Data Scientist salary in San Francisco

If you are applying for Data Scientist 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.

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Live Data Scientist jobs in San Francisco

99 open listings match Data Scientist in San Francisco right now. The newest:

Skills employers ask for

Terms that keep coming up in the newest Data Scientist listings in San Francisco, and how many listings use each.
  1. millions16 posts
  2. come11 posts
  3. everyone13 posts
  4. platform33 posts
  5. product22 posts
  6. bring12 posts
  7. staff15 posts
  8. analytics12 posts
  9. life11 posts
  10. measurement5 posts
  11. domain6 posts
  12. research10 posts
  13. pricing5 posts
  14. economy6 posts
  15. building17 posts
  16. marketplace5 posts
  17. products15 posts
  18. combining6 posts
  19. frontier7 posts
  20. email5 posts

Who's hiring

Employers with the most open Data Scientist listings in San Francisco.
  1. Openai15 open jobs
  2. Pinterest8 open jobs
  3. Google6 open jobs
  4. Databricks4 open jobs
  5. LYFT3 open jobs
  6. Mercury3 open jobs
  7. Baseten2 open jobs
  8. DoorDash USA2 open jobs
  9. Handshake2 open jobs
  10. Harvey2 open jobs

Advertised pay

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

$135,000 to $515,000 a year, median $235,000.

What affects pay first in San Francisco

Recruiters scan for role fit, recent proof, and keywords. For Data Scientist, your resume should show the tools you used, the data you worked with, the question or pipeline you owned, and the result. A vague analysis line does not help. A specific line with data volume, accuracy, time saved, revenue, cost, or decisions it changed 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 Data Scientist

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

Core skills

SQL, Python, BI tools, statistics, data modeling, pipelines, and data quality checks

Business impact

cost, revenue, time saved, accuracy, forecast error, or decisions changed

Collaboration

stakeholders, product, engineering, finance, operations, or leadership

Proof

dashboards, notebooks, models, pipelines, analysis write-ups, or labeling accuracy

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 Data Scientist 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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