What does a ai engineer in san francisco earn?

SF compensation runs at the top end of the band. Founding engineer offers commonly clear $200k base + 0.5–2% equity at seed-to-Series-A. The typical band for a ai engineer runs $160k–$260k base + significant equity.

Are AI engineer jobs in san francisco remote-friendly?

7 of the current 144 listings (5%) allow remote work; the rest are on-site or hybrid in San Francisco.

What companies hire AI engineer jobs in san francisco?

Jobs Base aggregates listings across YC-backed startups, growth-stage companies, and selected larger companies hiring with builder-role characteristics.

What's the difference between a ai engineer and a regular ai engineer?

Jobs Base only lists builder roles. Positions where one person owns the product end-to-end. We filter out ticket-driven, narrowly-scoped roles even when the title matches. About 9% of listings scraped match this definition.

AI Engineer Jobs in San Francisco

San Francisco is where AI engineer hiring is concentrated globally. Roles come from foundation-model companies (rare hires), AI-application startups (common), and traditional SaaS companies bolting AI features onto an existing product (most common). The work varies sharply by company type. At foundation-model companies it's closer to research, at application startups it's closer to product engineering with extra eval and prompt work. Comp is the highest globally; expect $200k base floors at well-funded companies.

144 active 5% remote median salary $250k

1.	AI Engineer (Distyl) San Francisco, California, United States+1 \| $150,000 – $250,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| python, llms, ai systems \| 1mo ago
2.	AI Engineer (Airwallex) San Francisco, California, United States \| $120,000 – $200,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| entry \| python, pytorch, jax \| 1mo ago
3.	AI Engineer, Quality (Evals) (Fieldguide) San Francisco, California, United States+1 \| $170,000 – $220,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| mid \| typescript, react, python \| 1mo ago
4.	AI Engineer- Gen AI/SWE- Weights & Biases (Weights & Biases) San Francisco, California, United States \| $188,000 – $275,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| python, typescript, system design \| 1mo ago
5.	AI Engineer (EQL Tech (sales & engineering talent)) San Francisco, California, United States+1 \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| llm apis, vector databases, fine-tuning \| 1mo ago
6.	AI Engineer, New Business Unit (Nirvana Insurance) San Francisco, California, United States \| $144,000 – $240,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| llms, vlms, asr \| 1mo ago
7.	AI Engineer (Varick Agents) San Francisco, California, United States \| $175,000 – $225,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| llms, agent architectures, evaluation systems \| 1mo ago
8.	Sr. AI Engineer (Greylock Partners) San Francisco, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| agentic applications, llm, rag pipelines \| 1mo ago
9.	AI Product Engineer (Speak) San Francisco, California, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| mid \| react, node, typescript \| 1mo ago
10.	Lead AI Engineer (Harnham) San Francisco, California, United States \| $250,000 – $300,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| python, typescript, nodejs \| 1mo ago
11.	Sr. AI Agent Engineer (Greylock Partners) San Francisco, California, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| python, llm, vector search \| 1mo ago
12.	AI Agent Software Engineer - Claude Code, Codex or Cursor (Addison Group) San Francisco, California, United States \| $180,000 – $280,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| mid \| claude, codex, cursor \| 3w ago
13.	AI-Native Founding Engineer (Jobright.ai) San Francisco, California, United States \| $130,000 – $170,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| typescript, react, sql \| 3w ago
14.	Applied AI Engineer (Rillet) San Francisco, California, United States+2 \| $180,000 – $240,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| python, backend systems, apis \| 1mo ago
15.	Applied AI Engineer (Slash) San Francisco, California, United States \| $400,000 – $700,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| typescript, react, next.js \| 1mo ago
16.	Backend/AI Engineer (Reducto) San Francisco, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| python, llm integration, api design \| 1mo ago
17.	Applied AI Engineer (Artisan) San Francisco, United States+2 \| on-site \| full-time \| mid \| ai, llm, prompt engineering \| 1mo ago
18.	Applied AI Engineer — Greylock Investment Team (Greylock Partners) San Francisco, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| ai, llm, python \| 1mo ago
19.	Applied AI Engineer – Agentic Workflows (Cohere) San Francisco, California, United States \| remote \| full-time \| mid \| python, typescript, llm \| 1mo ago
20.	Applied AI Engineer (Abby Care) San Francisco, California, United States \| $140,000 – $220,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| python, aws, llms \| 2mo ago
21.	Agent Engineer (Arcade) San Francisco, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| python, typescript, llms \| 3w ago
22.	Founding AI Engineer (Raya Health) San Francisco, California, United States \| $100,000 – $120,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| openai models, anthropic models, fine-tuning \| 1mo ago
23.	Senior ML/AI Engineer (MrBeast) San Francisco, California, United States+2 \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| recommendation systems, personalization, ranking algorithms \| 1mo ago
24.	ML Engineer, Post-Training and Evaluation (Reflection AI) San Francisco, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| python, machine learning, model fine-tuning \| 1mo ago
25.	Software Engineer, AI (Ruli) San Francisco, California, United States \| $110,000 – $200,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| entry \| python, typescript, serverless \| 1mo ago
26.	Staff ML Engineer, AI Platform (Ambience Healthcare) San Francisco, California, United States \| $250,000 – $300,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| python, typescript, mlops \| 1mo ago
27.	Software Engineer - AI Agents (LiveFlow) San Francisco, California, United States \| remote \| full-time \| mid \| ai agents, llm, workflow automation \| 3w ago
28.	Software Engineer - AI (NovusMinds AI) San Francisco, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| python, typescript, go \| 1mo ago
29.	Software Engineer - AI (WealthyMinds AI) San Francisco, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| python, fastapi, langchain \| 1mo ago
30.	Founding Lead AI Engineer (Harnham) San Francisco, California, United States \| $250,000 – $300,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| llm, langchain, onnx \| 3w ago
31.	DevSecOps Engineer - AI (NovusMinds AI) San Francisco, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| devsecops, ai security, llm security \| 1mo ago
32.	Full Stack Engineer (AI Systems & Quality) at Segmental AI (Segmental AI) San Francisco, California, United States+2 \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| full stack, backend development, frontend development \| 1mo ago
33.	Software Engineer, Gen AI Platform (Abridge) San Francisco, California, United States \| $221,000 – $300,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| entry \| python, java, go \| 1mo ago
34.	Product, AI, and Platform Engineer (Hyperspell) San Francisco, California, United States \| $150,000 – $220,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| 4w ago
35.	Software Engineer - Voice AI (Inference Runtime) (Baseten Labs) San Francisco, California, United States \| $165,000 – $330,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| python, docker, kubernetes \| 1mo ago
36.	Forward Deployed AI Engineering – Future Opportunities (Wonderschool) San Francisco, California, United States \| $181,000 – $203,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| python, javascript, ai \| 1mo ago
37.	Staff Software Engineer, AI Operations (ŌURA) San Francisco, California, United States \| $233,000 – $267,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| python, node.js, react \| 1mo ago
38.	Full-Stack Engineer- Series B Ai · $200-300K + equity (Benchstack Ai) San Francisco, California, United States+1 \| $200,000 – $300,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| react, typescript, python \| 3w ago
39.	Full Stack Engineer (Crypto x AI) (Hyphen Connect) San Francisco, California, United States \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| golang, web3, blockchain \| 1mo ago
40.	Senior Software Engineer, AI Engineer (Midi Health) San Francisco, California, United States+1 \| $170,000 – $210,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| python, llm, machine learning \| 1mo ago
41.	Product Engineer (AirCaps) San Francisco, California, United States \| $100,000 – $150,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| android xr, kotlin, java \| 1mo ago
42.	Harness Engineer (Substrate) San Francisco, California, United States \| $140,000 – $200,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| llm, machine learning, ai \| 1mo ago
43.	Agentic Engineer (MGT Insurance) San Francisco, California, United States \| $150,000 – $300,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| ai agents, llms, autonomous systems \| 1mo ago
44.	Senior Software Engineer (AI Agents) (Arcadia) San Francisco, California, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| react, typescript, go \| 1mo ago
45.	Senior Frontend Engineer, AI (Airwallex) San Francisco, California, United States \| $147,000 – $252,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| react, typescript, vite \| 1mo ago
46.	Product Engineer (Imbue) San Francisco, California, United States \| $170,000 – $350,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| react, typescript, python \| 1mo ago
47.	Senior Software Engineer - AI Products (Gem) San Francisco, California, United States \| $190,000 – $260,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| llm, embedding models, search architecture \| 1mo ago
48.	Senior Software Engineer - AI Applications (Plaid) San Francisco, California, United States+2 \| $209,880 – $315,480/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| html, css, javascript \| 1mo ago
49.	Software Engineer (Cognition) San Francisco, California, United States \| From $260,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| mid \| python, distributed systems, ai \| 3w ago
50.	Software Engineer (Conduit) San Francisco, California, United States \| $150,000 – $200,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| python, django, svelte \| 1mo ago

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Frequently asked questions

What does a ai engineer in san francisco earn?: SF compensation runs at the top end of the band. Founding engineer offers commonly clear $200k base + 0.5–2% equity at seed-to-Series-A. The typical band for a ai engineer runs $160k–$260k base + significant equity.
Are AI engineer jobs in san francisco remote-friendly?: 7 of the current 144 listings (5%) allow remote work; the rest are on-site or hybrid in San Francisco.
What companies hire AI engineer jobs in san francisco?: Jobs Base aggregates listings across YC-backed startups, growth-stage companies, and selected larger companies hiring with builder-role characteristics.
What's the difference between a ai engineer and a regular ai engineer?: Jobs Base only lists builder roles. Positions where one person owns the product end-to-end. We filter out ticket-driven, narrowly-scoped roles even when the title matches. About 9% of listings scraped match this definition.