AI Engineering Jobs in San Francisco

Raindrop

Raindrop is seeking a founding Research Engineer to investigate the behavior of AI agents in production environments. This role is crucial for an early-stage team, involving setting the research direction, conducting experiments, and disseminating findings through publications. The focus will be on understanding agent failures, advancing simulation techniques, developing novel detection methods for undefined issues, and exploring high-impact open questions in AI agent behavior. The ideal candidate will possess strong communication skills, a passion for sharing research, deep expertise in areas like interpretability or AI safety, and the ability to prototype and ship experiments.

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NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Validation Engineer to join the DGX Server Product Engineering Team. In this role, you will collaborate with a team of hardware and software engineers to develop and implement sophisticated automated test plans for our leading GPU-accelerated computing products. You will be instrumental in ensuring the performance and reliability of cutting-edge AI hardware by developing and tuning workloads, adapting state-of-the-art AI training and inference frameworks, and applying architectural analysis to characterize workload behavior and identify bottlenecks. This position offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on the future of computing by working on AI-driven technologies.

$136k - $259k

CrewAI

CrewAI is seeking a Senior Full-Stack Engineer to build and enhance their Agent Management Platform. This platform is the control plane for deploying, monitoring, governing, and scaling AI agents in production, enabling customers to manage complex AI infrastructure, diagnose failures, and oversee automations. The role emphasizes frontend development, creating rich and intuitive user interfaces, while also owning the necessary backend changes to deliver complete features. You will collaborate closely with design and product teams, taking ownership from problem definition to launch, and contributing to the team's technical growth through code reviews and mentoring.

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Qualified, now part of Salesforce, is seeking a Software Engineering, SMTS - Qualified to join their high-ownership, high-velocity environment. The company is building at the frontier of AI + product, developing agentic software and embedding AI directly into their platform. Engineers have end-to-end ownership from idea to production, including scoping, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and iterative improvement. The Product Core team builds foundational product systems for prospect identification, meeting scheduling, data synchronization, workflow execution, and enterprise authentication, enabling customers and partners to extend the product through APIs and integrations. This role will also advance AI-assisted capabilities for meeting preparation, routing investigation, and product explainability.

$149k - $224k

Capital One is building responsible and reliable AI systems to transform banking. Leveraging extensive experience in machine learning and investments in technology, the company aims to be at the forefront of enterprise AI adoption. This role is part of the Intelligent Foundations and Experiences (IFX) team, which develops and deploys proprietary AI solutions that deliver value to millions of customers and empower internal teams. You will partner with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered products, contributing to the technical vision and roadmap of foundational AI systems.

$197k - $225k

Moveworks is seeking a Senior Staff Security Engineer to focus on AI Safeguards. In this role, you will be responsible for maintaining an up-to-date map of ML usage and safeguards across our products, and leading the security design for new ML features. You will actively test the boundaries of our safeguards against various attacks like jailbreaks, prompt injection, and toxicity, translating these findings into evaluation cases that are applied to every model, prompt, and safeguard change. Additionally, you will collaborate with ML engineers to design and build robust mitigations that remain effective even when detection fails, and define and report on key security metrics to demonstrate the efficacy of our safeguards. You will also stay abreast of the latest AI attack research, incorporating new techniques into our testing and mitigation strategies.

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Figure is an AI robotics company developing autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots with the goal of shipping robots with human-level intelligence for home and commercial markets. The Helix team is responsible for developing the core AI systems that power humanoid autonomy. We are seeking a Helix AI Engineer, Video Pretraining to lead the development of large-scale video foundation models trained on diverse real-world and robot-collected data. This role focuses on pretraining models that learn from raw video, capturing motion, interaction, and temporal structure to enable downstream capabilities in perception, prediction, and embodied reasoning.

$200k - $400k

Glean is seeking a Software Engineer to join its Data Foundations team. This team is responsible for the entire data ingestion and management layer that powers Glean's Search, AI Assistant, and Agent products. Your work will directly impact the quality, freshness, and trustworthiness of the knowledge that all Glean users interact with daily. You will be instrumental in building and scaling connectors to various SaaS and on-prem systems, handling complex data synchronization, and transforming raw enterprise content into structured representations optimized for search and LLM reasoning. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to advanced data source capabilities and expand AI product functionality through deep integrations.

$180k - $300k

Anthropic

Anthropic is seeking individuals for a paid, fixed-term research residency program, lasting between six weeks and six months. This program is designed for experienced professionals, such as professors in quantitative disciplines, technical founders, or staff-level engineers, who are looking to transition into full-time work focused on ensuring AI systems are safe and beneficial for humanity. While a background in machine learning is not strictly required, candidates should be motivated by AI safety and excited about empirical AI research. The residency offers a scoped project with direct mentorship from Anthropic researchers, access to Claude models and GPU compute, and connections to the AI safety and security research community.

$350k - $500k

The Voyage AI team at MongoDB is building state-of-the-art embedding models and rerankers for accurate and efficient unstructured data search and retrieval, crucial for RAG, recommendation systems, and semantic search. This team, comprised of AI researchers from top universities, was recently acquired by MongoDB and is integrating its advanced embedding models with MongoDB's data platform to create powerful end-to-end solutions. We are seeking a Staff Research Scientist to contribute to the development of next-generation AI models, tackling complex challenges at the intersection of machine learning research and the practical deployment of large neural networks.

$151k - $297k

As a multimodal engineer on the Imagine Model Team, you will develop cutting-edge AI experiences beyond text, with a strong focus on enabling high-fidelity understanding and generation across image and video modalities, while also incorporating audio where it enhances visual content. Responsibilities span data curation, modeling, training, inference serving, and product integration, covering both pretraining and post-training phases. You will collaborate closely with product teams to push model frontiers and deliver exceptional end-to-end user experiences.

$180k - $440k

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our DSX team. You will build and operate tooling that verifies AI infrastructure readiness for production, focusing on cluster readiness and certification software. This includes working with the open-source Cluster Readiness Engine to validate GPU clusters across Kubernetes and Slurm, measure training and inference performance, and produce trustworthy evidence for customers and partners. You will collaborate with leading AI companies and cloud providers to ensure their infrastructure performs as designed for critical workloads.

$184k - $357k

Salesforce is seeking a Senior / Lead Member of Technical Staff to join their AI Research team. This role involves innovating at the frontier of AI, creating new solutions, and defining new product categories with significant impact. You will work closely with software engineers, product managers, and solution engineers to design, implement, and iterate on agentic AI systems. The ideal candidate will possess exceptional engineering skills, deep ML knowledge, strategic thinking, and a dedication to building exceptional product experiences in a fast-paced environment.

$197k - $314k

Figure is an AI robotics company developing autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots with the goal of shipping human-level intelligence. The Helix team is seeking an experienced AI Training Performance Engineer to elevate model training. This role focuses on enhancing distributed training frameworks for large-scale model training, optimizing GPU kernels, evaluating different accelerator types, and co-designing models for maximum hardware utilization.

$200k - $400k

You'll join the Grok Voice Model team as a software engineer. You'll design, build, and run the software systems behind Grok Voice, which delivers natural, low-latency, multilingual spoken interactions across devices and in real time. The team owns the full engineering stack behind the model, from large-scale data processing to distributed training to production deployment.

$150k - $450k

NVIDIA Finance is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer and AI Enabling expert to drive measurable business outcomes through applied AI. This role sits at the intersection of finance functions, data platforms, and AI, partnering with various stakeholders to identify opportunities, build solutions, and foster adoption of new working methods. The ideal candidate will possess technical depth, business acumen, program leadership skills, and a strong capacity for enablement, moving comfortably from ambiguous problems to production-ready solutions and sustained adoption.

$116k - $230k

Salesforce is seeking a highly motivated, hands-on Lead Machine Learning Engineer to define and execute the technical ML strategy for a foundation machine learning platform team. This role involves full lifecycle development and optimization of ML pipelines, with a strong focus on MLOps, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and thorough monitoring. The lead will manage multiple ML pipelines, work closely with cross-functional teams, mentor others, and requires deep expertise in various ML technologies to deliver measurable business impact within a security and compliance framework. A critical component of this role is the proven ability to productize Generative AI solutions and agentic workflows to enhance the security posture and resilience for the organization and all Salesforce customers.

$173k - $260k

Figure is an AI robotics company developing autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots with the goal of shipping robots with human-level intelligence. These robots are engineered to perform a variety of tasks in both home and commercial markets. This role will focus on developing the perception systems for these robots, encompassing onboard computer vision, localization, visuomotor policies, and offline data annotation.

$200k - $400k

SpaceXSI is seeking an experienced Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Engineer to scale our security and AI governance compliance posture. This role involves setting organizational standards, designing and implementing controls, and automating compliance processes to enable a fast-moving team to ship safely. The ideal candidate will possess deep knowledge of modern security and AI frameworks, translating control requirements into technical implementations, and partnering with engineers to integrate compliance into architecture and CI/CD pipelines. You will collaborate across engineering, legal, product, and leadership to ensure our AI systems are audit-ready for enterprise, commercial, and public-sector environments.

$100k - $198k

NVIDIA DGX Cloud is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Bare Metal Infrastructure team. This role focuses on building and maintaining the software that transforms new hardware into reliable, production-ready GPU capacity for demanding AI workloads. The ideal candidate will have deep systems engineering expertise, understanding the intricacies of servers, firmware, BMCs, and networks. You will be involved in the entire bare-metal lifecycle, from new platform introduction and firmware qualification to automated provisioning, validation, and remediation. The team heavily utilizes AI agents and LLM tools in its development process, and we are looking for someone eager to expand these capabilities.

$152k - $288k

Figure is an AI robotics company developing autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots with the goal of shipping them with human-level intelligence for home and commercial markets. Our AI team is seeking Localization and Mapping Engineers to enable Figure humanoid robots to perform highly dynamic operations in demanding real-world environments.

$200k - $400k

NVIDIA Research is seeking PhD-level students for a research internship focused on groundbreaking work at the intersection of AI, GPU computing, Formal Methods, and Electronic Design Automation (EDA). This role offers the chance to influence the future of chip design, which is being transformed by AI and GPU acceleration. Interns will gain broad exposure to EDA algorithms, agentic AI, LLMs, and GPU computing, with specific research interests including GPU-accelerated optimization, physical design, formal methods, agentic AI, and reinforcement learning techniques.

$0k - $0k

Figure is an AI robotics company developing autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots with the goal of shipping them with human-level intelligence for home and commercial markets. The Helix team is looking for an experienced Data Infrastructure Engineer to advance the AI data infrastructure. This role involves building tools and software components for robot data management, including offloading, storage, manipulation, and access, while managing on-premise and cloud resources and providing production support. The ideal candidate will have experience building tools and infrastructure for large-scale autonomous or deep learning systems.

$150k - $400k

Figure is an AI robotics company developing autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots with the goal of shipping human-level intelligent robots for home and commercial markets. We are seeking an Android lead to take full ownership of Figure's consumer Android application, which will pair with proprietary hardware and handle high volumes of data. As the founding Android engineer, you will define the technical direction, launch the app, and build the team.

$200k - $400k