Prompt Engineer salaries in San Francisco.
What Prompt Engineer roles in San Francisco pay, from live listings on JobsRadar.
Compare with anotherMedian salary
$225,000
per year · annualized USD
Typical range
$192.5k – $264.8k
25th–75th percentile
Disclosing pay
50.6%
195 of 385 roles
Live roles
385
open right now
Salary distribution
annualized USD · disclosed rolesHighest-paying live roles
Security Engineer, Application Security
ML/Research Engineer, Safeguards
Offensive Security Engineer, Agent Products
Software Engineer, Claude Design
Staff+ Software Engineer, Full-stack
Staff + Senior Software Engineer, Inference
Software Engineer, Safeguards
Software Engineer, RL Data
Top companies hiring
| Company | Median | Roles |
|---|---|---|
|
Anthropic
|
$382,500 | 15 |
Box
|
$198,000 | 10 |
| SA Scale AI | $273,500 | 8 |
Harper
|
$214,500 | 7 |
Harvey
|
$252,350 | 6 |
Decagon
|
$265,000 | 5 |
Figma
|
$257,750 | 4 |
Flow Engineering
|
$235,000 | 4 |
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How much do Prompt Engineer roles in San Francisco pay?
The median salary for Prompt Engineer roles in San Francisco is $225,000 per year. Most pay falls between $192,500 (25th percentile) and $264,750 (75th percentile), with the broader 10th–90th percentile band running from $144,700 to $306,400.
These figures are computed live from 385 active Prompt Engineer roles in San Francisco on JobsRadar, of which 195 (50.6%) 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 Prompt Engineer roles in San Francisco include Mercor, Anthropic and OpenAI.
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.