What does a product 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 product engineer runs $140k–$210k base + meaningful equity.

Are product engineer jobs in san francisco remote-friendly?

10 of the current 72 listings (14%) allow remote work; the rest are on-site or hybrid in San Francisco.

What companies hire product 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 product engineer and a regular product 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.

Product Engineer Jobs in San Francisco

San Francisco product engineer postings come heavily from Series B-and-later companies that have outgrown the founding-engineer playbook but haven't (yet) split product, design, and engineering into separate departments. Compensation is among the highest in the role globally. Total comp commonly $250k–$400k including equity at well-funded companies. The SF version of the role often involves more direct customer contact than equivalent NYC or remote postings.

72 active 14% remote median salary $230k

1.	Product Engineer and Founding GTM Lead (Kinelo) San Francisco, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| 1mo ago
2.	Product Engineer (Y Combinator) San Francisco, California, United States \| $185,000 – $485,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| rails, react, full-stack \| 1mo ago
3.	Product Engineer (AirCaps) San Francisco, California, United States \| $100,000 – $150,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| android xr, kotlin, java \| 1mo ago
4.	Product Engineer (Imbue) San Francisco, California, United States \| $170,000 – $350,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| react, typescript, python \| 2mo ago
5.	Product Engineer - Special Projects (Nash) San Francisco, California, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| python, postgresql, production systems \| 2mo ago
6.	AI Product Engineer (Speak) San Francisco, California, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| mid \| react, node, typescript \| 2mo ago
7.	Product Growth Engineer (Firecrawl) San Francisco, California, United States+2 \| $120,000 – $220,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| react, typescript, next.js \| 1mo ago
8.	Senior Product Engineer (Chestnut) San Francisco, California, United States+1 \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| go, typescript, react \| 1mo ago
9.	Product, AI, and Platform Engineer (Hyperspell) San Francisco, California, United States \| $150,000 – $220,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| 1mo ago
10.	Founding Product Engineer (Sparkles) San Francisco, California, United States \| $150,000 – $200,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| typescript, react, ai tools \| 1mo ago
11.	Frontend Engineer, Product (Distyl) San Francisco, California, United States+1 \| $150,000 – $250,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| entry \| typescript, react, component libraries \| 1mo ago
12.	Software Engineer - Product (Mid to Senior) (Julius) San Francisco, California, United States \| $150,000 – $200,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| mid \| react, next.js, tailwind css \| 1mo ago
13.	Software Engineer - Product (New Grad) (Julius) San Francisco, California, United States \| $130,000 – $150,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| react, next.js, tailwind css \| 1mo ago
14.	Marketing Productivity Engineer (Sigma Computing) San Francisco, United States+2 \| $130,000 – $165,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| performance marketing, growth engineering, marketing operations \| 4w ago
15.	Jony Ive (Entangl) San Francisco, California, United States \| $120,000 – $180,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| svelte, prototyping, product design \| 1mo ago
16.	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
17.	Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Product (Slash) San Francisco, California, United States \| $400,000 – $700,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| database schema, api design, backend development \| 1mo ago
18.	Design Engineer (Ramp) San Francisco, California, United States \| $172,000 – $440,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| mid \| react, typescript, javascript \| 4w ago
19.	Founding Member (OpenWork) San Francisco, California, United States+1 \| $150,000 – $200,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| software engineering, product design \| 1mo ago
20.	Software Engineer (Column) San Francisco, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| mid \| infrastructure, backend, product \| 1mo ago
21.	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
22.	Sr. AI Engineer (Greylock Partners) San Francisco, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| agentic applications, llm, rag pipelines \| 1mo ago
23.	Growth Engineer (AthenaHQ) San Francisco, California, United States \| $110,000 – $165,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| claude code, ai tools, analytics \| 1mo ago
24.	Software Engineer, Agents (Benchling) San Francisco, California, United States \| $173,369 – $234,388/yr \| remote \| full-time \| entry \| python, react, llm \| 1mo ago
25.	Founding Engineer (Kiloforge) San Francisco, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| 1mo ago
26.	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
27.	Software Engineer, Stablecoin (Slash) San Francisco, California, United States \| $200,000 – $300,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| full-stack development, api design, database migration \| 1mo ago
28.	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 \| 4w ago
29.	AI Engineer (Distyl) San Francisco, California, United States+1 \| $150,000 – $250,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| python, llms, ai systems \| 1mo ago
30.	Founding Backend Engineer (Plaud) San Francisco, California, United States \| $160,000 – $190,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| python, fastapi, go \| 1mo ago
31.	Founding Engineer (Chasi) San Francisco, California, United States \| $120,000 – $170,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| typescript, react, next.js \| 1mo ago
32.	Software Engineer, Growth (Slash) San Francisco, California, United States \| $350,000 – $550,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| mid \| software engineering, fintech, product development \| 1mo ago
33.	Software Engineer (Conduit) San Francisco, California, United States \| $150,000 – $200,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| python, django, svelte \| 1mo ago
34.	Frontend Engineer (React \| TypeScript) (Epic Placements) San Francisco, California, United States \| $200,000 – $270,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| react, typescript, next.js \| 1mo ago
35.	Senior ML/AI Engineer (MrBeast) San Francisco, California, United States+2 \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| recommendation systems, personalization, ranking algorithms \| 1mo ago
36.	Software Engineer - AI Agents (LiveFlow) San Francisco, California, United States \| remote \| full-time \| mid \| ai agents, llm, workflow automation \| 4w ago
37.	Applied AI Engineer — Greylock Investment Team (Greylock Partners) San Francisco, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| ai, llm, python \| 1mo ago
38.	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
39.	Software Engineer (SF) (Fractional AI) San Francisco, California, United States \| $160,000 – $220,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| software engineering, ai systems, system design \| 1mo ago
40.	Member of Technical Staff — Head of Product (US) (naïve) San Francisco, California, United States+1 \| $200,000 – $250,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| executive \| next.js, typescript, python \| 1mo ago
41.	Frontend Engineer (Pulsa) San Francisco, California, United States \| $180,000 – $220,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| entry \| frontend architecture, html, css \| 1mo ago
42.	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
43.	Senior Full Stack Engineer (Strada) San Francisco, California, United States \| $160,000 – $230,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| typescript, react, node.js \| 1mo ago
44.	Founding Engineer (Python, Typescript, React) (Trinity Consulting Group) San Francisco, California, United States \| $150,000 – $180,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| python, typescript, react \| 2mo ago
45.	Founding Full-Stack Engineer (Empathy Talent) San Francisco, California, United States \| $150,000 – $230,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| react, typescript, node.js \| 1mo ago
46.	Founding Engineer (Eve) San Francisco, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| typescript, sveltekit, cloudflare workers \| 1mo ago
47.	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
48.	Full-Stack Engineer (Actively AI) San Francisco, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| python, fastapi, react \| 1mo ago
49.	Machine Learning Engineer (Shields Group Search) San Francisco, California, United States \| $180,000 – $260,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| mid \| transformer architectures, pytorch, deep learning \| 1mo ago
50.	Senior / Staff Software Engineer (SF/NY) (Fractional AI) San Francisco, California, United States+1 \| $230,000 – $350,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| software engineering, ai systems, system design \| 1mo ago

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Frequently asked questions

What does a product 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 product engineer runs $140k–$210k base + meaningful equity.
Are product engineer jobs in san francisco remote-friendly?: 10 of the current 72 listings (14%) allow remote work; the rest are on-site or hybrid in San Francisco.
What companies hire product 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 product engineer and a regular product 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.