As of November 3, 2026, 58 live postings in San Francisco are rated Builds AI. The list refreshes every six hours.
London & San FranciscoRemote3d
openaianthropichugging-face+3
Research scientist jobs in San Francisco that build AI: 58 open roles
Updated Nov 3, 2026
58 live research scientist jobs in San Francisco that build AI. By AI level, 58 build AI. 3 work on AI. 3 involve little AI. Across all AI levels, the total is 64. Median salary from $287,500. The median is measured on 44 postings that publish an annual USD range. Top employers by postings: OpenAI, Anthropic, Scale AI, Waymo, Apollo Research.
- open roles
- 58
- Build or work on AI (AI Level 3–4)
- 58
- remote
- 17
New research scientist jobs in San Francisco (Builds AI ●●●●) by email
$500k-$850kSan Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA4w
pytorchjaxpython
$204k-$259kMountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; New York City, NY, USA2mo
pytorchdistributed-training
$251k-$310kMountain View, CA, US; San Francisco, CA, US; Kirkland, WA, USRemote3mo
pytorchtensorflowjax+1
$249k-$368kSan Francisco HQRemote5mo
$200k-$375kNew York City, NY (Hybrid); San Francisco, CA (Hybrid); United StatesRemote12mo
pytorchtensorflowscikit-learn
$120k-$300kSan Francisco / Bay Area13mo
chatgptclaudepytorch+1
San Francisco, California, US1mo
vllmpytorch
$200k-$300kSan Francisco Bay Area6mo
mistralllamadatabricks
$210k-$285kSan FranciscoRemote7mo
cursorlovableclay
$380k-$850kSan Francisco16mo
San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; New York, NY21mo
San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; New York, NY24mo
langgraphpytorchtensorflow+1
$204k-$385kLondon & San Francisco2mo
openaiclaudeanthropic+3
San Francisco, CA; New York, NY7mo
London & San Francisco3d
openaianthropichugging-face+1
$380k-$500kSan FranciscoRemote5d
grokpythonpytorch+1
$300k-$320kSan Francisco, CA1w
python
$200k-$375kNew York City, NY (Hybrid); San Francisco, CA (Hybrid); United StatesRemote1mo
python
$199k-$325kSan Francisco, CARemote1mo
pytorchjaxtransformers+1
$213k-$263kMountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; New York, NY, USARemote1mo
pytorchtensorflowjax+1
$250k-$500kSan Francisco1mo
pythonpytorch
San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; New York, NYRemote2mo
pytorchpython
$197k-$263kSan Francisco, CA or Remote, USRemote2mo
openaipytorch
$380k-$500kSan Francisco2mo
python
$295k-$445kSan FranciscoRemote3mo
pythonllms
$380k-$500kSan FranciscoRemote3mo
python
Companies hiring research scientists in San Francisco · Builds AI
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Common questions
How many research scientist in San Francisco jobs build AI?
How much do research scientist in San Francisco jobs pay?
As of November 3, 2026, the median starting salary is $287,500 a year, measured on the 44 postings that publish an annual salary range in US dollars.
Which companies are hiring for research scientist in San Francisco that build AI?
As of November 3, 2026, by number of live postings: OpenAI (13), Anthropic (10), Scale AI (8), Waymo (5), Apollo Research (3).
Which skills come up most in research scientist jobs in San Francisco?
As of November 3, 2026, named in the title or description, with the number of postings that mention each: Machine learning (43), LLM (27), Reinforcement learning (27), Python (18), PyTorch (15).
Method: counted from live, non-expired postings whose title matches the role, filtered to the AI level and, when shown, the city named above (matched against the free-text location field, which can over- or under-count secondary offices). Companies that only republish other employers' postings are excluded from the employer ranking and the salary median. Recalculated every 10 minutes. Levels follow our method.