Machine Learning Engineer jobs in San Francisco
211 open machine learning engineer roles in San Francisco across 62 companies, read straight from each company's own job board.
Last checked 02 October 2026
211
Open roles
62
Companies hiring
$275k
Median published pay
Pay by stated level
A median across mixed seniority describes nobody, so it is split here. Only levels the employer stated in the job title are counted.
| Level | Median midpoint | Postings |
|---|---|---|
| senior | $238k | 22 |
| staff / principal / lead | $280k | 29 |
117 of 170 postings (69%) state no level at all. Those are not counted as mid-level - the employer simply did not say.
Who's hiring
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Open roles
| Role | Location | Team | Salary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Member of Technical Staff new | San Francisco, CA or Remote | Engineering | $170k – $350k |
| Member of Technical Staff - Synthetic Data & Data Scaling new | San Francisco | R&D | today |
| Member of Technical Staff - Multimodal Pre-training new | San Francisco | R&D | today |
| Machine Learning Engineer new | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $230k – $322k |
| Master's University Grad Machine Learning Engineer 2027 (USA) new | San Francisco, CA, US; Palo Alto, CA, US; Seattle, WA, US; New York, NY, US | University | today |
| PhD University Grad Machine Learning Engineer (USA) new | San Francisco, CA, US; Palo Alto, CA, US; Seattle, WA, US | University Engineering | today |
| Machine Learning Engineer - Content Discovery new | San Francisco | Machine Learning | $241k – $383k |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Bidding & Pacing | San Francisco, CA, US; Palo Alto, CA, US; Seattle, WA, US | EPD Ads and Ads Product | 2 days ago |
| Member of Technical Staff, Evals | San Francisco, CA | HAI Research | $200k – $350k |
| Research Engineer / Research Scientist, RL Frontiers | San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA | AI Research & Engineering | $500k – $850k |
| Research Engineer / Performance Engineer, RL Distributed Systems | San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA | AI Research & Engineering | $500k – $850k |
| Member of Technical Staff (New Grad) | San Francisco | University Recruiting | 2 days ago |
| Applied AI Engineer, Beneficial Deployments (Life Sciences) | San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Applied AI | $280k – $320k |
| Machine Learning Engineer, Growth Platform | San Francisco | 7112 Data Science | 3 days ago |
| Member of Technical Staff, AI Engineering | San Francisco, CA | HAI Research | $200k – $350k |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Trust | San Francisco, CA | Software Engineering | 7 days ago |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Perception | San Francisco, CA | Transport - Engineering | 7 days ago |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer - World Models City | San Francisco, CA | Transport - Engineering | 7 days ago |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Action Models | San Francisco, CA | Transport - Engineering | 7 days ago |
| AI Data Engineer, Data Platform | San Francisco | Engineering | $180k – $230k |
| Member of Technical Staff, AI Products (Early Career - Industry) | San Francisco | AI Products | $180k – $270k |
| 2027 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Machine Learning Engineer - Simulator Realism Evaluation | San Francisco, California, United States | Pipeline (N/A) | $70 – $70 |
| Member of Technical Staff | San Francisco Bay Area | Alignerr Services | $140k – $200k |
| 2027 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Machine Learning Engineer | San Francisco, CA, USA | Pipeline (N/A) | $70 – $70 |
| AI engineer | San Francisco, CA | Engineering, product & design | $198k – $259k |
| Member of Technical Staff - Lead, Storage | San Francisco | Engineering | $270k – $330k |
| Member of Technical Staff - Machines | San Francisco | Engineering | $250k – $300k |
| Member of Technical Staff - Storage | San Francisco | Engineering | $250k – $300k |
| AI deployment engineer (West) | San Francisco, CA | Delivery & customer success | $146k – $204k |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, AI | San Francisco, California | Engineering | $240k – $400k |
| Senior Staff Applied AI Inference Engineer | San Francisco, CA - US | Cloud Engineering | $250k – $300k |
| Member of Technical Staff, Post-Training | San Francisco, CA | HAI Research | $200k – $350k |
| Machine Learning Engineer, Monetization AI/ML | San Francisco | Applied AI | $381k – $555k |
| Senior AI Engineer, Post-Training | San Francisco, CA; New York City, NY | Data & Machine Learning | $242k – $285k |
| Machine Learning Engineer, Driver Refinement & Validation, Perception | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA | Perception (7LT) | $175k – $215k |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, ML Platform | San Francisco | Engineering | 15 days ago |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Financial Products | San Francisco | Development | $297k – $401k |
| AI Infrastructure Engineer, pAGI | San Francisco | Research | $266k – $500k |
| Research Engineer, AI for Chip Design | San Francisco | Research | $380k – $500k |
| Applied AI Engineer | SF Bay Area | Engineering | $150k – $250k |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Predictive Planner, Systems Arch | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA | Planner (7LU) | $213k – $263k |
| AI Engineer | San Francisco | G&A | $175k – $190k |
| Partner Applied AI Engineer | San Francisco | Go To Market | $197k – $278k |
| Member of Technical Staff (Applied AI Engineer, Agent Capabilities) | San Francisco | AI Products | $220k – $405k |
| Senior Machine Learning Operations Engineer | San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within Canada or United States | Engineering | $167k – $208k |
| Machine Learning Engineer Intern | Hybrid - San Francisco, CA | Internships & Emerging Talent Positions | $60 – $60 |
| Staff Applied AI Inference Engineer | San Francisco, CA - US | Cloud Engineering | $215k – $260k |
| Research Engineer, Audio and Speech | San Francisco | Engineering | $200k – $400k |
| Research Engineer, Safety | San Francisco | Engineering | $200k – $400k |
| Senior Research Engineer, Safety | San Francisco | Engineering | $200k – $400k |
| Applied AI, Research Engineer | San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Applied AI | $300k – $400k |
| Member of Technical Staff (TPM, Inference) | San Francisco | AI Research & Systems | $170k – $265k |
| Sr Staff Tech Lead, Machine Learning Engineer, Perception | Mountain View, California, United States, San Francisco, California, United States | Perception (7LT) | $298k – $368k |
| AI Acceleration Engineer | San Francisco | Finance | $180k – $220k |
| Staff AI Platform Engineer | San Francisco | Business Operations | 30 days ago |
| AI Support Engineer, Government - San Francisco, CA | San Francisco | User Operations | $180k – $260k |
| Member of Technical Staff (Secure Intelligence Institute) | San Francisco | AI Research & Systems | $220k – $405k |
| Machine Learning Engineer II, Responsible AI | San Francisco, CA, US; Remote, US | ATG | 1 months ago |
| Staff+ Research Engineer, RL Data Platform | San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | AI Research & Engineering | $500k – $850k |
| Member of Technical Staff | San Francisco | Roboflow Labs | $150k – $300k |
| Member of Technical Staff (AI Researcher) | San Francisco | AI Research & Systems | $220k – $485k |
| Research Engineer, Model Evaluation and Improvement | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $136k – $265k |
| Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Health | San Francisco | Research | $380k – $500k |
| Machine Learning Engineer, Multimodal Perception and Authentication | San Francisco | Consumer Devices | $342k – $399k |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer - San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | $250k – $270k |
| Sr. Machine Learning Engineer | San Francisco, California, United States | AI/ML Engineering | $200k – $261k |
| AI Engineer | San Francisco | EPD | $220k – $260k |
| Senior Staff Machine Learning Platform Engineer | Remote - US; San Francisco, CA | Algorithms & Data | $295k – $406k |
| Member of Technical Staff, Infrastructure | San Francisco | Engineering | $200k – $275k |
| Member of Technical Staff - New Grad (2027 Start) | San Francisco | University | $185k – $185k |
| Machine Learning Engineer, Fulfillment | San Francisco, CA | Fulfillment | $141k – $176k |
| AI Operations Engineer, Partnerships | San Francisco, CA | Sales | $215k – $300k |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Trust | San Francisco, CA | Software Engineering | $200k – $227k |
| 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 | Core Product & Platform | $223k – $423k |
| Finance & Strategy AI Engineer | San Francisco - SF9 | Finance and Strategy | $146k – $246k |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer | San Francisco | Engineering | $204k – $255k |
| Member of Technical Staff | San Francisco | Development | $228k – $401k |
| 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 |
| Research Engineer / Research Scientist / AI Systems Engineer, RSI | San Francisco | Research | $295k – $445k |
| AI Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Engineering | 2 months ago |
| Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Personalization | San Francisco | Research | $380k – $500k |
| Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Memory | San Francisco | Research | $380k – $500k |
| AI Inference Engineer | San Francisco | EPD | $165k – $330k |
| Senior Applied ML Engineer - ML4Sys | San Francisco, California | Engineering - Pipeline | $166k – $210k |
| AI Content Engineer | San Francisco | Engineering | $140k – $220k |
| Member of Technical Staff (Model Behavior) | San Francisco | AI Research & Systems | $200k – $330k |
| Staff ML Engineer, Agent Training & Environments | San Francisco Bay Area | Engineering | $250k – $280k |
| 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 | $380k – $500k |
| 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 |
| Applied AI Engineer, Agent Enablement | San Francisco | Go To Market | $197k – $280k |
| Applied AI Engineer, Plugins | San Francisco | Go To Market | $197k – $280k |
| Staff/Senior Machine Learning Research Engineer, Intelligent Systems | San Francisco, CA; New York, NY | Applications Platform Engineering | $250k – $350k |
| Research Engineer, Privacy | San Francisco | Security | 3 months ago |
| Research Engineer, Chip Design RL (Reinforcement Learning) | San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | AI Research & Engineering | $500k – $850k |
| Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Perception | South San Francisco, CA | Autonomy Software | $200k – $280k |
| Applied AI Engineer, Enterprise | San Francisco | Go To Market | $251k – $278k |
| Applied AI Engineer, Digital Natives | San Francisco | Go To Market | $251k – $278k |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Conversion Core Modeling | San Francisco, CA, US; Palo Alto, CA, US; Seattle, WA, US | EPD Ads and Ads Product | 3 months ago |
| Member of Technical Staff, Applied Research | San Francisco | Engineering | $180k – $250k |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Shopping Ads | San Francisco, CA, US; Palo Alto, CA, US; Seattle, WA, US | EPD Ads and Ads Product | 3 months ago |
| Research Engineer, Life Sciences | San Francisco, CA | AI Research & Engineering | $350k – $500k |
| Staff Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Transport - Engineering | 3 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 | 3 months ago |
| Machine Learning Engineer, Maneuvering Tech | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Pittsburgh, PA, USA | Planner (7LU) | $175k – $215k |
| Research Engineer, Computer Use | San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA | AI Research & Engineering | $500k – $850k |
| Research Engineer, Post-Training | San Francisco | Engineering | $231k – $340k |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Transport - Engineering | 3 months ago |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Transport - Engineering | 3 months ago |
| Research Engineer/Research Scientist - Personal AGI, North Stars | San Francisco | Research | $380k – $500k |
| AI Engineer, Workbench | San Francisco, California, United States | Engineering | $216k – $240k |
| Staff Applied AI Engineer | San Francisco, CA or Remote (U.S.) | Data | $170k – $248k |
| Machine Learning Engineer, Customer Engineering | San Francisco | Customer Solutions Group | $170k – $199k |
| Applied AI Engineer, Cyber | San Francisco | Go To Market | $211k – $292k |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Assistance Engineering | San Francisco, CA | Software Engineering | $212k – $260k |
| Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, LLM/VLM Model Architecture & Optimization | Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; | Perception (7LT) | $298k – $368k |
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