Machine Learning Engineer Salary 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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Jellyfish

jellyfish.co
Jellyfish is the intelligence platform for AI-Integrated engineering, helping R&D teams understand impact, adopt best practices, and make smarter decisions.
jellyfish.co • HQ: Boston, United States • Artificial Intelligence • Data & Analytics • Software
HQ: Boston, United States • Artificial Intelligence • Data & Analytics • Software
$180k – $225k per year • Equity • Staff+ • 7+ years expBoston • Remote (United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Architect
Apex
Apex
Lightning Web Components
AI/ML
AI Agents
Marketing
Salesforce
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GoHighLevel

gohighlevel.com
GoHighLevel (HighLevel) is an all-in-one white-label marketing, sales, and CRM platform founded in 2018 for marketing agencies, consultants, and small businesses. The platform consolidates lead generation, automated marketing campaigns, sales funnels, appointment scheduling, and two-way messaging into a single software solution. It allows agencies to rebrand the application under their own domain and name, enabling them to resell the platform directly to their clients as a custom SaaS offering.
gohighlevel.com • HQ: Dallas, United States • Software • Sales & Marketing • Customer Relationship Management (CRM) • Marketing Automation • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2018
HQ: Dallas, United States • Software • Sales & Marketing • Customer Relationship Management (CRM) • Marketing Automation • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2018
$122k – $272k per year (Estimated) • Lead • 6+ years exp • Remote (India, United States) • Staff
Go
JavaScript
Node JS
TypeScript
Node JS
Nest.JS
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Embeddings
LLM
Prompt Engineering
RAG
Google AI Studio
LLM Guardrails
Frontend
Angular
React.js
Vue.js
DevOps
Cloudflare
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DataRobot

datarobot.com
DataRobot is an artificial intelligence platform company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, and founded in 2012 by Jeremy Achin and Tom de Godoy. The company provides software for building, deploying, governing, and monitoring machine learning and generative AI applications across cloud and on-premise environments. It sells mainly to large enterprises in financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and the public sector that need model governance alongside experimentation.
datarobot.com • HQ: Boston, United States • Predictive Analytics • Data Science • MLOps • Machine Learning • Data & Analytics • Artificial Intelligence • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2012
HQ: Boston, United States • Predictive Analytics • Data Science • MLOps • Machine Learning • Data & Analytics • Artificial Intelligence • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2012
$165k – $225k per year • Senior • 6+ years expHouston • Remote (United States) • Master's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
Python
Python
FastAPI
Flask
AI/ML
AI Agents
CrewAI
LangGraph
Llama
LlamaIndex
NumPy
RAG
Scikit-learn
LangChain
Edge AI
DevOps
AWS
Azure
CI/CD
Docker
GCP
Kubernetes
Rest API
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Boulevard

joinblvd.com
Boulevard is a leading client experience platform designed for appointment-based, self-care businesses such as medspas, salons, spas, barbershops, and nail salons. With a focus on enhancing customer engagement and business efficiency, Boulevard offers a comprehensive suite of solutions including self-booking, client profiles, loyalty programs, payment systems, and marketing tools. The platform supports over 30,000 self-care professionals by streamlining scheduling, reports, and point-of-sale operations.
joinblvd.com • New York • Nashville • Software • Lifestyle • Spa & Massage
New York • Nashville • Software • Lifestyle • Spa & Massage
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Staff Machine Learning Engineer

$164k – $307k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • 3+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Staff
Python
SQL
Databases
Databricks
Snowflake
AI/ML
Embeddings
Recommender Systems
DevOps
CI/CD
Cortex
Prometheus
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Ironclad

ironcladapp.com
Ironclad is a contract lifecycle management software company headquartered in San Francisco, California, and founded in 2014. The company offers a digital contracting platform that automates the creation, negotiation, approval, signature, and storage of business agreements, with AI features for extracting and reviewing contract terms. It serves legal, sales, and procurement teams at enterprises and technology companies, and is backed by venture investors including Accel, Sequoia Capital, and Y Combinator.
ironcladapp.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • LLM & Generative AI • Business Process Automation (BPA) • Professional Services • Artificial Intelligence • Document Management • Legal Services • Software • Est. 2014
HQ: San Francisco, United States • LLM & Generative AI • Business Process Automation (BPA) • Professional Services • Artificial Intelligence • Document Management • Legal Services • Software • Est. 2014
Top 25% payVerified live · 3 hours ago 2 months ago

Technical Lead Manager, AI

$245k – $295k per year • Equity • Lead • 5+ years expRemote/Hybrid (San Francisco, New York, United States) • Full-Time • Staff
Node JS
TypeScript
JavaScript
AI/ML
LLM
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
Docker
GCP
Kubernetes
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Senior Finance Systems & AI Engineer

$130k – $163k per year • Equity • Senior • 5+ years expRemote/Hybrid (San Francisco, New York, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Google BigQuery
AI/ML
LLM
Human-in-the-Loop
AI Agents
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Top 25% payVerified live · 3 hours ago 3 months ago

Senior Software Engineer, AI - Squad Team

$180k – $220k per year • Equity • Senior • Remote/Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
JavaScript
Node JS
TypeScript
AI/ML
LLM
AI Agents
Function Calling
Frontend
React.js
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Openrouter

openrouter.com
The unified interface for LLMs. Find the best models & prices for your prompts
openrouter.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Information Technology • Artificial Intelligence • LLM & Generative AI
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Information Technology • Artificial Intelligence • LLM & Generative AI
2 months ago

Applied AI Engineer

$163k – $357k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
OpenRouter
LLM Guardrails
AI Agents
LLM
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Top 25% pay 2 months ago

Research Scientist

$250k – $285k per year • Remote (United States) • PhD • Full-Time
Python
SQL
Databases
ClickHouse
Google BigQuery
AI/ML
Embeddings
Fine-tuning
LLM
NLP
OpenRouter
Reinforcement Learning
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Yobi

yobi.ai
Yobi is a behavioral artificial intelligence company headquartered in New York City and founded in 2019. The company builds models over large consented consumer behaviour datasets so advertisers can predict audience response without handling personally identifiable information. It licenses those signals to agencies, demand side platforms, and advertising technology partners, and has worked with Microsoft on enterprise predictive behavioural models.
yobi.ai • HQ: New York, United States • Predictive Analytics • Customer Analytics • Data & Analytics • Advertising • Sales & Marketing • Artificial Intelligence • Machine Learning • Est. 2019
HQ: New York, United States • Predictive Analytics • Customer Analytics • Data & Analytics • Advertising • Sales & Marketing • Artificial Intelligence • Machine Learning • Est. 2019
$180k – $275k per year • Senior • 8+ years expNew York • Remote (United States) • Master's Degree • Full-Time • Staff
C++
Java
Python
Rust
Databases
Databricks
AI/ML
LLM
Quantization
Recommender Systems
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Top 25% pay 2 months ago

Machine Learning Engineer - Core Signals

$180k – $275k per year • Senior • 8+ years expNew York • Remote (United States) • Master's Degree • Full-Time • Staff
Databricks
AI/ML
Embeddings
LLM
Recommender Systems
DevOps
Bazel
CI/CD
GitHub
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$180k – $275k per year • Senior • 8+ years expNew York • Remote (United States) • Master's Degree • Full-Time • Staff
Databricks
AI/ML
Embeddings
LLM
Recommender Systems
DevOps
Bazel
CI/CD
GitHub
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Rime Labs

rime.ai
AI voice models built for real-time conversations. 600+ voices, 50+ languages, sub-100ms latency. Trusted by global enterprise.
rime.ai • San Francisco • New York • Conversational AI • Artificial Intelligence • Speech & Audio AI
San Francisco • New York • Conversational AI • Artificial Intelligence • Speech & Audio AI
$152k – $272k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Relocation • Visa sponsorship • Master's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
Multimodal AI
PyTorch
Text-to-Speech
Knowledge Distillation
Quantization
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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
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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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Verified live · 1 hour 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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Poolside

poolside.ai
Poolside is a foundation model company bringing intelligence to everywhere work gets done. Our mission is to drive abundance for humanity by creating artificial general intelligence.
poolside.ai • London • Hardware • LLM & Generative AI • Artificial Intelligence
London • Hardware • LLM & Generative AI • Artificial Intelligence
Verified live · 2 days ago 2 months ago

Member of Engineering (Inference Infrastructure)

Remote (EMEA, United States) • Full-Time
Go
AI/ML
Reinforcement Learning
AI Agents
DevOps
Kubernetes
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Open 104 daysVerified live · 2 days ago 4 months ago

Member of Engineering (Pre-training / Data Research)

Remote (EMEA, United States) • Full-Time
Python
AI/ML
LLM
Prompt Engineering
Synthetic Data
Tokenization
Post-training
Pre-training
AI Agents
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UiPath

uipath.com
UiPath is a global enterprise software company that leads the market in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and AI-driven automation tools. Its platform enables organizations to build, deploy, and manage software robots that automate repetitive digital tasks and complex business processes across legacy and modern applications. Headquartered in New York City, the company helps enterprises drive operational efficiency, improve accuracy, and accelerate digital transformation worldwide.
uipath.com • HQ: New York, United States • Artificial Intelligence • AI Agents • Software • Business Process Automation (BPA) • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2005
HQ: New York, United States • Artificial Intelligence • AI Agents • Software • Business Process Automation (BPA) • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2005
Verified live · 3 hours ago 2 months ago

Principal AI Architect – Healthcare

$163k – $295k per year (Estimated) • Lead • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Architect
AI Agents
Management
UiPath
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Principal AI Architect - Lifescience

$163k – $295k per year (Estimated) • Lead • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Architect
AI Agents
Management
UiPath
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Sesame AI

sesame.com
Sesame AI is a company founded in 2022 that develops conversational speech models with unusually natural timing and prosody. Its demonstration voices drew wide attention for sounding present in a conversation rather than reading text aloud, and it released a base speech model openly. The company is also building lightweight eyewear intended to keep an assistant available throughout the day.
sesame.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Est. 2022
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Est. 2022
Top 25% payVerified live · 1 day ago 2 months ago

Research Scientist

$190k – $320k per year • Equity • In office (San Francisco, New York, Bellevue, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time
Computer Vision
NLP
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Top 25% payVerified live · 1 day ago 3 months ago

Data Engineer, Machine Learning

$170k – $260k per year • Equity • Senior • 5+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Python
SQL
AI/ML
Dagster
Multimodal AI
Prefect
Ray
Spark
Feature Store
DevOps
AWS
GCP
Amazon EKS
Google GKE
Kubernetes
Vector
Analytics
ETL/ELT
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Top 25% payVerified live · 1 day ago 3 months ago

Research Engineer

$190k – $320k per year • Equity • In office (San Francisco, New York, Bellevue, United States) • Full-Time
Fine-tuning
LLM
Multimodal AI
PyTorch
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Console

console.com
Console is the AI-native platform for IT service management (ITSM), built to help teams automate support and shift from doing the work to managing the system that does the work for them.
console.com • San Francisco • Managed IT Services • IT Management • Information Technology
San Francisco • Managed IT Services • IT Management • Information Technology
Top 25% payVerified live · 1 hour ago 2 months ago

Research Engineer

$200k – $350k per year • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time
Databricks
AI/ML
AI Agents
Cursor
DSPy
Fine-tuning
Knowledge Distillation
LoRA
QLoRA
Reinforcement Learning
PEFT
DPO
GRPO
LLM Evaluation
OpenAI
Post-training
SFT
DevOps
GitHub
Design
Figma
Management
Slack
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Top 25% payVerified live · 1 hour ago 3 months ago

AI Customer Enablement Lead

$160k – $250k per year • Lead • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Staff
Databricks
AI/ML
AI Agents
Cursor
OpenAI
DevOps
GitHub
Design
Figma
Management
Slack
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Open 384 daysTop 25% pay 1 year ago

Applied AI Engineer

$200k – $350k per year • Middle • 4+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Middle
Node JS
TypeScript
JavaScript
Databases
Databricks
AI/ML
AI Agents
Copilot
Cursor
OpenAI
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
GitHub
Design
Figma
Management
Slack
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Udacity

udacity.com
Udacity is an online education company headquartered in Emeryville, California, and founded in 2011 by Sebastian Thrun, David Stavens, and Mike Sokolsky after a free Stanford artificial intelligence course. The company sells Nanodegree programs in areas such as programming, data science, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and autonomous systems, built together with industry partners. It shifted toward enterprise and government reskilling contracts and was acquired by Accenture in 2024.
udacity.com • HQ: Emeryville, United States • Corporate Training • Vocational Education • Education • EdTech Platforms • E-learning • Est. 2011
HQ: Emeryville, United States • Corporate Training • Vocational Education • Education • EdTech Platforms • E-learning • Est. 2011
$105k – $233k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote (MENA, APAC, Europe, United States, Canada) • Visa sponsorship • Contractor • Senior
Bash
Python
SQL
AI/ML
AI Agents
Claude
Claude Code
Model Context Protocol
Prompt Engineering
Anthropic
Context Engineering
Human-in-the-Loop
OpenAI Agents SDK
Structured Outputs
Function Calling
DevOps
CI/CD
Git
Rest API
GitHub
Management
Slack
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Sedgwick

sedgwick.com
Sedgwick is a leading global provider of technology-enabled risk, benefits and integrated business solutions. Every day, in every time zone, the most well-known and respected organizations place their trust in us to help their employees regain hea...
sedgwick.com • Madrid • Orlando • Albany • Miami • Cincinnati • Insurance • 5000+ employees
Madrid • Orlando • Albany • Miami • Cincinnati • Insurance • 5000+ employees
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ML Architect

$175k – $220k per year • Staff+ • 10+ years expUnited States • Remote (United States) • Master's Degree • Architect
Python
SQL
Analytics
ETL/ELT
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Senior and Applied/Agentic AI Engineer

$138k – $248k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 10+ years expUnited States • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Senior
Python
AI/ML
Hallucination
LLM
Prompt Engineering
RAG
LLM Guardrails
Structured Outputs
AI Agents
DevOps
Vector
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Path Robotics

path-robotics.com
Path Robotics is a company founded in 2014 in Columbus, Ohio that builds autonomous welding robots for manufacturers facing a shortage of skilled welders. Its systems scan each part with computer vision, plan the weld path themselves and adapt to variation instead of following a pre-programmed trajectory. The technology is aimed at high-mix, low-volume fabrication that conventional robots cannot handle.
path-robotics.com • HQ: Columbus, United States • Est. 2014
HQ: Columbus, United States • Est. 2014
$149k – $268k per year (Estimated) • Senior • Columbus • Remote (United States) • Master's Degree • Senior
Python
AI/ML
Multimodal AI
PyTorch
Reinforcement Learning
TensorFlow
Synthetic Data
Robotics
Isaac Gym
MuJoCo
Reinforcement Learning
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$157k – $285k per year (Estimated) • Lead • 5+ years expColumbus • Remote (United States) • Master's Degree • Staff
C++
Python
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
Knowledge Distillation
ONNX
Self-Supervised Learning
TensorRT
Edge AI
Robotics
Model Predictive Control
Sim-to-Real
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Doss

dosstrucking.com
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dosstrucking.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Road Transport • Transportation & Logistics • Logistics • 51-200 employees
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Road Transport • Transportation & Logistics • Logistics • 51-200 employees
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Staff Applied AI Engineer

$230k – $260k per year • Staff+ • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Relocation • Full-Time • Staff
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
Function Calling
LLM
RAG
Context Engineering
LLM Evaluation
LLM Guardrails
AI Agents
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RxSense

rxsense.com
RxSense was founded in 2015 with a mission to develop technology solutions that improve healthcare transparency and access to more affordable medications. The result was RxAgile, a cutting-edge cloud-based enterprise platform for pharmacy benefit ...
rxsense.com • Boston • Dublin • Software • Pharmaceuticals • Health Care
Boston • Dublin • Software • Pharmaceuticals • Health Care
Top 25% payVerified live · 1 day ago 2 months ago

Principal AI Ops Engineer

$190k – $225k per year • Lead • 2+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Contractor • Principal
Python
TypeScript
C#
C#
.NET
AI/ML
Claude
LangGraph
LLM
SGLang
vLLM
LangChain
Anthropic
OpenAI
OpenAI Agents SDK
TGI
DevOps
AIOps
AWS
CI/CD
FinOps
Kubernetes
IAM
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Sieve

sievedata.com
Sieve is a video artificial intelligence infrastructure company headquartered in San Francisco, California, and founded in 2021. The company provides APIs and a serverless runtime for video understanding and generation tasks such as transcription, dubbing, object tracking, background removal, and highlight extraction. It sells to developers building video products who would otherwise assemble and host several separate models themselves.
sievedata.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Computer Vision • AI Infrastructure • Hardware • Generative Video • Software • Video & Image Processing Software • Artificial Intelligence • 11-50 employees • Est. 2021
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Computer Vision • AI Infrastructure • Hardware • Generative Video • Software • Video & Image Processing Software • Artificial Intelligence • 11-50 employees • Est. 2021
Top 25% payVerified live · 2 days ago 2 months ago

Member of Technical Staff, Machine Learning

$150k – $350k per year • Staff+ • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Staff
Python
AI/ML
Claude
Fine-tuning
Multimodal AI
PyTorch
VLM
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Open 109 daysTop 25% pay 4 months ago

Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed

$150k – $350k per year • Staff+ • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Staff
Python
AI/ML
Multimodal AI
PyTorch
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Open 208 daysTop 25% pay 7 months ago

Member of Technical Staff, Reliability

$150k – $300k per year • Staff+ • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Staff
C++
Go
Python
Rust
JavaScript
AI/ML
Multimodal AI
Frontend
Svelte
DevOps
AWS
CI/CD
Cloudflare
GCP
Kustomize
Prometheus
Terraform
VictoriaMetrics
Kubernetes
GitHub
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Point One Navigation

pointonenav.com
Point One Navigation delivers centimetre-accurate positioning through a nationwide correction network. Its receivers and software serve autonomous vehicles, robotics and surveying. Developers access corrections through a simple subscription service.
pointonenav.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Sensors • Hardware • Satellite Navigation • Est. 2016
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Sensors • Hardware • Satellite Navigation • Est. 2016
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Staff Computer Vision Engineer

$215k – $266k per year • Staff+ • 7+ years expRemote/Hybrid (San Francisco, San Diego, United States) • Master's Degree • Full-Time • Staff
C++
Python
C++
PyTorch C++
TensorFlow C++
AI/ML
Computer Vision
PyTorch
TensorFlow
AI Agents
Gaussian Splatting
ONNX
TensorRT
Robotics
ROS2
SLAM
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Machine Learning Engineer Salary in San Francisco
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