22 Data Scientists jobs in San Francisco
Last updated 2026-09-21. CA, USA. Click any row to apply directly on the company's career page.
Data Scientist hiring in San Francisco: what the data shows
Compared with most AI hiring, this market is relatively open to earlier-career candidates — 77% of listings are mid-level or below.
Hiring is concentrated rather than broad: OpenAI alone accounts for 68% of these openings (15 of 22), with 4 other companies making up the rest.
Among the 10 cities HireIndex tracks for data scientists, San Francisco is the second-largest market by open-role count, making it one of the strongest hubs for this skill we track.
5 of these 22 postings (23%) 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.
| OpenAI | Data Scientist, Product mid | San Francisco | 2025-01-24 | Apply open_in_new |
| OpenAI | Machine Learning Data Scientist, Forecasting mid | San Francisco | 2026-08-12 | Apply open_in_new |
| OpenAI | Data Scientist, Infrastructure mid | San Francisco | 2025-07-22 | Apply open_in_new |
| OpenAI | Data Scientist, Codex mid | San Francisco | 2025-09-30 | Apply open_in_new |
| OpenAI | Data Scientist, Platform and B2B Products mid | San Francisco | 2025-09-30 | Apply open_in_new |
| OpenAI | Data Scientist, Financial Engineering mid | San Francisco | 2025-09-30 | Apply open_in_new |
| OpenAI | Data Scientist, Business mid | San Francisco | 2026-02-27 | Apply open_in_new |
| OpenAI | Data Scientist, B2B Demand Generation, Growth & Measurement mid | San Francisco | 2026-08-06 | Apply open_in_new |
| OpenAI | Data Scientist, Preparedness mid | San Francisco | 2026-02-26 | Apply open_in_new |
| OpenAI | Data Scientist, Safety mid | San Francisco | 2026-05-15 | Apply open_in_new |
| OpenAI | People Research Data Scientist, AI Fairness & Bias mid | San Francisco | 2026-08-31 | Apply open_in_new |
| OpenAI | Data Scientist, Inference Capacity Optimization mid | San Francisco | 2026-09-15 | Apply open_in_new |
| OpenAI | Data Scientist, Ads Demand mid | San Francisco | 2026-07-30 | Apply open_in_new |
| OpenAI | Data Scientist, SMB Ads Growth mid | San Francisco | 2026-07-30 | Apply open_in_new |
| OpenAI | Data Scientist, Real Estate & Workplace mid | San Francisco | 2026-08-20 | Apply open_in_new |
| Perplexity | Member of Data Staff (Data Scientist) senior-heavy | San Francisco | 2026-02-20 | Apply open_in_new |
| Plaid | Senior Data Scientist - Network Value (Plaid App) senior | San Francisco HQ | 2026-07-10 | Apply open_in_new |
| Plaid | Senior Data Scientist - Network Value (Credit) senior | San Francisco HQ | 2026-08-28 | Apply open_in_new |
| Plaid | Senior Data Scientist - Embedded Insights senior | San Francisco HQ | 2026-09-10 | Apply open_in_new |
| Harvey | Data Scientist, Marketing mid | San Francisco | 2026-01-16 | Apply open_in_new |
| Harvey | Data Scientist, Product mid | San Francisco | 2026-06-18 | Apply open_in_new |
| Socure | Staff Data Scientist - Fraud & Risk senior-heavy | San Francisco, CA | 2026-09-14 | 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 Data Scientist 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.