AI Engineering Jobs in San Francisco

Athelas

Commure is building the AI Operating System for healthcare, transforming how care is delivered, documented, and financed. Our platform encompasses Ambient AI for documentation, intelligent Agents for workflows, and autonomous RCM, all integrated with numerous EHRs. We are seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to help build and operate the foundation for our next-generation ambient AI product suite. This role involves working across audio ingestion, media processing, inference orchestration, distributed workflows, storage, observability, and cloud infrastructure, focusing on making complex systems dependable and ensuring they create a fast, reliable, and trustworthy experience for clinicians.

$210k - $275k

Databricks

As a Sr. Engineering Manager on the Agentic Service Platform team at Databricks, you will be responsible for building the foundational service frameworks and runtime infrastructure that power every microservice at Databricks. The team's goal is to make every service at Databricks fast, reliable, observable, and secure by default. This role involves owning the core agentic service platform, including multi-language service and RPC frameworks, core libraries, request context propagation, overload protection, and abstractions that extend full platform capabilities to any language. Your work will be high-leverage, with a single improvement benefiting thousands of production services and engineers across the company.

$229k - $314k

Sierra

Sierra is a leading platform for customer-facing AI agents, partnering with major brands to transform customer service and business growth. The Applied Research team focuses on enhancing the quality, speed, and cost-efficiency of AI agents. This involves advancing post-training techniques for open-weight models, pioneering new approaches in voice AI, and translating research breakthroughs into robust production systems. The role involves tackling complex AI and ML challenges, building agents capable of reasoning and executing intricate tasks, and determining the optimal balance between custom models and external intelligence to maximize customer value.

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Baseten

Baseten powers mission-critical inference for leading AI companies, enabling them to bring cutting-edge models into production. We are seeking distributed systems engineers and product-minded generalists to build the distributed runtime that powers large-scale LLM inference on Baseten. Our inference platform ensures customers can deploy and operate advanced models with industry-leading performance, scalability, and reliability. You will work across the entire stack, from the developer experience for model deployment to the systems orchestrating Kubernetes and routing traffic efficiently, ensuring every model on our platform is fast, reliable, and cost-efficient.

$180k - $360k

Wayve is building the leading AI platform for autonomous driving, pioneering an end-to-end AI approach that enables vehicles to learn directly from real-world experience. This role focuses on advancing reinforcement learning methods for end-to-end driving models, identifying opportunities where learning from reward or feedback can improve beyond behavior cloning. You will take promising ideas from design through large-scale experiments, rigorous evaluation, and integration into their best driving models, contributing to the development of embodied intelligence that moves real vehicles safely.

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OpenAI

The Cooperative AI team is building an AI-powered knowledge system that evolves and learns alongside OpenAI's products, systems, and customers. This team leverages state-of-the-art models and technologies to automate robust operations, supporting both internal and external customers globally. The work focuses on proving impact through internal use cases, particularly in knowledge systems, automation systems, and automated agent systems, before scaling them. We are looking for Software Engineers passionate about blending production-ready platform architecture with new technologies and paradigms. You will push the boundaries of OpenAI's newest technologies to enable functional and delightful interactions and automations, with a focus on foundational details like data models, architecture, and security to enable great products.

$266k - $445k

We are a dedicated research lab focused on building, understanding, using, and risk-managing foundation models. Our mission is to advance AI research, cultivate the next generation of AI builders, and make significant contributions to a knowledge-driven economy. As part of our team, you will work on the core of cutting-edge foundation model training alongside world-class researchers, data scientists, and engineers. You will tackle fundamental and impactful challenges in AI development, contributing to groundbreaking AI solutions that have the potential to reshape industries. Strategic and innovative problem-solving skills are essential for establishing our institution as a global hub for high-performance computing in deep learning.

$150k - $450k

Mercor is seeking a Research Scientist Intern to contribute to cutting-edge research in AI. This role focuses on post-training techniques, reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR), data generation, and model evaluation. You will investigate how different datasets, rewards, and training methods influence the capabilities and behavior of large language models. The internship involves designing experiments, developing new evaluation methodologies, analyzing model failures, and improving aspects like tool use, agentic behavior, and real-world reasoning. You will collaborate with researchers and domain experts, with the potential for your work to support publications and the development of advanced AI systems.

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Modal is building a new infrastructure layer for AI, focusing on the demands of AI workloads that previous infrastructure couldn't support. Our platform provides instant GPU access, sub-second container starts, and native storage, enabling customers to serve low-latency inference, fine-tune models, and access production-ready sandboxes at scale. We are experiencing rapid growth, with a significant increase in annualized run rate and a recent Series D funding round. Our team comprises experienced engineers and researchers from diverse backgrounds, including creators of popular open-source projects and academic researchers.

$220k - $300k

Ironclad is building AI solutions on a massive scale, focusing on the critical domain of enterprise contracts. The Intelligence Platform team specifically owns Agent Assistant, Conversational Search, and Content Understanding, which are core AI capabilities enabling customers and AI agents to effectively interact with contract data. This role involves owning the architecture that integrates Large Language Models (LLMs) with retrieval systems to address complex questions about customer contracts. You will be instrumental in setting technical direction, partnering with product and science leaders, and driving improvements in search quality through rigorous evaluation.

$188k - $270k

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our team focused on enabling CUDA Math Libraries on new and specialized platforms. This role is crucial for ensuring that NVIDIA's math libraries deliver high functionality and performance across a wide range of targets, supporting the AI, data analytics, and scientific simulation industries. You will be responsible for the integration, functional qualification, compliance, and performance readiness of these libraries on emerging platforms, collaborating closely with core library and devops engineering teams. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the forefront of application performance in the AI era.

$152k - $288k

General Motors (GM) is driving the future of mobility with advanced self-driving and electric vehicle technologies. The AV ML Infra team builds ML infrastructure to support AI and ML innovation across various teams, enabling scalable ML experimentation and enhancing ML engineer productivity. This Principal AI/ML Engineer role will lead the AV ML Infra team, shaping long-term vision and execution strategies for GM's AI and ML efforts. The focus is on developing infrastructure products that empower teams to perform machine learning and data science at scale, rather than applying ML models for specific tasks.

$276k - $341k

Salesforce Enterprise Security is seeking an Enterprise Application Security Engineer for their Secure AI team. In this role, you will collaborate with business stakeholders and technology partners to ensure AI tooling meets Salesforce's security requirements as AI is deployed at scale. You will have the opportunity to identify emerging threats, design processes that balance security and business agility, and share your knowledge through internal events, conferences, and research.

$149k - $260k

Capital One is seeking an Applied Researcher to join the AI Foundations team, focusing on LLM customization and finetuning. This role involves partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered products, leveraging technologies like Pytorch and Huggingface to analyze large datasets. You will be instrumental in building AI foundation models through all development phases, from design to implementation, and engaging in applied research to advance customer experiences. The position requires translating complex work into tangible business goals and collaborating with senior researchers on technical reports and conference submissions.

$219k - $250k

Sierra

Sierra is seeking a Software Engineer for its Inference team to build the systems that power their AI agents. This role focuses on making foundation models fast, reliable, and efficient at scale. You will define the inference architecture, working on systems for serving, routing, capacity management, and optimization for latency, reliability, and cost. This is a systems-first role at the intersection of distributed infrastructure and AI, requiring strong distributed systems fundamentals and experience with complex systems problems.

$230k - $390k

Baseten

Baseten powers mission-critical inference for leading AI companies, enabling them to bring cutting-edge models into production. We are seeking inference performance engineers to make demanding AI workloads run faster and more efficiently. You will work across the entire stack, from the inference engine and runtime through scheduling, serving, and routing, applying advanced techniques to optimize performance. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced startup environment and is eager to make significant contributions to LLM inference.

$180k - $360k

Wayve is building the leading AI platform for autonomous driving, pioneering an end-to-end AI approach that enables vehicles to learn directly from real-world experience. This role is within the Core Model Safety team, which builds foundational capabilities for assisted and automated driving, focusing on collision avoidance, model understanding, and robustness under failure. You will work in a focused, high-impact senior team with strong ownership, access to large-scale training and fleet data, and close partners in research, simulation, evaluation, and applied engineering. As a Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer, you will lead the technical direction and delivery of learned emergency manoeuvre prediction and collision detection models. These are rare, high-consequence events that place unusual demands on data, modelling, and validation. You will take the program from problem definition through modelling, evaluation, integration, and evidence for deployment, driving core model safety roadmap themes and owning the full lifecycle from research to offline/online experiments to technology transfer.

$312k - $389k

We are a dedicated research lab focused on building, understanding, using, and risk-managing foundation models. Our mission is to advance research, nurture the next generation of AI builders, and drive transformative contributions to a knowledge-driven economy. As part of our team, you will have the opportunity to work on the core of cutting-edge foundation model training alongside world-class researchers, data scientists, and engineers. You will tackle fundamental and impactful challenges in AI development, participating in the creation of groundbreaking AI solutions that have the potential to reshape entire industries. Strategic and innovative problem-solving skills are essential for establishing our institution as a global hub for high-performance computing in deep learning.

$150k - $450k

The Autonomous Vehicle (AV) organization is dedicated to advancing the development of autonomous vehicles through cutting-edge simulation technologies and novel iterative development processes. The Software Validation team focuses on unlocking software launches and continuous release decisions via novel simulation V&V methodologies and targeted vehicle testing. As a Machine Learning Validation Engineer on the Software Validation team within the AV organization, you will play a critical role in the execution of validation efforts for autonomous vehicle behavior. You will leverage your skillsets to craft guidance on behavioral performance and to design and implement complex V&V strategies. You will work with a team of engineers to define best practices, design and execute innovative analyses to establish performance requirements, drive innovation in testing, and verify the safety and performance of autonomous systems. You will be responsible for shaping the future of evaluation methodologies for AI systems and other ADAS features, architecting solutions that meet the testing needs of AI developers, systems engineers, and safety stakeholders.

$139k - $163k

Wayve is building the leading AI platform for autonomous driving, pioneering an end-to-end AI approach that enables vehicles to learn directly from real-world experience. This role is on the Model Foundations team, which builds the geometric vision and 3D foundation models that underpin Wayve's autonomous driving systems. You will work at the intersection of large-scale deep learning, geometric computer vision, and real-world robotics to develop models that learn 3D structure and dynamics from fleet-scale sensor data. As a Principal Engineer, you will be a hands-on technical leader, setting direction for geometric vision, prototyping and training new model architectures, building the data and supervision needed to scale them, and taking successful ideas through to deployment on real vehicles.

$370k - $420k

We are a dedicated research lab focused on building, understanding, using, and risk-managing foundation models. Our mission is to advance research, nurture the next generation of AI builders, and drive transformative contributions to a knowledge-driven economy. As part of our team, you will work on the core of cutting-edge foundation model training alongside world-class researchers, data scientists, and engineers. You will tackle fundamental and impactful challenges in AI development, contributing to groundbreaking AI solutions that have the potential to reshape entire industries. Strategic and innovative problem-solving skills are essential for establishing our institution as a global hub for high-performance computing in deep learning.

$150k - $450k

The Autonomous Vehicle (AV) organization is dedicated to advancing the development of autonomous vehicles through cutting-edge simulation technologies and novel iterative development processes. The Software Validation team focuses on unlocking software launches and continuous release decisions via novel simulation V&V methodologies and targeted vehicle testing. As a Machine Learning Validation Engineer on the Software Validation team within the AV organization, you will play a critical role in the execution of validation efforts for autonomous vehicle behavior. You will leverage your skillsets to craft guidance on behavioral performance and to design and implement complex V&V strategies. You will work with a team of engineers to define best practices, design and execute innovative analyses to establish performance requirements, drive innovation in testing, and verify the safety and performance of autonomous systems. You will be responsible for shaping the future of evaluation methodologies for AI systems and other ADAS features, architecting solutions that meet the testing needs of AI developers, systems engineers, and safety stakeholders.

$104k - $124k

Wayve is seeking a Robotics Software Engineer to join our Online Calibration team and support scaling across our autonomous vehicle fleet. You will turn calibration and estimation methods into reliable, observable, and resource-efficient components of the on-vehicle runtime. Working across calibration, state estimation, robot software, hardware acceleration, and vehicle-platform teams, you will help shape the architecture and roadmap for a foundational capability that directly affects vehicle performance, resilience, and safety. Your day-to-day will involve developing robust production software for online calibration, operating continuously on constrained, hardware-accelerated platforms, and working with asynchronous sensor data, accelerator-produced features, and noisy, time-varying calibration parameters, balancing correctness, debuggability, and runtime efficiency.

$276k - $294k

Wayve is building the AI platform for autonomous driving, enabling vehicles to learn directly from real-world experience. This role is on the Enrichment and Curation team, which transforms fleet-scale driving data into high-quality training datasets, enrichments, and evaluation benchmarks for the company's end-to-end AI Driver and foundation models. You will be instrumental in developing the embodied intelligence that moves real vehicles safely and the ecosystem that future machines will run on.

$312k - $420k