AI Engineer Jobs in San Francisco

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

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Developer Technology Engineer to work at the forefront of AI innovation, collaborating with industry partners and open-source projects to accelerate performance for agentic AI use cases. This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to the next era of enterprise and consumer AI by optimizing applications on RTX and DGX SoCs, influencing next-generation platforms, and providing technical guidance. You will be instrumental in identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks across various workloads, working closely with system software, GPU driver, architecture, and research teams.

$152k - $288k

NVIDIA is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to lead the new AI Safety & Security Engineering team. This role is foundational, focusing on building AI-powered tools to identify, validate, and patch software vulnerabilities. You will own the core harness architecture and establish engineering standards, guiding the program from prototypes to a production pipeline. Your technical roadmap will influence how NVIDIA designs, tests, and validates safety-critical AI systems. This position requires close collaboration with engineering managers, security partners, and evaluation teams, acting as a bridge between research and enterprise-grade software engineering. Teaching and mentorship are key components, involving design reviews and upholding high code quality and safety standards.

$320k - $489k

NVIDIA is seeking a Principal AI Workflow Engineer to join the Enterprise Integration and API Team. This role is at the forefront of AI-augmented engineering, utilizing AI-assisted tools and automation to accelerate development and delivery across the integration ecosystem. You will help build a developer-centric Unified Integration Framework that enables secure, self-service connectivity across systems and applications, with governed APIs, data access, and controlled agent connectivity to support AI application development.

$248k - $391k

We are seeking a mission-driven Developer Relations Manager focused on Foundational AI Research to engage leading academic labs advancing the next generation of AI models, systems, and methods. In this role, you will work directly with top researchers building frontier AI systems, including large language models, multimodal models, reasoning systems, training methods, inference systems, model serving, and scalable AI infrastructure. You will help researchers adopt NVIDIA’s AI and accelerated computing platforms to push the boundaries of model performance, efficiency, and scale.

$152k - $288k

We are seeking a highly technical and strategic Senior Technical Lead to join our team, focusing on engaging developer ecosystems across emerging technology domains such as Generative AI, Autonomous Vehicles, and Simulation Platforms. You will work directly with software solution providers, developers, and industry professionals to foster the adoption of NVIDIA’s advanced AI and computing platforms. The ideal candidate brings a blend of deep technical expertise and commercial go-to-market experience, combined with a passion for developer advocacy and a talent for communicating how NVIDIA technology can solve complex, real-world challenges.

$224k - $357k

NVIDIA is seeking a motivated security engineer to join the GPU Software team. This role will focus on automating the enforcement of security standards across all software releases, leveraging both traditional tools and AI agents, and promoting their adoption throughout the organization. The ideal candidate will be instrumental in integrating AI agents into security workflows, identifying manual processes for reinvention, and guiding proven agentic workflows from development to production. This position offers the opportunity to translate security requirements into automated checks for a wide range of software, from firmware to user-mode applications, and to own and maintain the release security scanning pipeline.

$152k - $242k

We are seeking a Developer Relations Manager to be the primary liaison between our developers, customers, and the Jetson SW stack. This role involves guiding users through the platform, including BSP, security, OTA, real-time workloads, mixed-criticality systems, AI libraries, and agentic AI. You will work directly with developers and customers to help them build and deploy optimized edge AI and robotics solutions on Jetson. Simultaneously, you will gather their challenges and insights to inform our engineering and product teams, directly shaping the platform's roadmap.

$184k - $357k

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 looking for 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.

$116k - $230k

NVIDIA is seeking a System Software Engineer specializing in Agentic Retrieval to join our team at the forefront of the AI revolution. You will develop pipelines for indexing and querying multi-modal content, working with Generative AI, LLM, VLLM, and Agentic Retrieval technologies on our innovative hardware and software platforms. This role is crucial for accelerating containerized pipelines for high-quality multi-modal datasets and enhancing retrieval efficacy. You will focus on developing efficient, scalable systems for data processing, deduplication, filtering, and classification for tailored models, with an emphasis on iterative testing and improvement in system cost, speed, and accuracy through micro-optimization, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and applying new research.

$184k - $357k

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Applied AI Engineer to develop intelligent software systems aimed at enhancing engineering productivity and software quality at scale. This role involves creating AI-powered workflows and services to analyze complex code, extract meaningful insights from large engineering datasets, and accelerate debugging and decision-making processes. You will operate at the intersection of software engineering, machine learning, and developer productivity, transforming advanced AI capabilities into practical, reliable tools for real-world engineering environments.

$152k - $242k

We are seeking a dynamic, mission-driven Developer Relations Manager to engage leading university-affiliated researchers and labs. In this role, you will work directly with researchers to accelerate the adoption of NVIDIA’s sophisticated AI and computing platforms. The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with strong experience in research engagement and a proven track record to translate advanced technologies into valuable, insight-focused outcomes.

$152k - $288k

NVIDIA is seeking talented individuals to join our Architecture Modeling group, focusing on GPU and SOC architecture. In this role, you will collaborate with world-class architects to integrate state-of-the-art Generative AI applications into simulation platforms and engineering workflows. You will develop and deploy scalable GenAI applications, leverage AI tools to accelerate modeling, and work with hardware architects to design and deploy AI-based solutions tailored to specific problem domains. Additionally, you will collaborate with infrastructure engineers to enhance automated workflows using LLMs and research emerging AI technologies to maintain a competitive edge.

$152k - $288k

NVIDIA is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead critical platform initiatives at the intersection of information security, enterprise collaboration, and AI. This role is pivotal in shaping how NVIDIA protects sensitive content, manages enterprise data access, and enables next-generation AI agents at scale. The platforms encompass sensitive information protection, a central data governance layer for enterprise content, and an AI knowledge platform for reliable AI agent consumption. The focus is on access control, export-control enforcement, and production readiness. This is a high-impact individual contributor role with potential for engineering leadership and management, requiring strong technical skills and the ability to influence stakeholders across Security, Legal, Finance, and AI teams.

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The Imagine team is redefining AI-driven media experiences for Grok users worldwide. As a Product Safety Engineer on the Imagine team, you will build the critical safety systems and infrastructure that ensure Grok’s multimodal generation capabilities (images, video, audio, and beyond) are powerful, delightful, and responsibly deployed. You’ll design and scale safeguards, detection systems, and evaluation frameworks that prevent harm while preserving creativity and user freedom. Your work will directly shape how millions of users experience generative media — balancing rapid innovation with rigorous safety, trustworthiness, and alignment with SpaceXSI's mission. If you’re a driven engineer passionate about AI safety, content integrity, and building robust systems that protect users without stifling innovation, this is your opportunity to make a lasting impact at the frontier of multimodal AI.

$180k - $440k

HackerRank is seeking a Senior Backend Software Development Engineer to drive the technical direction of critical backend systems and lead high-impact, platform-level initiatives. This role involves owning the architecture and evolution of core backend services, mentoring engineers, and making key technical decisions to ensure the platform remains fast, reliable, and scalable for a growing global user base. The ideal candidate will contribute to the company's mission of helping businesses hire and upskill developers based on skills, adapting to the evolving landscape where humans and AI build together.

$150k - $172k

Stripe

Stripe is seeking product-minded engineers to join the Builder Experience Team, which focuses on improving how Stripe's product teams build, ship, and iterate on products. This team is AI-native and reimagines workflows using AI agents and automation to address fragmented and manual processes. The role involves identifying high-friction areas in the product development lifecycle, prototyping new approaches, and scaling successful experiments into solutions used across Stripe. You will work across the full stack, combining traditional software engineering with emerging AI capabilities to discover the right product, interface, and technical architecture in ambiguous problem spaces.

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Salesforce is seeking a Lead User Researcher to join their Digital User Research team, focusing on AI and Digital Experiences. This role will own research for agentic experiences and event technology, aiming to understand user mental models, unmet needs, friction, and trust in AI agents. The researcher will also lead initiatives to improve digital experiences for Salesforce events. The ideal candidate is a curious and experienced researcher adept at combining qualitative and quantitative methods to answer complex questions, influence product strategy, and communicate insights effectively.

$173k - $260k

Customer Experience Engineering is a critical intersection of customers, product, and engineering. In this role, you will tackle complex technical challenges and manage high-stakes customer situations from initial investigation through to resolution and prevention. You will leverage your deep technical expertise along with strong judgment and communication skills to guide customers, especially when solutions are not immediately apparent. Working from a shared queue, you will take ownership of problems requiring in-depth investigation, solution design, or cross-team collaboration, while also contributing to the team's overall response to customer needs. A key aspect of this role involves translating learnings into practical solutions, tools, and AI-enabled workflows to minimize recurring issues.

$120k - $135k

SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence to help humanity understand the universe, and you will join the multimodal team to push toward superhuman multimodal intelligence. This role involves advancing understanding and generation across modalities—image, video, audio, and text—spanning the full stack from data curation to end-to-end product experiences. You will collaborate cross-functionally to deliver frontier capabilities in multimodal reasoning, world modeling, tool use, agentic behaviors, and interactive human-AI collaboration, contributing to models that can see, hear, reason about, and interact with the world in real time.

$180k - $440k

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. 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

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

AssemblyAI

AssemblyAI is seeking a Senior GTM AI Engineer to join their revenue organization. This role involves building the essential pipelines, internal tools, and AI agents that drive go-to-market strategies. You will be responsible for identifying target companies, personalizing outreach, monitoring product usage for expansion or churn signals, and maintaining CRM data integrity. The primary goal is to empower the sales team to operate with three times their current capacity by leveraging software and AI solutions.

$160k - $220k