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AI Engineer salary in San Francisco

Employer-stated pay · updated Oct 21, 2026

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AI Engineer pay in San Francisco is measured from 46 postings where the employer stated pay. The best-evidenced figure is mid-level, where 26 postings put the middle half between $188,750 and $243,375, with a median of $216,250.

Pay rises with seniority here: the medians run mid-level $216,250 and senior $225,000. Moving from mid-level to senior is worth roughly 4% more.

Against the 4 other measured markets for AI engineer at mid-level, this sits below 1 of them; San Jose leads at $249,138.

90 AI engineer roles are open in San Francisco right now, 58 listing pay.

LevelMarket rangeMedianSample
Mid $188,750 – $243,375 $216,250 26
Senior $199,375 – $245,000 $225,000 20

Entry is junior titles. Mid is mid-level and manager titles. Senior is senior titles. Lead is director, VP and above.

Ranges span the 25th to 75th percentile of employer-stated base pay for the level. Median is the 50th percentile. Sample is the number of postings measured.

Open AI engineer roles in San Francisco · 58 with stated pay

this job's paywhere most pay sits here, $160,000–$285,000scale $90,000–$400,000

AI Engineer / Data Scientist, AI Experienced Associate PwC · IL-Chicago New $63,000–$141,500 today Senior Applied AI Engineer 2 Drata · San Francisco New $157,000–$252,000 2d ago Founding Applied AI Engineer Clera · San Francisco $180,000–$230,000 6d ago AI Engineer (Mid-Level) Clera · San Francisco $150,000–$180,000 6d ago Senior Applied AI Engineer Clera · San Francisco $150,000–$250,000 6d ago Applied AI Engineer Abby Care · San Francisco $175,000–$235,000 7d ago Senior Applied AI Engineer Abby Care · San Francisco $220,000–$270,000 7d ago Applied AI Engineer, Startups (Life Sciences) Anthropic · San Francisco $280,000–$320,000 7d ago Applied AI Engineer, Startups (Physical AI) Anthropic · San Francisco $280,000–$320,000 7d ago Applied AI Engineer, GTM Stuut · New York $150,000–$200,000 2w ago Applied AI Engineer, Video Agent HeyGen · San Francisco $180,000–$240,000 2w ago AI Engineer Cyvl · Somerville $125,000–$225,000 3w ago Applied AI Engineer, Beneficial Deployments (Life Sciences) Anthropic · San Francisco $280,000–$320,000 3w ago Staff Applied AI Engineer Rocket Money · Remote · US $200,000–$270,000 4w ago Senior AI Engineer, Post-Training Carta · San Francisco $242,250–$285,000 4w ago Principal AI Engineer H2O.ai · San Francisco $175,000–$200,000 4w ago Applied AI Engineer CHAOS Industries · San Francisco $150,000–$170,000 5w ago AI Engineer - Core Hilbert's AI · San Francisco $140,000–$170,000 5w ago Senior AI Engineer - Core Hilbert's AI · San Francisco $180,000–$215,000 5w ago Applied AI Engineer Arena Intelligence, Inc. · San Francisco $150,000–$250,000 6w ago AI Engineer Baseten · San Francisco $175,000–$190,000 6w ago Senior Applied AI Engineer Mintlify · San Francisco $190,000–$265,000 6w ago Partner Applied AI Engineer OpenAI · San Francisco $197,000–$278,000 6w ago AI Engineer, Evals & Agent Quality Town.com, Inc. · San Francisco $250,000–$300,000 7w ago Applied AI Engineer Arize AI · Remote · US $100,000–$175,000 8w ago AI Engineer Baseten · San Francisco $220,000–$260,000 2mo ago Applied AI Engineer Mintlify · San Francisco $130,000–$200,000 2mo ago Staff AI Engineer Pragmatike · Remote · US $200,000–$400,000 2mo ago Founding AI Engineer Clera · San Francisco $120,000–$180,000 2mo ago Customer Facing Applied AI Engineer, Retail Perception Simbe Robotics · San Francisco $120,000–$160,000 2mo ago AI Engineer Arcade · San Francisco From $230,000 2mo ago Founding AI Engineer Clera · San Francisco $120,000–$180,000 2mo ago Founding AI Engineer Clera · San Francisco $225,000–$255,000 2mo ago Senior Applied AI Engineer Sauna · San Francisco $180,000–$240,000 2mo ago Applied AI Engineer, Sign in with ChatGPT OpenAI · San Francisco $197,000–$280,000 3mo ago Applied AI Engineer, Plugins OpenAI · San Francisco $197,000–$280,000 3mo ago Staff Applied AI Engineer DOSS · San Francisco $230,000–$260,000 3mo ago Applied AI Engineer, API Platform, Digital Natives OpenAI · San Francisco $251,000–$278,000 3mo ago Applied AI Engineer, Enterprise OpenAI · San Francisco $251,000–$278,000 3mo ago AI Engineer, Workbench Brex · San Francisco $216,000–$240,000 4mo ago Applied AI Engineer, Fullstack Ramp · New York $204,400–$352,000 4mo ago Applied AI Engineer, Cyber OpenAI · San Francisco $234,000–$335,000 4mo ago AI Engineer Distyl AI · San Francisco $180,000–$250,000 4mo ago Senior AI Engineer, Product Engineering You.com · Remote · US $200,000–$250,000 4mo ago AI Engineer (Mid-Level) Clera · San Francisco $180,000–$400,000 4mo ago Applied AI Engineer, Startups OpenAI · San Francisco $211,000–$278,000 4mo ago Applied AI Engineer Slash Financial · San Francisco $250,000–$350,000 4mo ago Applied AI Engineer Rillet · San Francisco $160,000–$350,000 5mo ago Senior AI Engineer, Quality Fieldguide · San Francisco $200,000–$250,000 6mo ago Applied AI Engineer, Codex Core Agent OpenAI · San Francisco $230,000–$385,000 7mo ago Applied AI Engineer WorkOS · Remote · US $175,000–$275,000 7mo ago Applied AI Engineer Ramp · New York $204,400–$352,000 9mo ago Applied AI Engineer, Enterprise Anthropic · San Francisco $200,000–$320,000 9mo ago Applied AI Engineer, Codex OpenAI · San Francisco $211,000–$278,000 11mo ago AI Engineer Gamma · San Francisco $180,000–$300,000 11mo ago Applied AI Engineer Cognition · San Francisco $180,000–$225,000 12mo ago Lead AI Engineer Sphere, Inc. · San Francisco $250,000–$280,000 1y ago Senior Applied AI Engineer Zania · San Francisco $180,000–$230,000 1y ago AI Engineer 4 (Gen AI Platform Services) Capital One · San Francisco In listing 9d ago AI Engineer 5 (Gen AI Platform Services: Agentic AI, Guardrails, Evaluation) Capital One · San Francisco In listing 2w ago

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