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Overview

Acadia Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company headquartered in San Diego, California, that develops and markets treatments for underserved neurological disorders and rare diseases. Founded in 1993 and listed on Nasdaq, it sells NUPLAZID, the first FDA-approved treatment for Parkinson's disease psychosis, and DAYBUE, the first approved therapy for Rett syndrome, now also approved in the European Union, with pipeline programs in Alzheimer's disease psychosis and Lewy body dementia psychosis. It hires sales specialists, area business managers and medical science liaisons in the US and Europe, plus quality, regulatory, supply chain, AI and corporate staff, many at its Princeton office.

News

News The Motley Fool 4 months ago
Why Acadia Pharmaceuticals Stock Is Soaring Today
An approval of one of its drugs for a major market is now looking likely.
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News Nasdaq 1 year ago
What Analysts Are Saying About ACADIA Pharmaceuticals Stock
18 analysts have shared their evaluations of ACADIA Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ACAD) during the recent three months, expressing a mix of bullish and bearish perspectives. The table below offers a condensed view of their recent ratings, showcasing the changin
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News Nasdaq 1 year ago
The Analyst Verdict: ACADIA Pharmaceuticals In The Eyes Of 11 Experts
Across the recent three months, 11 analysts have shared their insights on ACADIA Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ACAD), expressing a variety of opinions spanning from bullish to bearish. The table below provides a snapshot of their recent ratings, showcasing how
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Acadia Pharmaceuticals over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
44
Postings analysed
9
Stack modernity
75/100AI adopter
Languages
Python
SQL
R
SAS
Frameworks & libraries
CrewAI
LangGraph
OpenAI Agents SDK
PyTorch
Databases
Snowflake
Cloud & platforms
GCP
AWS
Anthropic
Azure
AI & ML
LLM
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Full Acadia Pharmaceuticals tech stack 44 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$176k
Typical range
$122k – $334k
Open positions
21
21 Jobs
Middle 9.5%
Senior 42.9%
Staff 4.8%
Principal 23.8%
Architect 19%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Middle 2 $166k $137k – $195k
Senior 9 $176k $122k – $182k
Staff 1 $210k $210k
Principal 5 $155k $155k
Architect 4 $230k $198k – $334k
Highest paying role Executive Director, Tax $334k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Acadia Pharmaceuticals By role, level and city, against the market · 21 jobs with pay

People

Andrea Hofmaier
Geschäftsführer
Internationale Büros
Geschäftsführer
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
80/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
30
13 opened / 17 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
57 days
faster than 25% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~3 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Early Careers
41% ▼
Science & Research
10% ▲
Sales
8% ▼
Education
8% ▲
Leadership
6% ▼
Industrial Engineering
6% ▲
Actively hiring for Early Careers (+5 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added VPN to stack Oct 2026
Added SLI/SLO/SLA to stack Oct 2026
Added Service Desk to stack Oct 2026
Added Microsoft Teams to stack Oct 2026
Added DNS to stack Oct 2026
Added DHCP to stack Oct 2026
Added Shiny to stack Oct 2026
Added SAS to stack Oct 2026
Added Rest API to stack Oct 2026
Added R to stack Oct 2026
Added Git to stack Oct 2026
Added data.table to stack Oct 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
16
Hiring now
6
Countries
5
Busiest office
San Diego
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San Diego United States
HQ
West Coast HQ - San Diego, California
7 open roles 10 posted in 90 days 14% engineering 50-200 est. staff $207k Avg Salary
hires for Early Careers, Leadership, Finance
12830 El Camino Real, Suite 400, San Diego, 92130
seen since Jul 2026 company site, careers board, job postings
Princeton United States
East Coast HQ - Princeton, New Jersey
8 open roles 13 posted in 90 days 13% engineering 50-200 est. staff $207k Avg Salary
hires for Early Careers, Leadership, Administrative
502 Carnegie Center, Suite 300, Princeton, 08540
seen since Jun 2026 company site, careers board, job postings
South San Francisco United States
Regional office
South San Francisco, California
7 open roles 8 posted in 90 days 14% engineering 50-200 est. staff $207k Avg Salary
hires for Early Careers, Leadership, Finance
365 Oyster Point Blvd., Suite 500, South San Francisco, CA 94080
seen since Aug 2026 company site, careers board
Zug Switzerland
Sales office
Zug, Switzerland
3 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Support, Administrative, Marketing
seen since Jul 2026 careers board, company site, job postings
Amsterdam Netherlands
Plant / site
Acadia Pharmaceuticals
1 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Operations
Strawinskylaan 3051, 4th Floor, Amsterdam, 1077 ZX
seen since Jul 2026 company site, careers board, job postings
Munich Germany
Sales office
Germany - Remote
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $137k Avg Salary
hires for Early Careers
seen since Jul 2026 careers board, job postings
Basel Switzerland
Regional office
Acadia Pharmaceuticals
Barfüsserplatz 3, Basel, 4051
company site, careers board
Baar Switzerland
Regional office
Acadia Pharmaceuticals
Neuhofstrasse 4, Baar, 6340
company site
Oakville Canada
Regional office
Acadia Pharmaceuticals
295 Robinson St., Suite 100, Oakville, L6J 1G7
company site
New York United States
Regional office
New York - Remote
careers board
Wyoming United States
Regional office
Wyoming - Remote
careers board
Texas United States
Regional office
Texas - Remote
careers board
Delaware United States
Regional office
Delaware - Remote
careers board
Oregon United States
Regional office
Oregon - Remote
careers board
West United States
Regional office
West Virginia - Remote
careers board
Ontario United States
Regional office
Toronto, Canada
295 Robinson St., Suite 100, Oakville, Ontario L6J 1G7
company site
Earlier presence
Washington, United States 2 open roles · last posting Aug 2026

Jobs

Equity • Hybrid • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Zug
SLI/SLO/SLA
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VPN
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$158k – $198k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • 10+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • United States
Python
SQL
R
SAS
Shiny
data.table
AI/ML
LLM
RAG
Human-in-the-Loop
DevOps
Rest API
GCP
CI/CD
Git
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$202k – $252k per year • Equity • Hybrid • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Princeton • San Diego • South San Francisco
Python
LangGraph
LangChain
Model Context Protocol
Scikit-learn
AI Agents
Transformers
PyTorch
CrewAI
LLM
RAG
Hallucination
Reranking
Anthropic
Hugging Face
OpenAI Agents SDK
Human-in-the-Loop
LLM Guardrails
EU AI Act
NIST AI RMF
Multi-Agent Systems
Machine Learning
Cybersecurity
GDPR
HIPAA
Analytics
A/B Testing
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