The median starting salary is $180,000 a year, measured on the 990 postings that publish an annual salary range in US dollars. Measured September 2026. Compare with AI salaries by field.
AI agents jobs in San Francisco: 1,105 open roles (Sep 2026)
Live postings that name AI agents in the job title or description, located in San Francisco, United States. Each one is rated AI Level 1–4 for how much AI is in the daily work.
- open roles
- 1,105
- AI Level 3+ (AI in the daily work)
- 617
- remote
- 352
- median starting salary
- $180,000
$139k-$258kSan Francisco1w
$235k-$259kSan Francisco, California, United States2w
pythonllm-frameworks
$187k-$259kSan Francisco, CA, USA2w
bedrocksagemakeraws+3
$250k-$300kSan Francisco2w
cursorelevenlabsdecagon+4
New York City, NY (Hybrid); San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)2w
pythonllm-infrastructuredistributed-systems
$150k-$190kSan Francisco, CARemote2w
openaianthropiclanggraph+6
$150k-$215kSan Francisco, CARemote3w
langgraphhugging-faceclay+1
$136k-$265kSan Francisco, CARemote4w
llms
San Francisco, CA, US; Remote, USRemote1mo
llmsfoundation-models
$200k-$275kSan FranciscoRemote1mo
terraformkuberneteshelm
$185kSan Francisco1mo
pythontypescriptai-agents+1
$179k-$294kSan Francisco, CaliforniaRemote1mo
openaiclaudecursor+7
San Francisco, CA, US; Remote, USRemote1mo
AI level of AI agents jobs in San Francisco
- AI Level 4182 (16%)
- AI Level 3435 (39%)
- AI Level 282 (7%)
- AI Level 1406 (37%)
Companies hiring for AI agents in San Francisco
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Roles that ask for it
Common questions
How much do AI agents jobs in San Francisco pay?
How much AI work do AI agents jobs in San Francisco involve?
Of the 1,105 live postings: AI Level 4: 182 (16%); AI Level 3: 435 (39%); AI Level 2: 82 (7%); AI Level 1: 406 (37%). See what each level means. Counted September 2026.
Which companies are hiring for AI agents jobs in San Francisco?
By number of live postings: Salesforce (141), Sierra (94), Decagon (82), Notion (59), Braze (48). Counted September 2026.
Which other cities have AI agents jobs?
Which skills come up most in AI agents jobs in San Francisco?
Named in the title or description, with the number of postings that mention each: LLM (379), Python (285), AWS (157), TypeScript (155), SQL (120). Counted September 2026.
Which roles are open in AI agents jobs in San Francisco?
By number of live postings: AI product manager (57), AI engineer (31), Forward deployed engineer (28), Machine learning engineer (12), Data scientist (11). Counted September 2026.
A posting counts when it names AI agents in its title or description. Counted September 2026 on live postings; the list refreshes every few hours. Levels follow our method.