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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Magic

magic.dev
Magic is a San Francisco research company founded in 2022 that trains frontier models for software engineering. It focuses on extremely long context windows so a model can hold entire codebases and their history in working memory while making changes. The company raised large rounds from investors including Alphabet's CapitalG and Nat Friedman and builds its own training infrastructure.
magic.dev • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Machine Learning • LLM & Generative AI • Artificial Intelligence • Est. 2022
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Machine Learning • LLM & Generative AI • Artificial Intelligence • Est. 2022
Open 184 daysTop 25% pay 7 months ago

Member of Technical Staff, Pre-training Systems

$225k – $550k per year • Staff+ • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Relocation • Visa sponsorship • Full-Time • Staff
Pre-training
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Open 184 daysTop 25% pay 7 months ago

Member of Technical Staff, Inference & RL Systems

$225k – $550k per year • Staff+ • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Relocation • Visa sponsorship • Full-Time • Staff
Post-training
Pre-training
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Open 661 dayTop 25% pay 2 years ago

Member of Technical Staff, RL Research & Environments

$200k – $550k per year • Staff+ • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Relocation • Visa sponsorship • Full-Time • Staff
Post-training
Pre-training
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WorkOS

workos.com
WorkOS is an enterprise readiness API platform for software developers and B2B SaaS companies, headquartered in San Francisco, California. Founded in 2019 by CEO Michael Grinich, the company provides modular infrastructure that enables modern software applications to become "enterprise-ready" without building complex IT compliance layers from scratch. Its core product suite offers turnkey APIs for Enterprise Single Sign-On (SAML/OIDC), Directory Sync (SCIM), User Management (AuthKit), Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), and exportable Audit Logs.
workos.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Cybersecurity • Financial Services • Data & Analytics • Log Analytics • Audit • Identity Management • Est. 2019
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Cybersecurity • Financial Services • Data & Analytics • Log Analytics • Audit • Identity Management • Est. 2019
Open 184 daysTop 25% pay 7 months ago

Applied AI Engineer

$175k – $275k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
Cursor
Embeddings
LLM
Perplexity
OpenAI
AI Agents
RAG
Model Context Protocol
DevOps
GitHub
Web3
Abstract
Management
Slack
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Atlas

atlashxm.com
Search. Our team of trusted experts support you with the ins-and-outs of global expansion, local compliance, and employee experience across more than 160 countries.
atlashxm.com • New York • London • San Francisco • Los Angeles • Information Technology • Professional Services • Human Resources • 11-50 employees • Est. 2015
New York • London • San Francisco • Los Angeles • Information Technology • Professional Services • Human Resources • 11-50 employees • Est. 2015
Open 187 days 7 months ago

Founding Applied AI Engineer

$156k – $303k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Node JS
Python
JavaScript
Databases
FAISS
Pinecone
PostgreSQL
Redis
AI/ML
Embeddings
RAG
Anthropic
Hugging Face
OpenAI
DevOps
AWS
GCP
Management
Slack
Marketing
Zendesk
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Eight Sleep

eightsleep.com
Eight Sleep is a sleep technology company headquartered in New York City and founded in 2014. The company sells the Pod, a mattress cover and hardware system that heats and cools each side of a bed, tracks sleep and biometrics, and adjusts temperature automatically through the night. It sells directly to consumers in North America, Europe, and the Middle East, positioning its products around athletic recovery and sleep fitness.
eightsleep.com • HQ: New York, United States • Wellness Programs • Lifestyle • Health Care • Furniture • Consumer Goods • Wellness • Consumer Electronics • Smart Home Devices • Est. 2014
HQ: New York, United States • Wellness Programs • Lifestyle • Health Care • Furniture • Consumer Goods • Wellness • Consumer Electronics • Smart Home Devices • Est. 2014
Open 187 daysVerified live · 5 hours ago 7 months ago

ML Research Scientist (Health & Sensing)

$171k – $320k per year (Estimated) • Middle • 3+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • PhD • Full-Time • Middle
C++
Python
AI/ML
LLM
Multimodal AI
NLP
Reinforcement Learning
Self-Supervised Learning
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Open 191 dayVerified live · 5 hours ago 7 months ago

Senior ML Operations (MLOps) Engineer

$152k – $273k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Python
Databases
Apache Kafka
DynamoDB
AI/ML
Flink
PyTorch
TensorFlow
DevOps
AWS
AWS Lambda
CI/CD
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon ECS
Amazon Kinesis
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Open 222 daysVerified live · 5 hours ago 8 months ago

Machine Learning Engineer (Foundation Models & Personalization)

$128k – $299k per year (Estimated) • Junior • 2+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Junior
Python
SQL
AI/ML
JAX
LLM
Multimodal AI
PyTorch
RAG
Ray
Spark
TensorFlow
Model Context Protocol
Time Series Forecasting
Federated Learning
LLM Guardrails
Structured Outputs
Function Calling
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NeoSigma

neosigma.ai
NeoSigma is an artificial intelligence infrastructure company focused on self-improving agentic systems. Built by research and engineering leaders formerly at OpenAI, Sierra, and Google, the platform provides an automated harness and runtime evaluation layer that enables AI agents to continuously learn from production failures.
neosigma.ai • San Francisco • Bengaluru
San Francisco • Bengaluru
Open 191 dayVerified live · 1 day ago 7 months ago

Member of Technical Staff - Intern

Intern • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Internship • Intern
LLM
OpenAI
Post-training
AI Agents
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Open 198 daysVerified live · 1 day ago 7 months ago

Member of Technical Staff - AI Engineer

$195k – $337k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Staff+ • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Visa sponsorship • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Staff
LLM
OpenAI
Post-training
AI Agents
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Sanity.io

sanity.io
Sanity is the back-end built for AI content operations. Power web, mobile, and agentic applications at scale.
sanity.io • London • San Francisco • Oslo • New York • Operating Systems • Cybersecurity • Commerce
London • San Francisco • Oslo • New York • Operating Systems • Cybersecurity • Commerce
Open 198 daysVerified live · 1 day ago 7 months ago

Senior Software Engineer, AI Growth

$156k – $303k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Senior • Remote/Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Node JS
TypeScript
JavaScript
AI/ML
AI Agents
Braintrust
ChatGPT
Claude
Claude Code
Model Context Protocol
Prompt Engineering
Anthropic
OpenAI
Cursor
GPT-5
Lovable
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
Vercel
Heroku
Netlify
Design
Figma
Management
Linear
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Generalist

generalist.com
The people, companies, and technologies shaping the future. Click to read The Generalist, by Mario Gabriele, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
generalist.com • San Francisco • Boston
San Francisco • Boston
Open 199 daysTop 25% pay 7 months ago

Research Scientist: Post-Training

$240k – $350k per year • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time
ChatGPT
Fine-tuning
Gemini
Knowledge Distillation
Multimodal AI
Reinforcement Learning
RLHF
Synthetic Data
GPT-4
OpenAI
Post-training
Robotics
Imitation Learning
Reinforcement Learning
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Open 199 daysTop 25% pay 7 months ago

Research Scientist: Pretraining

$240k – $350k per year • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time
ChatGPT
Diffusion Models
Gemini
Multimodal AI
PyTorch
GPT-4
OpenAI
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Open 199 daysTop 25% pay 7 months ago

Software Engineer: ML Optimization

$200k – $350k per year • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time
Python
AI/ML
ChatGPT
CUDA
CUDA Toolkit
Gemini
Multimodal AI
NumPy
GPT-4
NVLink
OpenAI
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Canopy

getcanopy.com
To empower accountants to spend more of their time helping their clients succeed, and to provide our employees with an amazing place to work.
getcanopy.com • Detroit • Digital Signature • Business Process Automation (BPA) • Higher Education
Detroit • Digital Signature • Business Process Automation (BPA) • Higher Education
Open 217 daysVerified live · 1 day ago 8 months ago

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

$126k – $180k per year • Senior • 5+ years expDetroit • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
C++
Python
MATLAB
C++
PyTorch C++
TensorFlow C++
AI/ML
PyTorch
TensorFlow
Edge AI
ONNX
DevOps
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
GCP
Robotics
Sensor Fusion
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Runway

runway.team
Runway is a mobile release management company headquartered in San Francisco, California, and founded in 2020. The company builds a platform that coordinates app store releases, automating build tracking, regression checks, staged rollouts, and the cross-team communication that surrounds a mobile launch. It integrates with the app stores, continuous integration systems, issue trackers, and chat tools that mobile teams already use, and went through Y Combinator.
runway.team • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Business Process Automation (BPA) • Project Management • Information Technology • DevOps • Software • Mobile App Development • Est. 2020
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Business Process Automation (BPA) • Project Management • Information Technology • DevOps • Software • Mobile App Development • Est. 2020
Open 233 daysTop 25% pay 8 months ago

Member of Technical Staff, Research Engineer

$270k – $370k per year • Staff+ • 4+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Staff
JAX
Multimodal AI
PyTorch
Runway
Post-training
SFT
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Open 690 daysTop 25% pay 2 years ago

Research Engineer, Data Foundations

$270k – $370k per year • Middle • 4+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Middle
Multimodal AI
Synthetic Data
JAX
PyTorch
Ray
Runway
DevOps
Kubernetes
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Open 1584 daysTop 25% pay 4 years ago

Member of Technical Staff, Applied Research Scientist

$260k – $370k per year • Staff+ • 4+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Staff
C++
Python
C++
PyTorch C++
TensorFlow C++
AI/ML
Computer Vision
CUDA Toolkit
PyTorch
Runway
TensorFlow
CUDA
Human-in-the-Loop
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Tensorlake

tensorlake.ai
Sandboxes for AI agents. Securely run untrusted, LLM-generated code in isolated Firecracker microVM sandboxes that scale from one to thousands — with snapshot, suspend/resume, and durable orchestration.
tensorlake.ai • San Francisco • LLM & Generative AI • Artificial Intelligence • AI Agents
San Francisco • LLM & Generative AI • Artificial Intelligence • AI Agents
Open 234 daysVerified live · 5 hours ago 8 months ago

Senior Applied Research Scientist – Core AI & Document Intelligence

$104k – $225k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years expSan Francisco • Remote (Canada, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Python
AI/ML
Computer Vision
Fine-tuning
LLM
LoRA
Multimodal AI
NLP
PyTorch
Quantization
RAG
PEFT
Context Engineering
AI Agents
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Inference

inference.ai
Models. Agents. GPUs. Whatever you need — we've got it. Ghost agent VMs, Maestro model routing, Engine wholesale GPUs, and Academy, on one platform.
inference.ai • San Francisco
San Francisco
Open 237 daysTop 25% pay 8 months ago

Machine Learning Researcher

$250k – $350k per year • Middle • 3+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Middle
C#
C#
.NET
AI/ML
DeepSpeed
Knowledge Distillation
LLM
PyTorch
Reinforcement Learning
RLHF
Transformers
TRL
DPO
GPT-5
Hugging Face
Megatron-LM
Post-training
SFT
Multimodal AI
DevOps
GitHub
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Open 237 daysTop 25% pay 8 months ago

Applied Machine Learning Engineer

$220k – $320k per year • Junior • 2+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Junior
C#
C#
.NET
AI/ML
Axolotl
DeepSpeed
Knowledge Distillation
LLM
PyTorch
Transformers
GPT-5
Hugging Face
Post-training
SFT
Multimodal AI
DevOps
GitHub
Analytics
ETL/ELT
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Prompthealth

prompthealth.com
Prompt is a healthcare software company focused on electronic medical records, with a particular emphasis on making clinical documentation and practice workflows simpler and more efficient. From its positioning, the product is designed to help clinicians capture patient information accurately, reduce the time spent on admin, and keep records organised in a way that supports day to day care. For job seekers, this points to a business working on practical problems that sit right at the intersection of software usability, clinical reality, and regulatory expectations.
prompthealth.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Artificial Intelligence • Physical Therapy • Health Care
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Artificial Intelligence • Physical Therapy • Health Care
$160k – $220k per year • Equity • Senior • 4+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Python
Python
FastAPI
Pydantic
SQLAlchemy
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
LLM
RAG
Human-in-the-Loop
LLM Guardrails
Structured Outputs
Hybrid Search
Streamlit
LLM Evaluation
DevOps
Amazon EC2
AWS
Docker
Amazon S3
Vector
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Open 237 daysTop 25% pay 8 months ago

Senior Full Stack AI Engineer (Natural Language Systems)

$160k – $220k per year • Equity • Senior • 4+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Python
Python
FastAPI
Pydantic
SQLAlchemy
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
LLM
NLP
Recommender Systems
Text-to-Speech
Mobile
Twilio
DevOps
Amazon EC2
AWS
Docker
Amazon S3
CI/CD
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KREA

krea.ai
KREA is a company founded in 2022 that builds real-time generative visual tools for designers and artists. Its canvas updates images as the user sketches or types, and the product bundles upscaling, style training and video generation across multiple underlying models. It became popular with creative professionals who wanted control and speed rather than one-shot prompting.
krea.ai • HQ: San Francisco, United States • 51-200 employees • Est. 2022
HQ: San Francisco, United States • 51-200 employees • Est. 2022
Open 257 daysVerified live · 2 days ago 9 months ago

ML Engineer - Personalization & Recommendation Systems

$161k – $353k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time
Python
AI/ML
JAX
PyTorch
Recommender Systems
Diffusion Models
Embeddings
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Open 395 daysVerified live · 2 days ago 1 year ago

Machine Learning Engineer

$164k – $360k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time
Diffusion Models
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Epistemix

epistemix.com
Epistemix is a world model of your market: see how adoption spreads person by person, test strategy before you spend, and track the assumptions it rests on.
epistemix.com • Data & Analytics • Data Science
Data & Analytics • Data Science
Open 265 days 9 months ago

AI Engineer

$116k – $235k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Middle • 3+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Middle
Python
Python
FastAPI
Pydantic
SQLAlchemy
Databases
FAISS
Pinecone
Weaviate
AI/ML
LLM
NLP
RAG
DevOps
AWS
Azure
Docker
GCP
Kubernetes
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AHEAD

ahead.com
AHEAD helps enterprises build modern, secure, and scalable digital platforms by combining cloud, data, AI, and automation. Their consulting and managed services drive real business impact through smarter IT.
ahead.com • Gurgaon • New York • Palo Alto • Chicago • Minneapolis • Artificial Intelligence • Cloud Computing • Information Technology
Gurgaon • New York • Palo Alto • Chicago • Minneapolis • Artificial Intelligence • Cloud Computing • Information Technology
Open 269 daysTop 25% pay 9 months ago

Senior AI Engineer, AI Services

$200k – $250k per year • Senior • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Python
Python
Celery
Databases
Apache Kafka
Databricks
ElasticSearch
pgvector
Pinecone
Snowflake
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
AutoGen
CrewAI
Embeddings
Function Calling
LangChain
LangGraph
LlamaIndex
LLM
RAG
LLM Guardrails
Structured Outputs
AI Agents
DevOps
AWS
CI/CD
Cortex
Vector
Prometheus
Amazon EventBridge
Amazon S3
Analytics
ETL/ELT
Management
Jira
n8n
ServiceNow
Marketing
Salesforce
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Oumi

oumi.ai
The right model beats the biggest model. Build and deploy custom AI models from a prompt — up to +50% accuracy and up to 90% lower cost vs. frontier models, and 2 hours from prompt to production.
oumi.ai • Bellevue • San Francisco • New York • Software • Machine Learning • Artificial Intelligence
Bellevue • San Francisco • New York • Software • Machine Learning • Artificial Intelligence
Open 279 daysVerified live · 1 hour ago 10 months ago

Senior Field ML Engineer

$147k – $286k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years expRemote/Hybrid (Bellevue, New York, San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Python
AI/ML
Diffusion Models
Fine-tuning
LLM
Multimodal AI
RAG
AI Agents
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Eclipse

eclipse.ai
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Open 296 daysVerified live · 10 hours ago 10 months ago

Data Scientist (AI Data & LLM Specialist)

Remote
Python
AI/ML
AI Agents
Embeddings
Fine-tuning
LLM
NER
NumPy
Pandas
Scikit-learn
spaCy
Tokenization
Hugging Face
Reinforcement Learning
RLHF
Web3
dYdX
Ethereum
Layer 2
Solana
Uniswap
ZkSync Era
Management
Slack
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Notion

notion.com
Notion is a global software platform headquartered in San Francisco, California. Founded in 2013 by Ivan Zhao and Simon Last, the company provides a flexible, unified workspace that combines notes, docs, project management, wikis, and custom database structures into a single modular tool.
notion.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Cybersecurity • Information Technology • Software • Artificial Intelligence • Productivity Software • Est. 2013
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Cybersecurity • Information Technology • Software • Artificial Intelligence • Productivity Software • Est. 2013
Open 297 daysTop 25% pay 10 months ago

AI Applications Engineer

$152k – $250k per year • Middle • 4+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Middle
AI Agents
Human-in-the-Loop
LLM Guardrails
Claude
Claude Code
Cursor
Management
Notion
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Substrate

substrate.com
substrate.com • San Francisco • Artificial Intelligence • Manufacturing • Hardware
San Francisco • Artificial Intelligence • Manufacturing • Hardware
Open 306 daysTop 25% pay 11 months ago

Research Scientist, AI

$150k – $275k per year • Senior • 5+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Visa sponsorship • PhD • Full-Time • Senior
Python
AI/ML
JAX
PyTorch
TensorFlow
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Multiply Labs

multiplylabs.com
Multiply Labs is a biomanufacturing technology and physical AI robotics company headquartered in San Francisco, California. Founded in 2016 by CEO Fred Parietti and Alice Melocchi (originating out of MIT and Y Combinator), the venture-backed enterprise operates on a B2B technology platform, hardware leasing/sales, and joint development commercial model for biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies.
multiplylabs.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Health Care • Pharmaceuticals • Robotics • Laboratory & Pharmaceutical Robotics • Est. 2016
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Health Care • Pharmaceuticals • Robotics • Laboratory & Pharmaceutical Robotics • Est. 2016
Open 319 daysVerified live · 1 day ago 11 months ago

Senior / Staff Robotics Research Scientist - Dexterous & Mobile Manipulation

$160k – $210k per year • Staff+ • 5+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Master's Degree • Full-Time • Staff
Python
AI/ML
Computer Vision
PyTorch
Reinforcement Learning
Robotics
Imitation Learning
Isaac Sim
MuJoCo
PyBullet
Reinforcement Learning
Model Predictive Control
MoveIt
ROS
ROS2
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Machine Learning Engineer Salary in San Francisco
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