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AI Engineering salary in San Francisco

Employer-stated pay · updated Oct 21, 2026

AI Engineering pay in San Francisco is measured from 100 postings where the employer stated pay. The best-evidenced figure is senior, where 53 postings put the middle half between $205,000 and $277,500, with a median of $232,500.

Pay rises with seniority here: the medians run mid-level $215,000 and senior $232,500. Moving from mid-level to senior is worth roughly 8% more.

Against the 13 other measured markets for AI engineering at senior, this sits below 1 of them; Mountain View leads at $237,500.

208 AI engineering roles are open in San Francisco right now, 154 listing pay.

LevelMarket rangeMedianSample
Mid $183,750 – $246,250 $215,000 47
Senior $205,000 – $277,500 $232,500 53

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 engineering roles in San Francisco · 154 with stated pay

this job's paywhere most pay sits here, $160,000–$315,000scale $90,000–$450,000

Senior Software Engineer, Applied AI (RCM) Commure · Mountain View New $180,000–$230,000 today GTM AI Engineering Applied Compute · San Francisco New $160,000–$240,000 1d ago Manager, Cyber - Applied AI Architect OpenAI · San Francisco New $217,000–$241,000 1d ago Associate Deployment Strategist (AI/ML Product) Pallet · San Francisco or New York City New $100,000–$150,000 1d ago Senior Applied AI Engineer 2 Drata · San Francisco New $157,000–$252,000 2d ago Senior / Staff Full-Stack AI Engineer Suno · San Francisco New $228,000–$363,000 2d ago Applied AI Demo Engineer Anthropic · San Francisco New $240,000–$315,000 3d ago Founding Engineer (Applied AI) Clera · San Francisco New $120,000–$180,000 3d ago Founding Engineer (AI/ML) Clera · San Francisco New $130,000–$170,000 3d ago Applied AI Architect, Cyber Specialist Anthropic · San Francisco $300,000–$400,000 6d 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 Principal Software Engineer, Applied AI Okta · San Francisco $224,000–$308,000 7d ago Senior Software Engineer, Applied AI Okta · San Francisco $165,000–$226,000 7d ago Staff Software Engineer, Applied AI Okta · San Francisco $194,000–$267,000 7d ago Staff Software Engineer, AI Developer Tools Docker · Remote · US $170,350–$275,550 8d ago Senior Software Engineer, AI Developer Tools Docker · Remote · US $160,900–$260,700 8d ago Senior / Staff AI Engineer — Evals & Model Quality FurtherAI · San Francisco $300,000–$350,000 8d ago Software Engineer - Platform / Applied AI (Full-Stack) JeffreyM Consulting · San Francisco $260,000–$290,000 8d ago LLM Platform Engineer AllSpice · Boston $160,000–$190,000 9d ago Head of Applied AI Latent · San Francisco $285,000–$300,000 10d ago AfterQuery - Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Applied AI deCircle · San Francisco $250,000–$350,000 10d ago FurtherAI - Staff AI Engineer deCircle · San Francisco $225,000–$350,000 10d ago Staff Software Engineer, Applied AI Peregrine Technologies · Washington $200,000–$275,000 13d ago Staff Software Engineer, Applied AI Peregrine Technologies · New York $200,000–$275,000 13d ago Staff Software Engineer, Applied AI Peregrine Technologies · San Francisco $200,000–$275,000 13d ago Applied AI Architect, Beneficial Deployments (Life Sciences Community & Enablement) Anthropic · San Francisco $275,000–$315,000 2w ago Manager of Applied AI Architecture, Startups Anthropic · San Francisco $315,000–$380,000 2w ago Applied AI Engineer, GTM Stuut · New York $150,000–$200,000 2w ago Manager, Applied AI Engineering (Megas) Anthropic · San Francisco $320,000–$405,000 2w ago Staff Software Engineer, AI Developer Tooling Sentry · San Francisco $220,000–$400,000 2w ago Applied AI Engineer, Video Agent HeyGen · San Francisco $180,000–$240,000 2w ago Manager, Applied AI Architect OpenAI · San Francisco $280,000–$300,000 3w ago Applied AI Architect, International Policy Anthropic · San Francisco $240,000–$315,000 3w ago ML / AI Software Engineer - C++ Metrics Frameworks Generalmotors · San Francisco $129,000–$198,400 3w ago FDE / AI Engineer MLabs · San Francisco $150,000–$250,000 3w ago AI Engineer Cyvl · Somerville $125,000–$225,000 3w ago Applied AI Delivery Lead OpenAI · San Francisco $234,000–$335,000 3w ago Applied AI Engineer, Beneficial Deployments (Life Sciences) Anthropic · San Francisco $280,000–$320,000 3w ago Technical Program Manager, Global Programs — Applied AI Engineering OpenAI · San Francisco $251,000–$280,000 3w ago AI Software Engineer - HP IQ Hp · San Francisco $127,000–$175,000 3w ago AI Software Engineer - HP IQ Hp (Exteu Ac Careersite) · San Francisco $127,000–$175,000 3w ago Senior Software Engineer, AI Engineer Midi Health · San Francisco $170,000–$210,000 3w ago Staff Software Engineer, AI Engineer Midi Health · San Francisco $200,000–$250,000 3w ago Software Engineer, Systems & Platform Applied AI Mercor · San Francisco $220,000–$500,000 4w ago Tech Lead, Systems & Platform Applied AI Mercor · San Francisco $250,000–$500,000 4w ago Staff Applied AI Engineer Rocket Money · Remote · US $200,000–$270,000 4w ago AI Developer Goodwinprocter · Boston $115,000–$159,000 4w ago Staff Software Engineer, Applied AI Lightfield · San Francisco $220,000–$300,000 4w ago LLM Application Engineer, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Required, Work From Home Ginas Tech Jobs · Remote · US $130,000–$175,000 4w ago Principal AI Engineer H2O.ai · San Francisco $175,000–$200,000 4w ago Applied AI Architect, Retail OpenAI · San Francisco $217,000–$276,000 5w ago Applied AI Architect, Healthcare & Life Sciences OpenAI · San Francisco $221,000–$278,000 5w ago Enterprise AI Architect Distyl AI · San Francisco $200,000–$275,000 5w ago Software Engineer, Applied AI Numeric · San Francisco $155,000–$260,000 5w ago

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