OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence research and deployment company founded in 2015 with the mission of ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It develops the GPT family of large language models and turns them into consumer and developer products, including the ChatGPT assistant, the Sora video model, the Codex coding agent and a commercial API used by millions of developers. Structured as a public benefit corporation controlled by a non-profit foundation, the company is backed by Microsoft and SoftBank and operates from San Francisco.
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Multimodal AI • AI Agents • Artificial Intelligence • Machine Learning • LLM & Generative AI • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2015
$180k – $260k per year • Senior • 8+ years exp • Remote/Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) • Relocation • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Staff
Python
AI/ML
ChatGPT
OpenAI
OpenAI Codex
Cybersecurity
FedRAMP
$251k – $335k per year • Remote/Hybrid (New York, San Francisco, Mountain View, United States) • Full-Time
$251k – $335k per year • Remote/Hybrid (San Francisco, New York, United States) • Full-Time
Anthropic is an American artificial intelligence safety and research company founded in 2021 by former OpenAI researchers, among them the siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei. It develops the Claude family of large language models and ships them through a consumer assistant, an enterprise developer platform and the Claude Code agentic coding tool, alongside open standards such as the Model Context Protocol. Incorporated as a public benefit corporation and headquartered in San Francisco, the company concentrates on interpretability, alignment and reliability research and counts Google and Amazon among its largest investors.
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Code Intelligence • AI Agents • Machine Learning • LLM & Generative AI • Artificial Intelligence • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2021
≈ $231k – $433k per year (Estimated) • Middle • 3+ years exp • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Visa sponsorship • Bachelor's Degree • Middle
Python
AI/ML
Anthropic
Claude
Edge AI
Fine-tuning
Multimodal AI
Reinforcement Learning
$240k per year • Staff+ • 3+ years exp • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Visa sponsorship • Bachelor's Degree • Architect
Python
AI/ML
Claude
LLM
Multimodal AI
Anthropic
Context Engineering
$240k per year • Staff+ • 8+ years exp • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Visa sponsorship • Bachelor's Degree • Architect
Python
AI/ML
Claude
LLM
Multimodal AI
Anthropic
66 Degrees is a technology company that provides a platform for businesses to manage their customer relationships. The company's platform offers a range of features, including: Customer relationship management (CRM) Marketing automation Salesforce integration Customer support 66 Degrees' platform is designed to be user-friendly and scalable, with a focus on providing businesses with the tools they need to manage their customer relationships effectively. The company is headquartered in London, England.
HQ: Chicago, United States • Customer Relationship Management (CRM) • Information Technology • Cloud Computing
≈ $166k – $310k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • 7+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Architect
Python
SQL
Python
Dask
pySpark
Databases
Amazon Redshift
Google BigQuery
Snowflake
AI/ML
AI Agents
Keras
PyTorch
Spark
TensorFlow
Vertex AI
DevOps
GCP
Git
GitHub
≈ $141k – $252k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years exp • United States • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Contractor • Senior
Python
AI/ML
Embeddings
Multimodal AI
Prompt Engineering
RAG
Semantic Search
Human-in-the-Loop
LLM Guardrails
Semantic Search
AI Agents
Function Calling
DevOps
AWS
GCP
Vector
AZX is an artificial intelligence engineering enterprise and Public Benefit Corporation specializing in AI transformation and custom software solutions for critical infrastructure sectors. Headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, the company designs, builds, and deploys production-grade AI systems, agentic workflows, and custom inference platforms tailored for asset-heavy industries - including energy, power utilities, commercial real estate, and supply chain logistics.
HQ: Bellevue, United States • Transportation & Logistics • Supply Chain • Energy & Utilities • Artificial Intelligence
$140k – $230k per year • Senior • Seattle • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
Python
SQL
TypeScript
Python
FastAPI
Databases
DuckDB
PostGIS
PostgreSQL
TimescaleDB
AI/ML
Scikit-learn
Statsmodels
Time Series Forecasting
AI Agents
DevOps
AWS
Azure
Docker
$140k – $225k per year • Senior • Seattle • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
Python
Rust
SQL
Rust
PyO3
Databases
PostgreSQL
TimescaleDB
AI/ML
NumPy
Scikit-learn
Statsmodels
LLM Evaluation
Time Series Forecasting
$140k – $225k per year • Senior • 5+ years exp • Seattle • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Python
Lua
Python
FastAPI
Celery
Pydantic
SQLAlchemy
Databases
pgvector
PostgreSQL
Redis
AI/ML
LLM
RAG
Hybrid Search
Reranking
Anthropic
LLM Evaluation
LLM Guardrails
OpenAI
Model Context Protocol
DevOps
OpenTelemetry
Join a community of 100,000+ drone pilots. We offer drone training courses, free industry guides, and breaking drone news updates.
Barcelona • Mountain View • Denver • Los Angeles • Philadelphia • Robotics • Drones & UAVs • 1-10 employees • Est. 2014
$170k – $180k per year • Equity • Senior • 4+ years exp • Boston • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
Python
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
LLM
Computer Vision
LLM Evaluation
AI Agents
Frontend
GraphQL
DevOps
AWS
CI/CD
Docker
GitHub Actions
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
Terraform
GitHub
$170k – $180k per year • Equity • Senior • 4+ years exp • San Francisco • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
Python
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
LLM
Computer Vision
LLM Evaluation
AI Agents
Frontend
GraphQL
DevOps
AWS
CI/CD
Docker
GitHub Actions
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
Terraform
GitHub
Ursa Space Systems aggregates synthetic aperture radar imagery from many satellite operators and turns it into analytic products. Founded in 2014 in Ithaca, New York, it is best known for measuring global oil storage from radar shadows. Its data reaches commodity traders, insurers and government users.
HQ: Ithaca, United States • National Security • Government • Artificial Intelligence • 11-50 employees • Est. 2014
$180k – $220k per year • Equity • Staff+ • 10+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Staff
Python
JavaScript
SQL
Databases
DynamoDB
MongoDB
MySQL
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
AI Agents
NumPy
Pandas
Polars
NIST AI RMF
DevOps
AWS
AWS Lambda
CI/CD
Docker
Git
Amazon ECS
Amazon S3
QA
Jest
Pytest
Headquartered in San Francisco, California, CTGT is an applied AI research laboratory and enterprise software startup specializing in mechanistic interpretability, representation engineering, and AI governance. Backed by Y Combinator and Google's Gradient Ventures, the firm develops deterministic policy engines and alignment systems that intervene directly at an LLM's neural representation layer during inference.
HQ: San Francisco, United States • LLM & Generative AI • Financial Services • Artificial Intelligence • 11-50 employees
≈ $121k – $282k per year (Estimated) • Equity 0.5–1% • Junior • 1+ year exp • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Junior
Buzz Solutions is a company specializing in visual intelligence solutions for the energy infrastructure sector. Their platform leverages artificial intelligence to inspect, maintain, and secure energy assets such as transmission lines, distribution grids, and substations. The company aims to modernize energy infrastructures by providing actionable intelligence to utility teams, enhancing operations, improving security, and optimizing project management.
Power Grid • Machine Learning • Artificial Intelligence
≈ $139k – $248k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years exp • United States • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Python
Python
FastAPI
Pydantic
AI/ML
Computer Vision
Data Augmentation
Fine-tuning
Multimodal AI
NumPy
OpenCV
PyTorch
Quantization
Scikit-learn
DevOps
CI/CD
Docker
Git
GitHub Actions
GitHub
QA
Pytest
≈ $140k – $252k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Senior
Python
Python
FastAPI
Pydantic
AI/ML
Computer Vision
Fine-tuning
Multimodal AI
NumPy
OpenCV
PyTorch
Quantization
Scikit-learn
DevOps
CI/CD
Docker
Git
GitHub Actions
GitHub
QA
Pytest
≈ $102k – $212k per year (Estimated) • Junior • 2+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Junior
Python
Python
FastAPI
Pydantic
AI/ML
Computer Vision
Data Augmentation
Fine-tuning
Multimodal AI
NumPy
OpenCV
PyTorch
Quantization
Scikit-learn
DevOps
CI/CD
Docker
Git
GitHub Actions
GitHub
QA
Pytest
Afresh is a leading provider of AI-powered inventory management solutions for the grocery industry. The company's platform helps retailers reduce food waste, optimize inventory levels, and improve customer satisfaction. Afresh's platform uses advanced machine learning algorithms to predict demand, automate ordering, and provide insights into inventory performance.
San Francisco • Bakery & Pastry • Food & Beverages • Artificial Intelligence
$169k – $253k per year • Staff+ • 5+ years exp • Remote/Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Staff
Python
Python
pySpark
Databases
Databricks
PostgreSQL
Delta Lake
pgvector
Pinecone
Weaviate
AI/ML
Hallucination
LLM
MLFlow
RAG
Spark
LangChain
Context Engineering
Knowledge Graph
LLM Guardrails
Claude
dbt
Hybrid Search
LangGraph
AI Agents
Model Context Protocol
DevOps
Vector
GitHub
$156k – $211k per year • Senior • 3+ years exp • Remote/Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Python
Python
pySpark
Databases
Databricks
PostgreSQL
Delta Lake
pgvector
Pinecone
Weaviate
AI/ML
Hallucination
LLM
MLFlow
RAG
Spark
LangChain
Context Engineering
Knowledge Graph
LLM Guardrails
Claude
dbt
Hybrid Search
LangGraph
AI Agents
Model Context Protocol
DevOps
Vector
GitHub
Reddit is an American social platform founded in 2005 and organised into hundreds of thousands of user-created communities known as subreddits. Members post links, text, images and video, and the community ranks each submission through upvotes and downvotes, which decides what surfaces on the front page and inside each community. Headquartered in San Francisco and listed on the New York Stock Exchange since 2024, the company earns most of its revenue from advertising and has added data licensing deals that let AI developers train on its public conversation archive.
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Online Communication • Advertising • Media & Entertainment • Online Forums & Communities • Internet Services • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2005
≈ $163k – $292k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Master's Degree • Internship • Senior
Java
Python
Databases
Apache Kafka
Google BigQuery
Redis
AI/ML
Spark
≈ $198k – $370k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Staff+ • 8+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Internship • Staff
Apache Kafka
Databricks
Google BigQuery
Snowflake
AI/ML
Flink
Ray
DevOps
Kubernetes
≈ $172k – $311k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Lead • Remote (United States, Canada) • Internship • Staff
LLM Guardrails
Recommender Systems
PyTorch
Serving over 18,000 veterinary hospitals nationwide, Vetcove is an eCommerce platform that enables veterinary hospitals to research products, compare prices and stock across vendors, and purchase from one central location.
New York • Health Care • Farming & Agriculture • Veterinary Medicine
$150k – $230k per year • Staff+ • 4+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Visa sponsorship • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Staff
Python
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
Edge AI
Thinking Machines Lab is an artificial intelligence research and product company based in San Francisco and founded in 2025. The company develops multimodal AI systems and open-weights models, such as Inkling, alongside developer tools like Tinker for model fine-tuning. It operates as a public benefit corporation focused on human-AI collaboration and open science, supported by significant venture capital investment.
HQ: San Francisco, United States • MLOps • Machine Learning • Multimodal AI • LLM & Generative AI • Artificial Intelligence • 201-500 employees • Est. 2025
$350k – $475k per year • Middle • 4+ years exp • In office (San Francisco, New York, United States) • Relocation • Visa sponsorship • Full-Time • Middle
C++
Python
C++
PyTorch C++
AI/ML
Reinforcement Learning
Post-training
PyTorch
Ray
RLHF
DPO
InfiniBand
NCCL
PPO
TPU
DevOps
SRE
Kubernetes
SLURM
$350k – $475k per year • In office (San Francisco, New York, United States) • Relocation • Visa sponsorship • Full-Time
≈ $232k – $508k per year (Estimated) • Remote/Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) • PhD • Full-Time
Python
AI/ML
Post-training
AI Agents
JAX
LLM
PyTorch
Reinforcement Learning
TensorFlow
San Francisco • Health Care • Biotechnology • 11-50 employees
$170k – $230k per year • Equity 0.2–0.3% • Middle • 3+ years exp • San Francisco • Remote (United States) • PhD • Full-Time • Middle
Python
AI/ML
LLM
DevOps
Git
ElevenLabs is transforming human-technology interaction with AI research and products. Powering the best enterprises, creators, and developers. From ElevenAgents for customer experience, ElevenCreative for content creation, to the leading AI voice generator.
HQ: New York, United States • HQ: London, United Kingdom • AI Agents • LLM & Generative AI • Artificial Intelligence • Speech & Audio AI • 51-200 employees • Est. 2022
≈ $105k – $220k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States, United Kingdom, Bulgaria, Poland) • Full-Time
CUDA
CUDA Toolkit
ElevenLabs
Knowledge Distillation
Quantization
SGLang
TensorRT
Triton
vLLM
DevOps
GitHub
≈ $133k – $290k per year (Estimated) • Berlin • Amsterdam • Warsaw • Sofia • Dublin • Remote (United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Bulgaria, Canada) • Full-Time
Python
SQL
AI/ML
AI Agents
Claude
ElevenLabs
LLM
RAG
LLM Guardrails
DevOps
Docker
GCP
Kubernetes
Management
Slack
n8n
Marketing
Salesforce
≈ $45k – $94k per year (Estimated) • Middle • 3+ years exp • Remote (United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Bulgaria, Poland) • Full-Time • Middle
ElevenLabs
Post-training
DevOps
GitHub
Veryfi is a Y Combinator-backed Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) and financial technology company based in San Mateo, California. The company provides developer-first AI APIs and mobile/web SDKs (Veryfi Lens) that automatically transform unstructured business documents - such as receipts, invoices, W-2/W-9 forms, checks, bank statements, and credit cards - into structured JSON data in real time.
HQ: San Mateo, United States • Software • Billing & Invoicing • Data & Analytics • Artificial Intelligence • 51-200 employees
$100k – $160k per year • Equity 0.3–0.3% • Senior • 11+ years exp • San Mateo • Remote (United States, Colombia) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
Fine-tuning
OpenCV
Computer Vision
Conductor Quantum is a Y Combinator-backed deep tech software company building AI-driven operating and calibration platforms for quantum computing hardware. The company engineers low-level control software designed to automate the complex, manual tuning and operational bring-up of quantum processors across hardware architectures like silicon spin qubits, superconducting transmons, and neutral atom systems.
San Francisco • Albuquerque • Artificial Intelligence • 51-200 employees
$120k – $180k per year • Equity 0.2–1.5% • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time
Python
Databases
Redis
AI/ML
AI Agents
ChatGPT
Reinforcement Learning
Frontend
Next.js
DevOps
AWS
Azure
GCP
Vector Legal is a Y Combinator-backed, AI-native law firm and software platform engineered for technology startups, venture capital firms, and growth-stage companies. The firm combines human legal counsel with proprietary artificial intelligence to deliver full-service legal workflows. Through its software platform (VectorOS), the company automates routine legal processes, including AI contract review, equity and dilution tracking, document drafting, interactive legal document queries, and investor-ready data room maintenance.
San Francisco • Financial Services • Venture Capital • Professional Services • Legal Services • 11-50 employees
$120k – $180k per year • Equity 0.5–1.5% • Middle • 3+ years exp • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Middle
TypeScript
Python
AI/ML
LangChain
LLM
Prompt Engineering
RAG
AI Agents
OCR
San Francisco • New York • Software • 51-200 employees
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$150k – $210k per year • Equity 0.3–1% • Middle • 3+ years exp • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Middle
Python
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
LLM
Prompt Engineering
PyTorch
RAG
TensorFlow
Hugging Face
AI Agents
DevOps
AWS
Analytics
A/B Testing
Direct short films with AI. Flick is an AI filmmaking studio for cinematic stories — consistent characters, coherent scenes, and end-to-end creative control.
Sunnyvale • Artificial Intelligence • Generative Video • Film Production
$150k – $250k per year • Equity 0.5–1.5% • Middle • 3+ years exp • Sunnyvale • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Middle
Nowadays acts as your in-house event planner, taking away the hassles of organizing while factoring in your company's unique tastes and needs. Save money with exclusive partnerships and automated negotiation.
San Francisco • Artificial Intelligence • Event Management • Events & Ticketing • 51-200 employees • Est. 2023
$130k – $170k per year • Equity 0.5–2% • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time
Python
AI/ML
AI Agents
LangChain
LlamaIndex
LLM
Prompt Engineering
RAG
Function Calling
DevOps
Amazon S3
Management
Notion
Salary range
| Seniority |
Jobs |
25% |
Median |
75% |
| Junior |
46 |
$180K |
$205K |
$250K |
| Middle |
73 |
$183K |
$230K |
$280K |
| Senior |
219 |
$200K |
$240K |
$274K |
| Staff |
172 |
$234K |
$278K |
$326K |
| Lead |
83 |
$205K |
$250K |
$300K |
| All levels |
791 |
$207K |
$260K |
$325K |
Based only on the listings that state pay. Gross annual amounts, converted to USD so roles in different currencies stay comparable.
Relocation package
12%
167
The market right now
Alion currently lists 1,342 open Machine Learning Engineer jobs in San Francisco from 560 companies. 166 of them were posted or refreshed in the last seven days. 469 of the employers have posted something in the last three months, which is the pool worth watching if you are starting a search now. Every listing links straight to the employer, so you apply on their own board rather than through an intermediary.
What these roles pay
791 of these Machine Learning Engineer jobs in San Francisco state pay directly. Across them the middle half of the market sits between $207K and $325K a year, with a median of $260K. By level, the median runs junior at $205K, middle at $230K, senior at $240K, staff at $278K, and lead at $250K. The step from junior to lead is worth about 1.2x on median pay. Figures are gross annual amounts converted to US dollars, so roles in different currencies stay comparable.
Where the work is
The largest concentrations of these roles are United States (74), France (7), Singapore (6), Japan (5), and Hong Kong (5). 50% of the listings are fully remote and a further 13% are hybrid, so a large part of this market is open to you regardless of where you live.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open Machine Learning Engineer jobs in San Francisco right now are OpenAI (62), Anthropic (47), Reddit (23), Scale AI (20), Adobe (16), and Cohere (15). Each company page on Alion carries its size, funding stage, tech stack and every other position it has open, so you can judge the employer before you spend an evening on the application.
What employers ask for
Reading across the current listings, the tools that come up most often are Python (838), LLM (609), AI Agents (605), PyTorch (407), AWS (313), RAG (303), Fine-tuning (287), and Kubernetes (266). The counts are how many of these openings name each one, which is a better guide to what is actually being hired for than a generic skills list.
Relocation, visas and equity
Of the current Machine Learning Engineer jobs in San Francisco, 186 state visa sponsorship, 167 offer a relocation package, and 359 include equity. These are filters on the list above, so you can narrow it to the ones that make a move possible for you.
