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59 AI Software Engineers jobs in San Francisco

Last updated 2026-09-21. CA, USA. Click any row to apply directly on the company's career page.

59
open roles
14
companies hiring
29%
senior / lead
20
new in 30 days

AI Software Engineer hiring in San Francisco: what the data shows

Compared with most AI hiring, this market is relatively open to earlier-career candidates — 71% of listings are mid-level or below.

Hiring is concentrated rather than broad: OpenAI alone accounts for 41% of these openings (24 of 59), with 13 other companies making up the rest.

Among the 12 cities HireIndex tracks for AI software engineers, San Francisco is the second-largest market by open-role count, making it one of the strongest hubs for this skill we track.

20 of these 59 postings (34%) went live in the last 30 days, most via Ashby.

Collected from company job boards (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby), Adzuna, The Muse and LinkedIn, refreshed every Monday (2026-09-21). Each listing links to the original posting; HireIndex doesn't take applications or resumes.

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OpenAI Software Engineer, Backend (Cooperative AI) mid Apply open_in_new
OpenAI Software Engineer, AI Safety mid Apply open_in_new
OpenAI AI Support Engineer - San Francisco mid Apply open_in_new
OpenAI Datacenter Networking Technician, AI Compute Deployment - Stargate mid Apply open_in_new
OpenAI Software Engineer, Cooperative AI mid Apply open_in_new
OpenAI AI Support Engineer - San Francisco (Weekend Shift) mid Apply open_in_new
OpenAI Recruiter, AI/ML Research mid Apply open_in_new
OpenAI Software Engineer, Kernel Performance & AI Tooling mid Apply open_in_new
OpenAI Software Engineer, ML Systems & Training Architecture mid Apply open_in_new
OpenAI Software Engineer, Monetization ML Infrastructure mid Apply open_in_new
OpenAI Applied Data Science & Insights Leader - GTM Intelligence Solutions and Technical Success mid Apply open_in_new
OpenAI Network Operations Engineer, AI Networking mid Apply open_in_new
OpenAI Technical Program Manager, Cloud AI Partnerships mid Apply open_in_new
OpenAI AI Support Engineer, Biosciences - San Francisco mid Apply open_in_new
OpenAI Software Engineer, AI accelerator Runtime mid Apply open_in_new
OpenAI Applied AI Software Engineer, GTM Growth Engineering mid Apply open_in_new
OpenAI AI Deployment Manager - Builder mid Apply open_in_new
OpenAI Senior Manager, Order to Cash — AI Products & Cloud Partnerships senior Apply open_in_new
OpenAI AI Support Engineer, Government - San Francisco, CA mid Apply open_in_new
OpenAI Senior Counsel, AI Product (Enterprise/API) senior Apply open_in_new
OpenAI Technical Program Manager, AI Accelerator Software mid Apply open_in_new
OpenAI Technical Program Manager, AI Safety & Safeguards mid Apply open_in_new
OpenAI Senior Counsel, AI & Product Compliance senior Apply open_in_new
OpenAI Software Engineer, AI for Chip Design mid Apply open_in_new
Writer Software engineer, generative AI mid Apply open_in_new
Writer AI engineer mid Apply open_in_new
Writer Enterprise AI transformation lead (West) mid Apply open_in_new
Writer Strategic AI transformation lead (West) mid Apply open_in_new
Writer AI deployment engineer (West) mid Apply open_in_new
Writer Senior AI learning designer, rapid content senior Apply open_in_new
Perplexity Member of Technical Staff (AI Inference Engineer) senior-heavy Apply open_in_new
Perplexity Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Applied AI) senior-heavy Apply open_in_new
Perplexity Technical Recruiter, AI mid Apply open_in_new
Perplexity Technical Sourcer, AI mid Apply open_in_new
Perplexity Strategic Finance Lead - AI mid Apply open_in_new
Perplexity Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Agents) senior-heavy Apply open_in_new
Perplexity Member of Technical Staff, AI Products (Early Career - Industry) senior-heavy Apply open_in_new
Plaid Staff Software Engineer - AI Applications senior-heavy Apply open_in_new
Plaid AI Partner Development - GTM Pod mid Apply open_in_new
Plaid AI Marketing Technologist Lead mid Apply open_in_new
Plaid Partner Marketing Manager (AI & Financial Partners) mid Apply open_in_new
Plaid Engineering Manager, AI Applications mid Apply open_in_new
Plaid Senior Software Engineer - AI Tooling senior Apply open_in_new
Plaid Staff Software Engineer - AI & Intelligent Tooling senior-heavy Apply open_in_new
Cohere Senior Member of Technical Staff, Multimodal AI senior-heavy Apply open_in_new
Deepgram Software Engineer - Applied AI (Senior or Staff Level) senior-heavy Apply open_in_new
Deepgram Software Engineer, Voice Agents & AI (Senior or Staff Level) senior-heavy Apply open_in_new
Deepgram Staff Product Designer, Conversational AI senior-heavy Apply open_in_new
Harvey Staff Software Engineer, AI Platform senior-heavy Apply open_in_new
Harvey Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform senior Apply open_in_new
Parallel AI Commercial Counsel, GTM mid Apply open_in_new
Parallel GTM Leader, AI Native mid Apply open_in_new
Lilly AI Engineer mid Apply open_in_new
Anyscale Software Engineer, ML Developer Experience mid Apply open_in_new
Roche Orchestration Workload Engineer - ACE - AI Factory mid Apply open_in_new
Speak AI Product Engineer mid Apply open_in_new
Harrison Clarke AI Engineer | San Francisco | $250k + equity mid Apply open_in_new
Harrison Clarke AI Agent Engineer mid Apply open_in_new
Hilbert AI Engineer - Core mid Apply open_in_new

About this list

We scan AI/ML postings on Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, and LinkedIn every week and bucket them by city and skill. This page shows currently open AI Software Engineer roles in San Francisco. Listings are deduplicated and company-attributed before publishing. No login or application is required — every link goes directly to the employer.

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