Rust salaries in San Francisco.
What Rust roles in San Francisco pay, from live listings on JobsRadar.
Compare with anotherMedian salary
$242,750
per year · annualized USD
Typical range
$195k – $312.5k
25th–75th percentile
Disclosing pay
45.2%
204 of 451 roles
Live roles
451
open right now
Salary distribution
annualized USD · disclosed rolesHighest-paying live roles
Research Engineer, Machine Learning (Reinforcement Learning)
Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer Productivity
Research Engineer, Interpretability
Software Engineer, Applied AI
Software Engineer - Systems
Payments Engineer
Software Engineer, Applied AI
Software Engineer, Backend
Top companies hiring
| Company | Median | Roles |
|---|---|---|
OpenAI
|
$309,000 | 31 |
|
Anthropic
|
$403,750 | 24 |
Ditto
|
$241,000 | 17 |
Perplexity
|
$312,500 | 11 |
Neuralink
|
$184,750 | 8 |
Atomic Semi
|
$121,000 | 8 |
Sift Stack, Inc.
|
$195,000 | 7 |
| TB The Bot Company | $275,000 | 5 |
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How much do Rust roles in San Francisco pay?
The median salary for Rust roles in San Francisco is $242,750 per year. Most pay falls between $195,000 (25th percentile) and $312,500 (75th percentile), with the broader 10th–90th percentile band running from $162,650 to $362,500.
These figures are computed live from 451 active Rust roles in San Francisco on JobsRadar, of which 204 (45.2%) 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 Rust roles in San Francisco include Anthropic, Mercor and The San Francisco Compute Company.
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.