AI Engineer salaries in San Francisco.
What AI Engineer roles in San Francisco pay, from live listings on JobsRadar.
Compare with anotherMedian salary
$229,225
per year · annualized USD
Typical range
$200k – $266k
25th–75th percentile
Disclosing pay
73.5%
463 of 630 roles
Live roles
630
open right now
Salary trend
median · annualized USDSalary distribution
annualized USD · disclosed rolesHighest-paying jobs
Research Engineer, Machine Learning (Reinforcement Learning)
Research Engineer, Machine Learning (RL Velocity)
Machine Learning Engineer, Integrity
Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Delivery
Machine Learning Engineer, Speech LLM Training - San Francisco
Software Engineer, Applied AI
Software Engineer, AI Data & Evaluation
Machine Learning Engineer, Marketplace
Top companies hiring
| Company | Median | Roles |
|---|---|---|
|
OpenAI
|
$251,000 | 32 |
|
Pinterest
|
$280,260 | 18 |
| SA Scale AI | $279,675 | 16 |
Handshake
|
$237,500 | 14 |
Databricks
|
$224,163 | 14 |
Drata
|
$205,300 | 11 |
Okta
|
$206,000 | 9 |
DoorDash USA
|
$169,350 | 8 |
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How much do AI Engineer roles in San Francisco pay?
The median salary for AI Engineer roles in San Francisco is $229,225 per year. Most pay falls between $200,000 (25th percentile) and $266,000 (75th percentile), with the broader 10th–90th percentile band running from $169,350 to $307,650.
These figures are computed live from 630 active AI Engineer roles in San Francisco on JobsRadar, of which 463 (73.5%) publish a salary range. Pay is normalized to annualized USD so roles can be compared on equal terms; the highest-paying roles listed above show their original posted currency. Numbers refresh every few hours as new roles are posted and older ones close.
Employers currently hiring well-paid AI Engineer roles in San Francisco include Anthropic, OpenAI, Pinterest and Plaud.
Salary transparency varies by employer and region, so the disclosing share above reflects only roles that publish pay — not every open position. Use it as a directional benchmark rather than an exact offer.