AI Engineer Jobs in San Francisco

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 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

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

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 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

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. We are seeking a backend engineer to build the services and infrastructure for Figure's consumer mobile application, encompassing areas like authentication, payments, and tooling. You will be responsible for end-to-end ownership of systems, from identity and billing to delivery pipelines, internal dashboards, and the cloud platform.

$200k - $400k

Athelas

At Commure, we are 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 processing to address the significant administrative burden in healthcare. We are at the forefront of this transformation, with a rapidly growing user base and recent significant funding, reflecting strong market confidence. Our team works directly with clinicians, ensuring immediate impact and a fast-paced, ownership-driven environment. We are seeking individuals energized by complex challenges and a commitment to excellence to help build the future of healthcare.

$170k - $190k

SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence to help humanity understand the universe. We are seeking exceptional Applied engineers to join a high-priority project that approximately 600 million monthly users use. This is an exciting opportunity for individuals with an engineer or scientist background to apply their skills to recommendation systems, ranking algorithms, search technologies, and many other systems. You’ll work at the intersection of advanced AI development and real-world impact, enhancing the ability to connect users with relevant content, accounts, and experiences.

$180k - $440k

Figma is seeking an AI Engineer for its Internal AI team, which focuses on making AI adoption easier and more impactful for all Figmates across various departments like Sales, Support, Finance, People, and Legal. This role is a key part of the Applied AI Builds pillar, responsible for identifying high-value AI opportunities, prototyping solutions, and taking them to production. You will work directly with teams to understand business workflows, build AI agents and automations, integrate them with enterprise systems, and ensure their safe and reliable operation. This position involves owning solutions through production, determining the appropriate use of AI versus traditional software, and shaping how agents can safely interact with enterprise systems. You will also collaborate with platform teams to build reusable AI capabilities and help define Figma's approach to Applied AI engineering.

$153k - $296k

Together AI

The Developer Experience (DevX) team at Together AI is responsible for how developers learn and build on the platform, managing the documentation site, API reference, quickstarts, and cookbooks. They treat documentation as a product, with content living in Git and publishing through Mintlify, synchronized with the API via CI/CD automation. The team also focuses on making content accessible to AI coding agents, developing a house style guide for AI-assisted authoring and structured content. As a Technical Writer Intern on DevX, you will write, test, and ship documentation used by thousands of developers. You will be paired with a mentor and own significant projects from scoping to launch, with real users and metrics. This is a hands-on, technical role where you will run the code you document, call APIs, and contribute to the documentation repository from your first week. Potential projects include building migration kits, making documentation agent-ready, generating CLI reference from source, and writing evaluation design tutorials.

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NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and develop AIOps and Observability platforms. These platforms are crucial for monitoring, diagnosing, and optimizing millions of internal assets and services across various environments including cloud, on-premise, data centers, supply chain, and edge. You will collaborate with a team of engineers, product managers, and partners to shape the observability strategy, roadmap, and best practices for NVIDIA. Additionally, you will mentor other engineers in observability, machine learning, and related tools and techniques.

$200k - $322k

Figma is seeking a versatile and experienced Machine Learning / AI Engineer to join our growing AI team, working at the intersection of applied machine learning, infrastructure, and product innovation. Whether you’re building intelligent search systems, crafting scalable data pipelines, or enhancing AI-powered creativity tools, your work will drive user productivity, shape new product experiences, and advance the state of AI at Figma. You’ll collaborate closely with engineers, researchers, designers, and product managers across multiple teams to deliver high-quality ML-driven features and infrastructure. This is a high-impact, cross-functional role where you’ll shape both foundational systems and user-facing capabilities. This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.

$153k - $376k

Figma is seeking PhD interns to join the AI Research team, focusing on the intersection of AI and Design. You will develop innovative AI solutions for design and creative products through fundamental and applied research, contributing to new AI-driven features. The team works on optimizing agentic systems, building robust evaluators, and post-training models, tackling challenging technical problems in AI and creativity. This internship offers the opportunity to publish research in leading AI/ML conferences.

$0k - $0k

Figma is seeking founding Forward Deployed Engineers to join a new team focused on integrating Figma's products into large-scale enterprise environments. In this role, you will embed directly with strategic customers, working across their codebases, design systems, and workflows to ensure Figma's successful adoption within their unique technical constraints. You will tackle complex adoption challenges hands-on, from frontend stacks and legacy systems to security requirements, while building strong partnerships with customer engineering teams. This is a senior-level engineering position focused on customer success and product improvement, not sales or services. You will collaborate closely with Figma's Product, Engineering, Sales, and Customer Experience teams, influencing product development and the scaling of this new function. The role requires engineers who thrive in ambiguity, take end-to-end ownership, and are motivated by solving high-impact problems at the intersection of product, engineering, and customer needs. Periodic travel to customer sites is expected.

$153k - $376k

Figma is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to join their Data Engineering team. This role will focus on building the foundational systems that power Figma’s next generation of AI-driven products and data experiences. You will be an early engineer shaping the company's ML and data platform, enabling self-serve analytics and production-grade AI systems. The position involves working at the intersection of data, infrastructure, and machine learning to build scalable systems that empower Data Science, unlock AI capabilities, and bring data and models closer to the product experience.

$153k - $376k

Figma is seeking applied scientists with a Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence background to build AI technologies and enhance Figma products. The role involves driving fundamental and applied research, combining industry best practices with a first-principles approach to design and build AI/ML models and systems. This is a full-time position that can be based in one of our US hubs or remotely within the United States.

$153k - $376k

Databricks

The Web Platform team at Databricks builds and owns the public-facing web experiences that represent Databricks to the world. We are rebuilding the platform from the ground up, AI-native from the start, and pioneering an agentic SDLC as our operating model. As Staff Software Engineer on the Web Platform team, you will own the platform layer that the rest of the team builds on, including the web framework, design system, CMS, infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, AI-enabled translation, and SDLC agents. This is a rare opportunity to design a web platform for an AI-native world from the ground up, with the north star architecture being defined now, and you will be a primary author of it. You will partner with technical leaders across web and marketing engineering, and set the standard for what AI-native platform engineering looks like in practice.

$198k - $273k

Nebius is building a full-stack AI cloud platform to support developers and enterprises in the global AI economy, from data and model training through to production deployment. The Nebius Token Factory is seeking scientists to tackle frontier LLM and VLM inference bottlenecks by turning them into research questions, conducting rigorous experiments, and translating findings into production capabilities. You will own focused research and optimization projects, write strong code, and produce prototypes, publications, and technical artifacts for engineers to build upon. Your research will cover areas like quantization, distillation, speculative decoding, KV-cache optimization, and model/runtime co-optimization, alongside inference engines and distributed inference architectures. You will evaluate trade-offs across model quality, latency, throughput, memory footprint, and cost per token, and collaborate with engineering teams to bring promising results into production.

$195k - $262k

Brex

Brex is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join their Product Data Platform (PDP) team. This role will focus on building and operating high-performance data, query, and search infrastructure that supports critical Brex product experiences, including AI-powered features. The PDP team's mission is to enhance Brex's customizability, scalability, and reliability for finance teams through deeply optimized, production-grade distributed systems. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be instrumental in shaping the technical direction of the platform across multiple teams, identifying and resolving high-impact architectural challenges, and driving them to completion. You will be responsible for the group's technical quality, bridging long-term strategy with hands-on execution, and leading through influence.

$240k - $300k

Lila Sciences is building the infrastructure for autonomous science, creating AI systems that design and execute experiments across life sciences, chemistry, and materials science. The platform is designed for reliability and scale, serving external customers who require security, auditability, and operational rigor. This role focuses on enabling scientists and AI agents to query scientific knowledge, including literature, patents, customer documents, and experimental records, through advanced retrieval systems.

$224k - $336k

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Enterprise Data Management – Data Application Engineer specializing in Supply Chain to join our Business Applications group. This role is crucial in transforming computing by leading the creation, oversight, and advancement of enterprise data platforms and global business workflows. You will partner with business and IT teams to deliver scalable, resilient, and future-ready data solutions, leveraging your expertise in enterprise data management, supply chain operations, data architecture/platforms, and Agentic AI. Your contributions will be vital in resolving complex issues, refining data governance and observability, and ensuring trusted, high-quality information across the supply network.

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Momentic is seeking a hands-on AI Engineer to join their engineering team and collaborate closely with the CTO. This role focuses on enhancing the AI models and agents that power Momentic's AI-native testing platform. You will be instrumental in fine-tuning models, developing robust evaluation strategies, and transforming production data into more reliable and efficient AI agents. Your work will have a direct and significant impact, as Momentic processes over a million tests daily and billions of tokens per hour.

$175k - $250k

We are seeking a Senior Fullstack Member of Technical Staff to join our Engineering team. In this role, you will be instrumental in building the product and systems that translate simulated behavior into real product decisions. You will work across the entire technology stack, connecting complex backend systems, including multi-agent simulations and evaluation pipelines, to frontend experiences that customers rely on for critical decision-making. This is an opportunity to own and build core platform features, translate agent behavior into product functionality, develop system visibility and trust tooling, and shape user interaction with simulations.

$175k - $200k