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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Plaid

plaid.com
Plaid Inc. is a financial technology company headquartered in San Francisco, California, and founded in 2013. The company develops a data transfer network and application programming interfaces that allow consumers to securely connect their bank accounts to financial applications and services. It operates globally across North America and Europe, serving over 12,000 financial institutions and powering thousands of digital finance tools for millions of users.
plaid.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Data Integration • Data & Analytics • Identity Management • Cybersecurity • Banking • Payments • Financial Services • FinTech • Est. 2013
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Data Integration • Data & Analytics • Identity Management • Cybersecurity • Banking • Payments • Financial Services • FinTech • Est. 2013
Top 25% payVerified live · 1 day ago 2 months ago

Senior Software Engineer - AI Tooling

$191k – $263k per year • Senior • 5+ years expRemote/Hybrid (San Francisco, New York, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
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Top 25% payVerified live · 1 day ago 4 months ago

Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Research Scientist) - DFAI

$249k – $368k per year • Staff+ • 12+ years expRemote/Hybrid (San Francisco, New York, Seattle, United States) • PhD • Full-Time • Staff
Python
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
Transformers
Feature Store
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Twin Health

twinhealth.com
At Twin, we combine advanced medical science with digital twin technology to help people reverse, improve, and prevent chronic metabolic diseases like type 2 diabetes, pre-diabetes, and heart disease. We do it by helping each Twin member improve their metabolic fitness. Our truly precise and personalized approach makes us a service like no other.
twinhealth.com • Chennai • Hyderabad • Bengaluru • Mumbai • Coimbatore • Sports • Weight Management • Fitness
Chennai • Hyderabad • Bengaluru • Mumbai • Coimbatore • Sports • Weight Management • Fitness
Top 25% payVerified live · 1 hour ago 2 months ago

Senior AI Applications Engineer

$195k – $210k per year • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Senior
Java
Python
SQL
Java
Spring Boot
Databases
MySQL
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
AI Agents
Claude
Gemini
LLM
Prompt Engineering
RAG
Context Engineering
Model Context Protocol
DevOps
Vector
Cybersecurity
HIPAA
Robotics
Digital Twin
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Staff AI Engineer

$250k – $265k per year • Staff+ • 8+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Staff
Python
AI/ML
AI Agents
LLM
Multimodal AI
Prompt Engineering
RAG
DevOps
CI/CD
Robotics
Digital Twin
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Senior AI Platform Engineer

$180k – $200k per year • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Senior
Go
Java
Python
SQL
AI/ML
LLM
Spark
DevOps
Docker
Kubernetes
Robotics
Digital Twin
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Customer.io

customer.io
Customer.io, legally Peaberry Software, Inc., is a customer engagement software company headquartered in Portland, Oregon, and founded in 2012. The company provides a platform that enables businesses to automate personalized messaging across email, SMS, push notifications, and in-app channels based on real-time customer behavior and data. Serving over 9,000 brands globally, the organization operates as a remote-first company with a focus on data-driven marketing automation and artificial intelligence integration for B2B and B2C enterprises.
customer.io • HQ: Portland, United States • Software • Customer Analytics • Data & Analytics • AI Agents • Artificial Intelligence • Sales & Marketing • Email Marketing • Marketing Automation • Est. 2012
HQ: Portland, United States • Software • Customer Analytics • Data & Analytics • AI Agents • Artificial Intelligence • Sales & Marketing • Email Marketing • Marketing Automation • Est. 2012
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GTM AI Engineer

Middle • 4+ years exp • Remote (AMER) • Middle
AI Agents
Claude
FastAI
Function Calling
LLM
Prompt Engineering
PyTorch
DevOps
GCP
Kubernetes
GitHub
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Stability AI

stability.ai
Stability AI is a British generative artificial intelligence company best known for releasing Stable Diffusion, the open-weight text-to-image model that popularised self-hosted image generation. The company develops foundation models across images, video, audio, language and three-dimensional content, and distributes them through open releases, a commercial API and enterprise licensing for studios and platform partners. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in London, it refocused on media and entertainment customers after a 2024 recapitalisation that installed a new leadership team and brought in investors including Sean Parker and Greg Brockman.
stability.ai • HQ: London, United Kingdom • Generative Video • Generative Image • Artificial Intelligence • Content Creation • LLM & Generative AI • 51-200 employees • Est. 2019
HQ: London, United Kingdom • Generative Video • Generative Image • Artificial Intelligence • Content Creation • LLM & Generative AI • 51-200 employees • Est. 2019
Remote (United States, United Kingdom) • PhD
Python
AI/ML
Computer Vision
Diffusion Models
Multimodal AI
PyTorch
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Allocate

allocate.com
Allocate is a financial technology company that operates an intelligent operating system designed to bridge the gap between private market asset managers and the wealth advisory sector.
allocate.com • Palo Alto • New York • Chicago • FinTech • Financial Services • Asset Management
Palo Alto • New York • Chicago • FinTech • Financial Services • Asset Management
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Machine Learning Engineer

$165k – $185k per year • Senior • 4+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Middle
Python
AI/ML
Claude
Claude Code
Cursor
Fine-tuning
LLM
OpenAI
OpenAI Codex
Computer Vision
Multimodal AI
NLP
DevOps
Git
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Afresh

afresh.com
Afresh is a leading provider of AI-powered inventory management solutions for the grocery industry. The company's platform helps retailers reduce food waste, optimize inventory levels, and improve customer satisfaction. Afresh's platform uses advanced machine learning algorithms to predict demand, automate ordering, and provide insights into inventory performance.
afresh.com • San Francisco • Bakery & Pastry • Food & Beverages • Artificial Intelligence
San Francisco • Bakery & Pastry • Food & Beverages • Artificial Intelligence
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Staff AI Software Engineer

$169k – $253k per year • Staff+ • 5+ years expRemote/Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Staff
Python
Python
pySpark
Databases
Databricks
PostgreSQL
Delta Lake
pgvector
Pinecone
Weaviate
AI/ML
Hallucination
LLM
MLFlow
RAG
Spark
LangChain
Context Engineering
Knowledge Graph
LLM Guardrails
Claude
dbt
Hybrid Search
LangGraph
AI Agents
Model Context Protocol
DevOps
Vector
GitHub
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Top 25% payVerified live · 2 hours ago 2 months ago

Senior AI Software Engineer

$156k – $211k per year • Senior • 3+ years expRemote/Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Python
Python
pySpark
Databases
Databricks
PostgreSQL
Delta Lake
pgvector
Pinecone
Weaviate
AI/ML
Hallucination
LLM
MLFlow
RAG
Spark
LangChain
Context Engineering
Knowledge Graph
LLM Guardrails
Claude
dbt
Hybrid Search
LangGraph
AI Agents
Model Context Protocol
DevOps
Vector
GitHub
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Android Central

androidcentral.com
Your buyer’s guide for the best Android phones, deals, news, and reviews! Android Central covers smartphones, watches, tablets, ChromeOS devices, Google Home, and all compatible peripherals in this smart world we.
androidcentral.com • San Francisco • Washington • Operating Systems • Smartphones • Consumer Electronics
San Francisco • Washington • Operating Systems • Smartphones • Consumer Electronics
Top 25% payVerified live · 6 hours ago 2 months ago

Software Engineering Lead (AI)

$210k – $240k per year • Equity • Lead • 6+ years expRemote/Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Staff
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Fal

fal.ai
Fal is a generative media AI infrastructure platform headquartered in San Francisco, California. Founded in 2021 by former Coinbase and Amazon engineers Burkay Gur and Gorkem Yurtseven, the enterprise is backed by prominent venture investors including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Bessemer Venture Partners, and Salesforce Ventures.
fal.ai • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Generative Video • LLM & Generative AI • Artificial Intelligence • Est. 2021
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Generative Video • LLM & Generative AI • Artificial Intelligence • Est. 2021
Top 25% payVerified live · 11 hours ago 2 months ago

Technical Accounting Lead, AI

$200k – $250k per year • Lead • 8+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Staff
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Deepgram

deepgram.com
Deepgram is an AI speech platform that provides real-time and asynchronous automated speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech (TTS) APIs. Built on custom deep learning models, its technology delivers fast, accurate, and cost-effective voice transcription, language understanding, and audio synthesis for developers and enterprise businesses. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company enables organizations to integrate advanced voice capabilities and intelligence directly into their applications and conversational AI workflows.
deepgram.com • San Francisco • London • Washington • New York • Sydney • Conversational AI • Artificial Intelligence • Speech & Audio AI • Est. 2015
San Francisco • London • Washington • New York • Sydney • Conversational AI • Artificial Intelligence • Speech & Audio AI • Est. 2015
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Applied ML Engineer

$150k – $220k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
Python
AI/ML
Knowledge Distillation
PyTorch
Quantization
Deepgram
LLM Evaluation
Text-to-Speech
Vapi
Mobile
Twilio
DevOps
CI/CD
Cloudflare
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Top 25% payVerified live · 1 day ago 2 months ago

Embedded AI Engineer, On-Device Models

$219k – $274k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
C++
Rust
AI/ML
Knowledge Distillation
ONNX
Quantization
TensorRT
TFLite
TensorFlow
Deepgram
Edge AI
Text-to-Speech
Vapi
Mobile
Twilio
DevOps
Cloudflare
RTOS
IoT
FreeRTOS
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Top 25% payVerified live · 1 day ago 2 months ago

Platform Engineer - AI/ML Infrastructure (Kubernetes & Terraform)

$150k – $220k per year • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Go
Python
AI/ML
Deepgram
Edge AI
Text-to-Speech
Vapi
Mobile
Twilio
DevOps
ArgoCD
AWS
CI/CD
Cilium
Cloudflare
FinOps
GitLab CI
Jenkins
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
Service Mesh
SLURM
Terraform
Amazon S3
GitLab
HPC
Cybersecurity
Calico
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Greystar

greystar.com
At Greystar, we offer apartments in desirable locations near shopping, dining, and workplaces. Browse through our wide selection of apartments for rent and find your dream home today.
greystar.com • Charleston • Los Angeles • Spokane • Tigard • Chandler • Property Management • Real Estate • Residential Real Estate
Charleston • Los Angeles • Spokane • Tigard • Chandler • Property Management • Real Estate • Residential Real Estate
$133k – $239k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years expUnited States • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
ChatGPT
Claude
Copilot
Anthropic
OpenAI
DevOps
Azure
Management
Power Apps
Power Automate
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Curai

curaihealth.com
Our Mission: Providing everyone access to the world's best healthcare We see access to healthcare as fundamental to all human beings. Accomplishing this goal requires building a system that is scalable and capable of addressing the challenges to ...
curaihealth.com • Cleveland • San Francisco • Artificial Intelligence • Health Care • Digital Health
Cleveland • San Francisco • Artificial Intelligence • Health Care • Digital Health
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Senior Applied AI Engineer

$144k – $257k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 3+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Senior
Python
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
LLM
Human-in-the-Loop
LLM Guardrails
RAG
NLP
AI Agents
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Near

near.ai
AI agents for the work your team has been afraid to automate. Private by default, verifiable by design.
near.ai • San Francisco • AI Agents • Artificial Intelligence • AI Infrastructure
San Francisco • AI Agents • Artificial Intelligence • AI Infrastructure
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LLM Inference Engineer

$138k – $301k per year (Estimated)San Francisco • Remote (United States)
CUDA
CUDA Toolkit
LLM
PyTorch
SGLang
TensorRT
Triton
vLLM
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World Economic Forum

weforum.org
Learn about World Economic Forum's latest work and impact through the latest key messages on our Homepage.
weforum.org • Geneva • New York • Beijing • San Francisco • Tokyo • Information Security • Cybersecurity
Geneva • New York • Beijing • San Francisco • Tokyo • Information Security • Cybersecurity
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Lead, Frontier AI Systems, Centre for AI Excellence

$140k – $160k per year • Lead • 7+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Relocation • Master's Degree • Full-Time • Staff
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Multiplica

multiplica.com
Multiplica is a global digital consulting agency that specializes in customer experience (CX), digital product design, and conversion rate optimization (CRO). Founded in Spain, the company helps brands increase online performance through data analytics, user research, marketing automation, and tailored e-commerce strategies. With offices across Europe, the United States, and Latin America, it partners with major enterprises to design, optimize, and scale end-to-end digital experiences.
multiplica.com • HQ: Barcelona, Spain • Artificial Intelligence • Sales & Marketing • Advertising
HQ: Barcelona, Spain • Artificial Intelligence • Sales & Marketing • Advertising
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AI Engineer (Freelance)

Mexico City • Remote (United States, Mexico) • Bachelor's Degree • Freelance • Spanish: C1
JavaScript
Python
AI/ML
ChatGPT
Claude
Dify
LangGraph
RAG
LangChain
OpenAI
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
GitHub
GitLab
Management
n8n
Zapier
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Vast.ai

vast.ai
Vast.ai is a cloud computing marketplace company headquartered in San Francisco, California, and founded in 2018. The company operates a platform where owners of idle GPU hardware, from individual hosts to full data centers, rent that capacity to customers who need it for machine learning training and inference. It uses a real time bidding and search model to undercut traditional cloud providers, and is used mainly by AI researchers, startups, and independent developers.
vast.ai • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Data Centers • Marketplaces • Commerce • AI Infrastructure • Cloud Computing • Information Technology • Hardware • Est. 2018
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Data Centers • Marketplaces • Commerce • AI Infrastructure • Cloud Computing • Information Technology • Hardware • Est. 2018
Top 25% payVerified live · 1 day ago 2 months ago

GPU Systems Engineer – HPC / Parallel Computing

$160k – $320k per year • In office (San Francisco, Los Angeles, United States) • Full-Time
C++
Python
AI/ML
CUDA Toolkit
LLM
OpenCL
DevOps
HPC
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Top 25% payVerified live · 1 day ago 2 months ago

AI Agent Researcher

$160k – $320k per year • In office (San Francisco, Los Angeles, United States) • Full-Time
C++
Python
AI/ML
AI Agents
LLM
CUDA Toolkit
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Top 25% payVerified live · 1 day ago 2 months ago

Systems/GPU Research Engineer

$160k – $320k per year • In office (San Francisco, Los Angeles, United States) • Full-Time
C++
Python
AI/ML
LLM
CUDA Toolkit
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Parallel Partners

parallelpartners.com
Parallel Partners is a technology recruitment firm headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. The agency places engineers, infrastructure specialists, and technology leaders into permanent roles at United States employers, with a growing concentration in artificial intelligence and mobile development positions. It works on both onsite searches in the Carolinas and fully remote placements across the country.
parallelpartners.com • HQ: Charlotte, United States • Machine Learning • Artificial Intelligence • IT Consulting • Information Technology • Human Resources • Professional Services
HQ: Charlotte, United States • Machine Learning • Artificial Intelligence • IT Consulting • Information Technology • Human Resources • Professional Services
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Applied AI Engineer, Work From Home

$140k – $200k per year • San Francisco • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Node JS
Python
SQL
JavaScript
Databases
Pinecone
Weaviate
AI/ML
LLM
Prompt Engineering
Anthropic
LLM Guardrails
OpenAI
Structured Outputs
Function Calling
DevOps
Rest API
Analytics
A/B Testing
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AI Backend Engineer, Work From Home

$140k – $200k per year • San Francisco • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Node JS
Python
SQL
JavaScript
AI/ML
Embeddings
LLM
Anthropic
OpenAI
DevOps
Docker
Kubernetes
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Centific

centific.com
Centific is a global digital engineering and artificial intelligence services company headquartered in Redmond, Washington, and established in its current form in 2020. The company provides data-centric AI solutions, including data collection, curation, reinforcement learning from human feedback, and multilingual data services through its OneForma platform. It operates globally with a network of over one million experts and serves enterprise clients in sectors such as technology, healthcare, and retail to build and scale production-grade AI models.
centific.com • HQ: Redmond, United States • Natural Language Processing • Reinforcement Learning • Data Collection • Machine Learning • LLM & Generative AI • Artificial Intelligence • Data & Analytics • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2020
HQ: Redmond, United States • Natural Language Processing • Reinforcement Learning • Data Collection • Machine Learning • LLM & Generative AI • Artificial Intelligence • Data & Analytics • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2020
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Staff Research Scientist - Reinforcement Learning

$200k – $250k per year • Staff+ • 7+ years expUnited States • Remote (United States) • Master's Degree • Full-Time • Staff
Python
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
Gymnasium
LLM
RAG
RLHF
TRL
Transformers
DPO
GRPO
Post-training
PPO
Function Calling
Synthetic Data
Robotics
Digital Twin
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Boomi

boomi.com
Boomi is an enterprise Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) and software organization headquartered in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. Founded in 2000 by Rick Nucci, the company pioneered cloud-native integration with its flagship platform, AtomSphere. Operating on a B2B SaaS model, Boomi provides a low-code visual development interface that allows companies to connect cloud applications, legacy on-premises infrastructure, APIs, databases, and third-party vendor networks.
boomi.com • HQ: Conshohocken, United States • Software • Information Technology • Middleware Software • Data & Analytics • Est. 2000
HQ: Conshohocken, United States • Software • Information Technology • Middleware Software • Data & Analytics • Est. 2000
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Lead AI Field Architect

$155k – $214k per year • Lead • Remote (United States) • Architect
MLX ML
Model Context Protocol
vLLM
AI Agents
DevOps
AWS
Azure
GCP
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Extropic

extropic.ai
Extropic is building thermodynamic computing hardware that performs probabilistic sampling in physics rather than in software. Founded in 2022 by former Google quantum computing researchers, it targets generative models that are natively stochastic. The company published its first prototype chips and an open simulation stack.
extropic.ai • HQ: New York, United States • 51-200 employees • Est. 2022
HQ: New York, United States • 51-200 employees • Est. 2022
Top 25% payVerified live · 2 days ago 3 months ago

Research Scientist - Machine Learning

$150k – $250k per year • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time
Python
AI/ML
Diffusion Models
JAX
Keras
ONNX
PyTorch
Ray
TensorFlow
Weights & Biases
DevOps
AWS
SLURM
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Braze

braze.com
Braze is a cloud-based customer engagement platform that helps brands deliver personalized, data-driven messaging across multiple digital touchpoints. Founded in 2011 (originally as Appboy) and publicly traded on NASDAQ (BRZE), the company specializes in real-time lifecycle marketing and cross-channel orchestration.
braze.com • New York • San Francisco • Austin • Chicago • London • Software • Customer Relationship Management (CRM) • Sales & Marketing • Marketing Automation • 51-200 employees • Est. 2011
New York • San Francisco • Austin • Chicago • London • Software • Customer Relationship Management (CRM) • Sales & Marketing • Marketing Automation • 51-200 employees • Est. 2011
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Applied AI Architect, GTM

$123k – $184k per year • Equity • Staff+ • 6+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Architect
Python
Databases
Snowflake
AI/ML
AI Agents
Claude
Claude Code
Cursor
Recommender Systems
Management
Slack
Marketing
Salesforce
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Machine Learning Engineer Salary in San Francisco
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