Machine Learning Engineer jobs in San Francisco
193 open machine learning engineer roles in San Francisco across 55 companies, read straight from each company's own job board.
Last checked 19 August 2026
193
Open roles
55
Companies hiring
$260k
Median published pay
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Open roles
| Role | Location | Team | Salary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Machine Learning Engineer new | South San Francisco, CA | Global Operations | $212k – $318k |
| AI Operations Engineer, Partnerships | San Francisco, CA | Sales | $215k – $300k |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Trust | San Francisco, CA | Software Engineering | $200k – $235k |
| Perception Machine Learning Engineer - Continuous Learning | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA | Perception (7LT) | $175k – $215k |
| Machine Learning Engineer, API Multicloud | San Francisco | Applied AI | $295k – $445k |
| Finance & Strategy AI Engineer | San Francisco - SF9 | Finance and Strategy | $146k – $246k |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer | San Francisco | Engineering | $225k – $300k |
| ML Engineer, Foundation Model Recipes | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; New York, NY, USA | AI Foundations (7SJ) | $175k – $215k |
| Staff ML Engineer, Perception Research | Mountain View, CA, USA ; New York City, NY, USA ; Kirkland, WA, USA ; San Francisco, CA, USA | AI Foundations (7SJ) | $251k – $310k |
| Machine Learning Engineer I, Network | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $151k – $189k |
| ML Engineer, Foundation Model Infrastructure | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; New York, NY, USA | AI Foundations (7SJ) | $175k – $215k |
| Research Engineer / Research Scientist / AI Systems Engineer, RSI | San Francisco | Research | $295k – $445k |
| AI Engineer, Enablement | San Francisco, CA | Customer Engineering | $116k – $195k |
| AI Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | 14 days ago |
| Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Personalization | San Francisco | Research | $295k – $555k |
| Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Memory | San Francisco | Research | $295k – $555k |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $238k – $297k |
| AI Inference Engineer | San Francisco | EPD | $165k – $330k |
| Senior Applied ML Engineer - ML4Sys | San Francisco, California | Engineering - Pipeline | $166k – $210k |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Applied Research | San Francisco, CA, US; Remote, US | ATG | 18 days ago |
| AI Content Engineer | San Francisco | Engineering | $140k – $220k |
| AI deployment engineer (West) | San Francisco, CA | Delivery & customer success | $132k – $185k |
| Staff ML Engineer, Agent Training & Environments | San Francisco Bay Area | Engineering | $250k – $280k |
| Senior AI Platform Engineer | San Francisco | Engineering | $196k – $235k |
| Staff AI Security Engineer | Bellevue, Washington; Chicago, Illinois; New York, New York; San Francisco, California; Washington, DC | Sec - Vulnerability Management & Sec Arch-772 | $180k – $248k |
| AI Success Engineer - Healthcare & Life Sciences | San Francisco | Go To Market | $162k – $240k |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Driving Behaviors | Mountain View, CA, US; San Francisco, CA, US; New York, NY, US | Systems (78I) | $213k – $263k |
| Senior AI Research Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $250k – $300k |
| Research Engineer | San Francisco | Engineering | $200k – $400k |
| Research Engineer/Research Scientist- Personal AGI, Model Experience | San Francisco | Research | $295k – $555k |
| AI Support Engineer, Biosciences - San Francisco | San Francisco | User Operations | $180k – $260k |
| Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer, Safeguards Research | San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | AI Research & Engineering | $350k – $500k |
| Senior Staff Applied AI Inference Engineer | San Francisco, CA - US | Cloud Engineering | $250k – $300k |
| Applied AI Engineer, Agent Enablement | San Francisco | Go To Market | $197k – $280k |
| AI Infrastructure Engineer, Sandbox Platform | San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; New York, NY | Horizontals EPD | $180k – $225k |
| Applied AI Engineer, Messenger Integrations | San Francisco | Go To Market | $197k – $280k |
| Applied AI Engineer | Hybrid - San Francisco | Engineering | $145k – $196k |
| Sr. AI Enablement Engineer | San Francisco | IT | $134k – $200k |
| AI Support Engineer Lead (US) | San Francisco | Customer Experience | $240k – $350k |
| Applied AI Engineer, Plugins | San Francisco | Go To Market | $197k – $280k |
| Staff/Senior Machine Learning Research Engineer | San Francisco, CA; New York, NY | Applications Platform Engineering | $227k – $284k |
| Research Engineer, Privacy | San Francisco | Security | $380k – $445k |
| Research Engineer, Chip Design RL (Reinforcement Learning) | San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | AI Research & Engineering | $500k – $850k |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Computer Vision | San Francisco, CA, US; Remote, US | ATG | 1 months ago |
| Legal & Compliance AI Engineer | San Francisco, CA - Hybrid | Security | $221k – $247k |
| AI Forward Deployed Engineer - SAP Ariba | San Francisco | Solutions | $130k – $170k |
| Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Perception | South San Francisco, CA | Autonomy Software | $200k – $280k |
| AI Forward Deployed Engineer - Procurement/Legal | San Francisco | Solutions | $130k – $170k |
| Applied AI Engineer, Enterprise | San Francisco | Go To Market | $197k – $278k |
| Applied AI Engineer, Digital Natives | San Francisco | Go To Market | $197k – $278k |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Conversion Core Modeling | San Francisco, CA, US; Palo Alto, CA, US; Seattle, WA, US | Monetization | 1 months ago |
| Senior AI Forward Deployed Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $250k – $350k |
| AI Success Engineer - EDU | San Francisco | Go To Market | $234k – $260k |
| Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Personality and Model Behavior | San Francisco | Research | $295k – $555k |
| Research Engineer, Life Sciences | San Francisco, CA | AI Research & Engineering | $350k – $500k |
| Senior Staff Machine Learning Platform Engineer | Remote - US; San Francisco, CA | Algorithms & Data | $295k – $406k |
| Staff Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Transport - Engineering | 2 months ago |
| Machine Learning Engineer - Inference Maintainer & Developer Experience | NY, SF or Remote | Engineering | $155k – $180k |
| Principal Machine Learning Engineer (Reconstruction / Quantitative Imaging) | San Francisco | Midjourney Medical | 2 months ago |
| Research Engineer, Computer Use | San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA | AI Research & Engineering | $500k – $850k |
| Sr. Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Monetization Engineering | San Francisco, CA, US; Palo Alto, CA, US; Seattle, WA, US | Monetization | 2 months ago |
| Research Engineer, Post-Training | San Francisco | Engineering | $231k – $340k |
| Staff Research Engineer, Data Agents | San Francisco, California | Engineering - Pipeline | $190k – $270k |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Transport - Engineering | 2 months ago |
| Senior AI Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Engineering : AI Foundation | $190k – $286k |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Transport - Engineering | 2 months ago |
| Sr. Machine Learning Engineer, tvScientific | San Francisco, CA, US; Remote, US | tvScientific | 2 months ago |
| Research Engineer / Research Scientist -Personal AGI, Proactivity | San Francisco | Research | $295k – $555k |
| Research Engineer/Research Scientist - Personal AGI, North Stars | San Francisco | Research | $295k – $555k |
| AI Engineer, Ecosystem | San Francisco, California, United States | Engineering | $171k – $240k |
| AI Engineer, Product | San Francisco, California, United States | Engineering | $171k – $240k |
| Machine Learning Engineer, Customer Engineering | San Francisco | Customer Solutions Group | $170k – $199k |
| AI Deployment Engineer, Cyber | San Francisco | Go To Market | $266k – $362k |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Community Support Engineering | San Francisco, CA | Software Engineering | $212k – $260k |
| Staff Enterprise AI Engineer | San Francisco, California, United States | Business Technology | $181k – $215k |
| Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, LLM/VLM Model Architecture & Optimization | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; | Perception (7LT) | $298k – $368k |
| Staff AI Engineer | US - San Francisco | Engineering | $182k – $310k |
| Research Engineer, Domain Scaling | San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA | AI Research & Engineering | $350k – $850k |
| Senior Machine Learning Operations Engineer | San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within Canada or United States | Engineering | CA$167k – CA$208k |
| Machine Learning Engineer I, Growth Relevance | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $151k – $189k |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Simulation Evaluation | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA | Simulation (7XW) | $213k – $263k |
| Applied ML Engineer | San Francisco | Applied ML | 2 months ago |
| Research Engineer, Code RL (Reinforcement Learning) | San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | AI Research & Engineering | $500k – $850k |
| Staff AI/ML Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $240k – $270k |
| Senior AI/ML Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $240k – $270k |
| AI Support Engineer - San Francisco (Weekend Shift) | San Francisco | User Operations | $180k – $260k |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Multi-Modal Perception | Mountain View, CA USA; San Francisco, CA USA; | Perception (7LT) | $251k – $310k |
| Senior AI/ML Engineer | Chicago, IL, USA; New York, NY, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Seattle, WA, USA | Data Science & Machine Learning | 2 months ago |
| Member of Technical Staff (ML Engineer, Recommendations & User Modeling) | San Francisco | AI Research & Systems | $220k – $405k |
| Senior Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer, Simulation | Mountain View, CA, USA: San Francisco, CA, USA | Simulation (7XW) | $213k – $263k |
| Applied AI Engineer, Startups | San Francisco | Go To Market | $198k – $280k |
| Senior AI Product Engineer 2, Control Monitoring | Hybrid - San Francisco | Engineering | $192k – $260k |
| Senior AI Product Engineer 2, Control Remediation | Hybrid - San Francisco | Engineering | $192k – $260k |
| Senior AI Product Engineer 2, Evidence | Hybrid - San Francisco | Engineering | $192k – $260k |
| Senior Platform AI Engineer | Hybrid - San Francisco | Engineering | $192k – $260k |
| Senior Applied AI Engineer | Hybrid - San Francisco | Engineering | $167k – $226k |
| AI Product Engineer, Evidence | Hybrid - San Francisco | Engineering | $145k – $196k |
| Senior AI Product Engineer 2, Audit | Hybrid - San Francisco | Engineering | $192k – $260k |
| Agentic AI Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $176k – $265k |
| Staff Applied AI Engineer | San Francisco Bay Area | Engineering | 3 months ago |
| Applied AI Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $179k – $240k |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Programmatic Ads | San Francisco, CA, US; Palo Alto, CA, US; Seattle, WA, US | Monetization | 3 months ago |
| Applied AI Engineer, Handshake AI Enterprise | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $155k – $300k |
| Machine Learning Engineer, Fleet Monitoring & Response | San Francisco, CA; Mountain View, CA | CSI (7LV) | $175k – $215k |
| AI engineer | San Francisco, CA | Engineering, product & design | $168k – $328k |
| AI Systems Engineer, Codex Agents | San Francisco | Applied AI | $230k – $385k |
| Founding Machine Learning Engineer | San Francisco, California | Engineering | 3 months ago |
| Senior Staff Applied AI Engineer - Context Retrieval | Mountain View, California; San Francisco, California | Engineering | $229k – $343k |
| Research Engineer, Model Evaluations | Remote-Friendly (Travel-Required) | San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | AI Research & Engineering | $500k – $850k |
| Sr. Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Content Quality | San Francisco, CA, US | Core Engineering | 4 months ago |
| Research Engineer, Machine Learning (RL Velocity) | Remote-Friendly (Travel-Required) | San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | AI Research & Engineering | $500k – $850k |
| Senior Applied AI Engineer | San Francisco Bay Area | Engineering | $130k – $265k |
| Sr. Machine Learning Engineer, Responsible AI– Applied Research Science | San Francisco, CA, US; Remote, CA, US | ATG | 4 months ago |
| Member of Technical Staff (AI Infrastructure Engineer) | San Francisco | AI Research & Systems | $220k – $405k |
| Member of Technical Staff (AI Inference Engineer) | San Francisco | AI Research & Systems | $220k – $485k |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer | San Francisco Bay Area | Engineering | $180k – $300k |
| Applied AI Engineer, Codex Core Agent | San Francisco | Applied AI | $230k – $385k |
| Post-Training Research Engineer | San Francisco | EPD | $200k – $275k |
| Research Engineer, Performance RL (Reinforcement Learning) | San Francisco, CA | AI Research & Engineering | $350k – $850k |
| AI Engineer | San Francisco | Engineering | $180k – $220k |
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