The median starting salary is $205,000 a year, measured on the 918 postings that publish an annual salary range in US dollars. Measured September 2026. Compare with AI salaries by field.
$350k-$475kSan FranciscoRemote1mo
pytorchjax
LLM jobs in San Francisco: 1,086 open roles (Sep 2026)
Live postings that name LLM 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
- 1,086
- AI Level 3+ (AI in the daily work)
- 847
- remote
- 337
- median starting salary
- $205,000
San Francisco, Seattle3mo
openaibedrocksagemaker+1
San Francisco, CA; New York, NY7mo
openai
$238k-$302kMountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; New York City, NY, USA7mo
pytorchtensorflowjax
$180k-$210kHybrid - San Francisco, CARemote7mo
langchainlanggraphpytorch+2
$238k-$302kNew York, NY, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA9mo
hugging-facepytorchtensorflow
San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; New York, NY19mo
San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; New York, NY23mo
langgraphpytorchtensorflow+1
San Francisco, CA1w
hugging-facepytorch
San Francisco, CA1w
hugging-facepytorch
$350k-$475kSan FranciscoRemote4w
pytorchtensorflowjax
$500k-$850kSan Francisco, CA | New York City, NY3mo
pytorch
$251k-$310kMountain View, CA, USA ; San Francisco, CA, USA ; Kirkland, WA, USA ; New York City, NY, USA3mo
$249k-$368kSan Francisco HQRemote4mo
$153k-$376kSan Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States9mo
hugging-facepytorchjax
$170k-$300kNew York City, NY (Hybrid); San Francisco, CA (Hybrid); United States (Remote)Remote10mo
llamaindexlanggraphcrewai+4
$220k-$270kSan Francisco16mo
cursorelevenlabsdecagon
AI level of LLM jobs in San Francisco
- AI Level 4424 (39%)
- AI Level 3423 (39%)
- AI Level 253 (5%)
- AI Level 1186 (17%)
Companies hiring for LLM in San Francisco
LLM jobs in other cities
Roles that ask for it
Common questions
How much do LLM jobs in San Francisco pay?
How much AI work do LLM jobs in San Francisco involve?
Of the 1,086 live postings: AI Level 4: 424 (39%); AI Level 3: 423 (39%); AI Level 2: 53 (5%); AI Level 1: 186 (17%). See what each level means. Counted September 2026.
Which companies are hiring for LLM jobs in San Francisco?
By number of live postings: Anthropic (162), OpenAI (64), Scale AI (45), Firecrawl (31), Planet Labs (31). Counted September 2026.
Which other cities have LLM jobs?
Cities with their own list, by number of live postings: New York (686), Seattle (402), Santa Clara (244), San Jose (169), Mountain View (119). Counted September 2026.
Which skills come up most in LLM jobs in San Francisco?
Named in the title or description, with the number of postings that mention each: Python (440), AI agents (379), Machine learning (259), AWS (180), Generative AI (174). Counted September 2026.
Which roles are open in LLM jobs in San Francisco?
By number of live postings: Machine learning engineer (44), AI product manager (43), AI engineer (37), Forward deployed engineer (32), Data scientist (26). Counted September 2026.
A posting counts when it names LLM in its title or description. Counted September 2026 on live postings; the list refreshes every few hours. Levels follow our method.