The median starting salary is $200,000 a year, measured on the 154 postings that publish an annual salary range in US dollars. Measured September 2026. Compare with AI salaries by field.
$180k-$250kSan FranciscoRemote2mo
claudevllmpytorch+3
Fine-tuning jobs in San Francisco: 197 open roles (Sep 2026)
Live postings that name fine-tuning 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
- 197
- AI Level 3+ (AI in the daily work)
- 167
- remote
- 44
- median starting salary
- $200,000
$229k-$297kMountain View, California; San Francisco, California2mo
pytorchdeepspeedcomposer+2
$200k-$290kSan Francisco2mo
vllmcursorelevenlabs+5
$500k-$850kSan Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA2mo
python
$229k-$343kMountain View, California; San Francisco, California4mo
mlflow
$165k-$330kSan FranciscoRemote5mo
claudevllmpytorch+4
$200k-$280kSan Francisco10mo
cursorelevenlabsdecagon
San Francisco, CA, US; Remote, USRemote16mo
copilotcursorcodex
$190k-$265kMountain View, California; San Francisco, California3mo
pytorch
$160k-$225kMountain View, California; San Francisco, California3mo
pytorch
$270k-$300kSan Francisco4mo
vllmcursorelevenlabs+1
San Francisco, CA, US; Remote, USRemote6mo
copilotcursorcodex
$350k-$500kSan Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA18mo
$350k-$850kNew York City, NY; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA8mo
$160k-$230kSan Francisco15mo
cursorelevenlabsdecagon
$260k-$300kSan Francisco2d
kubernetesslurminfiniband
$381k-$555kSan Francisco4d
pytorchtensorflowpython
$175k-$215kMountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA1w
pytorchjaxpython+1
$58-$70/hrSan Francisco1w
cursorelevenlabsdecagon+2
$58-$70/hrSan Francisco1w
cursorelevenlabsdecagon+2
AI level of Fine-tuning jobs in San Francisco
- AI Level 4128 (65%)
- AI Level 339 (20%)
- AI Level 20 (0%)
- AI Level 130 (15%)
Companies hiring for Fine-tuning in San Francisco
Fine-tuning jobs in other cities
Roles that ask for it
Common questions
How much do Fine-tuning jobs in San Francisco pay?
How much AI work do Fine-tuning jobs in San Francisco involve?
Of the 197 live postings: AI Level 4: 128 (65%); AI Level 3: 39 (20%); AI Level 1: 30 (15%). See what each level means. Counted September 2026.
Which companies are hiring for Fine-tuning jobs in San Francisco?
By number of live postings: Together AI (55), Anthropic (17), Scale AI (15), OpenAI (8), Waymo (8). Counted September 2026.
Which other cities have Fine-tuning jobs?
Cities with their own list, by number of live postings: New York (102), Seattle (69), Santa Clara (48), San Jose (40), Mountain View (29). Counted September 2026.
Which skills come up most in Fine-tuning jobs in San Francisco?
Named in the title or description, with the number of postings that mention each: LLM (109), Reinforcement learning (106), Python (105), Machine learning (90), PyTorch (65). Counted September 2026.
Which roles are open in Fine-tuning jobs in San Francisco?
By number of live postings: Machine learning engineer (25), AI engineer (10), Research scientist (10), Solutions architect (7), AI product manager (5). Counted September 2026.
A posting counts when it names Fine-tuning in its title or description. Counted September 2026 on live postings; the list refreshes every few hours. Levels follow our method.