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 $294,048/year. Compare remote, hybrid and on-site positions with relocation and visa sponsorship. Browse and apply today.

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Polymath

polymathlabs.ai
polymathlabs.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Reinforcement Learning · AI Agents · Est. 2014 · Trust B · Hiring 4
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Reinforcement Learning · AI Agents · Est. 2014 · Trust B · Hiring 4
Polymath is an applied research lab that advances long-horizon agent capabilities through reinforcement learning. It designs and scales simulation environments in which AI agents learn to operate safely and autonomously, and it works with leading model labs. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
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Open 205 daysTop 25% pay 7 months ago Long shot · 10%

Member of Technical Staff - Engineering

$150k – $300k per year · Staff+ · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
Reinforcement Learning
AI Agents
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Open 205 daysTop 25% pay 7 months ago Long shot · 10%

Member of Technical Staff - Research

$150k – $300k per year · Staff+ · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
Reinforcement Learning
Function Calling
Post-training
AI Agents
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EQL Tech

eqltech.ai
eqltech.ai · San Francisco · London · Seattle · Phoenix · Burlingame · Recruiting & Staffing · 51-200 employees · Trust A · Hiring 27
San Francisco · London · Seattle · Phoenix · Burlingame · Recruiting & Staffing · 51-200 employees · Trust A · Hiring 27
Specialist recruitment for AI native startups and tech scaleups, delivering sales, GTM and engineering talent across global markets.
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Verified live · 7 hours ago Visa sponsorship 7 months ago Long shot · 20%

AI Engineer

≈ $119k – $265k per year (Estimated) · In office (Phoenix, San Francisco, United States) · Relocation · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time
Fine-tuning
VLM
Computer Vision
LLM
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Latent

latenthealth.com
latenthealth.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Revenue Cycle & Medical Billing · Medical AI · 11-50 employees · Est. 2023 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 24
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Revenue Cycle & Medical Billing · Medical AI · 11-50 employees · Est. 2023 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 24
Latent builds medical language models that automate the operational paperwork weighing down healthcare providers. Its systems read clinical and billing documents to handle prior authorisation, coding and appeals that consume administrative staff. The company targets the trillions of dollars of overhead in US healthcare operations.
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Open 205 daysTop 25% pay 7 months ago Long shot · 12%

Research Scientist

$225k – $300k per year · Senior · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time
Reinforcement Learning
Post-training
Interpretability
PyTorch
Machine Learning
NLP
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Open 205 daysTop 25% pay 7 months ago Long shot · 12%

Machine Learning Engineer

$225k – $300k per year · Senior · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time
Reinforcement Learning
Post-training
PyTorch
Machine Learning
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SYNHAWK

synhawk.com
synhawk.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Mobile Networks · Information Security · Hiring 2
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Mobile Networks · Information Security · Hiring 2
AI cybersecurity for telco networks providing real-time deepfake voice detection, likeness protection, and identity verification. Built for Telco. Engineered for global scale.
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Open 209 daysVerified live · 3 hours ago 7 months ago Long shot · 3%

Member of Technical Staff: Junior AI Researcher

≈ $130k – $293k per year (Estimated) · Junior · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Master's Degree · Full-Time · Junior
Python
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
Multimodal AI
Data Augmentation
SFT
Post-training
Red Teaming
PyTorch
Machine Learning
AI Agents
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Instacart

instacart.com
instacart.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Marketplaces · Delivery · Online Groceries · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 2012 · Trust B · Hiring 81, 10 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Marketplaces · Delivery · Online Groceries · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 2012 · Trust B · Hiring 81, 10 new
Instacart is an American grocery technology company founded in 2012 that connects shoppers with retailers rather than holding inventory or operating stores of its own. Its economics have shifted substantially: the marketplace and delivery fees that once dominated are now accompanied by a large advertising business selling placement to consumer goods brands, and by enterprise software that powers retailers' own websites and in-store technology. Headquartered in San Francisco and listed on Nasdaq under the name Maplebear, it partners with most large American grocers rather than competing against them.
Chris Rogers · Chief Executive Officer · decision-maker
Apoorva Mehta · Founder · founder
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Open 210 daysTop 25% pay 7 months ago Long shot · 7%

Senior Applied Scientist II, Ads Optimization

$240k – $254k per year · Equity · Senior · 8+ years exp · San Francisco · Remote (United States) · Master's Degree · Senior
C++
Java
Python
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Latent Labs

latentlabs.com
latentlabs.com · HQ: London, United Kingdom · Drug Discovery AI · Drug Discovery · Est. 2023 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 7
HQ: London, United Kingdom · Drug Discovery AI · Drug Discovery · Est. 2023 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 7
Latent Labs builds generative models that design proteins from a natural language description of the desired function. Founded in 2023 by a former DeepMind AlphaFold researcher, it released a web-based protein design model for scientists. The company aims to make biology programmable in the way software is.
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Open 210 daysVerified live · 3 hours ago 7 months ago Long shot · 4%

Forward Deployed AI Engineer

≈ $155k – $344k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time
Machine Learning
DevOps
Docker
GCP
Kubernetes
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
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Open 257 daysVerified live · 3 hours ago 9 months ago Long shot · 10%

Member of Technical Staff, Applied AI

≈ $195k – $387k per year (Estimated) · Staff+ · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
Machine Learning
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Open 258 daysVerified live · 3 hours ago 9 months ago Long shot · 10%

Member of Technical Staff

≈ $195k – $387k per year (Estimated) · Staff+ · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
Machine Learning
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Cursor

cursor.com
cursor.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Agents · AI Development Tools · Code Intelligence · 201-500 employees · Est. 2022 · Trust A · Hiring 116, 6 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Agents · AI Development Tools · Code Intelligence · 201-500 employees · Est. 2022 · Trust A · Hiring 116, 6 new
Anysphere builds Cursor, a code editor designed around AI assistance, where the model reads an entire repository and edits across files rather than completing single lines in isolation. Its agent mode plans and carries out multi-step changes, runs commands and reviews its own diffs, which made the editor one of the fastest-growing developer tools of the current AI wave and a standard part of many engineering workflows. The company describes itself as an applied research lab and trains its own models alongside the product.
Patrick Farrell · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Adam Weinstein · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Steven Goodman · Director
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Verified live · 4 hours ago 7 months ago Long shot · 11%

Software Engineer, Model Routing & Inference

≈ $133k – $287k per year (Estimated) · In office (New York, San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time
Cursor
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Verified live · 4 hours ago 8 months ago Long shot · 11%

AI Deployment Manager

≈ $134k – $299k per year (Estimated) · In office (San Francisco, New York, United States) · Full-Time
Cursor
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Open 281 daysVerified live · 4 hours ago 10 months ago Long shot · 11%

Research Scientist

≈ $160k – $357k per year (Estimated) · In office (San Francisco, New York, United States) · Full-Time
Machine Learning
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Outsmart

joinoutsmart.com
joinoutsmart.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · EdTech Platforms · Higher Education · 11-50 employees · Startup · Hiring 5
HQ: San Francisco, United States · EdTech Platforms · Higher Education · 11-50 employees · Startup · Hiring 5
Outsmart is an early-stage startup reimagining higher education for the age of AI by creating a new collegiate experience. It is backed by 38 million dollars from venture firms and led by former Duolingo executives, and hires engineers, learning engineers and academic leads. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, United States.
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Open 218 daysTop 25% pay 8 months ago Long shot · 6%

Senior Applied AI Engineer

$190k – $250k per year · Senior · 5+ years exp · In office (Los Angeles, San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Senior
Multimodal AI
Model Context Protocol
AI Agents
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Eve

eve.legal
eve.legal · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Document AI · Legal AI · 51-200 employees · Est. 2023 · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 22, 1 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Document AI · Legal AI · 51-200 employees · Est. 2023 · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 22, 1 new
Eve builds an artificial intelligence platform for plaintiff-side law firms, handling case intake, medical record review and demand letters. Founded in 2023 in San Francisco, it targets the document-heavy work of personal injury and employment practice. The company reports large productivity gains for firms that adopt it.
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Open 218 daysTop 25% pay 8 months ago Long shot · 10%

Machine Learning Engineer

$195k – $350k per year · Middle · 4+ years exp · Hybrid (San Francisco, San Mateo, United States) · Middle
Anthropic
OpenAI
Machine Learning
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Numos

numos.ai
numos.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Agents · Accounting & Tax Software · 51-200 employees · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 4
HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Agents · Accounting & Tax Software · 51-200 employees · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 4
Give your finance team more capacity. Numos AI agents handle the close, reconciliations, AP, AR, and variance analysis; so you can stop gathering data and start leading.
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Open 218 daysVerified live · 14 min ago Visa sponsor 8 months ago Long shot · 8%

Senior AI Engineer

≈ $168k – $323k per year (Estimated) · Senior · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Senior
Python
AI/ML
TensorFlow
Agentic Workflows
PyTorch
AI Agents
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Formation Bio

formationb.com
formationb.com · HQ: New York, United States · Drug Discovery · Drug Discovery AI · 51-200 employees · Est. 2013 · Trust A · Hiring 20, 2 new
HQ: New York, United States · Drug Discovery · Drug Discovery AI · 51-200 employees · Est. 2013 · Trust A · Hiring 20, 2 new
Formation Bio is a tech and AI driven pharmaceutical company focused on more efficient drug development, founded in 2016 as TrialSpark. It acquires drug candidates and takes them through clinical trials using data and AI, and it hires site reliability, software and data engineers and data scientists. The company is headquartered in New York, United States.
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Top 25% payVerified live · 1 hour ago 8 months ago Likely open · 49%

Senior / Principal Data Scientist, EHR AI

$186k – $232k per year · Lead · 2+ years exp · Hybrid (New York, San Francisco, Raleigh, Boston, United States) · Relocation · PhD · Principal
Python
AI/ML
Spark
Machine Learning
Fine-tuning
LLM
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Eragon

eragon.ai
eragon.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Intranet & Knowledge Management · AI Agents · 51-200 employees · Est. 2025 · Startup · Hiring 5
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Intranet & Knowledge Management · AI Agents · 51-200 employees · Est. 2025 · Startup · Hiring 5
Eragon is a centralized AI workspace that powers organisation-wide business intelligence. It builds production-grade AI systems for critical enterprise workflows and hires machine learning engineers, AI product managers, members of technical staff and applied AI interns. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 225 daysVerified live · 27 min ago 8 months ago Long shot · 9%

Member of Technical Staff

$180k – $230k per year · Staff+ · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time · Staff
Python
AI/ML
Machine Learning
DevOps
GCP
AWS
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Sazabi

sazabi.com
sazabi.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Observability & APM · 11-50 employees · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 8
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Observability & APM · 11-50 employees · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 8
Autonomous alerts. Conversational debugging. Coding agent integrations. Sazabi is a new, AI-first approach to observability. Built for teams who ship fast.
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Open 226 daysVerified live · 2 hours ago 8 months ago Long shot · 6%

Software Engineer, Agents

≈ $148k – $319k per year (Estimated) · In office (San Francisco, New York, United States) · Full-Time
TypeScript
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Reinforcement Learning
Function Calling
Anomaly Detection
Replit
Mastra
LangChain
Prompt Engineering
RAG
AI Agents
Vercel AI SDK
DevOps
Vercel
Terraform
Kubernetes
AWS
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CloudZero

cloudzero.com
cloudzero.com · HQ: Boston, United States · Cloud Cost & Multi-Cloud Management · 201-500 employees · Est. 2016 · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 13, 1 new
HQ: Boston, United States · Cloud Cost & Multi-Cloud Management · 201-500 employees · Est. 2016 · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 13, 1 new
CloudZero is a cloud cost intelligence software company that helps engineering and finance teams measure and allocate cloud and AI spending. Its platform maps costs from AWS, other cloud providers and AI services to products, features and customers to calculate unit costs and return on investment. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
Philip Pergola · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Erik Peterson · Director · decision-maker
Don Bulens · Director · decision-maker
James Orsillo · Director
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Open 229 daysTop 25% pay 8 months ago Long shot · 13%

Principal Product Manager, Agentic Systems

$220k – $240k per year · Lead · 5+ years exp · Hybrid (Boston, San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Principal
Human-in-the-Loop
AI Agents
Anthropic
DevOps
FinOps
Platform Engineering
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
+1
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Open 287 daysVerified live · 4 hours ago 10 months ago Long shot · 13%

Senior/Staff Product Manager, Agentic Practice

$170k – $220k per year · Staff+ · 3+ years exp · Hybrid (San Francisco, Boston, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
SQL
AI/ML
Cursor
Claude Code
Copilot
Anthropic
DevOps
FinOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
Analytics
ETL/ELT
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HockeyStack

hockeystack.com
hockeystack.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Custom Software Development · Marketing Analytics & Attribution · 11-50 employees · Est. 2021 · Startup · Hiring 3
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Custom Software Development · Marketing Analytics & Attribution · 11-50 employees · Est. 2021 · Startup · Hiring 3
HockeyStack measures business-to-business marketing by joining website behaviour, advertising and CRM data into one view of the buying journey. Teams see which campaigns actually influenced pipeline instead of crediting the last click. The product is aimed at revenue teams running long, multi-touch enterprise sales cycles.
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Open 230 daysVerified live · 1 hour ago Visa sponsor 8 months ago Long shot · 5%

AI Engineer

$180k – $220k per year · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time
Node JS
TypeScript
JavaScript
AI/ML
Braintrust
Cerebras
Multi-Agent Systems
LangChain
LLM
AI Agents
DevOps
New Relic
Analytics
Collibra
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Accordion

accordion.com
accordion.com · HQ: New York, United States · Management Consulting · Financial Advisory, Valuation & Restructuring · 501-1000 employees · Est. 2009 · Trust A · Hiring 48, 5 new
HQ: New York, United States · Management Consulting · Financial Advisory, Valuation & Restructuring · 501-1000 employees · Est. 2009 · Trust A · Hiring 48, 5 new
Accordion is a New York-headquartered financial consulting firm that works with private equity sponsors and the CFOs of their portfolio companies on finance transformation, data and analytics, CFO technology and AI. Backed by private equity investors, it employs more than 1,600 finance and technology specialists across 11 offices worldwide and advises portfolio companies in sectors such as retail, consumer goods, healthcare, media, technology and logistics. Its openings range from associates to directors and vice presidents in finance transformation, working capital, data architecture, CPM and ERP systems, AI solutions, Salesforce alliances and AI product management.
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Top 25% payVerified live · 3 hours ago 8 months ago Fading · 28%

AI Product Manager

$145k – $230k per year · Middle · 3+ years exp · Atlanta · New York · San Francisco · Los Angeles · Chicago · Remote (United States) · Middle
SQL
Python
AI/ML
LangGraph
AutoGen
DSPy
Function Calling
Agentic Workflows
Multi-Agent Systems
LangChain
Prompt Engineering
RAG
LLM
AI Agents
Analytics
ETL/ELT
Management
Jira
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RZR

rzr.com
rzr.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Digital Marketing · Advertising · 201-500 employees · Est. 2008 · Trust A · Hiring 50, 3 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Digital Marketing · Advertising · 201-500 employees · Est. 2008 · Trust A · Hiring 50, 3 new
RZR, formerly Aarki, is a mobile advertising technology company headquartered in San Francisco, running a machine learning demand-side platform for user acquisition, retargeting and connected TV campaigns built around its Encore prediction engine. The company, which Skillz acquired as Aarki in 2021, has more than a decade of performance data, four owned data centers handling millions of ad requests per second and offices in New York, London, Bangalore, Beijing, Manila and Seoul. It hires growth and account managers for China, Korea, Turkey and EMEA, agency leads, machine learning and data engineers, product managers, analysts and sales leaders.
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Verified live · 5 hours ago 8 months ago Long shot · 18%

Head of Machine Learning

≈ $202k – $378k per year (Estimated) · Head+ · 7+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · PhD · Architect
Rust
C++
Java
Python
Databases
ClickHouse
Aerospike
AI/ML
Machine Learning
Spark
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Zuma

getzuma.com
getzuma.com · HQ: Los Angeles, United States · AI Agents · Property Management · 51-200 employees · Trust B · Hiring 6
HQ: Los Angeles, United States · AI Agents · Property Management · 51-200 employees · Trust B · Hiring 6
Every team needs a Kelsey. The only AI in multifamily for leasing and collections assistant that comes with human back-up. Boost your NOI with Kelsey!
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Open 233 daysVerified live · 3 hours ago 8 months ago Long shot · 9%

Staff Engineer AI Agents

≈ $193k – $360k per year (Estimated) · Staff+ · 5+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
TypeScript
Python
Node JS
JavaScript
Databases
Redis
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
LLM
AI Agents
LangGraph
Anthropic
OpenAI Agents SDK
Text-to-Speech
LangChain
OpenAI
Mobile
Twilio
DevOps
Amazon ECS
Terraform
AWS
+10
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Open 602 daysVerified live · 3 hours ago 1 year ago Long shot · 9%

Staff Engineer (Agentic AI & Data)

≈ $192k – $359k per year (Estimated) · Staff+ · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
Node JS
Python
JavaScript
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
LLM
AI Agents
Frontend
React.js
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Claryo

claryo.co
claryo.co · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Supply Chain AI · Computer Vision · 51-200 employees · Est. 2022 · Startup · Hiring 4
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Supply Chain AI · Computer Vision · 51-200 employees · Est. 2022 · Startup · Hiring 4
Claryo is a startup building an AI-driven warehouse intelligence platform that combines computer vision and multi-modal AI systems running in production. Its job ads cover senior and staff software engineers for ML infrastructure and full stack work, a lead developer and a product software engineer. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
Mohamed Amer · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Igor Taber · Director
Dylan Bourgeois · Director
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Open 233 daysVerified live · 3 hours ago Visa sponsor 8 months ago Long shot · 8%

Senior Software Engineer - ML Infrastructure

$170k – $190k per year · Senior · 5+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time · Senior
Python
C++
C++
TensorFlow C++
Databases
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Multimodal AI
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
DeepSpeed
Triton Inference Server
Quantization
TensorRT
TensorFlow
Ray
CUDA
TorchServe
Flyte
PyTorch
DevOps
gRPC
Robotics
ROS2
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Pytho

pytho.ai
pytho.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Defense AI · 1-10 employees · Likely startup · Hiring 1
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Defense AI · 1-10 employees · Likely startup · Hiring 1
Pytho is focused on force readiness — building AI-powered planning systems so warfighters are never caught unprepared.
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Open 234 daysVerified live · 3 hours ago 8 months ago Long shot · 4%

AI Engineer

≈ $162k – $360k per year (Estimated) · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time
Reinforcement Learning
Multimodal AI
TensorFlow
Hugging Face
PyTorch
Machine Learning
AI Agents
DevOps
CI/CD
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Machine Learning Engineer Salary in San Francisco
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