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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Whitespace

inthewhitespace.com
Whitespace is a company focused on developing privacy-conscious techniques to measure, simulate, and understand human activity globally. The company serves public health, risk intelligence, research, law enforcement, nonprofit, national defense, and regulatory organizations to enhance human security in the digital age. Their data-driven solutions analyze movement, dwell, and interaction to report, simulate, and interpret activity patterns anywhere in the world.
inthewhitespace.com • Los Angeles • Alexandria • Geospatial Analytics • Intelligence • Data & Analytics • Est. 2017
Los Angeles • Alexandria • Geospatial Analytics • Intelligence • Data & Analytics • Est. 2017
Open 343 daysVerified live · 2 days ago 12 months ago

AI Software Developer

$129k – $281k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Senior • 5+ years expAlexandria • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Python
Go
AI/ML
Prompt Engineering
Edge AI
Structured Outputs
AI Agents
Function Calling
DevOps
AWS
Azure
GCP
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CodeRabbit

coderabbit.com
CodeRabbit is an AI-powered code review platform designed to automate and streamline pull request (PR) analysis for software development teams. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Walnut Creek, California, the platform integrates directly into developer workflows on GitHub, GitLab, and IDEs. By utilizing codebase-aware artificial intelligence alongside static analysis tools and open-source linters, CodeRabbit provides line-by-line feedback, committable code suggestions, pull request summaries, and automated security checks.
coderabbit.com • HQ: Walnut Creek, United States • Software • Code Intelligence • Artificial Intelligence • Est. 2023
HQ: Walnut Creek, United States • Software • Code Intelligence • Artificial Intelligence • Est. 2023
Open 347 daysTop 25% pay 12 months ago

Senior Applied AI Engineer

$200k – $300k per year • Senior • 5+ years expRemote/Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
Python
TypeScript
Databases
LanceDB
Pinecone
AI/ML
Embeddings
LangChain
LlamaIndex
LLM
Prompt Engineering
RAG
RLHF
Semantic Search
Human-in-the-Loop
OpenAI
Semantic Search
AI Agents
DevOps
Vector
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depthfirst

depthfirst.com
depthfirst is an applied artificial intelligence security lab headquartered in San Francisco, California, and founded in 2024 by technical leaders from DeepMind, Databricks, and Faire. The company trains security specific models that read code, business logic, and infrastructure to find exploitable vulnerabilities and propose fixes, rather than emitting the false positives typical of static scanners. It released dfs-mini1 for smart contract auditing and works with Fortune 500 companies and software firms including Supabase, ClickUp, and Moveworks.
depthfirst.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Smart Contracts & Security • Blockchain & Crypto • Vulnerability Management • Cybersecurity AI • Application Security • Cybersecurity • Artificial Intelligence • 201-500 employees • Est. 2024
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Smart Contracts & Security • Blockchain & Crypto • Vulnerability Management • Cybersecurity AI • Application Security • Cybersecurity • Artificial Intelligence • 201-500 employees • Est. 2024
Open 351 day 12 months ago

Research Engineer

$157k – $294k per year (Estimated) • Middle • 3+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Middle
Python
Databases
Databricks
AI/ML
AI Agents
Reinforcement Learning
PyTorch
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Profound

profound.com
Profound is a digital market research service owned by MarketResearch.com, which is based in Rockville, Maryland, and was founded in 1998. The platform aggregates more than one million research reports from over 200 global publishers and features a specialized section slicing tool that allows users to purchase specific chapters, charts, or tables. It operates as a subscription-based business intelligence solution for corporate professionals, academic institutions, and government agencies across nearly 700 industry segments worldwide.
profound.com • HQ: Rockville, United States • Professional Services • Business Intelligence • Data & Analytics • Sales & Marketing • Market Research • Est. 1998
HQ: Rockville, United States • Professional Services • Business Intelligence • Data & Analytics • Sales & Marketing • Market Research • Est. 1998
Open 361 dayTop 25% pay 12 months ago

AI/ML Engineer

$160k – $250k per year • In office (New York, San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time
Python
SQL
AI/ML
ChatGPT
LLM
NLP
Perplexity
RAG
Human-in-the-Loop
LLM Guardrails
Red Teaming
Design
Figma
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Campfire

campfire.ai
Campfire is the AI-native ERP built for high-growth finance teams. Automate reconciliations, close faster, and scale revenue without adding headcount.
campfire.ai • San Francisco • New York • London • Data Visualization • Est. 2023
San Francisco • New York • London • Data Visualization • Est. 2023
Open 368 daysTop 25% pay 1 year ago

AI Engineer

$180k – $250k per year • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time
Python
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
NLP
PyTorch
TensorFlow
Hugging Face
OpenAI
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StackAdapt

stackadapt.com
StackAdapt is a programmatic advertising technology company headquartered in Toronto, Canada, and founded in 2013. The company provides a demand-side platform that utilizes artificial intelligence and machine learning to automate the buying and placement of digital advertisements across channels such as connected TV, video, display, native, and audio. It serves over 40,000 brands and agencies globally, offering tools for audience targeting, creative management, and real-time performance measurement.
stackadapt.com • HQ: Toronto, Canada • Digital Media • Media & Entertainment • Marketing Analytics • Data & Analytics • Machine Learning • Artificial Intelligence • Sales & Marketing • Advertising • Est. 2013
HQ: Toronto, Canada • Digital Media • Media & Entertainment • Marketing Analytics • Data & Analytics • Machine Learning • Artificial Intelligence • Sales & Marketing • Advertising • Est. 2013
Open 369 daysVerified live · 1 hour ago 1 year ago

Machine Learning Engineer

$113k – $280k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Columbia • Remote (United States, Canada) • Cofounder
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John Snow Labs

johnsnowlabs.com
John Snow Labs is an award-winning healthcare AI company for rapid adoption of AI in healthcare and life sciences organizations, providing high-compliance AI platform, state-of-the-art NLP libraries, and data market.
johnsnowlabs.com • Biotechnology • Medical AI • Artificial Intelligence • Est. 2015
Biotechnology • Medical AI • Artificial Intelligence • Est. 2015
Open 374 daysVerified live · 1 day ago 1 year ago

Machine Learning Engineer - Large Language Models

$60k – $120k per year • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote • Master's Degree • Contractor • Senior • English
Axolotl
Fine-tuning
llama.cpp
LLM
NLP
PEFT
Prompt Engineering
PyTorch
Quantization
RAG
Transformers
vLLM
DPO
PPO
SFT
TGI
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Letta

letta.com
Letta is a company founded in 2023 by University of California, Berkeley researchers behind the MemGPT project on long-term memory for language models. Its open-source framework and cloud service give agents persistent memory that survives beyond a context window, with tooling to inspect and edit what an agent remembers. The project is widely used by developers building assistants that must retain state over months.
letta.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • LLM & Generative AI • Artificial Intelligence • AI Agents • Est. 2023
HQ: San Francisco, United States • LLM & Generative AI • Artificial Intelligence • AI Agents • Est. 2023
$149k – $327k per year (Estimated)In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time
Letta
OpenAI
AI Agents
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$160k – $349k per year (Estimated)In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time
Python
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
Letta
PyTorch
Ray
Reinforcement Learning
Spark
Synthetic Data
OpenAI
Post-training
SFT
AI Agents
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Wispr Flow

wisprflow.com
Wispr Flow is an artificial intelligence dictation company headquartered in San Francisco, California, and founded in 2021. The company builds a voice to text tool that runs across desktop and mobile applications, cleaning up filler words and adapting tone and formatting to whichever application the user is typing into. It targets people who write heavily throughout the day, including engineers, founders, and clinicians, and started as a neural interface research effort before narrowing to speech.
wisprflow.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Mobile App Development • LLM & Generative AI • Software • Productivity Software • Artificial Intelligence • Speech & Audio AI • Est. 2021
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Mobile App Development • LLM & Generative AI • Software • Productivity Software • Artificial Intelligence • Speech & Audio AI • Est. 2021
Open 392 daysTop 25% pay 1 year ago

ML Scientist

$250k – $400k per year • Equity • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Relocation • Visa sponsorship • PhD • Full-Time
Python
AI/ML
LLM
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Open 392 daysTop 25% pay 1 year ago

ML Engineer

$250k – $400k per year • Equity • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Relocation • Visa sponsorship • Full-Time
Python
AI/ML
LLM
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Tilde Research is a moonshot AI lab advancing mechanistic interpretability, new architectures, and pretraining science.
tilderesearch.com • San Francisco
San Francisco
Open 413 days 1 year ago

ML Engineer (Internship and Full-time)

Intern • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Internship • Intern
PyTorch
Triton
Post-training
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Open 413 days 1 year ago

ML Researcher (Internship and Full-time)

Intern • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Internship • Intern
Post-training
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Hume

hume.ai
Real human ratings, in a single API call. The human evaluation layer for voice, speech, and conversational AI.
hume.ai • New York • Speech & Audio AI • Conversational AI • Artificial Intelligence
New York • Speech & Audio AI • Conversational AI • Artificial Intelligence
Open 437 daysTop 25% pay 1 year ago

AI Researcher

$180k per year • Junior • 2+ years expNew York • Remote (United States) • PhD • Junior
Python
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
PyTorch
Reinforcement Learning
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Open 920 daysVerified live · 2 days ago 2 years ago

Senior/Staff AI Research Engineer

$180k per year • Staff+ • 2+ years expNew York • Remote (United States) • Staff
Python
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
PyTorch
Reinforcement Learning
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Future of Life Institute

futureoflife.org
FLI works on reducing extreme risks from transformative technologies. We are best known for developing the Asilomar AI governance principles.
futureoflife.org • Washington • Nuclear Energy • Biotechnology • Artificial Intelligence
Washington • Nuclear Energy • Biotechnology • Artificial Intelligence
Open 446 daysVerified live · 1 day ago 1 year ago

Research Engineer - Novel AI Platforms for Multiscale Alignment

$140k – $210k per year • Remote (United States) • Visa sponsorship • Master's Degree • Full-Time
Java
Python
AI/ML
LLM
AI Agents
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Open 459 daysVerified live · 1 day ago 1 year ago

AI Offense-Defense Dynamics Lead Researcher

$125k – $200k per year • Lead • Remote (United States) • Visa sponsorship • Master's Degree • Full-Time • Staff
Multimodal AI
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Acorns

acorns.com
Acorns is an American fintech and financial services company based in Irvine, California specializing in micro-investing and robo advice. As of year 2020, Acorns had 8.2 million customers.
acorns.com • Irvine • Personal Finance • Data & Analytics • Financial Services
Irvine • Personal Finance • Data & Analytics • Financial Services
Open 446 daysTop 25% pay 1 year ago

Senior Backend Engineer, AI Team

$185k – $217k per year • Equity • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
Python
Databases
Databricks
AI/ML
AWS Bedrock
Fine-tuning
LangChain
LLM
NumPy
Pandas
PyTorch
RAG
Scikit-learn
Transformers
Amazon SageMaker
Edge AI
Hugging Face
DevOps
AWS
Kubernetes
Analytics
Matplotlib
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Netic

netic.com
Net Improvement Consulting (NETic) was founded in 1997 with a view to create specialized products to cater to the Network Management professional. Our staff have over 30 years experience in the network management industry.
netic.com • San Francisco • Managed Network Services • Information Technology • IT Management
San Francisco • Managed Network Services • Information Technology • IT Management
Open 459 daysVerified live · 1 day ago 1 year ago

Applied AI Research Engineer

$161k – $302k per year (Estimated) • Middle • 4+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Middle
Databricks
AI/ML
JAX
Multimodal AI
PyTorch
Feature Store
LLM Guardrails
AI Agents
Analytics
ETL/ELT
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Smarterdx

smarterdx.com
SmarterDx is a leading provider of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered solutions for healthcare. Our platform uses AI to analyze large datasets of patient information, helping clinicians to identify and treat diseases more effectively. We are committed to improving patient outcomes by providing clinicians with the insights they need to make better decisions.
smarterdx.com • Higher Education • Medical AI • Artificial Intelligence • Hospitals & Clinics
Higher Education • Medical AI • Artificial Intelligence • Hospitals & Clinics
Open 480 daysVerified live · 1 day ago 1 year ago

Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning

$169k – $315k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • 10+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Staff
Python
SQL
Databases
Snowflake
AI/ML
PyTorch
TensorFlow
dbt
LLM
MLFlow
Polars
Amazon SageMaker
DevOps
AWS
Kubernetes
Terraform
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Falconer

falconer.com
Falconer is an AI-powered company brain that keeps your engineering documentation accurate, searchable, and up to date by syncing with GitHub, Slack, Linear, and the rest of your stack.
falconer.com • San Francisco • Audit • Cybersecurity • Artificial Intelligence
San Francisco • Audit • Cybersecurity • Artificial Intelligence
Open 504 daysTop 25% pay 1 year ago

Founding AI Engineer

$200k – $300k per year • Equity • Junior • 2+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Junior
Node JS
Python
SQL
JavaScript
Databases
Memgraph
AI/ML
AI Agents
Embeddings
Fine-tuning
Prompt Engineering
RAG
GraphRAG
Knowledge Graph
Claude
Cursor
LlamaIndex
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Diffbot

diffbot.com
Diffbot is a company founded in 2008 that uses computer vision and natural language processing to read web pages the way a person would and turn them into structured records. It maintains a knowledge graph of billions of entities built entirely by machines, covering organisations, people, products and articles. Its extraction and graph interfaces are used for market intelligence, lead data and grounding language model applications.
diffbot.com • HQ: Menlo Park, United States • Search Engines • 51-200 employees • Est. 2008
HQ: Menlo Park, United States • Search Engines • 51-200 employees • Est. 2008
Open 516 days 1 year ago

Machine Learning Engineer

$129k – $282k per year (Estimated)Palo Alto • Remote (United States) • Master's Degree • Full-Time
Java
C#
C++
AI/ML
Knowledge Graph
NLP
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NextGen Healthcare

nextgen.com
NextGen Healthcare is an American healthcare technology company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, and founded in 1974. The firm develops cloud-based electronic health records, practice management software, and revenue cycle management tools, alongside interoperability platforms like Mirth Connect. It supports more than 150,000 healthcare providers across various medical specialties and operates as a private company under the ownership of Thoma Bravo.
nextgen.com • HQ: Atlanta, United States • Analytics Platforms • Data & Analytics • Billing & Invoicing • Software • Medical AI • Artificial Intelligence • Health Care • Digital Health • 501-1000 employees • Est. 1974
HQ: Atlanta, United States • Analytics Platforms • Data & Analytics • Billing & Invoicing • Software • Medical AI • Artificial Intelligence • Health Care • Digital Health • 501-1000 employees • Est. 1974
Open 526 daysVerified live · 1 hour ago 1 year ago

ML Operations Engineer

$102k – $210k per year (Estimated) • Junior • 2+ years expUnited States • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Junior
Python
SQL
AI/ML
Kubeflow
MLFlow
Spark
Amazon SageMaker
Feature Store
DevOps
AWS
Azure
CI/CD
Docker
GCP
GitLab CI
Jenkins
Kubernetes
GitLab
Analytics
ETL/ELT
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Adapter

adapter.com
Give your model, agent, or app a mind. Connect your data and Adapter builds a living understanding of your world, with every answer cited to its source.
adapter.com • AI Agents
AI Agents
Open 586 days 1 year ago

Machine Learning Engineer

$126k – $254k per year (Estimated) • Middle • 3+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Middle
Python
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
Multimodal AI
Knowledge Graph
PyTorch
TensorFlow
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Lightfield

lightfield.com
lightfield.com • Boston • San Francisco • Cambridge
Boston • San Francisco • Cambridge
Open 690 daysTop 25% pay 2 years ago

Machine Learning Engineer (Staff)

$220k – $300k per year • Staff+ • 7+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Staff
Pinecone
AI/ML
Llama
LLM
NLP
LangChain
LLMOps
Marketing
Salesforce
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Machine Learning Engineer Salary in San Francisco
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