AI Engineering Jobs in San Francisco

This role focuses on working directly with customers to build and deploy production AI agents, tackling complex problems in applied AI. You will help customers adopt innovative agentic engineering practices and ensure they ship reliable agents into production quickly. The feedback loop is fast, the impact is visible, and your work directly shapes how AI agents are built in the real world. This is a hands-on, highly technical role that partners closely with customer engineers across the full lifecycle, from pre-sales evaluations to post-deployment advisory work, focusing on achieving technical wins and co-designing agent architectures.

$160k - $185k

Baseten

Baseten is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a portion of their Inference Performance team. This team is responsible for accelerating and optimizing the performance of demanding AI workloads on GPUs. The role involves managing and growing a team of inference performance engineers focused on the inference engine and runtime, including areas like kernels, scheduling, batching, KV-cache management, and speculative decoding. It's a hands-on technical leadership position where you will define the team's direction, solve complex problems, and contribute technically to GPU performance while also focusing on hiring, developing, and supporting your team members. Your team's work will directly impact customer model inference speed and serving efficiency, and you will play a key role in shaping the team's structure as it scales.

$240k - $270k

Capital One is seeking an AI Engineer to join the Intelligent Foundations and Experiences (IFX) team, which is central to bringing the company's AI vision to life. This role involves partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered products that transform how associates work and customers interact with the bank. The IFX team builds and deploys proprietary AI solutions that are crucial to the business and deliver value to millions of customers, empowering teams across Capital One to enhance their products with AI in responsible and scalable ways.

$230k - $262k

The Developer Experience team at Moveworks builds platforms that empower developers working on the Moveworks Agentic AI platform. This role is central to owning the technical foundation for the team's output, focusing on designing and building complex platform challenges related to generality, scalability, and extensibility, all while prioritizing the developer experience. The ideal candidate thinks in systems, ships impactful solutions, and effectively collaborates with and influences others.

$191k - $334k

Redwood Research is dedicated to ensuring the safe development of artificial intelligence through rigorous technical research, thoughtful analysis, and strategic advising. As an empirical researcher, you will design and execute experiments on frontier language models. Your work will focus on assessing AI risks and evaluating the effectiveness of safety measures designed to mitigate them.

$350k - $850k

Knowtex is seeking an ML Engineer / Researcher focused on Large Language Models to contribute to the next generation of their AI stack. This role involves developing and optimizing models for clinical documentation and structured clinical reasoning, aiming to enhance quality, cost, latency, and control. The position is research-heavy with a direct path to production, requiring the design of experiments, building datasets and evaluation systems, and fine-tuning and post-training models. The successful candidate will collaborate closely with engineering and clinical teams to deploy solutions at scale and will play a key role in shaping Knowtex's long-term LLM strategy.

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Reducto

Reducto is seeking a Software Engineer for its Platform team to own the infrastructure behind the company's core API. This role involves ensuring document understanding systems are fast, reliable, and cost-efficient at scale. You will work across Python services, queues, model-serving, Kubernetes, observability, and developer tooling to enhance the platform's robustness. This is a high-leverage infrastructure position for someone who has built and operated production systems, prioritizes latency, reliability, and cost, and is adept at using modern LLM coding tools.

$200k - $325k

Crusoe

Crusoe is seeking a Staff Software Engineer specializing in Linux Kernel Security to strengthen the security of their AI cloud infrastructure. This role involves implementing kernel security enhancements, triaging CVEs, securing the boot path, and establishing CI guardrails. You will research vulnerabilities, advocate for secure coding practices, and conduct security-focused code reviews. The position also includes utilizing and developing security auditing tools, supporting incident response, and balancing security with system performance. A key aspect is contributing to the security of Cloud Hypervisor and advancing confidential computing primitives. This role requires close collaboration with other engineering teams and providing technical leadership and mentorship.

$215k - $260k

Athelas

Commure is building the AI Operating System for healthcare, transforming how care is delivered, documented, and financed. Our platform integrates Ambient AI, intelligent Agents, and autonomous Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) to address the $1 trillion administrative burden in healthcare. We empower over 500,000 clinicians across 500+ organizations, handling billions in claims and millions of patient interactions. Our recent $70M raise at a $7B valuation and recognition on the Fortune Future 50 list highlight our significant market impact and innovation. The AI Integration Team is central to this mission, ensuring seamless data flow between our core RCM and Ambient products and over 40 Electronic Medical Records (EMRs). This role involves fetching and writing vital healthcare data via HL7, directly impacting the efficiency and accuracy of care delivery and administrative processes. We seek a Fullstack Engineer who thrives on end-to-end ownership, rapid deployment, and making a tangible difference in patient care.

$130k - $190k

Applied Intuition

Applied Intuition is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to advance the core reconstruction technology behind their Neural Simulation product. This role involves transforming real-world driving data into high-fidelity simulation environments, pushing the boundaries of reconstruction quality, scaling data processing, and enhancing product utility for customers training autonomy systems. The engineer will directly influence the development of next-generation autonomous vehicles for major OEMs, working at the intersection of 3D computer vision, graphics, and machine learning to bring cutting-edge research into production and solve complex simulation challenges in Physical AI.

$190k - $260k

Databricks

At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data and AI teams to solve the world's toughest problems by building and running the world's best data and AI infrastructure platform. As part of the AI Platform team, you will build the substrate that powers everything from data apps, AI agents, model training, model serving, and vector search. You will be joining a high-agency, high-visibility team operating at the frontier of AI infrastructure with deep ties to research, product, and real-world enterprise use cases. Databricks Mosaic AI is one of our fastest-growing businesses helping thousands of our customers democratize AI within their organizations, and we are building the infrastructure that powers the next generation of AI.

$166k - $225k

Usul

Usul is a Silicon Valley AI lab dedicated to rebuilding the infrastructure that equips the Western world, enabling faster technology procurement for the US and its allies. We are seeking a full stack engineer to work on both our government-facing data and workflows platform, and our commercial platform that assists defense companies and startups in winning government contracts. This role involves building intuitive user interfaces and contributing to mission-critical national security solutions.

$160k - $240k

AgentMail

AgentMail is building the communication infrastructure for AI agents, enabling them to communicate and operate independently across various services. We've processed hundreds of millions of emails and serve developers building ambitious agentic products. We are seeking a Founding Product Engineer to define the customer experience of AgentMail. This role involves owning products from initial customer problems to daily developer use, encompassing end-to-end development across frontend, APIs, backend services, data models, and infrastructure. You will engage directly with customers, translate their challenges into product solutions, and shape the developer experience. The role requires rapid prototyping, meticulous attention to detail in product design and interaction, and contributing to the product engineering culture.

$175k - $250k

At Capital One, we are building responsible and reliable AI systems to transform banking. Our team, Intelligent Foundations and Experiences (IFX), is at the forefront of this mission, developing and deploying proprietary AI solutions that impact millions of customers. We work with a cross-functional team to advance AI science and engineering, empowering other teams across the company to enhance their products with AI in responsible and scalable ways. You will help bring the transformative power of emerging AI capabilities to reimagine how we serve our customers and businesses.

$197k - $225k

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Keynote Developer to join the Cross-Cloud Marketing Demo team. This role involves translating leadership's vision into working prototypes and building tools for global teams to run live demos. You will be responsible for architecting end-to-end demo environments and multi-product flows, often showcasing them live on stage at major events. The position requires close collaboration with product marketing, developers, and designers to ensure alignment on what can be safely presented.

$149k - $224k

GM is seeking a Senior Performance Engineer to join the AV Capacity and Performance Engineering team within the AV Infrastructure organization. This role is critical in supporting the development of autonomous vehicles by providing input into large-scale ML infrastructure strategy, advising on cloud budget decisions, identifying and executing optimization projects, and offering capacity planning and engineering expertise. The team's mission is to ensure efficient and scalable ML infrastructure for GM's autonomous vehicle research and development.

$145k - $261k

Athelas

Commure is building the AI Operating System for healthcare, transforming how care is delivered, documented, and financed. Our platform integrates Ambient AI, intelligent Agents, and autonomous RCM, all on a single AI-native platform connected to over 60 Electronic Health Records (EHRs). We are at the forefront of reducing healthcare's administrative burden, with over 500,000 clinicians and 500+ organizations trusting our solutions to manage billions in claims and millions of patient interactions. This role is crucial for our AI Integration Team, which ensures seamless data flow between our core products and over 40 EHRs, enabling efficient and accurate healthcare data exchange via HL7.

$180k - $230k

Join our Conversation Engine team to scale and optimize a cutting-edge Generative AI product that provides instant assistance to enterprise users. You will work at the core of Moveworks' Generative AI product, focusing on scaling and optimizing it for the enterprise solution space. We encourage innovative ideas to solve unsolved problems, collaborating closely with machine learning experts and cross-functional teams to rapidly iterate on new ideas and leverage user behavior data. Your challenge will be to scale and optimize our conversation engine to support hundreds of millions of users across multiple chat channels and use cases, enhancing our end-to-end product infrastructure with engineering quality and robustness.

$176k - $308k

Applied Intuition

We are seeking senior machine learning engineers to advance the generative modeling technology behind our Neural Simulation product. This role involves pushing the boundaries of diffusion and video generation models to create realistic, controllable sensor data and augment real-world logs with new scenarios. Your work will directly influence the development of next-generation data-driven autonomous vehicles for leading OEMs. This position is ideal for engineers passionate about the intersection of generative modeling, computer vision, and machine learning, who are eager to bring cutting-edge research into production and address complex simulation challenges in Physical AI.

$185k - $260k

Databricks

Databricks is seeking a dedicated Senior Engineering Manager to help grow the AI/BI Dashboard product and service platform. This role involves tackling challenging full-stack and backend problems, focusing on making agentic dashboard authoring and AI insights fast and performant while maintaining high quality. The manager will enable the creation and consumption of Dashboards and BI features across the entire Databricks platform and scale the service to a significantly larger user base. A key aspect of this role is applying AI and LLM technology directly into the product surface and guiding the team to balance quality with performance and cost.

$229k - $314k

Usul

Usul is a Silicon Valley AI lab dedicated to rebuilding the infrastructure that equips the Western world, enabling faster technology procurement for governments and commercial clients. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will work directly with operators and government clients to develop and implement AI-driven data and workflows for technology acquisition. You will also contribute to our commercial platform, assisting major defense companies and startups in securing government contracts.

$160k - $240k

Databricks

Databricks is seeking a Senior Developer Advocate for AI and Machine Learning to be the voice of the company within the Bay Area AI community. This role serves as a critical link between Databricks' engineering teams and the global community of data scientists and AI engineers. The ideal candidate is a hands-on practitioner in generative AI, agents, and MLOps, passionate about enabling others to build, evaluate, govern, and ship agentic systems on the Databricks Data + AI Platform. You will translate community insights into production-ready reference implementations, demos, and content, fostering genuine relationships with AI practitioners and influencing product roadmaps.

$149k - $205k

Athelas

Commure is building the AI Operating System for healthcare, transforming a $1 trillion administrative burden. Our platform integrates Ambient AI, intelligent Agents, and autonomous RCM to streamline care delivery, documentation, and financing. We are seeking an iOS Engineer to help shape and build our next-generation ambient AI platform for healthcare. This role focuses on creating mobile experiences that help clinicians by automatically capturing, understanding, and structuring clinical conversations in real time. You will own meaningful product areas from idea to launch, collaborating with cross-functional teams to translate emerging technology into intuitive and dependable mobile workflows. The ideal candidate possesses strong mobile product judgment, native platform depth, and the ability to learn across the stack, with a focus on creating fast, clear, trustworthy, and natural user experiences in a clinical environment.

$170k - $230k

Databricks

Databricks is seeking an SAP Technical Lead to spearhead the technical architecture and delivery of their SAP platform. This role involves defining the technical vision for a clean-core S/4HANA landscape, guiding the engineers who develop on it, and architecting the AI layer that connects SAP with the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. The objective is to establish standards, make strategic build-versus-adopt decisions, and ensure all deliverables are secure, performant, and scalable. The SAP platform will underpin core finance processes like Record-to-Report, Source-to-Pay, and Order-to-Cash, with a focus on leveraging SAP BTP and the Databricks Lakehouse for automated, AI-driven workflows that maintain a clean, upgradable, and fast core.

$198k - $273k