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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Lotus

lotus.ai
lotus.ai · HQ: Salt Lake City, United States · Medical AI · Telemedicine & Virtual Care · 201-500 employees · Startup · Hiring 3
HQ: Salt Lake City, United States · Medical AI · Telemedicine & Virtual Care · 201-500 employees · Startup · Hiring 3
Lotus AI gives you infinite personalized care powered by your health data, AI trained on leading medical evidence, and real doctors you can trust.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 258 daysVerified live · 2 hours ago 9 months ago Long shot · 11%

Member of Technical Staff

≈ $197k – $391k per year (Estimated) · Staff+ · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
Python
Python
SQLAlchemy
FastAPI
Databases
PostgreSQL
ClickHouse
DuckDB
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
RLHF
Multimodal AI
Knowledge Distillation
Function Calling
Text-to-Speech
Human-in-the-Loop
Voice Agents
Model Distillation
Prompt Engineering
LLM
AI Agents
vLLM
Axolotl
Langfuse
Hugging Face
DPO
Computer Vision
PyTorch
RAG
DevOps
AWS
Amazon ECS
Docker
QA
Sentry
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Open 345 daysVerified live · 2 hours ago 12 months ago Long shot · 4%

Research Engineer

≈ $162k – $360k per year (Estimated) · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time
SQL
Python
AI/ML
LoRA
vLLM
Quantization
JAX
Function Calling
TensorRT
QLoRA
Hallucination
Synthetic Data
Red Teaming
LLM Evaluation
Agentic Workflows
PyTorch
RAG
LLM
AI Agents
RLHF
Multimodal AI
Knowledge Distillation
Langfuse
PEFT
Model Distillation
RLAIF
DevOps
Amazon ECS
Docker
QA
Sentry
MedTech
FHIR
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Bishop Fox

bishopfox.com
bishopfox.com · HQ: Tempe, United States · Application Security · Vulnerability Management · Penetration Testing · 201-500 employees · Est. 2018 · Trust B · Hiring 10
HQ: Tempe, United States · Application Security · Vulnerability Management · Penetration Testing · 201-500 employees · Est. 2018 · Trust B · Hiring 10
Bishop Fox is an American offensive security firm that helps organisations reduce cyber risk through penetration testing, red teaming and application and cloud security assessments. It combines human testers with its proprietary Cosmos AI engine and also offers AI and LLM security assessments, working remote-first across 19 countries. The company is headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, United States.
Vincent Liu · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Christopher Wenner · Director
Francis Brown · Director
Steve Huffman · Director
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AI Software Engineer

≈ $126k – $280k per year (Estimated) · San Francisco · Remote (United States) · Bachelor's Degree
C++
Java
Python
AI/ML
AutoGen
LlamaIndex
RLHF
Reinforcement Learning
Semantic Kernel
Human-in-the-Loop
Red Teaming
LLM Guardrails
Multi-Agent Systems
LangChain
Prompt Engineering
RAG
Machine Learning
AI Agents
Fine-tuning
DevOps
Rest API
Docker
GCP
Kubernetes
Azure
AWS
Cybersecurity
OWASP Top 10
CVE
Threat Modeling
SIEM
ISO 27001
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Swish Analytics

swishanalytics.com
swishanalytics.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Predictive Analytics · Sports Betting · Sports Analytics · 51-200 employees · Est. 2013 · Trust B · Hiring 8
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Predictive Analytics · Sports Betting · Sports Analytics · 51-200 employees · Est. 2013 · Trust B · Hiring 8
Swish Analytics is a sports analytics, betting and fantasy company that builds predictive real-time data products and oddsmaking models. Its data scientists, quantitative researchers and engineers develop pricing and risk models across sports such as soccer for sportsbooks, media and other enterprise and consumer clients. Founded in 2013, Swish Analytics is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
Joseph Hagen · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Robert Skoff · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Corey Beaumont · Executive Officer · decision-maker
Yash Patel · Director
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Open 260 daysVerified live · 2 hours ago Visa sponsor 9 months ago Long shot · 6%

Machine Learning Engineer

≈ $134k – $255k per year (Estimated) · Senior · 5+ years exp · San Francisco · Remote (United States) · Master's Degree · Full-Time · Senior
Rust
SQL
Python
Databases
MySQL
AI/ML
Machine Learning
DevOps
Kubernetes
CI/CD
Analytics
ETL/ELT
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Sanity

sanity.io
sanity.io · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Developer Tools · CMS & Digital Experience Platforms · 201-500 employees · Est. 2018 · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 32, 1 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Developer Tools · CMS & Digital Experience Platforms · 201-500 employees · Est. 2018 · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 32, 1 new
Sanity is a software company that provides a structured content platform used as a headless content management system for websites, mobile apps and AI applications. Its products include the Content Lake hosted content store, the open-source Sanity Studio editing environment and the GROQ query language, and it serves developer and content teams from offices in San Francisco, London and Oslo, where the company originated. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
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Senior Software Engineer, AI Developer Experience

≈ $162k – $312k per year (Estimated) · Equity · Senior · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Senior
Node JS
TypeScript
JavaScript
AI/ML
Braintrust
Anthropic
Prompt Engineering
ChatGPT
OpenAI
Model Context Protocol
Claude Code
Claude
AI Agents
Lovable
GPT-5
Cursor
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
Vercel
Netlify
Heroku
Design
Figma
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Tomo

tomo.ai
tomo.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Consumer & Utility Software · AI Agents · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 3
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Consumer & Utility Software · AI Agents · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 3
The personal AI that lives in your texts. Tomo learns your goals and makes sure you achieve them. Tell Tomo about your life, problems, and aspirations, and Tomo will guide you through them.
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Open 270 daysVerified live · 1 hour ago 9 months ago Long shot · 10%

Member of Technical Staff

≈ $196k – $391k per year (Estimated) · Staff+ · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
AI Agents
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Condor

condorsoftware.com
condorsoftware.com · HQ: San Diego, United States · Patient Access & Booking · Clinical Trial Software · 51-200 employees · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 5
HQ: San Diego, United States · Patient Access & Booking · Clinical Trial Software · 51-200 employees · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 5
Condor unifies clinical and financial data so life sciences R&D teams forecast with confidence and close faster. See the platform in action and book a demo.
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Open 274 daysVerified live · 2 hours ago 9 months ago Long shot · 8%

Senior AI/ML Engineer

≈ $160k – $309k per year (Estimated) · Senior · 5+ years exp · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time · Senior
Python
TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
Flask
Django
AI/ML
AWS Bedrock
Amazon SageMaker
LLM Evaluation
LLM Guardrails
Agentic Workflows
LLM
Machine Learning
AI Agents
Function Calling
Anthropic
OpenAI
Claude
RAG
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
AWS Fargate
AWS Lambda
Amazon ECS
AWS
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Asari AI

asari.ai
asari.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Custom Software Development · 1-10 employees · Likely startup · Hiring 2
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Custom Software Development · 1-10 employees · Likely startup · Hiring 2
Co-invent the future.. Inventors drive our world forward. They see what isn't there yet, sketch ideas on napkins, and imagine the impossible until it becomes reality. From rocket engines to neural networks, invention is what turns curiosity into change.
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Open 280 daysVerified live · 10 min ago Visa sponsor 10 months ago Long shot · 10%

Member of Technical Staff - Machine Learning Engineer

$150k – $250k per year · Equity · Staff+ · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
Rust
C++
Python
AI/ML
Machine Learning
AI Agents
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Kinetic Systems

kineticsystems.ai
kineticsystems.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Agents · AI for Science · Likely startup · Trust B · Hiring 6
HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Agents · AI for Science · Likely startup · Trust B · Hiring 6
Kinetic Systems is an applied AI research lab focused on improving frontier models to solve economically meaningful healthcare tasks.
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Open 282 daysVerified live · 2 hours ago 10 months ago Long shot · 10%

Member of Technical Staff - Research

≈ $200k – $398k per year (Estimated) · Staff+ · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Master's Degree · Full-Time · Staff
Hugging Face
Post-training
Computer Use
PyTorch
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Vori

vori.com
vori.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Retail & Shop Systems · POS Systems · 51-200 employees · Est. 2019 · Startup · Trust D · Hiring 11
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Retail & Shop Systems · POS Systems · 51-200 employees · Est. 2019 · Startup · Trust D · Hiring 11
Vori is a modern grocery POS system that connects checkout, pricing, ordering, loyalty and reporting in one platform. Built for independent grocers.
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Full Stack Product Engineer - Agentic AI

≈ $132k – $259k per year (Estimated) · Middle · 3+ years exp · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Middle
Function Calling
LLM
AI Agents
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Motive

gomotive.com
gomotive.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Supply Chain & Logistics Software · Fleet Management · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 2013 · Trust B · Hiring 165, 17 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Supply Chain & Logistics Software · Fleet Management · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 2013 · Trust B · Hiring 165, 17 new
Motive is an American company founded in 2013, originally as KeepTruckin, that sells fleet management technology to trucking, construction, agriculture and field service businesses. Its products combine electronic logging devices mandated by American regulation, AI dashcams that detect unsafe driving, vehicle and equipment tracking, and a spend management card, which together turn a compliance purchase into an operating platform. Headquartered in San Francisco and valued in the billions, it serves tens of thousands of fleets and competes with Samsara for customers whose margins are thin enough that fuel and insurance savings matter directly.
Robson Grieve · Executive Officer · decision-maker
Patrick Richards · Executive Officer · decision-maker
Chirag Shah · Executive Officer · decision-maker
Hemant Banavar · Executive Officer · decision-maker
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Open 285 daysTop 25% pay Visa sponsor 10 months ago Long shot · 10%

Staff Platform Engineer, AI

$189k – $225k per year · Equity · Staff+ · 7+ years exp · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Staff
Kotlin
Go
Python
Ruby
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
DevOps
Helm
CircleCI
ArgoCD
Gitflow
Spinnaker
Configuration Management
Self-Healing
Tekton
GitHub Actions
Ansible
Jenkins
Terraform
Kubernetes
CI/CD
AWS
Gerrit
Git
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Fulcrum

fulcrum.inc
fulcrum.inc · HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Evaluation & Observability · 51-200 employees · Est. 2015 · Hiring 2
HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Evaluation & Observability · 51-200 employees · Est. 2015 · Hiring 2
Fulcrum is an AI company working on measuring and optimising model performance in fuzzy domains. It hires members of technical staff to work with the founding team on backend infrastructure for AI and on research direction. The company is based in San Francisco, United States.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 287 daysTop 25% pay 10 months ago Long shot · 9%

Member of Technical Staff

$200k – $500k per year · Staff+ · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
Machine Learning
AI Agents
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Blockit AI

blockit.com
blockit.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · 51-200 employees · Est. 2025 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 6
HQ: San Francisco, United States · 51-200 employees · Est. 2025 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 6
CC Blockit on any email or Slack thread and it negotiates the times, handles the time zones and sends the invite. Google and Outlook. 30-day free trial.
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Open 287 daysVerified live · 3 hours ago 10 months ago Long shot · 4%

Software Engineer, AI Agents

≈ $113k – $233k per year (Estimated) · Junior · 2+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Junior
LLM
AI Agents
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Path Work

pathwork.com
pathwork.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Financial AI · InsurTech · 11-50 employees · Est. 2024 · Startup · Hiring 1
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Financial AI · InsurTech · 11-50 employees · Est. 2024 · Startup · Hiring 1
Pathwork is the AI platform built for the distribution side of insurance, automating how life and health policies are sold, placed, and retained.
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Open 287 daysTop 25% pay 10 months ago Long shot · 6%

AI Engineer

$175k – $275k per year · Senior · 5+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Senior
Node JS
TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
Python
FastAPI
Databases
Qdrant
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
AI Agents
LangGraph
Whisper
LangChain
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
AWS Lambda
Amazon EC2
Amazon ECS
Amazon S3
Terraform
AWS
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Eight Sleep

eightsleep.com
eightsleep.com · HQ: New York, United States · Health & Medical Electronics · Smart Home Devices · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 2014 · Trust B · Hiring 32
HQ: New York, United States · Health & Medical Electronics · Smart Home Devices · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 2014 · Trust B · Hiring 32
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.
Matteo Franceschetti · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Massimo Bassi · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Alexandra Zatarain · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Antonio Gracias · Director
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Machine Learning Engineer (Foundation Models & Personalization)

≈ $151k – $339k per year (Estimated) · Junior · 2+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Junior
SQL
Python
AI/ML
JAX
Multimodal AI
TensorFlow
Ray
Time Series
Model Context Protocol
PyTorch
Spark
RAG
LLM
Machine Learning
Function Calling
Federated Learning
Structured Outputs
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JazzX AI

jazzx.ai
jazzx.ai · HQ: Palo Alto, United States · Financial AI · Financial Software & Embedded Finance · 51-200 employees · Est. 2024 · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 16, 4 new
HQ: Palo Alto, United States · Financial AI · Financial Software & Embedded Finance · 51-200 employees · Est. 2024 · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 16, 4 new
JazzX is the AI execution platform built for mortgage that goes beyond point tools and generic AI to deliver governed, end-to-end automation that drives audit-ready decisions, faster cycle times, lower cost per loan, and more loans through the pipeline.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Staff AI Engineer

≈ $194k – $386k per year (Estimated) · Staff+ · 10+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, Los Altos, United States) · PhD · Staff
C++
Java
Python
C++
TensorFlow C++
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
Reinforcement Learning
JAX
Chain-of-Thought
TensorFlow
Ray
RLlib
PPO
GRPO
TPU
OpenAI
PyTorch
LLM
AI Agents
Machine Learning
DevOps
Platform Engineering
Kubernetes
Robotics
Isaac Gym
MuJoCo
Reinforcement Learning
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Highlight AI

highlightai.com
highlightai.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Agents · Intranet & Knowledge Management · 51-200 employees · Est. 2024 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 5
HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Agents · Intranet & Knowledge Management · 51-200 employees · Est. 2024 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 5
Highlight AI is building a shared intelligence layer for the modern workforce that unifies context across every person and tool on a team. It aims to route knowledge proactively and automate workflows, and it hires technical staff for full-stack, backend and machine learning work as well as design and operations staff. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 288 daysTop 25% pay 10 months ago Long shot · 9%

Member of Technical Staff, ML

$200k – $300k per year · Equity · Staff+ · 4+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Relocation · Full-Time · Staff
Fine-tuning
Prompt Engineering
PyTorch
RAG
LLM
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Open 295 daysTop 25% pay 10 months ago Long shot · 9%

Member of Technical Staff, Backend

$200k – $300k per year · Equity · Staff+ · 5+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Relocation · Full-Time · Staff
LLM
DevOps
WebSockets
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Open 540 daysTop 25% pay 1 year ago Long shot · 9%

Member of Technical Staff, Full-Stack

$200k – $300k per year · Equity · Staff+ · 5+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Relocation · Full-Time · Staff
OCR
Edge AI
DevOps
Windows
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Humans&

humansand.ai
humansand.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Machine Learning · AI Research Labs · 1-10 employees · Startup · Hiring 2
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Machine Learning · AI Research Labs · 1-10 employees · Startup · Hiring 2
Humans& is a human-centric frontier AI lab building models that understand people and help them work together.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 288 daysTop 25% pay 10 months ago Long shot · 10%

Member of Technical Staff

$450k per year · Staff+ · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
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Hacktron AI

hacktron.ai
hacktron.ai · HQ: Singapore · Application Security · Cybersecurity AI · 51-200 employees · Est. 2025 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 3
HQ: Singapore · Application Security · Cybersecurity AI · 51-200 employees · Est. 2025 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 3
Hacktron AI is a security company building a system that autonomously reviews code, finds vulnerabilities and writes exploits. Its small, high-ownership team recruits interns and founding technical staff in San Francisco after raising a seed round. The company is headquartered in Singapore.
Zayne Zhang · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Mohan Pedhapati · Director
Harsh Jaiswal · Director
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Open 290 daysVerified live · 1 hour ago 10 months ago Long shot · 9%

Member of Technical Staff (Security)

≈ $199k – $396k per year (Estimated) · Staff+ · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
OpenAI
LLM
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Open 290 daysVerified live · 1 hour ago 10 months ago Long shot · 9%

Member of Technical Staff (Engineering)

≈ $186k – $370k per year (Estimated) · Staff+ · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
Go
TypeScript
Python
Node JS
JavaScript
Node JS
Nest.JS
AI/ML
LangGraph
OpenAI
LangChain
Frontend
Vue.js
DevOps
Docker
GCP
Kubernetes
CI/CD
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Open 290 daysVerified live · 1 hour ago 10 months ago Long shot · 3%

Member of Technical Staff Intern

$36k – $60k per year · Intern · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Internship · Intern
Go
TypeScript
Python
Node JS
JavaScript
Node JS
Nest.JS
AI/ML
LangGraph
LangChain
Frontend
Vue.js
DevOps
Docker
GCP
Kubernetes
CI/CD
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Volt

volt.ai
volt.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Machine Learning · Video Surveillance · 11-50 employees · Est. 2018 · Startup · Hiring 2
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Machine Learning · Video Surveillance · 11-50 employees · Est. 2018 · Startup · Hiring 2
Our Mission VOLT is building the future of safety - proactive AI protecting people and pushing the boundaries of what's possible. Book a Demo Our story Founding vision Our founding team has decades of security and tech expertise.
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Technical Product Manager (AI & Systems)

$150k – $180k per year · Senior · 8+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
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Luminai

luminai.com
luminai.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Workflow & Process Automation (RPA, BPM) · 51-200 employees · Est. 2020 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 14
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Workflow & Process Automation (RPA, BPM) · 51-200 employees · Est. 2020 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 14
Luminai automates the repetitive manual steps inside business processes without replacing the systems underneath them. It records how staff move between applications and then performs those sequences on their behalf. Insurance, healthcare and government customers use it where integration projects would take years.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Applied AI Engineer

$170k – $250k per year · Hybrid (San Francisco, New York, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time
OpenAI
Machine Learning
Management
Notion
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Machine Learning Engineer Salary in San Francisco
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