Data Scientist Salary in San Francisco

Data Scientist jobs in San Francisco hiring now at vetted startups and product companies on Alion, updated daily. Average salary around $253,293/year. Compare remote, hybrid and on-site positions with relocation and visa sponsorship. Browse and apply today.

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Parafin

parafin.com
parafin.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Financial Software & Embedded Finance · Business & SME Lending · 201-500 employees · Est. 2020 · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 5, 1 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Financial Software & Embedded Finance · Business & SME Lending · 201-500 employees · Est. 2020 · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 5, 1 new
Parafin provides the capital and underwriting behind embedded lending offers on marketplaces and payment platforms. Sellers on those platforms are offered a cash advance based on their sales history without a separate application. Its partners include large e-commerce and food delivery networks.
Adam Hengels · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Brian Ahmes · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
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Data Analytics Engineer

$180k – $220k per year · Equity · Junior · 1+ year exp · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time · Junior
SQL
Python
Databases
Google BigQuery
Snowflake
Databricks
AI/ML
Dagster
dbt
DevOps
Git
Analytics
Looker
Tableau
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Data Scientist

$200k – $260k per year · Equity · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time
XGBoost
Streamlit
Machine Learning
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Data Scientist, Underwriting

≈ $181k – $394k per year (Estimated) · Equity · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · PhD · Full-Time
Machine Learning
Management
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Gridsight

gridsight.ai
gridsight.ai · HQ: Wollongong, Australia · Power Grid · Simulation & Digital Twin Software · Smart Grid · Energy AI · 51-200 employees · Est. 2020 · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 24
HQ: Wollongong, Australia · Power Grid · Simulation & Digital Twin Software · Smart Grid · Energy AI · 51-200 employees · Est. 2020 · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 24
Headquartered in Wollongong, Australia, Gridsight is an energy technology company specializing in artificial intelligence solutions for power distribution networks. The company develops an AI-driven analytics platform that creates digital twins of electrical grids, giving utility operators real-time visibility into asset performance and capacity constraints.
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Customer Data Engineer

≈ $96k – $183k per year (Estimated) · Middle · 4+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Middle
SQL
Python
Databases
Databricks
AI/ML
Dagster
dbt
Claude Code
DevOps
Git
AWS
Analytics
ETL/ELT
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Braintrust

usebraintrust.com
usebraintrust.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Recruiting & Staffing · Web3 & dApps · HR & Recruiting AI · Freelance & Talent Marketplaces · Est. 2018 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 24, 1 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Recruiting & Staffing · Web3 & dApps · HR & Recruiting AI · Freelance & Talent Marketplaces · Est. 2018 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 24, 1 new
Braintrust is a talent network that connects enterprises with vetted freelance and contract professionals in technology, design, product and marketing. It combines a talent marketplace with AI recruiting tools, including an AI interviewer for screening candidates, and lets freelancers keep the full amount their clients pay. Founded in 2018 by Adam Jackson and Gabriel Luna-Ostaseski, the US company launched as a user-owned network built around the BTRST token.
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Founding Data Engineer

≈ $129k – $281k per year (Estimated) · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time
SQL
Databases
Snowflake
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Dagster
dbt
Braintrust
OpenAI
DevOps
Cloudflare
AWS Lambda
Wi-Fi
GitHub Actions
Terraform
AWS
Analytics
Fivetran
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Onos Health

onoshealth.com
onoshealth.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Agents · Health Insurance & Benefits · 51-200 employees · Est. 2024 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 8, 1 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Agents · Health Insurance & Benefits · 51-200 employees · Est. 2024 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 8, 1 new
Purpose-built AI for health plans to improve quality and affordability of their behavioral health programs.
Akshay Agrawal · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
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Lead Data Scientist

$200k – $225k per year · Lead · 8+ years exp · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
SQL
Python
AI/ML
Machine Learning
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Scribd, Inc.

scribdinc.com
scribdinc.com · HQ: Bryant, United States · Books · 201-500 employees · Est. 2015 · Hiring 16
HQ: Bryant, United States · Books · 201-500 employees · Est. 2015 · Hiring 16
Explore Scribd, Inc., the home of Scribd, Slideshare, Everand, and Fable. Learn about our mission and vision.
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Data Scientist II

$118k – $184k per year · Equity · Middle · 4+ years exp · Hybrid (San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, New York, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time · Middle
SQL
Python
Python
pySpark
Databases
Databricks
AI/ML
Scikit-learn
NLP
NumPy
Spark
PyTorch
LLM
Machine Learning
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Tubi

tubi.tv
tubi.tv · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Streaming & OTT Platforms · Est. 2014 · Trust B · Hiring 25, 3 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Streaming & OTT Platforms · Est. 2014 · Trust B · Hiring 25, 3 new
Tubi is a San Francisco streaming company founded in 2014 that offers free ad-supported television. Its catalogue holds hundreds of thousands of films and series. The company is owned by Fox Corporation.
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Data Scientist, Growth Analytics

$130k – $165k per year · Middle · 4+ years exp · Hybrid (Los Angeles, San Francisco, United States) · Relocation · Middle
SQL
Python
Databases
Google BigQuery
Amazon Redshift
Snowflake
Databricks
AI/ML
LangGraph
Agentic Workflows
LangChain
OpenAI
Model Context Protocol
LLM
Machine Learning
AI Agents
Analytics
A/B Testing
Dimensional Modeling
Tableau
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Shepherd

shepherdinsurance.com
shepherdinsurance.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Property & Casualty Insurance · InsurTech · 51-200 employees · Est. 2021 · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 24
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Property & Casualty Insurance · InsurTech · 51-200 employees · Est. 2021 · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 24
Shepherd is an insurance technology company that provides commercial insurance for the construction industry. It underwrites primary and excess casualty coverage for general contractors and specialty trades, pricing risk with data from the safety, telematics and project management tools its insureds already use, and it rewards safer job sites with lower premiums. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
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Actuarial Data Science Lead

$200k – $240k per year · Lead · 7+ years exp · In office (New York, San Francisco, Chicago, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
SQL
Python
AI/ML
Time Series
Spark
AI Agents
NLP
DevOps
AWS
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Descript

descript.com
descript.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Audio Production · Podcasting · Audio & Music Software · Photo & Video Editing Software · 51-200 employees · Est. 2017 · Trust A · Hiring 8
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Audio Production · Podcasting · Audio & Music Software · Photo & Video Editing Software · 51-200 employees · Est. 2017 · Trust A · Hiring 8
Features Features Video editing Editing video in Descript is as easy as using docs and slides. Podcasting Multitrack audio editing, just like editing text.
Andrew Mason · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Kundan Kumar · Director
Alex Rampell · Director
Nabeel Hyatt · Director
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Lead Data Scientist, Product

$200k – $250k per year · Lead · 5+ years exp · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Staff
SQL
Python
AI/ML
OpenAI
Spark
Analytics
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Reflection AI

reflection.ai
reflection.ai · HQ: New York, United States · AI Research Labs · Foundation Models · 501-1000 employees · Est. 2024 · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 47, 4 new
HQ: New York, United States · AI Research Labs · Foundation Models · 501-1000 employees · Est. 2024 · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 47, 4 new
Reflection AI is a company founded in 2024 by former Google DeepMind researchers who worked on AlphaGo and large language models. It builds autonomous coding agents and has committed to releasing frontier open-weight models as an American counterweight to Chinese open model releases. The company raised a very large round in 2025 to fund training at frontier scale.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Member of Technical Staff, Data Ingestion Engineer

≈ $180k – $355k per year (Estimated) · Equity · Staff+ · In office (San Francisco, New York, United States, London, United Kingdom) · Full-Time · Staff
Ray
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Member of Technical Staff, Pre-Training Data Quality Engineer

≈ $169k – $335k per year (Estimated) · Equity · Staff+ · In office (San Francisco, New York, United States, London, United Kingdom) · Full-Time · Staff
Python
AI/ML
Pre-training
Human-in-the-Loop
LLM
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Member of Technical Staff, Human Data Quality Engineer

≈ $173k – $342k per year (Estimated) · Equity · Staff+ · In office (San Francisco, New York, United States, London, United Kingdom) · Full-Time · Staff
Python
AI/ML
Function Calling
SFT
Post-training
LLM
AI Agents
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Harvey

harvey.ai
harvey.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Document AI · Legal AI · LLM & Generative AI · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 2022 · Trust B · Hiring 367, 43 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Document AI · Legal AI · LLM & Generative AI · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 2022 · Trust B · Hiring 367, 43 new
Harvey is an American company founded in 2022 that builds generative artificial intelligence tools for lawyers and other professional services firms. Its products sit on top of a firm's own document sets and precedent libraries, handling research, contract review, due diligence, drafting and multi-step workflows that would otherwise consume junior associate time, with citation and audit trails intended to satisfy professional responsibility requirements. The company works with a large share of the largest global law firms and with in-house legal departments, is backed by prominent venture investors, and has expanded into tax and other advisory work.
Gabriel Pereyra · Co-founder and President · decision-maker
Winston Weinberg · Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer · decision-maker
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Open 137 daysTop 25% pay Visa sponsor 5 months ago Long shot · 12%

Data Scientist, Product

$155k – $260k per year · Senior · 5+ years exp · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Senior
SQL
Python
AI/ML
AI Agents
Analytics
A/B Testing
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Midi Health

joinmidi.com
joinmidi.com · HQ: Menlo Park, United States · Women’s Health & Maternity · Telemedicine & Virtual Care · 51-200 employees · Est. 2021 · Startup · Trust C · Hiring 41
HQ: Menlo Park, United States · Women’s Health & Maternity · Telemedicine & Virtual Care · 51-200 employees · Est. 2021 · Startup · Trust C · Hiring 41
Midi Health is a virtual care company headquartered in Menlo Park, California, and founded in 2021. The company provides telehealth visits with clinicians trained in perimenopause and menopause, covering hormone therapy, sleep, weight, bone health, and mental health for women in midlife. It bills through insurance in all fifty United States states and partners with health systems and employers that lack in-house menopause specialists.
Sharon Meers · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Joanna Stober · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Allison Gates · Director
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Staff Data Scientist

≈ $178k – $352k per year (Estimated) · Staff+ · 8+ years exp · Hybrid (Palo Alto, San Francisco, United States) · Master's Degree · Full-Time · Staff
SQL
Python
AI/ML
Machine Learning
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Imprint

imprint.co
imprint.co · HQ: New York, United States · Cards & Card Issuing · 501-1000 employees · Est. 2020 · Startup · Hiring 18, 3 new
HQ: New York, United States · Cards & Card Issuing · 501-1000 employees · Est. 2020 · Startup · Hiring 18, 3 new
Imprint is a payments company headquartered in New York City and founded in 2020. The company builds co-branded credit cards and rewards programmes for retailers and brands, running the underwriting, servicing, and app experience in place of a traditional store card issuer. It works with partners including Brooks Brothers, Eddie Bauer, and Westgate Resorts, positioning itself against the legacy private label card business.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 143 daysTop 25% pay 5 months ago Long shot · 18%

Data Scientist, Risk

$170k – $200k per year · Equity · Senior · 5+ years exp · New York · San Francisco · Remote (United States) · Full-Time · Senior
SQL
Python
Databases
Snowflake
AI/ML
Agentic Workflows
Claude
Copilot
AI Agents
DevOps
AWS
Analytics
A/B Testing
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Kiddom

kiddom.co
kiddom.co · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Learning Management Systems · EdTech Platforms · 51-200 employees · Est. 2014 · Trust B · Hiring 17, 1 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Learning Management Systems · EdTech Platforms · 51-200 employees · Est. 2014 · Trust B · Hiring 17, 1 new
Kiddom is an education technology company that offers a digital curriculum platform for K-12 schools. It combines high-quality instructional materials with tools for teachers to plan, assign and assess lessons, and works with districts on curricula including Spanish language arts. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
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Senior Data Engineer

$160k – $230k per year · Senior · 4+ years exp · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time · Senior
Python
Databases
Weaviate
pgvector
Pinecone
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Model Context Protocol
AI Agents
DevOps
Terragrunt
Amazon ECS
Amazon S3
Terraform
Git
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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.
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Data Infrastructure Engineer

$150k – $250k per year · Senior · 5+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Senior
Rust
Python
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ERM

erm.com
erm.com · HQ: London, United Kingdom · Management Consulting · Environmental Science · 5000+ employees · Est. 1971 · Trust B · Hiring 379, 29 new
HQ: London, United Kingdom · Management Consulting · Environmental Science · 5000+ employees · Est. 1971 · Trust B · Hiring 379, 29 new
ERM (Environmental Resources Management) is a sustainability consultancy headquartered in London, England, that advises companies on environmental, health, safety, risk and social issues, decarbonisation strategy, permitting and impact assessment. Founded in 1971 and owned since 2021 by the investment firm KKR, it employs thousands of consultants in more than 40 countries and runs a digital solutions business that includes the Libryo regulatory compliance software. Its careers board lists consulting roles in sustainability, environmental engineering, EHS compliance, climate and energy transition, geoscience and project management across the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific.
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Open 147 daysVerified live · 4 hours ago 5 months ago Long shot · 9%

Senior Data Specialist (Field Based)

≈ $105k – $200k per year (Estimated) · Senior · 5+ years exp · In office (San Jose, San Francisco, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time · Senior
SQL
Python
Databases
Snowflake
PostgreSQL
DevOps
Azure
AWS
Git
CI/CD
Analytics
Tableau
ETL/ELT
Power BI
Management
Power Automate
Power Apps
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Bedrock Robotics

bedrockrobotics.com
bedrockrobotics.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Construction Robotics · Robotics · 501-1000 employees · Est. 2024 · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 50, 1 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Construction Robotics · Robotics · 501-1000 employees · Est. 2024 · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 50, 1 new
Bedrock Robotics is a San Francisco company developing autonomous driving systems that retrofit heavy construction equipment such as excavators, helping contractors add capacity and speed up infrastructure and site work. Founded in 2024 by veterans of self-driving and robotics programs, it has engineering teams in San Francisco and New York and field operations and testing in Lockhart, Texas. Its openings are largely engineering roles in state estimation and localization, behavior and world-model machine learning, onboard inference infrastructure, sensor systems, fleet platform software, hardware integration and validation, including a large 2027 internship program.
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Data Scientist

≈ $126k – $239k per year (Estimated) · Senior · 5+ years exp · Hybrid (New York, San Francisco, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time · Senior
SQL
Python
AI/ML
Computer Vision
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Pave

pave.com
pave.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · HR & Payroll Software · 5000+ employees · Est. 2019 · Trust B · Hiring 20, 1 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States · HR & Payroll Software · 5000+ employees · Est. 2019 · Trust B · Hiring 20, 1 new
Pave is compensation software that connects to a company's HR and equity systems to benchmark pay against real-time market data. Teams plan salary bands, run merit cycles and generate total rewards statements from the same source. Its benchmarking pool draws on data contributed by thousands of companies.
Christopher Wirthlin · Executive Officer · decision-maker
Sam Mahmood · Executive Officer · decision-maker
Sam Silverman · Executive Officer · decision-maker
Oren Bass · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
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Data Scientist

≈ $94k – $201k per year (Estimated) · Junior · 2+ years exp · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Junior
SQL
Python
Databases
Databricks
AI/ML
dbt
OpenAI
Claude Code
Machine Learning
Analytics
Looker
Tableau
Power BI
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Scopely

scopely.com
scopely.com · HQ: Culver City, United States · Mobile Games · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 2011 · Trust B · Hiring 144, 6 new
HQ: Culver City, United States · Mobile Games · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 2011 · Trust B · Hiring 144, 6 new
Scopely is an American mobile games company founded in 2011 that develops and publishes free-to-play titles built around long-term live operations rather than one-off releases. Its portfolio includes Monopoly Go, Stumble Guys, Star Trek Fleet Command, Marvel Strike Force and the Pokemon Go family of games acquired from Niantic, several of which rank among the highest grossing mobile titles in the world. The company is headquartered in Culver City, was acquired by the Saudi Arabian group Savvy Games in 2023, and operates studios across North America, Europe and Asia.
Walter Driver · Co-founder and Chairman · decision-maker
Tim O'Brien · Chief Revenue Officer · decision-maker
Javier Ferreira · Co-Chief Executive Officer · decision-maker
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Senior Data Scientist, Marketing

$17k – $253k per year · Senior · 4+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Senior
SQL
Python
Databases
Google BigQuery
AI/ML
AI Agents
Analytics
Looker
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Probably Genetic

probablygenetic.com
probablygenetic.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Genomics & Genetic Testing · 11-50 employees · Est. 2018 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 4
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Genomics & Genetic Testing · 11-50 employees · Est. 2018 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 4
Genetic testing for children with autism, seizures, developmental delays, and other symptoms, billed to insurance. At-home cheek swab. See if you qualify.
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Senior Data Scientist

$180k – $230k per year · Equity · Senior · 7+ years exp · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Senior
SQL
Python
Python
pySpark
Databases
Databricks
AI/ML
Scikit-learn
Multimodal AI
NLP
NumPy
Synthetic Data
Prompt Engineering
OpenAI
Machine Learning
Spark
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Windfall

windfall.com
windfall.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · B2B Company & Contact Data · 11-50 employees · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 14, 1 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States · B2B Company & Contact Data · 11-50 employees · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 14, 1 new
Windfall is a people intelligence and AI company that gives go-to-market teams actionable data to find, engage, and convert their next best customers.
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Senior Data Engineer

$170k – $220k per year · Senior · 4+ years exp · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Senior
Kotlin
Java
Python
Databases
Cassandra
Google BigQuery
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
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Data Scientist Salary in San Francisco
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