What does a software 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 software engineer runs $120k–$200k base, equity at startups.

Are software engineer jobs in san francisco remote-friendly?

0 of the current 21 listings (0%) allow remote work; the rest are on-site or hybrid in San Francisco.

What companies hire software 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 software engineer and a regular software 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.

Software Engineer Jobs in San Francisco

San Francisco software engineer hiring is the most over-broadcast slice of the market. Most listings are not actually builder roles. Filtering on the LLM classifier brings the volume way down to companies under 50 people where the role is genuinely end-to-end. Compensation at builder-role SF startups commonly runs $180k–$220k base with meaningful equity. Expect 4–5 day in-office at most pre-seed and Series A companies.

21 active median salary $220k

1.	Software Engineer - AI (NovusMinds AI) San Francisco, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| python, typescript, go \| 2mo ago
2.	Software Engineer, AI (Ruli) San Francisco, California, United States \| $110,000 – $200,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| entry \| python, typescript, serverless \| 2mo ago
3.	Software Engineer - AI (WealthyMinds AI) San Francisco, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| python, fastapi, langchain \| 2mo ago
4.	Software Engineer ($180K - $220K + Equity) at YC-backed AI Data Infrastructure Startup (CoffeeSpace) San Francisco, California, United States \| $180,000 – $220,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| next.js, react, python \| 2mo ago
5.	Software Engineer (Founding) (Moe) San Francisco, California, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| entry \| react native, typescript, aws lambda \| 3mo ago
6.	Software Engineer, Gen AI Platform (Abridge) San Francisco, California, United States \| $221,000 – $300,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| entry \| python, java, go \| 3mo ago
7.	Software Engineer (ShiftOS) San Francisco, California, United States \| $120,000 – $165,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| react, next.js, typescript \| 3mo ago
8.	Software Engineer – Frontend & UX Design (CompFly AI) San Francisco, California, United States \| $100,000 – $200,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| mid \| react, typescript, ux design \| 3mo ago
9.	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 \| 2mo ago
10.	Senior Software Engineer (AI Agents) (Arcadia) San Francisco, California, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| react, typescript, go \| 3mo ago
11.	Senior Software Engineer ($250K - $300K + Equity) at YC-backed AI Data Infrastructure Startup (CoffeeSpace) San Francisco, California, United States \| $250,000 – $300,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| next.js, react, node.js \| 3mo ago
12.	Founding Software Engineer (MIRA) San Francisco, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| llm, fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation (rag) \| 3mo ago
13.	Founding Software Engineer, Perception (Kovari Industries) San Francisco, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| c++, camera pipelines, computer vision \| 3mo ago
14.	Founding Software Engineer, Robot Learning (Kovari Industries) San Francisco, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| robotics, perception stack, sensor data \| 3mo ago
15.	Founding Engineer (Lance (YC W26)) San Francisco, California, United States \| $160,000 – $300,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| python, javascript, software development \| 2mo ago
16.	Forward Deployed Engineer (Reval) San Francisco, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| mid \| python, playwright, selenium \| 2mo ago
17.	AI Product Engineer (Speak) San Francisco, California, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| mid \| react, node, typescript \| 3mo ago
18.	Agentic Engineer (MGT Insurance) San Francisco, California, United States \| $150,000 – $300,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| ai agents, llms, autonomous systems \| 3mo ago
19.	Frontend Engineer (Pulsa) San Francisco, California, United States \| $180,000 – $220,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| entry \| frontend architecture, html, css \| 3mo ago
20.	Staff Engineer (Varick Agents) San Francisco, California, United States \| $220,000 – $280,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| systems design, ai/ml systems, inference \| 3mo ago
21.	Full-Stack Engineer (Actively AI) San Francisco, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| python, fastapi, react \| 3mo ago

Frequently asked questions

What does a software 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 software engineer runs $120k–$200k base, equity at startups.
Are software engineer jobs in san francisco remote-friendly?: 0 of the current 21 listings (0%) allow remote work; the rest are on-site or hybrid in San Francisco.
What companies hire software 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 software engineer and a regular software 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.