| From 2011 to August 2021, he worked as a Principal Investigator at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. |
| He served as a Research Scientist at UC Berkeley from 2011 to 2015. |
| Vikram was an Advisory Board Member at UC Berkeley's College of Chemistry from February 2015 to August 2021. |
| He was the Chief Scientific Officer of Google Life Sciences from March 2013 until October 2016. |
| During his time at Google X, he collaborated with Sergey Brin on various projects. |
| In March 2013, he co-founded Google Life Sciences, now known as Verily. |
| Since September 2014, he has been an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine. |
| He held the Chief Scientific Officer position at GRAIL, Inc. from January 2016 to October 2017. |
| He served as the Chair of the Science Board at Verily from September 2016 to September 2017. |
| In October 2017, he became the Managing Director at Foresite Capital Management. |
| He co-founded Foresite Labs in October 2018 and took on the role of full-time CEO. |
| He started as a Non-Executive Director at Genomics England in February 2021. |
| Became the Interim President of Xaira Therapeutics in January 2023. |
| Made headlines in November 2025 when appointed as the co-chief executive of Project Prometheus. |