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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Alljoined

alljoined.com
alljoined.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Neurotech & Neuromodulation · Machine Learning · Est. 2023 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 4
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Neurotech & Neuromodulation · Machine Learning · Est. 2023 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 4
Alljoined is a neurotechnology startup that applies deep learning to large-scale EEG datasets to decode thoughts and perceived media from brain activity non-invasively. Founded in 2023, it hires machine learning researchers, computational neuroscientists, software engineers and research technicians. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 363 daysTop 25% pay Visa sponsorship 12 months ago Long shot · 6%

Machine Learning Researcher

$140k – $250k per year · Senior · 5+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time · Senior
Python
AI/ML
Multimodal AI
Diffusion Models
CLIP
Time Series
PyTorch
Machine Learning
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Bunkerhill Health

bunkerhillhealth.com
bunkerhillhealth.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Medical AI · AI Agents · 51-200 employees · Est. 2021 · Startup · Hiring 7
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Medical AI · AI Agents · 51-200 employees · Est. 2021 · Startup · Hiring 7
Build, deploy, and scale AI agents for clinical and administrative work. The platform leading health systems run on.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 367 daysTop 25% pay 1 year ago Long shot · 4%

AI Product Engineer

$200k – $300k per year · Junior · 2+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time · Junior
Rust
TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
Python
Django
Celery
AI/ML
Agentic Workflows
AI Agents
LLM
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
Helm
Kustomize
Terraform
GCP
Kubernetes
AWS
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Substrate

substrate.com
substrate.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Semiconductor Manufacturing · Semiconductor Equipment · Est. 2022 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 6
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Semiconductor Manufacturing · Semiconductor Equipment · Est. 2022 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 6
Returning the United States to dominance in semiconductor production Supported by investors Extending Moore's Law into a new era of possibility.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 370 daysTop 25% pay 1 year ago Long shot · 6%

Research Scientist, AI

$150k – $275k per year · Senior · 5+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · PhD · Full-Time · Senior
Python
AI/ML
JAX
TensorFlow
PyTorch
Machine Learning
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Alpharun

alpharun.com
alpharun.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Marketing & Sales AI · Sales Enablement · Est. 2023 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 8
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Marketing & Sales AI · Sales Enablement · Est. 2023 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 8
Alpharun scores and coaches sales conversations, reviewing every call against a team's own playbook. Managers see where reps skip discovery questions or mishandle objections instead of listening to recordings at random. The platform also runs AI interviews for hiring sales staff.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 371 daysVerified live · 1 hour ago 1 year ago Long shot · 3%

Agent Product Manager

≈ $110k – $218k per year (Estimated) · Equity · Junior · 1+ year exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Junior
Voice Agents
AI Agents
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Open 435 daysVerified live · 1 hour ago 1 year ago Long shot · 4%

Applied AI Engineer

≈ $150k – $333k per year (Estimated) · Equity · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time
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Apiphany

apiphany.ai
apiphany.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Simulation & Digital Twin Software · Manufacturing & Industrial Software · 11-50 employees · Est. 2024 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 7
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Simulation & Digital Twin Software · Manufacturing & Industrial Software · 11-50 employees · Est. 2024 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 7
The #1 physics-first AI platform for manufacturing and product engineering. Extract insights from unstructured engineering data across PLM, ERP, FMEA, and CAD. 5-15x more relevant than general-purpose LLMs.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 374 daysVerified live · 1 hour ago Visa sponsorship 1 year ago Long shot · 5%

Machine Learning Engineer

≈ $160k – $355k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time
Python
Databases
Databricks
AI/ML
NLP
Machine Learning
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Cooper

askcooper.ai
askcooper.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Agents · InsurTech · Likely startup · Trust C · Hiring 14
HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Agents · InsurTech · Likely startup · Trust C · Hiring 14
About Careers We're hiring Request a Demo Request a Demo About Cooper We're building the insurance coworker, one that does the real work. Cooper is your AI coworker for the entire insurance workflow from intake to renewal.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Likely inactiveVerified live · 1 hour ago 1 year ago Long shot · 3%

AI Engineer

$180k – $220k per year · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time
Speech Recognition
Text-to-Speech
AI Agents
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Composite

composite.agency
composite.agency · San Francisco · Custom Software Development · Hiring 1
San Francisco · Custom Software Development · Hiring 1
Composite is a software development studio that builds custom software to client requirements. It offers free consultations on client products and says it pays close attention to every detail during development. The studio serves Russian-speaking clients and works with businesses on bespoke software projects.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 376 daysVerified live · 1 hour ago 1 year ago Long shot · 4%

Founding Machine Learning Engineer

$150k – $220k per year · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time
Node JS
TypeScript
JavaScript
Node JS
Electron
Databases
Pinecone
AI/ML
Hybrid Search
Synthetic Data
Anthropic
RAG
LLM
Machine Learning
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
Cloudflare
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Sphinxhq

sphinxhq.com
sphinxhq.com · HQ: Stafford, United States · RegTech, AML & Compliance · 51-200 employees · Est. 2021 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 7
HQ: Stafford, United States · RegTech, AML & Compliance · 51-200 employees · Est. 2021 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 7
Meet Sphinx. Your AI compliance agent that clears KYB & AML cases in minutes. 87% fewer false positives, 98% same-day resolution. Zero integration required. SOC 2 Type II certified.
John Simion · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Georges Duplessy · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
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Open 379 daysTop 25% pay 1 year ago Long shot · 8%

Member of Technical Staff

$120k – $300k per year · Staff+ · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Relocation · Full-Time · Staff
Browser Agents
Agentic Workflows
Computer Vision
ChatGPT
AI Agents
DevOps
Self-Healing
AWS
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Dream

dreamhq.com
dreamhq.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Generative 3D · Multimodal AI · 1-10 employees · Trust B · Hiring 5
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Generative 3D · Multimodal AI · 1-10 employees · Trust B · Hiring 5
Dream is building the first spatial intelligence model that natively reasons about the built world — structured, relational, and physically grounded, not just rendered pixels.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 382 daysVerified live · 1 hour ago 1 year ago Long shot · 3%

ML Engineer - Generative AI

≈ $125k – $280k per year (Estimated) · Junior · 2+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Master's Degree · Full-Time · Junior
Python
AI/ML
NumPy
PyTorch
Machine Learning
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Open 517 daysVerified live · 1 hour ago 1 year ago Long shot · 7%

Lead AI / ML Staff Engineer

≈ $181k – $376k per year (Estimated) · Lead · 4+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
Python
Python
Pydantic
Mypy
AI/ML
Diffusion Models
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Viant

viantinc.com
viantinc.com · HQ: Irvine, United States · Marketing & Sales AI · Advertising · Est. 1999 · Trust B · Hiring 24
HQ: Irvine, United States · Marketing & Sales AI · Advertising · Est. 1999 · Trust B · Hiring 24
Viant is a digital advertising technology company that provides people-based advertising on the open web with cookieless targeting, measurement and analytics tools. Its job ads cover engineering internships, ad serving engineering, panel recruiting, account management and legal roles. The company is headquartered in Irvine, California, United States.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 382 daysTop 25% pay 1 year ago Long shot · 10%

Director, Applied Science - Ad Optimization & ML Systems

$225k – $275k per year · Head+ · 10+ years exp · In office (Irvine, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Architect
Machine Learning
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Catalog

getcatalog.ai
getcatalog.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Agents · Retail & Commerce AI · Hiring 2
HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Agents · Retail & Commerce AI · Hiring 2
Catalog is a technology startup building a commerce layer for AI that lets agents understand, reason about and transact with products. It offers dedicated infrastructure that gives agents a parallel experience of a retailer's site, and it hires engineers and a founding go-to-market lead. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 383 daysVerified live · 1 hour ago 1 year ago Long shot · 9%

Member of Technical Staff

≈ $185k – $367k per year (Estimated) · Staff+ · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Staff
Embeddings
Recommender Systems
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AlphaSense

alpha-sense.com
alpha-sense.com · HQ: New York, United States · Market Research · Financial AI · AI Search · Financial Data & Market Intelligence · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 2011 · Trust B · Hiring 172, 9 new
HQ: New York, United States · Market Research · Financial AI · AI Search · Financial Data & Market Intelligence · 1001-5000 employees · Est. 2011 · Trust B · Hiring 172, 9 new
AlphaSense is a market intelligence company founded in 2011 that indexes company filings, earnings call transcripts, broker research, regulatory documents and news, and lets analysts search across all of it at once. Its differentiator is search that understands financial language and synonyms rather than matching keywords, layered with generative summarisation, and it also owns the expert call network Stream, which adds transcripts of interviews with industry specialists. Headquartered in New York and privately held at a multi-billion dollar valuation, it sells mainly to investment firms, corporate strategy teams and consultancies.
Raj Neervannan · Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer · decision-maker
Jack Kokko · Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer · decision-maker
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Open 383 daysTop 25% pay 1 year ago Long shot · 10%

Staff AI Platform Engineer

$203k – $304k per year · Staff+ · In office (San Francisco, New York, United States) · Staff
Anthropic
Prompt Engineering
OpenAI
RAG
LLM
AI Agents
DevOps
Kubernetes
CI/CD
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Hamster

tryhamster.com
tryhamster.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Custom Software Development · 1-10 employees · Est. 2025 · Likely startup · Trust B · Hiring 3
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Custom Software Development · 1-10 employees · Est. 2025 · Likely startup · Trust B · Hiring 3
Hamster proposes strategies, turns them into initiatives, and carries the work through to delivery. Your team steers every step.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 384 daysVerified live · 3 hours ago 1 year ago Long shot · 13%

Senior Machine Learning Specialist

≈ $163k – $314k per year (Estimated) · Senior · 5+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States, Auckland, New Zealand) · Master's Degree · Full-Time · Senior
Python
AI/ML
Vertex AI
Fine-tuning
NLP
Amazon SageMaker
TensorFlow
PyTorch
RAG
Machine Learning
Reinforcement Learning
Multi-Agent Systems
DevOps
AWS
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AegisAI

aegisai.ai
aegisai.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Cybersecurity · Email Security · Artificial Intelligence · 501-1000 employees · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 26
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Cybersecurity · Email Security · Artificial Intelligence · 501-1000 employees · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 26
Agentic AI email security. Autonomous agents stop phishing, BEC, and zero-day attacks across Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, with 90% fewer false positives.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 386 daysVerified live · 2 hours ago 1 year ago Long shot · 8%

AI Product Manager

≈ $137k – $254k per year (Estimated) · Senior · 5+ years exp · In office (New York, San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Senior
Fine-tuning
Embeddings
AI Agents
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Open 419 daysVerified live · 2 hours ago 1 year ago Long shot · 11%

AI Architect

≈ $179k – $355k per year (Estimated) · Staff+ · 1+ year exp · In office (New York, San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Architect
LLM
AI Agents
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Open 419 daysVerified live · 2 hours ago 1 year ago Long shot · 4%

AI Engineer - SF

≈ $127k – $284k per year (Estimated) · Junior · 2+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Junior
AI Agents
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Sentra

sentra.app
sentra.app · HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Agents · Artificial Intelligence · 11-50 employees · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 3
HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Agents · Artificial Intelligence · 11-50 employees · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 3
Sentra is the managed organization memory: it records what your teams know, resolves it into one queryable memory, and gives every person and AI agent the same context.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 389 daysTop 25% pay 1 year ago Long shot · 5%

Machine Learning Research Scientist

$120k – $300k per year · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Relocation · Full-Time
Python
Databases
Neo4j
Amazon Neptune
AI/ML
NLP
Federated Learning
Knowledge Graph
PyTorch
LLM
Machine Learning
Cursor
ChatGPT
Claude
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METISINC

metisinc.io
metisinc.io · HQ: San Francisco, United States · IT Consulting & Digital Transformation · Custom Software Development · Est. 2025 · Trust B · Hiring 4
HQ: San Francisco, United States · IT Consulting & Digital Transformation · Custom Software Development · Est. 2025 · Trust B · Hiring 4
Asymmetrical Solutions Realisation & Asynchronous Delivery. Bespoke business design andengineering. Advisory, consulting, training, & recruitment.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 392 daysVerified live · 1 hour ago 1 year ago Long shot · 4%

Research Engineer

$200k per year · In office (San Francisco, United States)
Python
AI/ML
Reinforcement Learning
JAX
Synthetic Data
Post-training
Reward Modeling
TensorFlow
OpenAI
PyTorch
Machine Learning
AI Agents
DevOps
Platform Engineering
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Koah Labs

koahlabs.com
koahlabs.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Advertising · 201-500 employees · Est. 2024 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 9
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Advertising · 201-500 employees · Est. 2024 · Startup · Trust B · Hiring 9
Native ads powered by real-time intent matching — not borrowed from the last era. The monetization layer for AI apps.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 397 daysTop 25% pay Visa sponsor 1 year ago Long shot · 4%

Applied Scientist

$200k – $300k per year · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time
Ruby
Dart
TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Databases
ClickHouse
Redis
Apache Kafka
PostgreSQL
Frontend
React.js
Mobile
Flutter
React Native
DevOps
Loki
Cloudflare
Mimir
Grafana
Terraform
AWS
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Nabi Health, Inc.

nabihealth.com
nabihealth.com · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Wellness Programs · Consumer Health Apps · Trust B · Hiring 26
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Wellness Programs · Consumer Health Apps · Trust B · Hiring 26
Accessible, insurance-covered virtual nutrition care from registered dietitians serving patients across multiple states.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Open 400 daysVerified live · 2 hours ago 1 year ago Long shot · 9%

Founding Member of Technical Staff

≈ $188k – $374k per year (Estimated) · Staff+ · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Relocation · Full-Time · Staff
Elixir
Node JS
TypeScript
JavaScript
AI/ML
Prompt Engineering
LLM
Frontend
React.js
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Bluenote

bluenote.ai
bluenote.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · Testing, Inspection & Certification · Custom Software Development · 51-200 employees · Est. 2018 · Startup · Hiring 2
HQ: San Francisco, United States · Testing, Inspection & Certification · Custom Software Development · 51-200 employees · Est. 2018 · Startup · Hiring 2
Bluenote. Accelerate regulatory submissions by 50-75% with advanced AI for life sciences. Trusted by the industry's largest pharma, medical devices, diagnostics, CROs and CDMOs.
Geoffrey Eich · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Andrew Firlik · Director
John Harris · Director
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Open 402 daysVerified live · 2 hours ago 1 year ago Long shot · 8%

Software Engineer, Agent

≈ $156k – $290k per year (Estimated) · Senior · 5+ years exp · In office (San Francisco, United States) · Full-Time · Senior
TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
AI/ML
LLM
AI Agents
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CodeRabbit

coderabbit.ai
coderabbit.ai · HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Development Tools · Code Intelligence · 501-1000 employees · Est. 2023 · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 45, 1 new
HQ: San Francisco, United States · AI Development Tools · Code Intelligence · 501-1000 employees · Est. 2023 · Startup · Trust A · Hiring 45, 1 new
CodeRabbit is a San Francisco-based software company that builds an AI code review platform, reviewing pull requests, IDE changes and CLI commits for code written by people and AI agents. Founded in 2023, it reports more than 17,000 customers, 150,000 open-source projects and over 2 million reviews a week, and raised a $143M Series C at a $1.5B valuation. It hires account executives, field engineers, sales development representatives, customer success managers, product managers, designers and platform engineers, with hubs in San Francisco, Boston, Bengaluru and London.
Alex Berkenkamp · Executive Officer · decision-maker
Harjot Gill · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Vishavjeet Kaur · Executive Officer · decision-maker
Guritfaq Singh · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
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Open 410 daysTop 25% pay Visa sponsor 1 year ago Long shot · 13%

Senior Applied AI Engineer

$200k – $300k per year · Senior · 5+ years exp · Hybrid (San Francisco, United States) · Bachelor's Degree · Full-Time · Senior
TypeScript
Python
Databases
Pinecone
LanceDB
AI/ML
LlamaIndex
Embeddings
RLHF
Human-in-the-Loop
Semantic Search
Agentic Workflows
Reward Modeling
LangChain
Prompt Engineering
OpenAI
RAG
LLM
AI Agents
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Machine Learning Engineer Salary in San Francisco
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