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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Ploy

ploy.ai
ploy.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Agents · Digital Marketing · 51-200 employees · Est. 2025 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 5
HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Agents · Digital Marketing · 51-200 employees · Est. 2025 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 5
Ploy is an AI marketing platform for website growth. Build on-brand pages, identify visitors, automate SEO and outreach, and improve conversion.
Open 125 daysVerified live · 2 hours ago 4 months ago Long shot · 6%

Software Engineer

≈ $138k – $297k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time
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Simple AI

usesimple.ai
usesimple.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Conversational AI · Speech & Audio AI · 51-200 employees · Est. 2024 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 10
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Conversational AI · Speech & Audio AI · 51-200 employees · Est. 2024 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 10
Deploy enterprise-ready voice AI powered phone agents in days, not weeks. Handle thousands of calls simultaneously with human-like conversations.
Open 125 daysTop 25% pay 4 months ago Long shot · 8%

Software Engineer

$130k – $280k per year · Middle · 4+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Middle
Ruby
TypeScript
Python
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Voice Agents
AI Agents
Prompt Engineering
LLM
DevOps
AWS
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Vast.ai

vast.ai
vast.ai · HQ: Los Angeles, United States · Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS) · AI Compute & Inference · Est. 2018 · Startup · Trust D · Hiring 14
HQ: Los Angeles, United States · Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS) · AI Compute & Inference · Est. 2018 · Startup · Trust D · Hiring 14
Vast.ai is an American cloud computing company founded in 2018 that runs a marketplace for renting GPU compute. Owners of idle graphics hardware, from individual hosts to full data centres, list capacity on the platform, and customers rent it for machine learning training, inference and rendering through a real-time bidding and search model priced below traditional cloud providers. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, United States.
Likely inactiveTop 25% pay 4 months ago Long shot · 4%

C++ Software Engineer

$155k – $285k per year · In office (Los Angeles, San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time
C++
Python
AI/ML
LLM
DevOps
Linux
Cybersecurity
Zero Trust
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Lunar Systems

golunar.com
golunar.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · EHR & Clinical Software · Hospital Operations Software · 51-200 employees · Startup · Trust D · Hiring 14
HQ: San Francisco, United States · EHR & Clinical Software · Hospital Operations Software · 51-200 employees · Startup · Trust D · Hiring 14
Lunar is an American healthcare software company building an AI-native hospital information platform for health systems. Its platform runs clinical and operational workflows across many disciplines, and it hires clinical informaticists, revenue cycle specialists and software engineers. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
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Staff Software Engineer, Product

$190k – $250k per year · Staff+ · 10+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
Erlang
Elixir
JavaScript
Python
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Senior Software Engineer, Product

$190k – $250k per year · Senior · 10+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Senior
Erlang
Elixir
JavaScript
Python
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Staff Software Engineer, Platform

$190k – $250k per year · Staff+ · 10+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
Erlang
Elixir
JavaScript
Python
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Browserbase

browserbase.com
browserbase.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Web Scraping & Proxy Networks · AI Development Tools · Developer Tools · 51-200 employees · Est. 2024 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 9
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Web Scraping & Proxy Networks · AI Development Tools · Developer Tools · 51-200 employees · Est. 2024 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 9
Browserbase runs headless web browsers in the cloud for developers who build AI agents, web automations and scrapers, so that they do not have to host and scale browser fleets themselves. Its platform hosts, manages and monitors browser sessions with consumption pricing, and the company also maintains Stagehand, an open-source AI web automation SDK, and Director, a tool that lets non-developers build automations from natural-language requests. The San Francisco company was founded by Paul Klein IV in 2024 and raised $67.5 million by its $40 million Series B led by Notable Capital in 2025.
Open 129 daysTop 25% pay Visa sponsor 4 months ago Long shot · 6%

Software Engineer (Dashboard) - San Francisco

$180k – $300k per year · In office (San Francisco, New York, United States) · Full-Time
Node JS
TypeScript
JavaScript
Databases
PostgreSQL
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
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Open 440 daysTop 25% pay Visa sponsor 1 year ago Long shot · 5%

Software Engineer (Agent Platform)

$180k – $300k per year · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time
Go
TypeScript
Python
AI/ML
Reinforcement Learning
OpenAI
AI Agents
QA
Selenium
Playwright
Chrome DevTools
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Open 593 daysTop 25% pay Visa sponsor 1 year ago Long shot · 5%

Software Engineer (Core Infrastructure)

$180k – $300k per year · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time
Go
TypeScript
DevOps
Docker
Kubernetes
CI/CD
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Tatari

tatari.tv
tatari.tv · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Media & Audience Measurement · Advertising · Est. 2016 · Trust A · Hiring 32
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Media & Audience Measurement · Advertising · Est. 2016 · Trust A · Hiring 32
Tatari is an advertising technology company based in San Francisco that helps brands buy and measure television advertising across linear TV and streaming platforms. Founded in 2016, it combines a media-buying desk with its own analytics software that ties TV and streaming ad spots to website visits, app installs and sales, and it works mainly with direct-to-consumer and growth-stage brands. The company hires programmatic and linear media buyers, client services and growth managers, product managers and directors, and software, data and analytics engineers.
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Senior Backend Engineer

$170k – $200k per year · Equity · Senior · 6+ years exp · Hybrid (San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, United States) · Senior
SQL
Python
Databases
Amazon Redshift
Databricks
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
dbt
Cursor
Spark
Copilot
LLM
Machine Learning
AI Agents
Fine-tuning
Prompt Engineering
RAG
Frontend
GraphQL
DevOps
gRPC
Rest API
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Straia

straia.io
straia.io · HQ: San Francisco, United States · BI & Dashboard Software · Education AI · AI Agents · Startup · Hiring 2
HQ: San Francisco, United States · BI & Dashboard Software · Education AI · AI Agents · Startup · Hiring 2
Straia is an American startup that builds AI agents for business intelligence in higher education, helping universities make data-driven decisions about their students. It is backed by a16z Speedrun, Reach Capital and JFF Ventures and hires backend and full-stack engineers working with Node.js, React and GCP. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
Open 130 daysVerified live · 4 hours ago 4 months ago Long shot · 7%

Full-Stack Software Engineer

$150k – $180k per year · Middle · 4+ years exp · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Middle
Node JS
TypeScript
JavaScript
Databases
DuckDB
Google BigQuery
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
AI Agents
Gemini
Claude
LLM
Frontend
Vite
React.js
DevOps
Pulumi
GCP
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Open 152 daysTop 25% pay 5 months ago Long shot · 9%

Senior Backend Engineer

$200k – $225k per year · Senior · 6+ years exp · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Senior
Node JS
TypeScript
JavaScript
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Gemini
Prompt Engineering
Claude
AI Agents
LLM
Frontend
React.js
Vite
DevOps
GCP
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Omni

omni.co
omni.co · HQ: San Francisco, United States · BI & Dashboard Software · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 2022 · Trust A · Hiring 33
HQ: San Francisco, United States · BI & Dashboard Software · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 2022 · Trust A · Hiring 33
Omni is a business intelligence platform founded by former Looker leaders that combines a governed data model with ad hoc SQL and spreadsheet-style exploration. Analysts can promote a one-off query into the shared model without rebuilding it. The product targets teams that found older BI tools either too rigid or too loose.
Top 25% payVerified live · 4 hours ago Sponsors in IE 4 months ago Long shot · 13%

Software Engineer, Growth Data Platform

$170k – $250k per year · Junior · 2+ years exp · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Junior
SQL
Python
Databases
Google BigQuery
Snowflake
Databricks
AI/ML
Dagster
dbt
Cursor
ChatGPT
Spark
Claude
DevOps
AWS Lambda
GitHub Actions
Terraform
AWS
Analytics
Fivetran
Looker
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Indigo

indigo.ae
indigo.ae · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Practice Management Software · Primary Care & Medical Centers · 11-50 employees · Hiring 1
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Practice Management Software · Primary Care & Medical Centers · 11-50 employees · Hiring 1
Indigo is a healthcare company that helps physicians achieve independence by making it easier to start, operate and grow their own practices. Its mission is to build the best care experience in healthcare on a 30 year horizon, and it hires business operations, finance operations and mergers and acquisitions staff across California. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
Top 25% pay 4 months ago Long shot · 5%

Software Engineer, Applied AI/Product

$150k – $250k per year · Equity · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time
LLM Guardrails
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Neuromorphic Labs

neuromorphiclabs.ai
neuromorphiclabs.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Processors, MCUs & AI Chips · AI Chips & Accelerators · Startup · Hiring 3
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Processors, MCUs & AI Chips · AI Chips & Accelerators · Startup · Hiring 3
Neuromorphic Labs helps teams build, own, and deploy production AI with verifiable trust across models, data, agents, and compute.
Open 131 daysVerified live · 4 hours ago 5 months ago Long shot · 9%

Founding Engineer - Full Stack

≈ $140k – $260k per year (Estimated) · Senior · 5+ years exp · Hybrid (Bellevue, Seattle, San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Senior
Rust
C++
AI/ML
Cursor
Claude Code
DevOps
Pulumi
Terraform
GCP
Kubernetes
Azure
AWS
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Midjourney

midjourney.com
midjourney.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Foundation Models · Generative Image · Est. 2021 · Likely startup · Trust C · Hiring 13
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Foundation Models · Generative Image · Est. 2021 · Likely startup · Trust C · Hiring 13
Midjourney is an independent research laboratory whose text to image models set the visual quality benchmark for generative imagery for several years. Its products run inside a community platform where millions of users generate and refine images together, an unusual distribution choice that shaped the culture around generative art. The company remains self funded, has never raised outside venture capital and operates with a very small research team; its models are trained and served entirely on infrastructure the company controls.
Likely inactiveTop 25% pay Visa sponsor 5 months ago Long shot · 6%

Principal Software Engineer

$268k – $279k per year · Lead · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Principal
Python
Python
Asyncio
Mobile
Modularization
DevOps
gRPC
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Hinoki

hinoki.security
hinoki.security · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Custom Software Development · Hiring 2
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Custom Software Development · Hiring 2
Continuous vulnerability scanning and patching in one platform. Hinoki finds what is genuinely exploitable and drives the fix to resolution.
Open 131 daysTop 25% pay 5 months ago Long shot · 7%

Software Engineer (Agent Infra)

$200k – $300k per year · Middle · 3+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Middle
TypeScript
C++
AI/ML
Function Calling
OpenAI Codex
Cursor
Claude Code
AI Agents
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
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Open 167 daysTop 25% pay 6 months ago Long shot · 7%

Software Engineer (Web Platform)

$200k – $300k per year · Middle · 3+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Middle
TypeScript
C++
JavaScript
AI/ML
AI Agents
OpenAI Codex
Cursor
Claude Code
Frontend
React.js
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Avent Industrial

aventindustrial.com
aventindustrial.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Custom Software Development · 1-10 employees · Est. 2025 · Startup · Hiring 2
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Custom Software Development · 1-10 employees · Est. 2025 · Startup · Hiring 2
AI-powered sales automation for industrial manufacturing. Automate quoting, order entry, and customer communications.
Open 134 daysVerified live · 4 hours ago 5 months ago Long shot · 3%

Founding Engineer

$120k – $150k per year · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Relocation · Full-Time
TypeScript
Python
JavaScript
Python
FastAPI
Databases
PostgreSQL
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
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Valence

valence.co
valence.co · HQ: New York, United States · Corporate Training · Coaching & Mentoring · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 20, 2 new
HQ: New York, United States · Corporate Training · Coaching & Mentoring · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 20, 2 new
Valence is an AI-powered leadership coaching company that lets enterprises offer executive-level coaching at scale. Its postings cover go-to-market associates, executive operations, client partners, engagement managers and strategy and operations associates, mostly in New York with roles in Toronto, San Francisco and London. The company is headquartered in New York, United States.
Verified live · 2 hours ago 5 months ago Likely open · 48%

Staff Software Engineer, Applied AI

≈ $183k – $341k per year (Estimated) · Staff+ · 8+ years exp · Hybrid (San Francisco, New York, United States, Toronto, Canada) · Master's Degree · Full-Time · Staff
SQL
Python
Python
pySpark
AI/ML
Scikit-learn
NLP
Pandas
NumPy
LLM
Machine Learning
Weights & Biases
MLFlow
Spark
DevOps
Docker
GCP
Kubernetes
Azure
AWS
Analytics
Seaborn
Matplotlib
Plotly
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Staff Software Engineer, Platform

≈ $172k – $322k per year (Estimated) · Staff+ · 8+ years exp · Hybrid (New York, San Francisco, United States, Toronto, Canada) · Full-Time · Staff
LLM
Machine Learning
DevOps
Progressive Delivery
Platform Engineering
Docker
GCP
Kubernetes
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
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Verified live · 2 hours ago 8 months ago Fading · 26%

Senior Product Engineer

≈ $133k – $230k per year (Estimated) · Senior · In office (New York, San Francisco, United States, Toronto, Canada) · Full-Time · Senior
JavaScript
Python
Python
Django
AI/ML
LLM
Machine Learning
Frontend
Vue.js
React.js
DevOps
CI/CD
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Thorin

thorin.com
thorin.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Agents · Startup · Hiring 2
HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Agents · Startup · Hiring 2
Thorin is an applied AI start-up building proactive, long-horizon AI agents for enterprises. Its agents work across Slack, email, meetings and documents to keep records updated and push projects forward without manual effort, and it hires AI product engineers and forward deployed engineers. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
Open 137 daysTop 25% pay 5 months ago Long shot · 9%

Founding AI Product Engineer (Lead)

$250k – $350k per year · Lead · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
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sf.gov · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Public Administration & Local Government · Digital Government · 51-200 employees · Est. 1850 · Trust B · Hiring 86, 22 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Public Administration & Local Government · Digital Government · 51-200 employees · Est. 1850 · Trust B · Hiring 86, 22 new
The City and County of San Francisco is the consolidated city-county government of San Francisco, California, incorporated as a city in 1850 and combined into a single city and county in 1856. Its departments run public safety, public health, the SFMTA transit system, water and power through the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco International Airport, housing, infrastructure, permitting and community programs. It hires administrative and technology analysts, engineers, dispatchers, stationary engineers and other civil service staff, almost all in San Francisco.
Open 137 daysTop 25% pay 5 months ago Long shot · 6%

Technology Engineer – Senior - Applications Specialty - Citywide (C00094)

$159k – $200k per year · Senior · 3+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Associate's Degree · Full-Time · Senior · English
SQL
PHP
PHP
Drupal
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Open 137 daysTop 25% pay 5 months ago Long shot · 3%

Technology Engineer - - Applications Specialty - Citywide (C00090)

$144k – $181k per year · Junior · 1+ year exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Associate's Degree · Full-Time · Middle · English
SQL
PHP
PHP
Drupal
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Wealthfront

wealthfront.com
wealthfront.com · HQ: Palo Alto, United States · Investing Apps & Robo-Advisors · 201-500 employees · Est. 2008 · NASDAQ: WLTH · Trust B · Hiring 18
HQ: Palo Alto, United States · Investing Apps & Robo-Advisors · 201-500 employees · Est. 2008 · NASDAQ: WLTH · Trust B · Hiring 18
Wealthfront is an automated investing and banking company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, and founded in 2008. The company runs software managed investment accounts, a high yield cash account, bond portfolios, and lending products for retail customers, with no human financial advisers in the loop. It manages tens of billions of dollars for a largely younger, technology sector customer base and competes with both traditional brokerages and other robo-advisers.
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Senior Software Engineer, Network

≈ $148k – $275k per year (Estimated) · Senior · Hybrid (Palo Alto, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time · Senior
Ruby
Python
DevOps
Chef
Configuration Management
BGP
VPN
DNS
Git
Linux
AWS
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InstaLILY

instalily.ai
instalily.ai · HQ: New York, United States · AI Agents · Artificial Intelligence · 51-200 employees · Est. 2023 · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 22
HQ: New York, United States · AI Agents · Artificial Intelligence · 51-200 employees · Est. 2023 · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 22
Company About InstaLILY. InstaLILY builds Lily, the AI Forward Deployed Engineer for the physical and regulated economy.
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Software Engineer II, General

≈ $113k – $223k per year (Estimated) · Equity · Middle · 1+ year exp · In office (New York, San Francisco, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Middle
TypeScript
Python
AI/ML
RAG
DevOps
CI/CD
GCP
Azure
AWS
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Verified live · 1 hour ago Visa sponsor 5 months ago Long shot · 24%

Software Engineer, Full Stack

≈ $113k – $223k per year (Estimated) · Equity · Middle · 3+ years exp · In office (New York, San Francisco, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Middle
TypeScript
Python
JavaScript
Python
SQLAlchemy
FastAPI
Alembic
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
LLM Evaluation
RAG
LLM
AI Agents
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Vercel
Docker
Management
Jira
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Verified live · 1 hour ago Visa sponsor 5 months ago Long shot · 22%

Software Engineer I, General

≈ $98k – $201k per year (Estimated) · Equity · Junior · In office (New York, San Francisco, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Junior
TypeScript
Python
AI/ML
RAG
DevOps
CI/CD
GCP
Azure
AWS
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Droyd Robotics

droydrobotics.com
droydrobotics.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Construction Robotics · Startup · Trust D · Hiring 23
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Construction Robotics · Startup · Trust D · Hiring 23
Tell Us About Your Environment. Drop us a note about your construction environment or your operations and maintenance pain points.
Likely inactiveVerified live · 2 hours ago 5 months ago Long shot · 3%

Test Software Engineer (Lead)

$130k – $160k per year · Lead · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
Python
Robotics
Teleoperation
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Software Engineering Intern

Intern · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Internship · Intern
Rust
C++
Python
DevOps
Linux
CI/CD
Robotics
ROS2
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GSK

gsk.com
gsk.com · HQ: London, United Kingdom · Oncology Therapeutics · Infectious Disease Therapeutics · Vaccines · Prescription Drugs · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 2000 · Trust A · Hiring 628, 110 new
HQ: London, United Kingdom · Oncology Therapeutics · Infectious Disease Therapeutics · Vaccines · Prescription Drugs · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 2000 · Trust A · Hiring 628, 110 new
GSK is a British multinational pharmaceutical company that develops and manufactures prescription medicines and vaccines, with research focused on infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory and immunology, and oncology. It was formed in 2000 through the merger of Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham and spun off its consumer healthcare business as Haleon in 2022. Listed in London and New York, it runs research, manufacturing and commercial operations worldwide. The company is headquartered in London, England, United Kingdom.
Open 138 daysTop 25% pay Visa sponsor 5 months ago Long shot · 5%

AIML Software Engineer, AI for Science

$136k – $227k per year · London · San Francisco · Zug · Heidelberg · Cambridge · Remote (United Kingdom) · Full-Time · English: C1
SQL
Python
Python
FastAPI
AI/ML
JAX
TensorFlow
PyTorch
Machine Learning
AI Agents
DevOps
Google GKE
Google Cloud Run
Platform Engineering
GCP
Kubernetes
Azure
CI/CD
Terraform
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Backend Developer Salary in San Francisco
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