AI Engineer Jobs in San Francisco

We are seeking a hands-on Data Engineer to contribute to the development and scaling of our modern data platform. This role involves close collaboration with Finance, Engineering, Product, and Analytics teams to build robust, high-performance data pipelines and systems. You will work with both batch and real-time data processing technologies, ensuring data quality, accessibility, and usability across the organization. A key aspect of this role will be enabling data activation, ensuring high-quality data flows into business tools and powering next-generation AI-driven applications, including agent-based systems, by establishing strong data foundations and pipelines. This is an excellent opportunity for individuals who thrive on solving end-to-end data challenges, from ingestion to insights.

$180k - $220k

Salesforce is seeking an SVP, Research & Insights to lead Research across Experience Design and build a continuous intelligence capability. This executive will integrate research further upstream into enterprise and product strategy, extending evaluation through implementation and production. The role involves leading four key capabilities: Enterprise Experience Intelligence + Foresight, Portfolio Research + Insights, Human-Agent Research, Evaluation + Measurement, and Research Operations + Knowledge. The goal is to shape enterprise decisions with timely, credible, and consequential evidence, ensuring research operates as an enterprise decision system that influences product strategy and investment.

$399k - $453k

Cerebras

Cerebras Systems is seeking a Senior Staff AI Accelerator Performance Architect to guide the evolution of their next-generation AI systems. This role involves connecting real-world AI workloads to architectural behavior, identifying critical bottlenecks, quantifying potential improvements, and influencing hardware and software roadmaps through rigorous performance analysis. The ideal candidate will possess deep knowledge of hardware architecture, gained through experience in hardware, compiler, kernel, or system performance work, and thrive at the intersection of applications, kernels, architecture, and system performance. This position focuses on performance evaluation and architectural recommendations, rather than production RTL design.

$175k - $275k

As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Handshake AI Enterprise, you will embed directly within enterprise customer environments as part of a small, expert team. Your role involves deeply understanding each customer's business, including their workflows and bottlenecks, to translate this knowledge into production-grade AI agents that measurably transform their operations. This is a full-stack role where you will own the entire process from defining the solution, building and deploying agents, designing evaluations, and iterating until performance targets are met. Over time, you will develop genuine domain expertise in your customer's vertical, leveraging this knowledge to continuously improve AI solutions. This opportunity is ideal for individuals who have a proven track record of building AI applications that work in the real world and are eager to tackle high-stakes challenges with superior data and strong lab relationships.

$220k - $300k

This role is focused on building the core database infrastructure that empowers knowledge workers to leverage scalable databases without needing to be a Database Administrator. You will be a hands-on technical leader, influencing architectural direction and the product roadmap as a new product moves from early alpha to general availability. This involves working directly with early customers to shape critical technical and product decisions, and then scaling these systems as adoption and workloads grow. The work is backend-leaning but spans the full stack, potentially involving the provisioning and management of customer Postgres instances, designing safe schema evolution, and optimizing complex query execution. You will also translate these systems into the product experience, improving table loading, user understanding of performance, and agent data interactions. Ultimately, you will help shape both the architecture and the product by identifying the best solutions, whether through improved abstractions, better defaults, or rethinking user interactions, and evolving them based on usage.

$234k - $352k

Pallet is building AI Agents to transform the physical economy, a massive global industry. We've raised significant funding from top investors and are experiencing rapid revenue growth. Our mission is to automate manual workflows in the supply chain, increasing efficiency through our platform and AI Agents. We are looking for Product Engineers to bridge the gap between customers and our AI platform, customize solutions for enterprise clients, and collaborate on building our AI product from the ground up. This role offers the opportunity to shape the future of logistics AI and contribute to a company targeting a $10 billion valuation.

$175k - $265k

Distyl AI

Distyl AI is seeking a senior Enterprise AI Architect to act as a long-term technical partner for its strategic Fortune 500 customers. This role involves building trust with C-suite and technical leaders, identifying AI's business value, shaping solutions with clients, and maintaining accountability for the technical relationship post-signature. You will work closely with Go-to-Market, Product, and Forward-Deployed Engineering teams, leading the technical arc of an account from initial conversations through architecture, feasibility, and Statement of Work (SOW) development. For qualified pursuits, you will collaborate with forward-deployed engineers to implement solutions, remaining involved in architecture reviews, steering moments, and expansion opportunities after the initial close.

$200k - $275k

Groq is building high-performance AI infrastructure designed to make inference fast, predictable, and scalable. Our infrastructure teams design and operate the systems that connect compute, data, and services at significant scale. We are looking for a Sr./Staff Network Engineer, AI/HPC to help architect, design, validate, and evolve the network infrastructure supporting Groq's rapidly growing AI compute environments. As a Sr./Staff Network Design Engineer, you will own network architecture and design across high-performance data center and AI infrastructure environments. You will translate capacity, performance, reliability, and business requirements into scalable network designs that can be deployed and operated consistently. This role requires deep expertise in data center networking, routing protocols, network architecture, automation, and large-scale infrastructure. You will work closely with network operations, data center engineering, compute, platform, security, and infrastructure teams to take designs from concept through validation and production deployment.

$270k - $366k

Abridge

Abridge is seeking early-career Software Engineers passionate about making a real-world impact through AI in healthcare. You will join a cross-functional team of researchers, clinicians, and engineers to translate cutting-edge language model capabilities into dependable clinical systems. This role involves building AI-powered features that integrate into clinical workflows, shipping production code, and experiencing accelerated learning and career growth in an environment where Generative AI is central to product development. You will be given significant responsibility and autonomy, working alongside a team dedicated to achieving their best work.

$167k - $184k

We are building the next generation of AI-native product experiences where conversations directly translate into outcomes. As a Staff Software Engineer on our Product teams, you will define how these capabilities are translated into scalable systems and cohesive product experiences. You will operate across the full lifecycle of AI-driven features, from data ingestion and model orchestration to output structuring and delivery into user-facing product surfaces, all at a systems level. This includes shaping the architecture behind generation pipelines, defining how AI outputs are structured and persisted, and ensuring these systems are reliable, performant, and adaptable as both product requirements and underlying models evolve. This role goes beyond individual features; you will drive technical direction across product areas, aligning product, AI, and infrastructure teams on how to build AI-native systems that scale. You will help define patterns for how we evaluate, iterate on, and continuously improve AI-driven experiences, turning ambiguous opportunities into clear systems and execution plans. You will partner closely with product, design, and AI teams to identify high-leverage opportunities, prototype new approaches, and guide them into production, shaping both the product experience and the underlying systems that power it.

$210k - $275k

You.com is building the AI Search Infrastructure that powers modern AI systems, aiming to create a trusted knowledge layer for agents, applications, and enterprises. Our platform combines proprietary indexes with LLM-optimized retrieval systems to solve complex problems in search, large language models, and large-scale infrastructure, making AI systems more reliable, transparent, and useful. This hybrid product engineering and go-to-market role offers significant impact at the intersection of these areas, focusing on shaping our API surface and engaging directly with key customers.

$200k - $250k

We are building the next generation of AI-native product experiences where conversations directly translate into outcomes. As a Senior Software Engineer on our Product teams, you will own significant product areas and play a key role in shaping how AI capabilities deliver real user value. You will work across the full lifecycle of AI-driven features, from data ingestion and model orchestration to output structuring and delivery into user-facing product surfaces. This role involves not only building features but also designing the underlying systems, ensuring AI outputs are reliable, performant, and aligned with user needs. You will tackle complex, ambiguous problems, driving them from concept to production while making thoughtful tradeoffs across latency, cost, and quality. This includes defining how LLMs, retrieval systems, and structured data converge to create cohesive product experiences. Collaborating closely with product, design, and AI teams, you will rapidly prototype and iterate on features like summaries and intelligent workflows, while helping establish best practices for other engineers.

$185k - $230k

CHAOS Industries

CHAOS Industries is seeking a mission-oriented Applied AI Engineer to develop, integrate, and deploy AI/ML capabilities across its defense product lines. This role involves working with data scientists, software engineers, and product teams to conduct advanced AI research and translate it into reliable, real-world software, particularly for defense applications requiring extreme accuracy under challenging conditions. The ideal candidate possesses strong data science and software engineering fundamentals, a track record of technical excellence, and experience applying AI/ML to real products, with a preference for backgrounds in aerospace, defense, or similar mission-driven environments. Comfort with independent operation, rapid learning of new technical domains, cross-team collaboration, and moving prototypes to production with minimal oversight is essential.

$150k - $170k

Artisan

Artisan is building a new, ambitious project at the frontier of agentic AI, pushing the boundaries of what AI agents can achieve. This role is for a hands-on technical lead responsible for designing and building the core AI architecture, focusing on agent behavior, multi-agent systems, tool use, context management, and evaluation. The position offers broad technical ownership as an individual contributor, involving consequential architecture decisions, writing critical system components, and close collaboration with existing engineers and leadership. The ideal candidate enjoys tackling uncertain problems and executing detailed engineering to deliver robust solutions.

$250k - $325k

OpenAI

OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems, operating at the intersection of customer delivery and core platform development. Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) lead complex end-to-end deployments of frontier models in production alongside our most strategic customers. You will own discovery, technical scoping, system design, build, and production rollout, partnering directly with customer engineering and domain teams. Success will be measured through production adoption, measurable workflow impact, and eval-driven feedback that influences product and model roadmaps. You'll work closely with Product, Research, Partnerships, GRC, Security, and GTM teams.

$185k - $300k

Amplitude

Amplitude is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Statsig team, which is redefining how companies learn, iterate, and ship better experiences. This role offers the opportunity to shape both the product and technical direction of a system used by sophisticated product teams worldwide. You will work across the full stack, utilizing NextJS and Node.js, to build intuitive, high-performance experiences that make experimentation accessible, powerful, and trustworthy. This is a hands-on role where you will own critical product surfaces end-to-end, drive product direction in partnership with design and product leaders, and build and evolve scalable systems.

$165k - $247k

Physical Intelligence

Physical Intelligence is seeking a Software Engineer focused on AI productivity to build and deploy tools that enhance AI utilization across the company. This role involves close collaboration with various teams, including engineering, research, and operations, to identify opportunities for AI leverage and translate them into robust internal tools and workflows. The position is within the Runtime team, which focuses on core systems for operational and research efficiency, alongside engineers working on build systems, infrastructure, and developer productivity. The primary focus will be on AI tooling, making AI agents, assistants, integrations, and automation valuable across the organization.

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Code Metal

Code Metal is seeking a Principal Python Engineer to join their Modeling & Simulation team. This role will focus on building the Python services, pipelines, and tooling that drive the core wargaming simulation for a next-generation decision-support platform. You will design backend services and APIs that interface with the frontend, integrate with simulators, manage data, and expose results to analysts and government stakeholders. The position involves developing backend infrastructure that interfaces with agentic AI and machine learning pipelines, designing scenario-generation and campaign-evaluation workflows, and building distributed, cloud-scale infrastructure for running simulations. Strong command of cloud services and distributed architectures is essential.

$250k - $290k

Baseten

Baseten is seeking an AI Engineer to join its rapidly growing Compute organization. This role is crucial for scaling the systems and workflows that balance supply and demand across our GPU fleet. You will design, build, and ship AI-powered workflows to automate manual and repetitive tasks within the capacity lifecycle, allowing the team to focus on critical judgment calls. The ideal candidate will audit existing systems, identify gaps, and rapidly deliver solutions, thinking ahead about the broader system architecture and the role of AI in enhancing existing tooling.

$175k - $190k

OpenAI

The Partner Applied AI Engineer team focuses on the safe and effective deployment of Generative AI applications for developers and enterprises. As a founding member of this team, you will act as a trusted advisor and technical partner to customers, guiding them through their AI adoption strategy. Your role involves developing tailored GenAI use cases for various industries and driving these initiatives from prototype to production through hands-on technical guidance and collaboration. You will work closely with systems integrators and their strategic clients to transform businesses using AI solutions like customer service automation and novel applications leveraging advanced AI models.

$197k - $278k

Perplexity AI

The Agent Capabilities team at Perplexity Computer is at the forefront of agentic AI, bridging frontier AI research with product innovation. This team builds the foundational capabilities that empower users and agents to tackle increasingly complex tasks. They are responsible for translating cutting-edge AI model breakthroughs into reusable product features, evaluating emerging model capabilities, identifying user value, and transforming these into reliable, scalable, high-quality experiences. This role offers broad ownership at the intersection of AI research, agent systems, platform engineering, and product innovation.

$220k - $405k

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 processing to address the significant administrative burden in healthcare. We are at the forefront of this transformation, with a rapidly growing user base and significant market confidence, as reflected in our recent funding and industry accolades. Our team values speed, ownership, and direct impact, working closely with clinicians to ensure our technology directly improves patient care.

$180k - $230k

Crusoe

Crusoe is seeking a Staff Applied AI Inference Engineer to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence by optimizing large language models for production environments. This role involves owning the inference stack end-to-end, focusing on profiling, applying modern optimization techniques, and deep dives into serving code to enhance speed, reduce cost, and improve reliability. The work is hands-on, involving coding, profiling, and low-level optimization, with a customer-facing component to tailor deployments to specific needs and ensure performance gains are realized in real-world scenarios. You will transition workloads from proof-of-concept to fully monitored production services, making this a core systems and performance engineering role on demanding AI workloads.

$215k - $260k

Decagon

Decagon is seeking a Research Engineer focused on Safety to ensure the reliability and controllability of their AI agents. This role involves identifying real-world failure modes and developing the necessary models, evaluations, and safeguards to prevent them. The ideal candidate will be a strong engineer passionate about advancing applied AI safety in production, with the ability to own projects end-to-end and make high-impact technical decisions.

$200k - $400k