Backend Developer Salary in San Francisco

Backend Developer jobs in San Francisco hiring now at vetted startups and product companies on Alion, updated daily. Average salary around $272,233/year. Compare remote, hybrid and on-site positions with relocation and visa sponsorship. Browse and apply today.

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Base Layer

base-layer.ai
base-layer.ai · HQ: New York, United States · Financial AI · Fraud Detection · RegTech, AML & Compliance · Likely startup · Hiring 11, 1 new
HQ: New York, United States · Financial AI · Fraud Detection · RegTech, AML & Compliance · Likely startup · Hiring 11, 1 new
Headquartered in New York City, New York, Base Layer is an artificial intelligence financial technology company specializing in automated business verification and risk management. The company offers a modular data platform that unifies business identity, credit intelligence, and fraud prevention workflows for banks, lenders, and fintech enterprises. By replacing fragmented manual checks with automated decisioning and real-time risk intelligence, it enables financial institutions to prevent B2B fraud while accelerating customer onboarding.
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Senior Software Engineer, Identity Graph

≈ $153k – $284k per year (Estimated) · Senior · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Senior
SQL
Python
Python
FastAPI
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
AI Agents
DevOps
Google Cloud Run
GCP
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TrueClaim

trytrueclaim.com
trytrueclaim.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Medical AI · Health Insurance & Benefits · Startup · Hiring 3
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Medical AI · Health Insurance & Benefits · Startup · Hiring 3
TrueClaim is an AI-native healthcare benefits administration platform that automates claims adjudication and reduces costs for self-insured employers. The company leverages continuous AI agents to detect billing errors, identify care gaps, and provide real-time financial transparency for plan sponsors. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, it delivers modern third-party administrator services and digital tools to streamline overall employee benefit workflows.
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Top 25% payVerified live · 1 hour ago 2 months ago Long shot · 13%

Founding Product Engineer

$140k – $200k per year · Equity 0.1–1% · Middle · 3+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Middle
TypeScript
Python
JavaScript
AI/ML
AI Agents
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
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Basis

withbasis.co
withbasis.co · HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Training Data & Annotation · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 28
HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Training Data & Annotation · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 28
Basis is a company that supplies human expertise and data to frontier AI developers and describes itself as the human foundation behind frontier AI. Its customers include leading research institutions, and it hires founding engineers, machine learning engineers and forward deployed engineers. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, United States.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Verified live · 4 hours ago 2 months ago Fading · 43%

Founding Software Engineer

≈ $179k – $385k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time
Fine-tuning
Multimodal AI
Reward Modeling
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Verified live · 4 hours ago 3 months ago Fading · 27%

Founding Engineer (Physical AI Infrastructure)

≈ $176k – $379k per year (Estimated) · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time
Rust
Go
Python
Databases
NATS
ClickHouse
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Multimodal AI
Ray
Time Series
Physical AI
DevOps
SLURM
Kubernetes
+4
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Verified live · 4 hours ago Visa sponsorship 4 months ago Long shot · 22%

Founding Engineer (Stealth)

≈ $90k – $218k per year (Estimated) · In office (London, United Kingdom, San Francisco, United States) · PhD · Full-Time
TypeScript
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Structured Outputs
World Models
Model Context Protocol
LLM
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Unusual

unusual.ai
unusual.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Custom Software Development · Machine Learning · 11-50 employees · Startup · Hiring 2
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Custom Software Development · Machine Learning · 11-50 employees · Startup · Hiring 2
AI models advise, recommend, and increasingly make buying decisions for your prospects. Unusual helps make sure that those prospects end up in your pipeline rather than your competitors.
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Top 25% payVerified live · 4 hours ago 2 months ago Long shot · 11%

Founding Engineer - Full Stack

$150k – $220k per year · Equity 0.3–1.5% · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time
TypeScript
Python
AI/ML
Interpretability
LLM
AI Agents
NLP
Transformers
DevOps
GitHub
Terraform
AWS
Management
Notion
+3
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Aristotle

heyaristotle.com
heyaristotle.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · EdTech Platforms · Education AI · Trust B · Hiring 7
HQ: San Francisco, United States · EdTech Platforms · Education AI · Trust B · Hiring 7
Aristotle is the AI tutor built to teach, not give answers. Used by families at top schools nationwide.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Verified live · 3 hours ago 2 months ago Long shot · 9%

Software Engineering Intern

Intern · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Internship · Intern
TypeScript
Python
AI/ML
Function Calling
LLM
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Open 277 daysVerified live · 3 hours ago 9 months ago Long shot · 4%

Founding Engineer

$120k – $180k per year · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time
Multimodal AI
LLM
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Specter

specter.com
specter.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · IoT Platforms & Solutions · Sensors & Transducers · Est. 2021 · Likely startup · Trust B · Hiring 32
HQ: San Francisco, United States · IoT Platforms & Solutions · Sensors & Transducers · Est. 2021 · Likely startup · Trust B · Hiring 32
Specter is an American hardware and software startup founded in 2021 that builds connected sensing systems under the tagline Creating a software defined physical world. It designs, manufactures and deploys its own devices, hiring RF systems, mechanical and manufacturing engineers as well as deployment operations staff. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Verified live · 4 hours ago Visa sponsor 3 months ago Likely open · 46%

Wireless Software Engineer

≈ $147k – $317k per year (Estimated) · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time
Rust
Go
C++
Python
AI/ML
Physical AI
AI Agents
Time Series
DevOps
Wi-Fi
Linux
Cybersecurity
Wireshark
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Verified live · 4 hours ago Visa sponsor 3 months ago Fading · 43%

Software Engineer - Applied AI

≈ $145k – $314k per year (Estimated) · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time
Python
Databases
Redpanda
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Multimodal AI
ONNX
TensorRT
Physical AI
Computer Vision
PyTorch
DevOps
Docker
Kubernetes
CI/CD
+4
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Verified live · 4 hours ago Visa sponsor 3 months ago Fading · 43%

Software Engineer — Fleet

≈ $147k – $317k per year (Estimated) · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time
Rust
TypeScript
C++
Python
C
C
Embedded C
AI/ML
Physical AI
AI Agents
DevOps
NixOS
Self-Healing
DNS
Buildkite
GitHub Actions
CI/CD
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Prelim

prelim.com
prelim.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Financial Software & Embedded Finance · Startup · Hiring 6
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Financial Software & Embedded Finance · Startup · Hiring 6
Prelim helps financial institutions open accounts faster with digital onboarding, account maintenance, and 50+ banking integrations. Trusted by banks and credit unions.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Top 25% payVerified live · 23 min ago 3 months ago Long shot · 11%

Software Engineer, Product

$140k – $230k per year · In office (New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time
Node JS
JavaScript
Databases
PostgreSQL
Frontend
React.js
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KREA

krea.ai
krea.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Generative Image · 1-10 employees · Est. 2022 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 13, 2 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Generative Image · 1-10 employees · Est. 2022 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 13, 2 new
KREA is a company founded in 2022 that builds real-time generative visual tools for designers and artists. Its canvas updates images as the user sketches or types, and the product bundles upscaling, style training and video generation across multiple underlying models. It became popular with creative professionals who wanted control and speed rather than one-shot prompting.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Verified live · 3 hours ago Visa sponsor 3 months ago Long shot · 15%

Product Engineer

≈ $130k – $256k per year (Estimated) · Equity · Middle · 4+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Middle
Python
TypeScript
JavaScript
Databases
ClickHouse
Redis
PostgreSQL
Amazon Aurora
AI/ML
PyTorch
Frontend
Svelte
WebGPU
SvelteKit
Zod
DevOps
Kubernetes
FluxCD
Docker
AWS
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Verified live · 3 hours ago Visa sponsor 3 months ago Long shot · 8%

Fullstack Engineer

≈ $146k – $315k per year (Estimated) · Equity · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time
TypeScript
JavaScript
Databases
Redis
PostgreSQL
Frontend
Svelte
SvelteKit
DevOps
OpenTelemetry
WebSockets
Amazon EKS
Prometheus
GitHub
Kubernetes
AWS
Management
Notion
+6
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Open 92 daysVerified live · 3 hours ago Visa sponsor 3 months ago Long shot · 12%

Software Engineer, Backend

≈ $131k – $257k per year (Estimated) · Equity · Middle · 4+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Middle
Python
TypeScript
JavaScript
Databases
ClickHouse
Redis
PostgreSQL
Amazon Aurora
Frontend
SvelteKit
Zod
Svelte
DevOps
Kubernetes
FluxCD
Docker
AWS
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Shiboleth

shiboleth.ai
shiboleth.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · RegTech, AML & Compliance · 11-50 employees · Startup · Hiring 1
HQ: San Francisco, United States · RegTech, AML & Compliance · 11-50 employees · Startup · Hiring 1
Shiboleth is a start-up that treats bank compliance as an engineering problem, using agents and pipelines to reperform a bank’s compliance programme on all of a fintech’s files instead of a five percent sample. It combines deterministic rules with LLM-as-judge evaluation, and its job ads seek a founding full stack engineer. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, United States.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Top 25% payVerified live · 1 hour ago 3 months ago Long shot · 11%

Founding Full Stack Software Engineer

$170k – $220k per year · Equity 1–2.8% · Middle · 3+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Middle
SQL
Python
Python
Django
AI/ML
Context Engineering
LLM Evaluation
Agentic Workflows
RAG
LLM
AI Agents
+1
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Vitalize

vitalize.care
vitalize.care · HQ: San Francisco, United States · HR & Recruiting AI · Hospital Operations Software · 1-10 employees · Est. 2021 · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 19, 2 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States · HR & Recruiting AI · Hospital Operations Software · 1-10 employees · Est. 2021 · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 19, 2 new
Vitalize is a healthcare software company whose AI platform helps hospitals manage nurse staffing, scheduling, patient flow and bed capacity in one system. Health systems use it to forecast demand and plan workforce and capacity in advance. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Top 25% payVerified live · 10 min ago 3 months ago Likely open · 50%

Senior Full Stack Engineer

$195k – $275k per year · Senior · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Relocation · Full-Time · Senior
TypeScript
JavaScript
Frontend
TanStack Router
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Top 25% payVerified live · 10 min ago 5 months ago Long shot · 21%

Senior Product Engineer

$195k – $275k per year · Senior · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Relocation · Full-Time · Senior
TypeScript
JavaScript
Frontend
TanStack Router
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PlanetScale

planetscale.com
planetscale.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS) · Databases & DBMS · 51-200 employees · Est. 2018 · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 10
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS) · Databases & DBMS · 51-200 employees · Est. 2018 · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 10
PlanetScale is a database company that offers a managed cloud database platform built on Vitess, the open source sharding system created at YouTube, and on Postgres. Its service provides horizontally scalable MySQL-compatible and Postgres databases with branching, non-blocking schema changes and high availability for software companies. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Top 25% payVerified live · 2 hours ago 3 months ago Likely open · 69%

Software Engineer - Internal Tools

$120k – $160k per year · Junior · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Relocation
Ruby
Go
TypeScript
Databases
MySQL
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
LLM
DevOps
PagerDuty
GitHub Actions
Terraform
Kubernetes
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AfterQuery

afterquery.com
afterquery.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · LLM & Generative AI · Foundation Models · Artificial Intelligence · 201-500 employees · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 28
HQ: San Francisco, United States · LLM & Generative AI · Foundation Models · Artificial Intelligence · 201-500 employees · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 28
AfterQuery captures how experts reason and turns real-world professional work into high-quality training data for frontier foundation models.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Top 25% payVerified live · 2 hours ago 3 months ago Long shot · 10%

Software Engineer - Marketplace

$250k – $300k per year · Middle · 3+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Middle
Anthropic
OpenAI
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Open 204 daysTop 25% pay 7 months ago Long shot · 3%

Software Engineer - Platform/Applied AI

$260k – $290k per year · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time
JavaScript
Python
Databases
RabbitMQ
ElasticSearch
Redis
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Anthropic
OpenAI
Human-in-the-Loop
LLM
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
GCP
AWS
+6
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Open 204 daysTop 25% pay 7 months ago Long shot · 3%

Software Engineer - RL Environments

$260k – $290k per year · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time
RLHF
Reinforcement Learning
Synthetic Data
Anthropic
Post-training
OpenAI
DevOps
Docker
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Manicule

manicule.com
manicule.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Development Tools · 51-200 employees · Startup · Hiring 9
HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Development Tools · 51-200 employees · Startup · Hiring 9
Manicule is building AgentRel, a new category. Tomorrow's users aren't developers, they're agents. We get your product discovered and used by AI agents: docs, GEO, and social content built for how agents read.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Top 25% payVerified live · 2 hours ago 3 months ago Long shot · 13%

Founding Engineer

$120k – $200k per year · Equity 0.5–1% · Middle · 3+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Middle
TypeScript
AI/ML
LLM
AI Agents
Claude
DevOps
GitHub
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Conductor

conductor.build
conductor.build · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Developer Tools · AI Development Tools · 51-200 employees · Est. 2024 · Startup · Hiring 3
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Developer Tools · AI Development Tools · 51-200 employees · Est. 2024 · Startup · Hiring 3
Conductor is a Y Combinator Summer 2024 start-up that builds developer tools for teams working with AI coding agents, including cloud sandboxes for running coding agents in isolation. Its small in-person team hires design, product and backend engineers. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, United States.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Top 25% payVerified live · 21 min ago 3 months ago Long shot · 10%

Product Engineer

$175k – $350k per year · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time
TypeScript
DevOps
Vercel
Management
Linear
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Top 25% payVerified live · 21 min ago 3 months ago Long shot · 13%

Backend Engineer

$200k – $350k per year · Middle · 3+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Middle
TypeScript
DevOps
Vercel
Management
Linear
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Corgea

corgea.com
corgea.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Application Security · 51-200 employees · Est. 2023 · Startup · Hiring 7
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Application Security · 51-200 employees · Est. 2023 · Startup · Hiring 7
Corgea uses large language models to find and automatically fix security vulnerabilities in application code. Founded in 2023 in San Francisco, it focuses on business logic flaws that traditional static analysis tools miss. The product proposes patches as pull requests for developers to approve.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Top 25% payVerified live · 1 hour ago 3 months ago Long shot · 12%

Software engineer - California

$100k – $180k per year · Equity 0.2–2% · Junior · 1+ year exp · San Francisco · Remote (United States) · Full-Time · Junior
Prompt Engineering
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Top 25% payVerified live · 1 hour ago 3 months ago Long shot · 18%

Senior software engineer - California

$120k – $200k per year · Equity 0.5–2% · Senior · 6+ years exp · San Francisco · Remote (United States) · Full-Time · Senior
Prompt Engineering
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Build AI

build.ai
build.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Training Data & Annotation · 201-500 employees · Likely startup · Hiring 25
HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Training Data & Annotation · 201-500 employees · Likely startup · Hiring 25
About Build AI. Build AI is the data hyperscaler for Physical AI. We're vertically integrated across hardware, manufacturing, logistics, collection, and model training to scale the physical labor dataset orders of magnitude more than anyone in the world.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Top 25% payVerified live · 5 min ago 3 months ago Long shot · 10%

Software Engineer, Data Visualization

$180k – $300k per year · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Relocation · Full-Time
TypeScript
Python
AI/ML
OpenAI Codex
Claude
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Top 25% payVerified live · 5 min ago 3 months ago Long shot · 10%

Software Engineer, Scaling

$180k – $300k per year · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Relocation · Full-Time
Python
AI/ML
Claude
DevOps
Linux
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Top 25% payVerified live · 5 min ago 3 months ago Long shot · 14%

Software Engineer, Generalist

$180k – $300k per year · Junior · 1+ year exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Relocation · Full-Time · Junior
Go
TypeScript
C++
Python
JavaScript
AI/ML
Claude
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
Linux
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Aviator

aviator.co
aviator.co · HQ: McKinney, United States · Software Testing & QA · Developer Tools · 51-200 employees · Est. 2016 · Hiring 5
HQ: McKinney, United States · Software Testing & QA · Developer Tools · 51-200 employees · Est. 2016 · Hiring 5
Replace code reviews with verified intent Aviator Verify Software development is about creating, not waiting. AI is powerful, but only when used right.
Tunde Holdren · Executive Officer · decision-maker
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Verified live · 1 hour ago 3 months ago Long shot · 9%

Software Engineering Intern

Intern · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Internship · Intern
Python
AI/ML
AI Agents
Design
Figma
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Top 25% payVerified live · 1 hour ago 3 months ago Long shot · 24%

Senior Software engineer, Founding team

$160k – $200k per year · Senior · 6+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Senior
Go
TypeScript
Python
AI/ML
AI Agents
Design
Figma
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Verified live · 1 hour ago 3 months ago Long shot · 16%

Software engineer, Fullstack

$120k – $160k per year · Middle · 3+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Middle
TypeScript
Python
AI/ML
AI Agents
Design
Figma
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Hyperbound

hyperbound.ai
hyperbound.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Sales Enablement · 11-50 employees · Est. 2023 · Startup · Hiring 9, 1 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Sales Enablement · 11-50 employees · Est. 2023 · Startup · Hiring 9, 1 new
Hyperbound is the Revenue Activation Platform. Score real calls, practice with AI roleplays, and let Kota agents close the loop on every deal.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Verified live · 4 hours ago 3 months ago Long shot · 4%

Software Engineer, GTM

$160k per year · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time
AI Agents
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Open 119 daysTop 25% pay 4 months ago Long shot · 3%

Full Stack Software Engineer

$200k – $220k per year · Middle · 3+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time · Middle
Go
Node JS
TypeScript
JavaScript
Databases
Supabase
AI/ML
GraphRAG
Voice Agents
Model Context Protocol
AI Agents
Frontend
React.js
Management
Monday.com
+3
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SF Tensor

sf-tensor.com
sf-tensor.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS) · AI Compute & Inference · Startup · Hiring 7
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS) · AI Compute & Inference · Startup · Hiring 7
Train the models only you can build. SF Tensor provides one optimized, cross-vendor training stack for enterprise post-training and frontier pre-training.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Top 25% payVerified live · 1 hour ago 3 months ago Long shot · 16%

Member of Technical Staff, AI-Driven Compilation

$275k – $315k per year · Staff+ · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Relocation · Full-Time · Staff
Embeddings
Reinforcement Learning
JAX
Function Calling
Post-training
Pre-training
TPU
AWS Trainium
PyTorch
LLM
AI Agents
RLHF
Triton
MLIR
Apache TVM
XLA
Reward Modeling
Robotics
Reinforcement Learning
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Arini

arini.ai
arini.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Custom Software Development · 51-200 employees · Startup · Hiring 2
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Custom Software Development · 51-200 employees · Startup · Hiring 2
Hire Arini to answer your calls and manage your appointments 24/7. Trusted by hundreds of DSO, Dental Groups, and Solo Practices across the US and Canada.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Top 25% payVerified live · 3 hours ago Visa sponsor 3 months ago Long shot · 10%

Software Engineer

$120k – $300k per year · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time
TypeScript
Python
AI/ML
LLM Guardrails
DevOps
Cloudflare
AWS
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Backend Developer Salary in San Francisco
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