AI Engineer Jobs in San Francisco

Perplexity AI

The AI Acceleration team is dedicated to making Perplexity the premier platform for building and deploying AI agents. We develop the essential infrastructure that engineers and agents rely on, while also pioneering novel methods for agents to write, test, review, and ship code. Our work empowers teams to transition from concept to production more rapidly, without sacrificing quality or reliability. We oversee the entire development lifecycle at Perplexity, from the initial coding environment to the production deployment systems. This encompasses local and cloud coding environments, build and test infrastructure, code review processes, and release management. Furthermore, we are constructing autonomous software development systems where agents handle increasingly complex engineering tasks, supported by explicit evaluation, verification, and safety protocols. We are responsible for both the underlying infrastructure and the workflows that ensure these systems are effective.

$250k - $405k

Anthropic

Anthropic is seeking experienced, product-minded backend engineers to lead the development of systems powering user experiences across their API, Claude Code, and Claude.ai. In this role, you will independently scope complex, multi-month projects, guide technical and product decisions, and drive alignment with product, engineering, and research teams. You will make critical architectural decisions impacting the reliability and scalability of systems serving hundreds of thousands of users, and design processes to enhance team effectiveness. You will remain hands-on with code and models, contributing directly to Anthropic's mission of creating reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

$405k - $485k

Glean is seeking a product-minded, hands-on, and technically strong Tech Lead Manager to establish and lead its Product Growth engineering function. This role offers the chance to shape a new growth engineering capability at a critical time for Glean as it expands the reach and impact of its Work AI platform. You will operate at the intersection of product engineering, data, experimentation, and applied AI to drive user discovery, adoption, and engagement with Glean. The Product Growth team is responsible for the complete user journey, from initial discovery and quick value realization to habit formation and expanded product usage. This encompasses the entire lifecycle from invitation and first sign-in through activation, onboarding, engagement, re-entry, and broader adoption across teams and functions. The team focuses on key entry points and touchpoints, including login and setup flows, the home page, navigation, desktop and browser experiences, in-product education, lifecycle communications, and product-led expansion, all aimed at making Glean more discoverable, understandable, and regularly used.

$250k - $300k

Vercel

As a Senior Forward-Deployed Engineer on the Professional Services team, you will embed with developer teams at strategic enterprise customers to lead frontend migrations, performance work, and production AI builds. Success looks like production code live in customer environments, customer teams able to extend it on their own, and a wider partnership with each account. This is a remote role open to candidates in the US, with occasional travel to customer sites.

$137k - $207k

Asana

Asana's AI organization is building the platform and products that integrate AI into how teams work. This includes AI Teammates, an orchestration layer for agents, and the AI platform supporting all Asana AI features, covering model access, retrieval, context, evaluation, and production quality. We are seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead technical direction across this organization, tackling complex cross-team challenges, making critical architectural decisions, and shaping the future of AI within Asana's products. This role involves influencing strategy across multiple engineering teams located in San Francisco, New York, Vancouver, and Warsaw.

$297k - $350k

Stripe

The Link team is building the premier consumer network for next-generation commerce, leveraging over 300 million registered consumers to pioneer the future of Identity, Consumer Finance, and AI-driven transactions. The Consumer Preference team specifically focuses on enhancing the Link experience across web applications and agents, creating a wallet product that empowers consumers with financial insights, rewards, and secure transaction capabilities. As a Staff Full Stack Engineer, you will lead the design and delivery of new consumer features, taking ambiguous product opportunities from initial concept through validation and final launch. This hands-on role involves owning large, cross-functional projects, leading engineering teams, and making critical architectural decisions to balance quality with rapid iteration.

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CoreWeave

CoreWeave is seeking an early member for its Applied Training team to build the research infrastructure that enables AI pioneers to train models with confidence. This role addresses the problem of AI labs spending valuable research time on cluster setup and operations instead of innovation. You will contribute to the roadmap and develop solutions for our Kubernetes-native research cluster platform or sandbox client for agentic training and evaluation, aiming to provide frontier lab-level infrastructure to all CoreWeave customers.

$182k - $242k

Fin, now part of Salesforce, is seeking Forward Deployed Engineers to bridge the gap between customer needs and product innovation. In this role, you will work hands-on with strategic customers, partnering closely with R&D and Go-to-Market teams to design and deliver high-impact solutions. You will go beyond implementation to shape product direction, influence roadmap decisions, and ensure Fin delivers real business outcomes in complex, real-world environments. This role offers a rare opportunity to combine technical excellence with real customer impact for those excited by ownership, creativity, and solving ambiguous problems at the frontier of applied AI.

$180k - $237k

NVIDIA is seeking Senior Software Engineers to join its Infrastructure, Planning and Process Team (IPP) to accelerate AI adoption across various engineering workflows. In this role, you will design and implement tools and software solutions that leverage Large Language Models and agentic AI to automate end-to-end software engineering workflows and enhance engineer productivity. You will be responsible for designing and implementing AI-driven optimizations within software development workflows to improve developer productivity, accelerate feedback loops, and enhance release reliability. Additionally, you will create and deploy predictive models to identify high-risk commits and forecast potential build failures.

$184k - $357k

Accenture

Accenture Flex offers flexible, project-based work powered by Accenture, a global professional services leader. As part of this team, you will apply your skills to drive business transformation for leading organizations, working with a diverse network of professionals leveraging emerging technologies to solve complex business challenges. You will receive competitive compensation, access to benefits, and world-class learning resources, with the advantage of working locally onsite at client projects.

$62k - $72k

Salesforce AI Labs is seeking exceptional emerging AI and computer science talent for a highly selective, 12-week summer internship program designed to develop the next generation of AI builders. Interns will spend 12 weeks embedded in one of four disciplines (Product Engineering, Product Management, FDE/Builders, or DET/Customer Zero), tackling real technical, product, or customer challenges and building with frontier AI technologies. You will work alongside experienced researchers, engineers, product managers, and technical leaders, with access to AI-native development tools and opportunities to take meaningful ownership of your work. While gaining hands-on experience in one discipline, you will also collaborate with interns across other disciplines on a cross-functional capstone project, culminating in a final presentation at Demo Day.

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We are seeking a visionary Developer Relations Manager to engage with the next generation of AI-native software companies. In this role, you will partner directly with AI-native founders, product leaders, and engineering teams to help them design, optimize, and scale their AI platforms on NVIDIA technologies. You will guide companies building agentic systems, AI copilots, developer tools, reasoning models, and multimodal AI applications, helping them accelerate training, optimize inference, and deliver world-class AI experiences. The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise in AI in systems, developer platforms, and large-scale inference infrastructure with a passion for working alongside ambitious startup founders and engineers.

$152k - $288k

NVIDIA is seeking dedicated Software Engineers to join its custom RAM design team, pushing the boundaries of memory technology for AI and accelerated computing. This role involves developing and deploying AI agents that leverage machine learning models to solve complex problems in VLSI design. You will work closely with experts in VLSI design, machine learning, and software engineering to create and integrate ML-based solutions that enhance the efficiency, productivity, and quality of VLSI design flows. This is an opportunity to make a lasting impact on the world by applying cutting-edge AI technologies to chip design.

$136k - $265k

NVIDIA is seeking experienced ASIC Design Engineers to join our "AI for chip design" team, focusing on agentic AI to revolutionize the design of world-leading SoCs and GPUs. This role offers a unique opportunity to leverage the power of AI to transform chip design at NVIDIA and across the industry. You will be part of a global team pushing the boundaries of what's possible in computing, working at the intersection of research, engineering, and product development to turn innovative ideas into real-world solutions. If you are passionate about generative AI and cutting-edge technologies, this is your chance to be at the forefront of innovation.

$168k - $311k

NVIDIA is seeking a world-class engineer to drive applied research at the intersection of AI and ASIC design. This role is at the forefront of transforming chip design using large language models, coding agents, and agentic AI, applying the latest AI advancements to NVIDIA's real ASIC design flows. The ideal candidate is a creative, collaborative researcher who wants their work to result in tangible silicon products on a real schedule, contributing to NVIDIA's legacy of innovation.

$192k - $357k

NVIDIA's Metropolis Synthetic Data Generation (SDG) team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to contribute to building scalable Physical AI Digital Twin and Synthetic Data Generation solutions. This role is ideal for individuals passionate about exploring new technological frontiers and driving innovation in Physical AI, Agentic development, and Deep Learning. The team develops extensions for Isaac Sim, focusing on action and event generation.

$152k - $242k

NVIDIA is seeking a VLSI CAD Timing Intern focused on Applied AI for Summer 2027. This role involves end-to-end solution development for timing and constraint analysis workflows, including data generation, model training, orchestration, and agentic automation. You will join a cross-disciplinary team building intelligent systems that learn from sign-off data, reason across flows, and assist engineers in achieving faster and more predictable closure. This is an opportunity to contribute to a "learning machine" that constantly evolves by adapting to new opportunities that matter to the world, amplifying human inventiveness and intelligence.

$0k - $0k

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior DFT Methodology - Data Analytics and Applied AI Engineer to join their Design-for-Test Engineering team. This role involves working with pre-silicon and post-silicon data analytics, including visualization, insights, and modeling. You will be responsible for designing and maintaining data pipelines and ETL processes, collaborating with cross-functional teams to define data requirements and ensure data quality, and applying algorithm design and statistical tools to solve complex problems in the Design For Test space. Additionally, you will contribute to developing and deploying DFT methodologies for next-generation products using Generative AI solutions and mentor junior engineers.

$152k - $265k

NVIDIA has been transforming computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for more than 25 years. It’s a unique legacy of innovation that’s fueled by great technology—and amazing people. Today, we’re tapping into the unlimited potential of AI to define the next era of computing. An era in which our GPU acts as the brains of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can understand the world. Doing what’s never been done before takes vision, innovation, and the world’s best talent. As an NVIDIAN, you’ll be immersed in a diverse, supportive environment where everyone is inspired to do their best work. Come join the team and see how you can make a lasting impact on the world. Our department’s charter is working with AI Consulting partners, including Global Systems Integrators and Advanced Technology Partners, who participate in the NVIDIA Partner Network “NPN”, to drive top tier customers to adopt the NVIDIA AI Solution stack. We develop and manage Go-to-Market strategies and projects, track and analyze customer influence and publish meaningful reports. An intern will provide significant value by participating in project management, data collection and analysis. We are looking for a GTM Intern to join us in Summer 2027! What you will be doing:   - Work with NPN AI Consulting Organization leaders, individual contributors, programs teams and operations teams to collect, analyze and present data - Build dashboards and/or executive-level presentations to showcase initiatives and findings to measure progress.  - Develop reference tools for the NPN AI Consulting Organization and other NPN Partner types that work with our NPN AI Consultants. - Collaborate with cross functional teams, including Partner Account Managers, Developer Relations, Product Management and Partner Programs. What we need to see: - Pursuing a Bachelor’s degree or Master's degree in Business, Finance, Mathematics, Statistics, IT, Economics or related fields, completing a minimum of freshman year undergrad. - Hands-on experience with AI assistants and/or agentic workflows to accelerate day-to-day work - Experience using Microsoft Office Suite tools, including Excel and Powerpoint. - Some experience as a sales or marketing intern for technical products. Ways to stand out from the crowd: - You're proactive and entrepreneurial — you don't wait to be told what to do next. - Exceptionally organized: you can juggle multiple workstreams without dropping a single ball. - You have hands-on experience with or a genuine passion for AI, cloud computing, or tech partner ecosystems. Widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers, NVIDIA offers highly competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package. As you plan your future, see what we can offer to you and your family www.nvidiabenefits.com/  Our internship hourly rates are a standard pay based on the position, your location, year in school, degree, and experience. The hourly rate for our interns is 20 USD - 71 USD. You will also be eligible for Intern benefits. ​ Applications for this job will be accepted at least until October 30, 2026. This posting is for an existing vacancy.  NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes. NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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NVIDIA is seeking a Security Research Engineer to join its AI Safety & Security Engineering team. This role focuses on advancing AI-powered tooling to find, validate, and patch software vulnerabilities. You will apply rigorous security judgment to confirm vulnerabilities and define correct, safe fixes, ensuring they repair flaws, protect existing behavior, and withstand revalidation. The work involves developing repeatable methods, establishing high engineering standards, and documenting reasoning for security reviews. While AI-assisted workflows are integral, a disciplined skepticism towards their outputs is also crucial. Your contributions will shape the program's understanding of trustworthy patching and help decide future vulnerability class targets.

$224k - $431k

Our team builds AI-driven software systems for Circuit Design, combining automation algorithms, deep learning models, and agentic workflows to accelerate end-to-end design automation. We are seeking an Applied Machine Learning Engineer to join our integral team in the Circuit Solutions Group. You will work within a multi-functional team on various projects involving pre-silicon and post-silicon custom circuit design, circuit/layout optimization, and Spice correlation. This role involves researching and implementing frontier solutions in electronic design automation and building innovative agentic AI solutions for VLSI design problems. You will be responsible for analyzing problems and datasets, validating hypotheses, and designing and building models and algorithms to achieve desired quality of results.

$152k - $265k

NVIDIA is seeking a founding Director to establish and lead its Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) organization for open models, specifically focusing on NVIDIA Nemotron and NVIDIA Cosmos across North America. The core mission is to transform open-source models into production-ready AI solutions tailored to specific domains, leveraging NVIDIA's partner ecosystem. This role involves setting the strategic direction for North America, building and scaling the FDE team, and fostering strong relationships with partners, customers, and NVIDIA leadership. The FDE team will work collaboratively with top partner engineering and research teams, co-leading joint customer engagements and developing best practices to ensure partner success and scalability. The ultimate goal is to empower organizations to build, own, and operate their AI on open-source models.

$320k - $489k

NVIDIA is seeking a creative and hands-on automation engineer with strong Python development skills and a quality-focused attitude to join our team. This role will focus on improving software quality through thoughtful testing, building and maintaining Python-based automation frameworks, and utilizing AI development tools to accelerate test creation and implementation. You will contribute to both manual and automated test planning and execution for NVIDIA App, a key product in our software suite.

$140k - $270k

NVIDIA is seeking a skilled engineer to enhance, automate, and scale its Privileged Access Management (PAM) and Non-Human Identity (NHI) capabilities to meet the demands of the agentic era. This role will focus on improving existing platforms, simplifying user and operator experiences, and strengthening secure access controls for infrastructure, automation, service identities, and agentic workflows. As AI agents, coding agents, and autonomous workflows become more prevalent, this position is crucial for ensuring that privileged and infrastructure access services can scale securely with robust identity, authorization, observability, and auditability.

$168k - $270k