33 Machine Learning Engineers jobs in San Francisco
Last updated 2026-09-21. CA, USA. Click any row to apply directly on the company's career page.
Machine Learning Engineer hiring in San Francisco: what the data shows
Seniority is mixed here: roughly 42% senior or above, 58% mid-level, and the rest junior — a spread that suits both established and rising machine learning engineers.
Demand is spread broadly across 21 employers rather than dominated by one — OpenAI, Hive, Plaid are the most active this week, but no single company holds more than 21% of the roles.
Among the 11 cities HireIndex tracks for machine learning engineers, San Francisco is the second-largest market by open-role count, making it one of the strongest hubs for this skill we track.
17 of these 33 postings (52%) 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 | Training: ML Framework Engineer mid | San Francisco | 2025-10-29 | Apply open_in_new |
| OpenAI | Machine Learning Engineer, Integrity mid | San Francisco | 2026-03-17 | Apply open_in_new |
| OpenAI | Machine Learning Engineer, Distributed Data Systems - Robotics mid | San Francisco | 2026-02-06 | Apply open_in_new |
| OpenAI | Machine Learning Engineer, API Multicloud mid | San Francisco | 2026-08-13 | Apply open_in_new |
| OpenAI | Software Engineer, ML Systems & Training Architecture mid | San Francisco | 2026-05-22 | Apply open_in_new |
| OpenAI | Software Engineer, Monetization ML Infrastructure mid | San Francisco | 2026-06-01 | Apply open_in_new |
| OpenAI | Machine Learning Engineer, Multimodal Perception and Authentication mid | San Francisco | 2026-08-21 | Apply open_in_new |
| Perplexity | Member of Technical Staff (ML Engineer, Recommendations & User Modeling) senior-heavy | San Francisco | 2026-06-06 | Apply open_in_new |
| Plaid | Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Research Scientist) - DFAI senior-heavy | San Francisco HQ | 2026-05-26 | Apply open_in_new |
| Plaid | Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Fraud senior | San Francisco HQ | 2026-09-12 | Apply open_in_new |
| Atlassian | Senior Principal Machine Learning Systems Engineer, Search Platform senior-heavy | New York, NY | San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA | 2026-09-17 | Apply open_in_new |
| Hive | Machine Learning Manager mid | San Francisco | 2022-01-24 | Apply open_in_new |
| Hive | Senior Machine Learning Engineer senior | San Francisco | 2021-12-10 | Apply open_in_new |
| Hive | Staff Machine Learning Engineer senior-heavy | San Francisco | 2021-12-10 | Apply open_in_new |
| Autodesk | Senior Principal Engineer, AI/ML Platform senior-heavy | San Francisco, CA | 2026-09-07 | Apply open_in_new |
| Braze | Staff Machine Learning Engineer, ML Platform senior-heavy | San Francisco, CA | 2026-09-16 | Apply open_in_new |
| Lilly | ML Ops Engineer mid | South San Francisco, San Mateo County | 2026-09-18 | Apply open_in_new |
| Anyscale | Machine Learning Engineer, Customer Engineering mid | San Francisco | 2026-06-24 | Apply open_in_new |
| Anyscale | Software Engineer, ML Developer Experience mid | San Francisco | 2026-08-26 | Apply open_in_new |
| Adyen | Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Financial Products senior-heavy | San Francisco, CA | 2026-09-16 | Apply open_in_new |
| Mach9 | ML Engineer mid | San Francisco | 2026-06-03 | Apply open_in_new |
| Mach9 | Head of ML leadership | San Francisco | 2026-06-03 | Apply open_in_new |
| Speak | Machine Learning Engineer, Voice mid | San Francisco | 2024-03-05 | Apply open_in_new |
| Clera | Machine Learning Engineer mid | San Francisco, California | 2026-09-21 | Apply open_in_new |
| Lila Sciences | ML Scientist I/II, AI for Protein Engineering mid | San Francisco, California | 2026-09-16 | Apply open_in_new |
| Lila Sciences | Senior ML Scientist, AI for Protein Engineering senior | San Francisco, California | 2026-09-16 | Apply open_in_new |
| Uber | Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Core Services Engineering senior-heavy | San Francisco, CA | 2026-09-14 | Apply open_in_new |
| Yelp | Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Content and Contributor Intelligence (Remote - United States) senior | San Francisco, California | 2026-09-21 | Apply open_in_new |
| EvenUp | Staff Machine Learning Engineer senior-heavy | San Francisco, CA | 2026-09-15 | Apply open_in_new |
| Superhuman | Machine Learning Engineer mid | San Francisco, CA | 2026-09-18 | Apply open_in_new |
| Gallatin AI | Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) Engineer mid | San Francisco, CA | 2026-09-18 | Apply open_in_new |
| BioSpace | ML Ops Engineer mid | San Francisco, CA | 2026-09-19 | Apply open_in_new |
| Abridge | Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer mid | San Francisco, CA | 2026-09-16 | 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 Machine Learning 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.