Live postings that name prompt engineering 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.
The median starting salary is $180,000 a year, measured on the 108 postings that publish an annual salary range in US dollars. Measured September 2026. Compare with AI salaries by field.
Of the 119 live postings: AI Level 4: 37 (31%); AI Level 3: 60 (50%); AI Level 2: 10 (8%); AI Level 1: 12 (10%). See what each level means. Counted September 2026.
By number of live postings: Sierra (20), Salesforce (19), Anthropic (7), Drata (6), Adobe (5). Counted September 2026.
Named in the title or description, with the number of postings that mention each: LLM (86), AI agents (75), RAG (51), Python (49), TypeScript (38). Counted September 2026.
By number of live postings: AI engineer (7), AI product manager (6), Forward deployed engineer (5), Solutions architect (2), Applied scientist (1). Counted September 2026.
A posting counts when it names Prompt engineering in its title or description. Counted September 2026 on live postings; the list refreshes every few hours. Levels follow our method.
