Machine Learning Engineer Jobs in San Francisco

Machine Learning Engineer jobs in San Francisco hiring now at vetted startups and product companies on Alion, updated daily. Average salary around $302,858/year. Compare remote, hybrid and on-site positions with relocation and visa sponsorship. Browse and apply today.

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Federato

federato.ai
Federato is on a mission to defend the right to efficient, equitable insurance for all. We enable insurers to provide affordable coverage to people and organizations in the face of issues like the climate crisis, cyber attacks, and social unrest.
federato.ai • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Data & Analytics • Artificial Intelligence • Financial Services • Est. 2020
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Data & Analytics • Artificial Intelligence • Financial Services • Est. 2020
Open 123 daysVerified live · 2 hours ago 5 months ago

Forward Deployed Machine Learning Engineer

$155k per year • Equity • Junior • 2+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Junior
LLM
Prompt Engineering
AI Agents
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$104k – $215k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Junior • 2+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Junior
LLM
Prompt Engineering
AI Agents
Marketing
Salesforce
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Gusto

gusto.com
Gusto is a SaaS company that builds software to help businesses run core people operations, particularly payroll, benefits, and HR administration. Its products are designed to reduce the time and risk involved in paying employees, managing tax filings and compliance tasks, and handling the ongoing paperwork that comes with hiring and supporting a team. For job seekers, the focus is on practical, high‑stakes workflows where accuracy, security, and reliability matter, because customers depend on the platform to pay people correctly and on time.
gusto.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Financial Services • Payments • Professional Services • Human Resources • 51-200 employees
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Financial Services • Payments • Professional Services • Human Resources • 51-200 employees
Verified live · 2 hours ago 3 months ago

Software Engineer, AI Developer Tools

$180k – $200k per year • Equity • Senior • 8+ years expRemote/Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Staff
Fine-tuning
Prompt Engineering
RAG
Edge AI
LLM Guardrails
AI Agents
DevOps
CI/CD
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Open 283 daysVerified live · 2 hours ago 10 months ago

Enterprise Application AI Engineer

$185k – $205k per year • Equity • Remote/Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time
JavaScript
Python
AI/ML
AI Agents
CrewAI
Explainable AI
Gemini
LangChain
LLM
Prompt Engineering
Semantic Kernel
Anthropic
OpenAI
Model Context Protocol
Management
Jira
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Patreon

patreon.com
Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Patreon is a membership and crowdfunding platform designed to help content creators, artists, and musicians earn recurring revenue from their fans. The company provides digital tools that enable creators to offer exclusive content, community access, and tiered subscription services. Additionally, it facilitates direct financial support and fan engagement, empowering independent creators to build sustainable businesses around their work.
patreon.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Commerce • Media & Entertainment • Subscription Commerce • Content Creation
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Commerce • Media & Entertainment • Subscription Commerce • Content Creation
Top 25% payVerified live · 5 hours ago 14 days ago

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Infrastructure

$212k – $318k per year • Equity • Senior • In office (New York, San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Python
AI/ML
Feature Store
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Contra

contra.com
Find warm, high-fit opportunities from your own network without the hustle of job boards or cold outreach. Included with Contra Pro.
contra.com • San Francisco • New York • Artificial Intelligence • Media & Entertainment • Design & Creative
San Francisco • New York • Artificial Intelligence • Media & Entertainment • Design & Creative
Verified live · 1 day ago 15 days ago

Research Scientist, Human Data & Evaluation

$150k – $200k per year • Senior • 5+ years expSan Francisco • Remote (United States) • Master's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
Python
SQL
AI/ML
Multimodal AI
RLHF
Post-training
AI Agents
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ButterflyMX

butterflymx.com
ButterflyMX is a property technology company headquartered in New York City and founded in 2014. The company develops and manufactures smartphone-based video intercoms, electronic keypads, and cloud-based access control systems for residential and commercial buildings. Its platform integrates with smart locks and property management software to facilitate secure entry for residents, visitors, and delivery services across more than 20,000 properties globally.
butterflymx.com • HQ: New York, United States • Consumer Goods • Audio Visual • Hardware • Smart Home Devices • Consumer Electronics • Smart Building & Cities • PropTech • Real Estate • Est. 2014
HQ: New York, United States • Consumer Goods • Audio Visual • Hardware • Smart Home Devices • Consumer Electronics • Smart Building & Cities • PropTech • Real Estate • Est. 2014
Top 25% payVerified live · 1 day ago 15 days ago

Principal AI-Native Software Engineer

$215k – $250k per year • Lead • 8+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Principal
Go
Node JS
Ruby
TypeScript
JavaScript
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Databases
MySQL
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
AI Agents
Claude
Claude Code
Edge AI
Function Calling
DevOps
Amazon EC2
AWS
AWS Lambda
CI/CD
GCP
Google Cloud Run
Amazon ECS
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Comcast Corporation

comcast.com
Comcast Corporation is one of the world's largest telecommunications, media, and entertainment conglomerates. Headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the company operates across broadband internet, pay-TV, wireless communications, film, television production, theme parks, and streaming media.
comcast.com • HQ: Philadelphia, United States • Media & Entertainment • Broadband • Broadcasting • Telecommunications • 1001-5000 employees
HQ: Philadelphia, United States • Media & Entertainment • Broadband • Broadcasting • Telecommunications • 1001-5000 employees
$126k – $165k per year • Middle • 1+ year expWashington • Remote (United States) • Master's Degree • Full-Time • Middle
Python
Python
pySpark
Databases
Databricks
AI/ML
PyTorch
Spark
TensorFlow
DevOps
AWS
CI/CD
Git
GitHub Actions
Grafana
Helm
Istio
Jenkins
Kubernetes
Prometheus
GitHub
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Smarsh

smarsh.com
Smarsh is a technology company headquartered in Portland, Oregon, that was founded in 2001. The company provides cloud-native software solutions for the capture, archiving, supervision, and electronic discovery of digital communications across more than 80 channels. It primarily serves organizations in highly regulated sectors, such as financial services and government agencies, to manage compliance and mitigate communication risks.
smarsh.com • HQ: Portland, United States • Document Management • Professional Services • Risk Management • Data Management • Security Compliance • Cybersecurity • Financial Services • Data & Analytics • Est. 2001
HQ: Portland, United States • Document Management • Professional Services • Risk Management • Data Management • Security Compliance • Cybersecurity • Financial Services • Data & Analytics • Est. 2001
$123k – $221k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 7+ years expUnited States • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Python
Python
FastAPI
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
AI Agents
AWS Bedrock
LangChain
LangGraph
LLM
Prompt Engineering
RAG
Anthropic
Human-in-the-Loop
OpenAI
DevOps
AWS
CI/CD
OpenTelemetry
Terraform
Vector
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Allium

allium.com
Founded in 2022, Allium is an enterprise-grade blockchain data platform that provides real-time, normalized data infrastructure for Web3 applications. The company ingests and processes raw smart contract data across major blockchain networks, transforming it into clean, developer-ready APIs and analytics databases. By removing the complexity of indexing and hosting node infrastructure, it enables financial institutions, crypto enterprises, and developers to build applications and power financial operations smoothly.
allium.com • New York • San Francisco • Metals & Metallurgy • Manufacturing • Metal Fabrication
New York • San Francisco • Metals & Metallurgy • Manufacturing • Metal Fabrication
Equity • Intern • Remote (United States) • Internship • Intern
SQL
AI/ML
AI Agents
Web3
Ethereum
Staking
Uniswap
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Echelon

echelon.ai
echelon.ai • San Francisco
San Francisco
Verified live · 1 day ago 17 days ago

Senior/Staff Applied AI Engineer

$180k – $250k per year • Staff+ • 4+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Staff
Python
TypeScript
AI/ML
AI Agents
Braintrust
LLM
Mistral
Multimodal AI
Anthropic
Context Engineering
Knowledge Graph
LLM Guardrails
OpenAI
Function Calling
DevOps
Vercel
Cybersecurity
Least Privilege
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CSC Generation

cscgeneration.com
CSC Generation is a retail technology holding company headquartered in Merrillville, Indiana, and founded in 2016. The company acquires legacy and underperforming retail brands and integrates them into its proprietary Genesis platform, which uses artificial intelligence and automation to modernize operations. Its portfolio includes iconic brands such as Sur La Table, One Kings Lane, and Backcountry, operating as a multi-brand platform across North America.
cscgeneration.com • HQ: Merrillville, United States • Apparel & Fashion • Kitchenware & Cookware • Furniture • Consumer Goods • Predictive Analytics • Artificial Intelligence • E-commerce Platforms • Commerce • Est. 2016
HQ: Merrillville, United States • Apparel & Fashion • Kitchenware & Cookware • Furniture • Consumer Goods • Predictive Analytics • Artificial Intelligence • E-commerce Platforms • Commerce • Est. 2016
$143k – $256k per year (Estimated) • Senior • United States • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Python
SQL
AI/ML
Reinforcement Learning
LLM Guardrails
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Clickhouse

clickhouse.com
ClickHouse is an open-source, column-oriented DBMS (Database Management System) designed for Online Analytical Processing (OLAP). Originally created by Yandex in 2009 and spun out into an independent company in 2021, it is engineered for real-time reporting, fast query execution, and high-performance data analytics at petabyte scale.
clickhouse.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Information Technology • Data & Analytics • Big Data • Database Management • 1001-5000 employees
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Information Technology • Data & Analytics • Big Data • Database Management • 1001-5000 employees
Verified live · 1 day ago 17 days ago

AI Operations Engineer

Equity • Remote (United States)
ClickHouse
AI/ML
AI Agents
Cursor
LLM
Lovable
Model Context Protocol
DevOps
AIOps
AWS
Azure
CI/CD
GCP
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Verified live · 1 day ago 3 months ago

Senior Software Engineer (Backend) - AI/ML

$114k – $246k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Senior
Go
Python
TypeScript
Databases
ClickHouse
AI/ML
Copilot
Cursor
Lovable
AI Agents
DevOps
AWS
Azure
GCP
Vector
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Verified live · 1 day ago 3 months ago

Senior Software Engineer (Backend) - AI/ML

$159k – $285k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Senior
Go
Python
TypeScript
Databases
ClickHouse
AI/ML
Copilot
Cursor
Lovable
AI Agents
DevOps
AWS
Azure
GCP
Vector
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Clay

clay.com
Clay is a go-to-market software company headquartered in New York City and founded in 2017. The company builds a spreadsheet-like workspace that pulls company and contact data from more than a hundred enrichment providers, then uses AI agents to research prospects and draft personalised outreach. It sells to sales and growth teams that previously stitched this work together from separate data vendors and sequencing tools.
clay.com • HQ: New York, United States • Marketing Automation • Artificial Intelligence • Data Integration • Lead Generation • Sales & Marketing • AI Agents • Data & Analytics • Est. 2017
HQ: New York, United States • Marketing Automation • Artificial Intelligence • Data Integration • Lead Generation • Sales & Marketing • AI Agents • Data & Analytics • Est. 2017
Top 25% payVerified live · 2 hours ago 17 days ago

Machine Learning Engineer

$170k – $300k per year • Senior • 5+ years expSan Francisco • Remote (United States, United Kingdom) • Full-Time • Senior
Snowflake
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
Anthropic
LLM Guardrails
Dagster
dbt
LLM
Recommender Systems
Management
Notion
Slack
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Life360

life360.com
Life360 is a family safety technology company headquartered in San Mateo, California, and founded in 2008. The company operates a mobile app that shares location between family members and adds driving reports, crash detection, roadside assistance, and item tracking through its Tile and Jiobit hardware brands. It reports more than 80 million monthly active users worldwide and is listed on both the Nasdaq and the Australian Securities Exchange.
life360.com • HQ: San Mateo, United States • Smartwatches & Fitness Trackers • Consumer Electronics • Online Communication • Internet Services • Mobile App Development • Software • Lifestyle • Est. 2008
HQ: San Mateo, United States • Smartwatches & Fitness Trackers • Consumer Electronics • Online Communication • Internet Services • Mobile App Development • Software • Lifestyle • Est. 2008
Top 25% payVerified live · 1 hour ago 3 months ago

Senior MLOps Engineer II (AI Native)

$148k – $216k per year • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Senior
Python
SQL
Python
FastAPI
pySpark
Dask
Databases
Apache Kafka
Databricks
AI/ML
Airflow
dbt
Flink
Kubeflow
MLFlow
Spark
AI Agents
Claude
Claude Code
Feast
Ray
Triton Inference Server
vLLM
Triton
Feature Store
TGI
DevOps
Amazon EKS
AWS
CI/CD
Docker
GCP
Git
Google GKE
Kubernetes
Terraform
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True Zero Technologies

truezerotech.com
True Zero Technologies is a veteran-owned cybersecurity services firm based in Fairfax, Virginia, founded in 2018. The company provides a broad range of solutions including security engineering, cyber operations, threat intelligence, penetration testing, and managed security services. It operates as a strategic partner to major technology providers and serves federal, state, and commercial clients through various government contract vehicles.
truezerotech.com • HQ: Fairfax, United States • National Security • Government • IT Consulting • Information Technology • Penetration Testing • Threat Intelligence • Managed Security • Cybersecurity • Est. 2018
HQ: Fairfax, United States • National Security • Government • IT Consulting • Information Technology • Penetration Testing • Threat Intelligence • Managed Security • Cybersecurity • Est. 2018
Verified live · 2 hours ago 17 days ago

AI/ML Engineer (R-00194)

$130k – $285k per year (Estimated)Arlington • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time
Python
AI/ML
Embeddings
Hallucination
LLM
Prompt Engineering
RAG
LLMOps
DevOps
AWS
CI/CD
Cybersecurity
FedRAMP
Zero Trust
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Pragmatike

pragmatike.com
Pragmatike is a global remote recruitment and staffing platform that connects companies with top-tier technology professionals. The company specializes in human-curated talent matching, sourcing vetted software developers, product managers, and IT specialists for startups and enterprises worldwide. By streamlining the hiring process and offering flexible, project-based collaboration, it enables organizations to rapidly build and scale their distributed engineering teams.
pragmatike.com • HQ: Hanoi, Vietnam • Information Technology • IT Outsourcing • Professional Services • Human Resources
HQ: Hanoi, Vietnam • Information Technology • IT Outsourcing • Professional Services • Human Resources
Top 25% pay 17 days ago

Staff AI Engineer

$200k – $350k per year • Staff+ • 7+ years expNew York • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Staff
Python
AI/ML
LLM
AI Agents
CUDA Toolkit
Fine-tuning
PyTorch
RAG
vLLM
TGI
DevOps
Kubernetes
Cybersecurity
GDPR
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Top 25% payVerified live · 8 hours ago 18 days ago

Founding AI Lead Engineer (YC experience)

$200k – $400k per year • Lead • 7+ years expSan FranciscoNew YorkLos AngelesSacramentoSeattle • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Staff
GDPR
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Top 25% payVerified live · 8 hours ago 18 days ago

Lead AI Engineer

$200k – $400k per year • Lead • 7+ years expSan FranciscoNew YorkLos AngelesSacramentoSeattle • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Staff
GDPR
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LangChain

langchain.com
LangChain is an AI technology company that provides open-source frameworks and developer tools for building applications powered by large language models and AI agents. Its ecosystem includes LangChain for agent development, LangGraph for workflow orchestration, and LangSmith for testing, monitoring, evaluation, and deployment. The platform helps developers and enterprises create reliable generative AI applications by connecting models, tools, data sources, and business workflows.
langchain.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • AI Agents • Artificial Intelligence • LLM & Generative AI
HQ: San Francisco, United States • AI Agents • Artificial Intelligence • LLM & Generative AI
Verified live · 5 hours ago 17 days ago

Research Engineer, LangSmith Engine

$164k – $307k per year (Estimated) • Middle • 4+ years expIn office (New York, San Francisco, United States) • Master's Degree • Full-Time • Middle
AI Agents
Fine-tuning
LangChain
LangGraph
LangSmith
Post-training
LLM
Reinforcement Learning
RLHF
Synthetic Data
SFT
DevOps
Cloudflare
Management
Monday.com
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Rescale

rescale.com
Rescale is a high performance computing company headquartered in San Francisco, California, and founded in 2011. The company runs a platform that schedules engineering simulation and AI workloads across cloud providers and on-premise clusters, bundling hundreds of licensed simulation applications with cost and policy controls. It sells to aerospace, automotive, energy, and life sciences engineering teams that need burst capacity without managing their own clusters.
rescale.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • AI Infrastructure • Hardware • Industrial Engineering • Science & Engineering • Software • Simulation & Digital Twin • Information Technology • Cloud Computing • Est. 2011
HQ: San Francisco, United States • AI Infrastructure • Hardware • Industrial Engineering • Science & Engineering • Software • Simulation & Digital Twin • Information Technology • Cloud Computing • Est. 2011
Verified live · 1 day ago 18 days ago

Simulation Engineer, AI/ML Development

$118k – $174k per year • Middle • 3+ years exp • Remote (United States) • PhD • Full-Time • Middle
CUDA
CUDA Toolkit
PyG
PyTorch
Edge AI
DevOps
Kubernetes
Rest API
HPC
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Osano

osano.com
Our mission at Osano is to create societal good by empowering businesses and consumers with knowledge and transparency into how their private data is shared, with whom, and why. Osano strives to treat customers and team members with respect, and...
osano.com • Austin • Security Compliance • Cybersecurity • Data Governance
Austin • Security Compliance • Cybersecurity • Data Governance
Verified live · 1 day ago 18 days ago

Senior AI Engineer

$138k – $247k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Senior
Python
Python
FastAPI
AI/ML
AI Agents
Hallucination
LangGraph
LLM
Prompt Engineering
RAG
LangChain
LLM Guardrails
Structured Outputs
Knowledge Graph
DevOps
AWS
Azure
Cybersecurity
GDPR
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Toloka AI

toloka.ai
Toloka is a data company founded in 2014 and headquartered in Amsterdam that supplies human-generated training, fine-tuning and evaluation data for artificial intelligence systems. It began as a large-scale crowdsourcing platform and has repositioned around expert work, combining domain specialists, machine learning tooling and quality control pipelines to produce reasoning traces, preference rankings and agentic task data. Operating within the Nebius group and backed by Bezos Expeditions since 2025, the company serves frontier model laboratories and enterprises building their own systems.
toloka.ai • HQ: Amsterdam, Netherlands • Machine Learning • Data & Analytics • Data Collection • LLM & Generative AI • Artificial Intelligence • 51-200 employees • Est. 2014
HQ: Amsterdam, Netherlands • Machine Learning • Data & Analytics • Data Collection • LLM & Generative AI • Artificial Intelligence • 51-200 employees • Est. 2014
Verified live · 2 hours ago 2 months ago

Freelance Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Remote (EU, United States, United Kingdom, Serbia) • Master's Degree • Freelance
Python
AI/ML
LLM
LoRA
NumPy
Pandas
PEFT
RAG
RLHF
Synthetic Data
Transformers
Anthropic
DPO
PPO
SFT
AI Agents
Fine-tuning
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Verified live · 2 hours ago 2 months ago

Freelance Forward Deployed AI Engineer

$136k – $298k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Serbia) • Master's Degree • Freelance
Python
AI/ML
LLM
LoRA
NumPy
Pandas
PEFT
RAG
RLHF
Synthetic Data
Transformers
Anthropic
DPO
PPO
SFT
AI Agents
Fine-tuning
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ICF

icf.com
ICF is a global consulting and technology services company with approximately 9,000 employees, but we are not your typical consultants. At ICF, business analysts and policy specialists work together with digital strategists, data scientists and creatives. We combine unmatched industry expertise with cutting-edge engagement capabilities to help organizations solve their most complex challenges.
icf.com • Arlington • Reston • Brussels • Madrid • Newark • Government • Artificial Intelligence • Information Technology • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1969
Arlington • Reston • Brussels • Madrid • Newark • Government • Artificial Intelligence • Information Technology • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1969
Verified live · 1 day ago 19 days ago

AI / Automation Engineer

$108k – $184k per year • Senior • 5+ years expRichmond • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
Platform Engineering
AWS
Management
Power Automate
ServiceNow
Jira
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Machine Learning Engineer Jobs in San Francisco
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