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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Flick

flick.art
Direct short films with AI. Flick is an AI filmmaking studio for cinematic stories — consistent characters, coherent scenes, and end-to-end creative control.
flick.art • Sunnyvale • Artificial Intelligence • Generative Video • Film Production
Sunnyvale • Artificial Intelligence • Generative Video • Film Production
Top 25% payVerified live · 1 hour ago 4 days ago

Research Scientist (Generative Media)

$150k – $250k per year • Equity 0.5–1.5% • Middle • 3+ years expSunnyvale • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Middle
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Nowadays

nowadays.ai
Nowadays acts as your in-house event planner, taking away the hassles of organizing while factoring in your company's unique tastes and needs. Save money with exclusive partnerships and automated negotiation.
nowadays.ai • San Francisco • Artificial Intelligence • Event Management • Events & Ticketing • 51-200 employees • Est. 2023
San Francisco • Artificial Intelligence • Event Management • Events & Ticketing • 51-200 employees • Est. 2023
Verified live · 1 hour ago 4 days ago

Founding AI Engineer

$130k – $170k per year • Equity 0.5–2% • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time
Python
AI/ML
AI Agents
LangChain
LlamaIndex
LLM
Prompt Engineering
RAG
Function Calling
DevOps
Amazon S3
Management
Notion
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Trellis AI

runtrellis.com
Trellis is embedding AI agents across the care journey, starting with specialty providers, to eliminate care gaps and manual administrative workflows.
runtrellis.com • San Francisco • Digital Health • Artificial Intelligence • AI Agents • 11-50 employees
San Francisco • Digital Health • Artificial Intelligence • AI Agents • 11-50 employees
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Member of Technical Staff (full-time)

$150k – $275k per year • Staff+ • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Staff
Python
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
AI Agents
NLP
PyTorch
TensorFlow
Transformers
DevOps
AWS
Azure
Docker
GCP
Kubernetes
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Bucket Robotics

bucket.bot
Bucket Robotics is a Y Combinator-backed industrial AI technology startup that builds edge-deployed vision systems for automated defect detection in high-volume manufacturing. By generating photorealistic synthetic datasets directly from 3D CAD files, the platform eliminates the need for manual image collection and labeling when training computer vision models. Engineered to operate under variable lighting, changing parts, and uncalibrated line conditions, its edge software integrates directly with existing factory cameras across operations such as injection molding, casting, and surface finishing.
bucket.bot • San Francisco
San Francisco
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ML Engineer

$120k – $165k per year • Equity 0.7–2.8% • Middle • 3+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Middle
Python
AI/ML
Computer Vision
PyTorch
Synthetic Data
CUDA Toolkit
CUDA
Robotics
Sim-to-Real
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Jarmin

jarmin.ai
Hire AI employees for human-level roles — paralegal, financial analyst, ML engineer, and more. Jarmin learns your systems and does the work to production quality, embedded in your team. Backed by Y Combinator.
jarmin.ai • San Francisco • Human Resources • Artificial Intelligence • AI Agents • 11-50 employees
San Francisco • Human Resources • Artificial Intelligence • AI Agents • 11-50 employees
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Member of Technical Staff (Evals)

$130k – $180k per year • Equity 0.2–2% • Staff+ • 3+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Staff
LLM
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Vooma

vooma.ai
Vooma automates quoting and order entry for logistics teams. AI-powered tools that boost efficiency, reduce errors, and unlock inbox revenue.
vooma.ai • San Francisco • Transportation & Logistics • Logistics • Artificial Intelligence • 11-50 employees
San Francisco • Transportation & Logistics • Logistics • Artificial Intelligence • 11-50 employees
Top 25% payVerified live · 1 hour ago 4 days ago

AI Software Engineer

$100k – $200k per year • Middle • 3+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Middle
Python
AI/ML
PyTorch
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Opencall

opencall.ai
OpenCall AI is an AI‑powered communications platform that automates telephone conversations, accelerates sales and elevates customer experience.
opencall.ai • San Francisco • Speech & Audio AI • Artificial Intelligence • Conversational AI • 11-50 employees
San Francisco • Speech & Audio AI • Artificial Intelligence • Conversational AI • 11-50 employees
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AI Prompt & Agent Developer

$90k – $145k per year • Equity 0.1–0.3% • Junior • 1+ year expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Junior
Python
TypeScript
AI/ML
AI Agents
NLP
Prompt Engineering
Human-in-the-Loop
LLM Evaluation
OpenAI
Text-to-Speech
DSPy
Fine-tuning
Speech Recognition
Mobile
Twilio
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Poka Labs

pokalabs.com
Defend your margin while AI agents price, quote, and guide selling 24/7 — built from your messy inputs, your data, and your rules.
pokalabs.com • San Francisco • AI Agents • Sales & Marketing • Artificial Intelligence
San Francisco • AI Agents • Sales & Marketing • Artificial Intelligence
Top 25% payVerified live · 2 hours ago 4 days ago

Fullstack / AI Engineer (4+ YOE)

$180k – $240k per year • Equity 0.5–1.5% • Middle • 3+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Relocation • Full-Time • Middle
TypeScript
AI/ML
AI Agents
Claude
Gemini
LLM
Anthropic
OpenAI
Frontend
React.js
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1 month ago

Fullstack/AI Engineer

$120k – $170k per year • Senior • 6+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Relocation • Master's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
TypeScript
JavaScript
AI/ML
AI Agents
Claude
Gemini
LLM
Anthropic
OpenAI
Frontend
React.js
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Top 25% pay 1 month ago

Fullstack / AI Engineer (3+ YOE)

$180k – $230k per year • Senior • 6+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Relocation • Master's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
TypeScript
JavaScript
AI/ML
AI Agents
Claude
Gemini
LLM
Anthropic
OpenAI
Frontend
React.js
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Zensors

zensors.com
zensors.com • San Francisco • Artificial Intelligence • Computer Vision • 11-50 employees
San Francisco • Artificial Intelligence • Computer Vision • 11-50 employees
Top 25% payVerified live · 2 hours ago 4 days ago

AI/ML Infrastructure Engineer

$150k – $240k per year • Middle • 3+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Middle
C++
Python
SQL
C++
PyTorch C++
Databases
Neo4j
AI/ML
Computer Vision
CUDA
CUDA Toolkit
Knowledge Distillation
PyTorch
Quantization
TensorRT
Transformers
Vision Transformer
ONNX
Triton
Triton Inference Server
DevOps
Platform Engineering
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Overview

overview.ai
Deploy deep learning vision inspection in days. Train models in hours with 10x fewer images. Edge-computing cameras achieve 99.9%+ accuracy on micron-level defects. No cloud dependency, no vendor lock-in.
overview.ai • San Francisco • Shanghai • Taipei • Sensors • Artificial Intelligence • Computer Vision • 51-200 employees
San Francisco • Shanghai • Taipei • Sensors • Artificial Intelligence • Computer Vision • 51-200 employees
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Staff Embedded Software Engineer – Product Lead (Embedded AI)

$150k – $220k per year • Equity 0.1–0.2% • Lead • 6+ years expSan Francisco • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Staff • English
C++
JavaScript
Python
DevOps
Docker
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Teladochealth

teladochealth.com
Teladoc Health provides virtual care spanning urgent visits, chronic condition management and mental health. Its platform serves employers, insurers and hospital systems worldwide. The company expanded significantly through the acquisition of a chronic care business.
teladochealth.com • HQ: Purchase, United States • Medical AI • Health Care • Digital Health
HQ: Purchase, United States • Medical AI • Health Care • Digital Health
Verified live · 1 day ago 4 days ago

Staff AI Engineer, GenAI

$200k – $230k per year • Staff+ • 8+ years expUnited States • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Staff
Python
SQL
Python
FastAPI
Flask
Databases
Databricks
Snowflake
AI/ML
LangChain
LLM
MLFlow
Model Context Protocol
Prompt Engineering
RAG
Spark
LLMOps
AI Agents
DevOps
Azure
Azure DevOps
CI/CD
Docker
GitHub Actions
Kubernetes
Terraform
Vector
GitHub
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Verified live · 1 day ago 28 days ago

Senior Machine Learning Scientist

$150k – $175k per year • Senior • 8+ years expUnited States • Remote (United States) • Master's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
Python
SQL
Databases
Databricks
Delta Lake
AI/ML
Embeddings
MLFlow
RAG
Spark
Time Series Forecasting
AI Agents
DevOps
CI/CD
Terraform
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Quantiphi

quantiphi.com
Quantiphi is an award-winning AI-first digital engineering company driven by the desire to solve transformational problems at the heart of business. Quantiphi solves the toughest and complex business problems by combining deep industry experience, disciplined cloud, and data-engineering practices, and cutting-edge artificial intelligence research to achieve quantifiable business impact at unprecedented speed.
quantiphi.com • HQ: Boston, United States • Analytics Platforms • Data & Analytics • 1001-5000 employees
HQ: Boston, United States • Analytics Platforms • Data & Analytics • 1001-5000 employees
Verified live · 1 day ago 4 days ago

Architect ML - AI Researcher

$165k – $307k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • 10+ years expUnited States • Remote (United States) • Master's Degree • Full-Time • Architect
Java
Python
SQL
Databases
Databricks
Snowflake
AI/ML
LangChain
LangSmith
LightGBM
LlamaIndex
LLM
LoRA
NLP
NumPy
Pandas
PEFT
PyTorch
QLoRA
RAG
Reinforcement Learning
RLHF
Scikit-learn
SciPy
Semantic Search
Spark
Transformers
Hugging Face
Semantic Search
AI Agents
DevOps
AWS
Azure
CI/CD
GCP
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Verified live · 1 day ago 28 days ago

Technical Architect - ML - GenAI

$164k – $306k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • 8+ years expUnited States • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Architect
AWS Bedrock
BERT
Claude
Embeddings
Fine-tuning
Kubeflow
LangChain
LLM
Model Context Protocol
Prompt Engineering
RAG
Tokenization
Transformers
Amazon SageMaker
AWS Bedrock AgentCore
AI Agents
Function Calling
NER
NLP
DevOps
AWS
AWS Lambda
Vector
Amazon S3
API Gateway
AWS Step Functions
CI/CD
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Verified live · 1 day ago 28 days ago

Technical Architect - ML

$163k – $303k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • 8+ years expUnited States • Remote (United States) • PhD • Full-Time • Architect
Python
SQL
Databases
Databricks
Snowflake
AI/ML
AWS Bedrock
BentoML
KServe
Kubeflow
MLFlow
Amazon SageMaker
AWS Bedrock AgentCore
Feature Store
LLMOps
Seldon Core
LLM
RAG
Spark
AI Agents
DevOps
Amazon EKS
AWS
AWS Lambda
CI/CD
Grafana
Kubernetes
Prometheus
Amazon CloudWatch
API Gateway
IAM
Blue-Green Deployment
Helm
OpenTelemetry
Terraform
Vector
Analytics
A/B Testing
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ServiceTitan

servicetitan.com
ServiceTitan is the world's most impactful vertical SaaS company headquartered in California. Our platform delivers a seamlessly integrated experience that enables thousands of business owners to accelerate growth, drive operational efficiencies.
servicetitan.com • Glendale • Yerevan • Bengaluru • Chicago • Toronto • Conversational AI • Artificial Intelligence • Operating Systems • 5000+ employees
Glendale • Yerevan • Bengaluru • Chicago • Toronto • Conversational AI • Artificial Intelligence • Operating Systems • 5000+ employees
Verified live · 1 day ago 4 days ago

Senior AI Engineer

$136k – $244k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years expUnited States • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Python
SQL
Databases
Amazon Redshift
Apache Kafka
PostgreSQL
Snowflake
AI/ML
NLP
Reinforcement Learning
Recommender Systems
DevOps
AIOps
AWS
AWS Lambda
Azure
Git
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Verified live · 1 day ago 13 days ago

Senior Manager, AI Engineering (Agent OS Platform)

$142k – $255k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 8+ years expUnited States • Remote (United States, Canada) • PhD • Full-Time • Senior
SQL
AI/ML
AI Agents
LLM
Human-in-the-Loop
Structured Outputs
Function Calling
DevOps
Platform Engineering
Vector
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Applied Systems

appliedsystems.com
Applied Systems is a global provider of cloud-based software solutions for the property and casualty (P&C) insurance industry. The company delivers an integrated insurtech ecosystem centered around flagship agency management platforms - such as Applied Epic and EZLynx - alongside automated comparative rating, digital payments (Applied Pay), and AI-driven workflow tools.
appliedsystems.com • Bengaluru • Chicago • New York • Atlanta • Salt Lake City • Information Technology • Cloud Computing • Data & Analytics • Sales & Marketing • 501-1000 employees • Est. 1983
Bengaluru • Chicago • New York • Atlanta • Salt Lake City • Information Technology • Cloud Computing • Data & Analytics • Sales & Marketing • 501-1000 employees • Est. 1983
Verified live · 1 day ago 4 days ago

AI Automation Engineer/ Sr. AI Automation Engineer

$80k – $160k per year • Senior • Remote (United States) • Senior
Python
SQL
Databases
pgvector
Pinecone
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Braintrust
Claude
Function Calling
Langfuse
LangSmith
LLM
Vertex AI
Agentforce
AI Agents
DevOps
CI/CD
GCP
Vector
Management
Slack
Marketing
Salesforce
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Five9

five9.com
Five9 provides cloud contact centre software covering voice, digital channels and workforce management. Its platform adds conversational artificial intelligence for self-service and agent assistance. Enterprises use it to replace on-premise call centre infrastructure.
five9.com • HQ: San Ramon, United States • Est. 2001
HQ: San Ramon, United States • Est. 2001
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Senior Manager, Engineering - AI Agents

$122k – $277k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Lead • 8+ years expRemote/Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Senior
Java
AI/ML
AI Agents
Embeddings
LLM
Prompt Engineering
RAG
DevOps
GCP
gRPC
SLI/SLO/SLA
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Amgen

amgen.com
Amgen is a global biopharmaceutical pioneer headquartered in Thousand Oaks, California, that specializes in discovering, developing, and manufacturing innovative biologic therapies. The company focuses on treating serious illnesses with high unmet medical needs across key areas including oncology, cardiovascular disease, inflammation, rare diseases, and nephrology. Leveraging advanced human genetics, molecular engineering, and biosimilar development, it serves millions of patients worldwide through established blockbuster treatments and cutting-edge pipelines.
amgen.com • HQ: Thousand Oaks, United States • Biotechnology • Health Care • Pharmaceuticals • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1980
HQ: Thousand Oaks, United States • Biotechnology • Health Care • Pharmaceuticals • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1980
Top 25% payVerified live · 1 day ago 4 days ago

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

$156k – $211k per year • Senior • 10+ years expThousand Oaks • Remote (United States) • High School Diploma • Full-Time • Senior
Python
Databases
Databricks
AI/ML
Kubeflow
LangChain
MLFlow
PyTorch
Scikit-learn
Spark
TensorFlow
Weights & Biases
DevOps
AWS
CI/CD
Azure
Docker
Kubernetes
Terraform
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Verified live · 1 day ago 8 days ago

Machine Learning Engineer, AI Studio

$130k – $175k per year • Jacksonville • Remote (United States) • High School Diploma • Full-Time
Python
SQL
Databases
Databricks
AI/ML
Embeddings
Hybrid Search
NLP
RAG
Reranking
Google AI Studio
Structured Outputs
AutoGen
AWS Bedrock
Computer Vision
CrewAI
Kubeflow
LangChain
LangGraph
LlamaIndex
MLFlow
PyTorch
Scikit-learn
Semantic Kernel
Spark
TensorFlow
XGBoost
Amazon SageMaker
GraphRAG
Hugging Face
Knowledge Graph
Model Context Protocol
DevOps
CI/CD
AWS
GitHub Actions
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
Vector
GitHub
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Verified live · 1 day ago 26 days ago

Enterprise Generative AI Platform Engineer

$130k – $175k per year • Senior • 5+ years expThousand Oaks • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
ChatGPT
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Torus

usetorus.com
AI agents that think in P&IDs, HMBs, and spec sheets. Torus understands every parameter across your projects and adopts how your firm works.
usetorus.com • San Francisco • AI Agents • Network Security
San Francisco • AI Agents • Network Security
Top 25% payVerified live · 1 hour ago 4 days ago

AI Engineer (interested in physical infrastructure)

$150k – $250k per year • Equity 0.2–0.5% • Junior • 1+ year expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Junior
C++
Python
Rust
TypeScript
C++
PyTorch C++
AI/ML
JAX
LLM
PyTorch
RAG
AI Agents
Function Calling
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Bluejay

getbluejay.ai
Bluejay is the QA platform for AI agents. Rigorously test your voice agents—before and after deployment. Simulate edge cases, catch regressions, ensure security, and benchmark performance. Stop vibe testing. Quality is engineered.
getbluejay.ai • San Francisco • AI Agents • Information Technology • Quality Assurance • 51-200 employees • Est. 2025
San Francisco • AI Agents • Information Technology • Quality Assurance • 51-200 employees • Est. 2025
Verified live · 1 hour ago 4 days ago

Member of Technical Staff

$160k – $220k per year • Equity 0–0.2% • Staff+ • 3+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Staff
Python
Databases
ClickHouse
Redis
Supabase
AI/ML
AI Agents
AWS Bedrock
Copilot
ElevenLabs
Gemini
Deepgram
LiveKit
Model Context Protocol
Multimodal AI
DevOps
AWS
CI/CD
Datadog
Grafana
WebSockets
Amazon EC2
AWS Lambda
QA
Sentry
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Top 25% payVerified live · 1 hour ago 4 days ago

Senior Member of Technical Staff

$225k – $300k per year • Equity 0–0.2% • Staff+ • 6+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Staff
Python
SQL
Databases
ClickHouse
Redis
Supabase
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
AI Agents
AWS Bedrock
Claude
Claude Code
Copilot
ElevenLabs
Gemini
Deepgram
LiveKit
Model Context Protocol
Multimodal AI
DevOps
AWS
CI/CD
Datadog
Grafana
WebSockets
Amazon EC2
AWS Lambda
QA
Sentry
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Mercor

mercor.com
Mercor is an artificial intelligence infrastructure company headquartered in San Francisco, California, and founded in 2023. The company operates a platform that connects a global network of domain experts, including physicians, lawyers, and engineers, with AI labs to provide high-quality data for reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) and model evaluation. It develops specialized benchmarks like APEX to measure model performance on economically valuable tasks and provides enterprises with tools to monetize their workflow data for AI training.
mercor.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Professional Services • Data Collection • Data & Analytics • Reinforcement Learning • LLM & Generative AI • Artificial Intelligence • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2023
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Professional Services • Data Collection • Data & Analytics • Reinforcement Learning • LLM & Generative AI • Artificial Intelligence • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2023
Top 25% payVerified live · 28 min ago 4 days ago

Research Scientist, APEX Benchmarks

$200k – $500k per year • Equity • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Relocation • PhD • Full-Time
LLM
NLP
LLM Evaluation
AI Agents
Post-training
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Top 25% payVerified live · 28 min ago 14 days ago

Research Engineer – Benchmarking

$130k – $500k per year • Equity • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Relocation • Full-Time
SQL
AI/ML
LLM
Post-training
AI Agents
Function Calling
Synthetic Data
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$143k – $296k per year (Estimated) • Junior • 2+ years expSan Francisco • Remote (United States, United Kingdom) • Full-Time • Junior
JAX
PyTorch
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Sphere

getsphere.com
Sphere is an AI-powered global tax compliance platform designed to automate indirect tax management for software, SaaS, and digital enterprises. The software integrates with existing billing systems to monitor tax exposure thresholds, calculate exact transaction rates, and streamline government registrations worldwide.
getsphere.com • San Francisco • Wilmington • Software • Business Process Automation (BPA) • Financial Services • FinTech • 51-200 employees
San Francisco • Wilmington • Software • Business Process Automation (BPA) • Financial Services • FinTech • 51-200 employees
Top 25% payVerified live · 1 hour ago 4 days ago

AI Engineer

$180k – $250k per year • Senior • 6+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Python
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
RAG
Runway
Windsurf
Lovable
Replit
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Machine Learning Engineer Salary in San Francisco
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