $70k–$90k; experienced CRAs $95k–$130k+; sponsors and West Coast/biotech hubs above that. Stipends for travel days vary and matter — ask an insider before comparing base salaries.

CRC or CRA — which should I aim for? CRC if you want patients, one site, and being home; CRA if you want travel, higher ceiling, and independence. Coordinators who've hosted monitoring visits make the strongest CRA candidates. Read the comparison above, then how to become a clinical research coordinator for the site-side story.

What's the difference between a CRA and a Clinical Trial Manager? The CTM manages the monitors and the trial's execution across sites — usually a promotion out of senior CRA. It's the natural next seat after 4–6 years of monitoring, and mostly desk-based.

Do CRAs make good money? Yes, by this industry's floor: $70k–$90k at CRA I and $95k–$130k+ experienced, straight from live postings, plus travel-covered expenses — and the title compounds fast. See CRA salary for the ranges we track.

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