AI Engineer salary in San Francisco

If you are applying for AI Engineer roles in San Francisco, the hard part is not finding one listing. The hard part is making each application look specific enough to pass the recruiter screen and the ATS scan.

472 live listings right now.

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Live AI Engineer jobs in San Francisco

472 open listings match AI Engineer in San Francisco right now. The newest:

Skills employers ask for

Terms that keep coming up in the newest AI Engineer listings in San Francisco, and how many listings use each.
  1. applied34 posts
  2. software50 posts
  3. staff28 posts
  4. know9 posts
  5. doesn8 posts
  6. building35 posts
  7. infrastructure26 posts
  8. generative11 posts
  9. systems32 posts
  10. machine learning10 posts
  11. ml14 posts
  12. agents17 posts
  13. developers14 posts
  14. human14 posts
  15. agent12 posts
  16. forward deployed8 posts
  17. share8 posts
  18. voice8 posts
  19. model13 posts
  20. engineers16 posts

Who's hiring

Employers with the most open AI Engineer listings in San Francisco.
  1. Together AI32 open jobs
  2. Openai29 open jobs
  3. Scale AI29 open jobs
  4. Google17 open jobs
  5. Fal Ai11 open jobs
  6. Anthropic9 open jobs
  7. Happyrobot Ai9 open jobs
  8. Capital One8 open jobs
  9. Clera8 open jobs
  10. Airwallex6 open jobs

Advertised pay

From listings that state pay. Many don't, so treat it as a range, not a promise.

$100,000 to $555,000 a year, median $237,500.

What affects pay first in San Francisco

Recruiters scan for role fit, recent proof, and keywords. For AI Engineer, your resume should show the tools you used, the problem you solved, and the result. A vague project line does not help. A specific line with numbers, users, revenue, cost, speed, quality, or risk reduction works much better.

Check this before sending another application.

  • Pay range
  • Offer proof
  • Negotiation
  • Put the exact job title and adjacent titles in your summary.
  • Mirror the top skills from the job description naturally.
  • Use 3 to 5 achievement bullets that show measurable outcomes.
  • Keep formatting simple so ATS software can parse every section.

Resume keywords for AI Engineer

Do not stuff keywords. Put them where they belong: skills, project bullets, work experience, and certifications. For AI Engineer jobs in San Francisco, start with these clusters.

Core skills

role-specific tools, workflows, and delivery methods

Business impact

cost, revenue, speed, quality, risk, retention, or conversion

Collaboration

stakeholders, product, engineering, sales, security, or operations

Proof

portfolio links, shipped work, dashboards, case studies, or GitHub

A practical application plan

Compare salary bands, map your proof to the seniority level, and prepare a realistic ask before recruiter calls.
  1. Pick 10 active AI Engineer listings in San Francisco and save the job descriptions.
  2. Group repeated skills and phrases. Those are your ATS keywords.
  3. Rewrite your resume summary for this exact market and role.
  4. Run the resume and JD through the JobRise ATS checker.
  5. Only apply after your resume clearly matches the must-have requirements.

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Paste the job description into JobRise, check the ATS score, then fix the missing keywords before you send the application. One focused application beats ten generic ones.
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