The median starting salary is $241,125 a year, measured on the 182 postings that publish an annual salary range in US dollars. Measured September 2026. Compare with AI salaries by field.
$350k-$475kSan FranciscoRemote1w
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Reinforcement learning jobs in San Francisco: 230 open roles (Sep 2026)
Live postings that name reinforcement learning 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
- 230
- AI Level 3+ (AI in the daily work)
- 209
- remote
- 49
- median starting salary
- $241,125
$204k-$259kMountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; New York City, NY, USA3w
pytorchdistributed-training
$200k-$260kSan Francisco5mo
vllmpytorchcursor+2
$213k-$263kMountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA12mo
geminilangchainllamaindex+3
$150k-$400kSan Francisco15mo
pytorchmlflowweights-and-biases
$150kUS, CA, San Francisco4mo
pytorchjax
$251k-$310kMountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA9mo
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$175k-$215kMountain View, CA USA; San Francisco, CA USA11mo
pytorchjax
$200k-$290kSan Francisco13mo
vllmcursorelevenlabs+1
$500k-$850kSan Francisco, CA | New York City, NY18mo
pytorchtensorflowjax
San Francisco, CA; New York, NY7mo
openai
$238k-$302kMountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; New York City, NY, USA7mo
pytorchtensorflowjax
San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; New York, NY19mo
$200k-$300kSan Francisco32mo
cursorelevenlabsdecagon
$350k-$475kSan FranciscoRemote4w
pytorchtensorflowjax
$148k-$185kSan Francisco, CA2mo
pytorchtensorflowscikit-learn+1
$500k-$850kSan Francisco, CA | New York City, NY3mo
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AI level of Reinforcement learning jobs in San Francisco
- AI Level 4177 (77%)
- AI Level 332 (14%)
- AI Level 20 (0%)
- AI Level 121 (9%)
Companies hiring for Reinforcement learning in San Francisco
Reinforcement learning jobs in other cities
Roles that ask for it
Common questions
How much do Reinforcement learning jobs in San Francisco pay?
How much AI work do Reinforcement learning jobs in San Francisco involve?
Of the 230 live postings: AI Level 4: 177 (77%); AI Level 3: 32 (14%); AI Level 1: 21 (9%). See what each level means. Counted September 2026.
Which companies are hiring for Reinforcement learning jobs in San Francisco?
By number of live postings: Together AI (56), OpenAI (31), Anthropic (30), Scale AI (21), Waymo (13). Counted September 2026.
Which other cities have Reinforcement learning jobs?
Cities with their own list, by number of live postings: New York (139), Seattle (85), Santa Clara (67), Sunnyvale (46), Mountain View (30). Counted September 2026.
Which skills come up most in Reinforcement learning jobs in San Francisco?
Named in the title or description, with the number of postings that mention each: Machine learning (120), LLM (118), Python (111), Fine-tuning (106), PyTorch (59). Counted September 2026.
Which roles are open in Reinforcement learning jobs in San Francisco?
By number of live postings: Research scientist (25), Machine learning engineer (20), AI product manager (6), AI engineer (5), Applied scientist (5). Counted September 2026.
A posting counts when it names Reinforcement learning in its title or description. Counted September 2026 on live postings; the list refreshes every few hours. Levels follow our method.