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Tech salaries in San Francisco Bay Area

1,750 posted ranges at 70 companies · median $265k · H-1B median $212k (20,432 filings)

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Median of posted rangesMiddle halfH-1B median

TitlePosted
Software Engineer855 posted ranges$259k$206k to $297k
Engineering Manager126 posted ranges$317k$258k to $345k
Machine Learning Engineer97 posted ranges$270k$225k to $305k
Data Scientist74 posted ranges$269k$228k to $301k
Research Engineer69 posted ranges$370k$295k to $500k
Security Engineer69 posted ranges$240k$197k to $290k
AI Engineer57 posted ranges$265k$200k to $325k
Member of Technical Staff54 posted ranges$313k$220k to $405k
Forward Deployed Engineer42 posted ranges$243k$185k to $285k
Research Scientist40 posted ranges$281k$216k to $315k
Full Stack Engineer36 posted ranges$232k$196k to $268k
Solutions Engineer35 posted ranges$216k$185k to $248k
Agent Engineer33 posted ranges$285k$194k to $390k
Data Engineer28 posted ranges$267k$213k to $303k
Site Reliability Engineer25 posted ranges$255k$204k to $290k
Platform Engineer23 posted ranges$248k$193k to $280k
Applied AI Engineer15 posted ranges$252k$211k to $280k
Developer Advocate15 posted ranges$202k$165k to $242k
Design Engineer11 posted ranges$235k$190k to $290k
Analytics Engineer10 posted ranges$221k$178k to $251k
Product Engineer9 posted ranges$235k$180k to $280k
MLOps Engineer8 posted ranges$311k$221k to $378k
Data Analyst6 posted ranges$182k$162k to $201k
Evals Engineer4 posted ranges$295k$240k to $340k
Head of Data3 posted ranges$333k$290k to $376k
Applied Scientist2 posted ranges$174k to $319k2 postings
DevOps Engineer2 posted ranges$173k to $203k2 postings
AI Safety Researcher1 posted range$320k to $405kone posting
Founding Engineer1 posted range$200k to $250kone posting

Posted ranges

120 postings

PostingRange
[DH] Engineering Manager, AI Observability (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicEngineering ManagerManager$405kto $850k
Engineering Manager, GPU (ML Accelerator) (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicEngineering ManagerManager$500kto $850k
Engineering Manager, Research Data Platform (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicEngineering ManagerManager$405kto $850k
Engineering Manager, Research Productivity (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicEngineering ManagerManager$405kto $850k
Pre-training Data Infrastructure Engineer (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicData EngineerNot stated$500kto $850k
Research Engineer, Chip Design RL (Reinforcement Learning) (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicResearch EngineerNot stated$500kto $850k
Research Engineer, Code RL (Reinforcement Learning) (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicResearch EngineerNot stated$500kto $850k
Research Engineer, Computer Use (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicResearch EngineerNot stated$500kto $850k
Research Engineer, Discovery (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicResearch EngineerNot stated$350kto $850k
Research Engineer, Domain Scaling (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicResearch EngineerNot stated$350kto $850k
Research Engineer, Knowledge Team (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicResearch EngineerNot stated$350kto $850k
Research Engineer, Machine Learning (Reinforcement Learning) (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicResearch EngineerNot stated$500kto $850k
Research Engineer, Machine Learning (RL Velocity) (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicResearch EngineerNot stated$500kto $850k
Research Engineer, Model Evaluations (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicResearch EngineerNot stated$500kto $850k
Research Engineer, Pretraining Scaling (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicResearch EngineerNot stated$350kto $850k
Research Engineer/Research Scientist, Pre-training (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicResearch EngineerNot stated$350kto $850k
Research Engineer, RL Engineering (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicResearch EngineerNot stated$500kto $850k
Research Engineer, Takeoff Intel (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicResearch EngineerNot stated$350kto $850k
Research Engineer, Universes (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicResearch EngineerNot stated$500kto $850k
Research Engineer, Visual Knowledge Work (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicResearch EngineerNot stated$350kto $850k
Research Scientist, Interpretability (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicResearch ScientistNot stated$350kto $850k
Software Engineer, ML Networking (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicMachine Learning EngineerNot stated$280kto $850k
Staff Research Engineer, Discovery Team (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicResearch EngineerStaff$350kto $850k
Staff+ Research Engineer, RL Data Platform (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicResearch EngineerStaff$500kto $850k
Staff+ Research Scientist, Multi-Agent (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicResearch ScientistStaff$500kto $850k
Engineering Manager, Hardware Platform Security (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicEngineering ManagerManager$485kto $625k
Engineering Manager, Inference Infrastructure (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicEngineering ManagerManager$405kto $625k
Software Engineer, Research Infrastructure (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicSoftware EngineerNot stated$405kto $625k
Staff Software Engineer, Claude Code (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicSoftware EngineerStaff$320kto $625k
Staff Software Engineer, Code RL (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicSoftware EngineerStaff$405kto $625k
Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer Productivity (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicSoftware EngineerStaff$405kto $625k
Staff Software Engineer, Environments Infrastructure (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicSoftware EngineerStaff$405kto $605k
Member of Technical Staff - Model Training (the posting, opens in a new tab)xAIMember of Technical StaffNot stated$180kto $600k
Member of Technical Staff - Post-Training and RL (the posting, opens in a new tab)xAIMember of Technical StaffNot stated$180kto $600k
Research Engineer, Retrieval & Search, Applied Engineering (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAIResearch EngineerNot stated$293kto $585k
Research Engineer, Interpretability (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicResearch EngineerNot stated$315kto $560k
Machine Learning Engineer, Integrity (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAIMachine Learning EngineerNot stated$287kto $555k
Software Engineer, Inference - Multi Modal (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAISoftware EngineerNot stated$295kto $555k
Machine Learning Engineer, Monetization AI/ML (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAIMachine Learning EngineerNot stated$381kto $555k
Engineering Manager, MLE (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAIMachine Learning EngineerManager$500kto $555k
Principal Research Engineer, Model Training & Post-Training (the posting, opens in a new tab)Inflection AIResearch EngineerPrincipal$400kto $550k
Software Engineer, Data Acquisition (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAISoftware EngineerNot stated$295kto $536k
Full-Stack SWE, Data Acquisition (Foundations) (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAISoftware EngineerNot stated$295kto $536k
Software Engineer - Data Aquisition (systems) (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAISoftware EngineerNot stated$295kto $536k
Data Engineering Manager, Growth & Revenue (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAIEngineering ManagerManager$459kto $536k
Applied Data Science & Insights Leader - GTM Intelligence Solutions and Technical Success (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAIData ScientistNot stated$441kto $515k
Data Scientist, Ads Demand (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAIData ScientistNot stated$293kto $515k
Data Scientist, SMB Ads Growth (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAIData ScientistNot stated$293kto $515k
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Identity Infrastructure Engineering (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAISoftware EngineerStaff$347kto $510k
Engineering Manager, Identity & Access Platform (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAIEngineering ManagerManager$347kto $510k
Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer, Safeguards Research (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicMLOps EngineerNot stated$350kto $500k
ML/Research Engineer, Safeguards (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicResearch EngineerNot stated$350kto $500k
Research Engineer, Life Sciences (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicResearch EngineerNot stated$350kto $500k
Research Engineer, Production Model Post-Training (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicResearch EngineerNot stated$350kto $500k
Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Tokens (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicResearch EngineerNot stated$350kto $500k
Research Engineer / Scientist, Alignment (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicResearch EngineerNot stated$350kto $500k
Software Engineer, Collective Communication (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAISoftware EngineerNot stated$380kto $500k
Software Engineer, Model Inference (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAISoftware EngineerNot stated$266kto $500k
Research Engineer / Research Scientist- Personal AGI (Post Training) (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAIResearch EngineerNot stated$380kto $500k
Machine Learning Data Scientist, Forecasting (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAIData ScientistNot stated$340kto $500k
Research Engineer, Codex (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAIResearch EngineerNot stated$380kto $500k
Software Engineer, Platform Systems (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAISoftware EngineerNot stated$380kto $500k
Machine Learning Engineer, Distributed Data Systems - Robotics (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAIMachine Learning EngineerNot stated$380kto $500k
Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Memory (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAIResearch EngineerNot stated$380kto $500k
Software Engineer, Inference - Performance Optimization (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAISoftware EngineerNot stated$266kto $500k
Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Personalization (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAIResearch EngineerNot stated$380kto $500k
Research Engineer/Research Scientist - Personal AGI, North Stars (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAIResearch EngineerNot stated$380kto $500k
Research Engineer/Research Scientist- Personal AGI, Model Experience (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAIResearch EngineerNot stated$380kto $500k
Principal Software Engineer, Enterprise Technology Vertical (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAISoftware EngineerPrincipal$441kto $500k
Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Health (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAIResearch EngineerNot stated$380kto $500k
Research Engineer, AI for Chip Design (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAIResearch EngineerNot stated$380kto $500k
AI Infrastructure Engineer, pAGI (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAIMLOps EngineerNot stated$266kto $500k
Staff Engineer, Agentic (the posting, opens in a new tab)Inflection AISoftware EngineerStaff$350kto $500k
Member of Technical Staff, Applied AI Backend (the posting, opens in a new tab)MercorMember of Technical StaffNot stated$220kto $500k
Infrastructure Engineer (the posting, opens in a new tab)MercorPlatform EngineerNot stated$160kto $500k
Data Scientist (the posting, opens in a new tab)MercorData ScientistNot stated$160kto $500k
Software Engineer, Agents (the posting, opens in a new tab)MercorAgent EngineerNot stated$160kto $500k
Data Engineer (the posting, opens in a new tab)MercorData EngineerNot stated$160kto $500k
Research Engineer - Environments, Data and Post-Training (the posting, opens in a new tab)MercorResearch EngineerNot stated$180kto $500k
Software Engineer, Automation (the posting, opens in a new tab)MercorSoftware EngineerNot stated$160kto $500k
Software Engineer, Frontier Data Products (the posting, opens in a new tab)MercorSoftware EngineerNot stated$160kto $500k
Software Engineer, Applied AI (the posting, opens in a new tab)MercorSoftware EngineerNot stated$160kto $500k
Software Engineer, Platform (the posting, opens in a new tab)MercorSoftware EngineerNot stated$160kto $500k
Machine Learning Engineer, Frontier Data Products (the posting, opens in a new tab)MercorMachine Learning EngineerNot stated$160kto $500k
Product Engineer, Studio Platform (the posting, opens in a new tab)MercorProduct EngineerNot stated$160kto $500k
Software Engineer, Machine Learning (the posting, opens in a new tab)MercorMachine Learning EngineerNot stated$160kto $500k
Software Engineer, Marketplace (the posting, opens in a new tab)MercorSoftware EngineerNot stated$160kto $500k
Software Engineer, Backend (the posting, opens in a new tab)MercorSoftware EngineerNot stated$200kto $500k
Product Engineer, Talent Experience (the posting, opens in a new tab)MercorProduct EngineerNot stated$160kto $500k
Software Engineer, Robotics (the posting, opens in a new tab)MercorSoftware EngineerNot stated$130kto $500k
Research Engineer, Real Environments (the posting, opens in a new tab)MercorResearch EngineerNot stated$160kto $500k
Member of Technical Staff, Backend (the posting, opens in a new tab)MercorMember of Technical StaffNot stated$250kto $500k
Fullstack Software Engineer, Agent Platform (the posting, opens in a new tab)MercorAgent EngineerNot stated$160kto $500k
Software Engineer, Search Systems - Code Data (the posting, opens in a new tab)MercorSoftware EngineerNot stated$250kto $500k
Research Engineer - Benchmarking (the posting, opens in a new tab)MercorResearch EngineerNot stated$180kto $500k
Member of Technical Staff, Mercor Enterprise Platform (the posting, opens in a new tab)MercorMember of Technical StaffNot stated$160kto $500k
Research Scientist, APEX Benchmarks (the posting, opens in a new tab)MercorResearch ScientistNot stated$200kto $500k
Member of Technical Staff, Agentic Systems (the posting, opens in a new tab)MercorMember of Technical StaffNot stated$160kto $500k
Data Platform Engineer (the posting, opens in a new tab)MercorData EngineerNot stated$160kto $500k
Research Engineer - Environments, Data and Post-Training (the posting, opens in a new tab)MercorResearch EngineerNot stated$250kto $500k
Member of Technical Staff, Tech Lead Applied AI Backend (the posting, opens in a new tab)MercorMember of Technical StaffSenior$250kto $500k
Senior Staff / Principal Software Engineer - Freeway Autonomy (the posting, opens in a new tab)ZooxSoftware EngineerPrincipal$340kto $493k
Principal Software Engineer, Perception Architect (the posting, opens in a new tab)ZooxSoftware EngineerPrincipal$410kto $492k
Senior Staff / Principal Machine Learning Engineer - Autonomy Behaviors (the posting, opens in a new tab)ZooxMachine Learning EngineerPrincipal$340kto $492k
Software Engineer, Developer Productivity (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAISoftware EngineerNot stated$210kto $490k
Software Engineer, Fleet Management (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAISoftware EngineerManager$230kto $490k
Software Engineer, Fleet Infrastructure (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAISoftware EngineerNot stated$230kto $490k
Software Engineer, Compute Foundations Systems (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAISoftware EngineerNot stated$230kto $490k
Software Engineer, Resilience Engineering (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAISoftware EngineerNot stated$230kto $490k
Full Stack Engineer, Fleet Scheduling (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAIFull Stack EngineerNot stated$230kto $490k
Software Engineer, GPU Infrastructure - HPC (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAISoftware EngineerNot stated$230kto $490k
Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAISoftware EngineerNot stated$230kto $490k
Software Engineer, Build Systems / CI (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAISoftware EngineerNot stated$185kto $490k
Full-Stack Engineer, ChatGPT Education & Learning (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAIFull Stack EngineerNot stated$185kto $490k
Software Engineer, Delivery / CD (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAISoftware EngineerNot stated$210kto $490k
Software Engineer, Plugin Developer Platform (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAISoftware EngineerNot stated$185kto $490k
Software Engineer, Compute Foundations (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAISoftware EngineerNot stated$255kto $490k
Software Engineer, Plugin Ecosystem (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAISoftware EngineerNot stated$185kto $490k
Engineering Manager, Cybersecurity Products (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicEngineering ManagerManager$405kto $485k
Engineering Manager, Data Infrastructure (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicEngineering ManagerManager$405kto $485k

The newest 120 of 1,750 are shown. All of them: /api/postings?city=sf-bay-area

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CompanyPosted
OpenAI216 posted ranges$353k$266k to $445k
Anthropic156 posted ranges$403k$320k to $485k
Roblox140 posted ranges$269k$243k to $295k
Waymo129 posted ranges$238k$213k to $263k
Databricks108 posted ranges$226k$190k to $260k
Zoox75 posted ranges$247k$206k to $285k
CoreWeave75 posted ranges$212k$182k to $242k
Snowflake52 posted ranges$244k$200k to $288k
xAI45 posted ranges$310k$180k to $440k
Scale AI44 posted ranges$243k$216k to $270k
Harvey41 posted ranges$263k$220k to $290k
Mercor38 posted ranges$330k$160k to $500k
Robinhood38 posted ranges$213k$196k to $230k
Baseten36 posted ranges$248k$165k to $330k
Perplexity35 posted ranges$313k$220k to $405k
Discord30 posted ranges$221k$196k to $245k
Decagon28 posted ranges$300k$200k to $400k
Replit28 posted ranges$251k$205k to $315k
Sierra26 posted ranges$310k$230k to $390k
Together AI26 posted ranges$245k$200k to $280k
Figma24 posted ranges$265k$153k to $376k
Okta23 posted ranges$231k$194k to $267k
Figure20 posted ranges$300k$200k to $400k
Plaid20 posted ranges$227k$191k to $263k
Sentry18 posted ranges$278k$163k to $400k
Fivetran18 posted ranges$215k$191k to $239k
Lambda17 posted ranges$312k$240k to $356k
Vercel17 posted ranges$245k$196k to $294k
1X17 posted ranges$240k$200k to $280k
Brex16 posted ranges$216k$192k to $240k
Mercury15 posted ranges$226k$201k to $251k
Anyscale12 posted ranges$231k$215k to $253k
Palantir12 posted ranges$168k$135k to $200k
Snorkel AI11 posted ranges$260k$200k to $320k
Turing10 posted ranges$300k$250k to $350k
Character.AI10 posted ranges$250k$190k to $300k
Benchling9 posted ranges$230k$194k to $265k
MongoDB9 posted ranges$187k$126k to $248k
Twitch9 posted ranges$160k$136k to $185k
Intercom8 posted ranges$222k$211k to $233k
Abridge7 posted ranges$233k$214k to $252k
Labelbox6 posted ranges$235k$195k to $265k
Modal5 posted ranges$275k$250k to $300k
Asana5 posted ranges$265k$248k to $299k
Render5 posted ranges$232k$195k to $268k
LlamaIndex5 posted ranges$215k$180k to $250k
HeyGen5 posted ranges$210k$180k to $240k
Writer5 posted ranges$186k$132k to $240k
Invisible Technologies4 posted ranges$239k$195k to $282k
Nebius4 posted ranges$229k$195k to $262k
Datadog4 posted ranges$225k$200k to $250k
Airbyte4 posted ranges$216k$196k to $235k
Airbnb4 posted ranges$213k$198k to $227k
Samsara4 posted ranges$207k$155k to $260k
Suno3 posted ranges$270k$220k to $320k
Inflection AI2 posted ranges$375k to $525k2 postings
Cohere2 posted ranges$213k to $325k2 postings
Temporal2 posted ranges$154k to $226k2 postings
PlanetScale2 posted ranges$120k to $225k2 postings
Ramp1 posted range$189k to $330kone posting
Confluent1 posted range$236k to $277kone posting
Stripe1 posted range$221k to $286kone posting
Attio1 posted range$225k to $275kone posting
Hex1 posted range$199k to $295kone posting
Starburst1 posted range$230k to $260kone posting
Descript1 posted range$200k to $250kone posting
Cognition1 posted range$180k to $225kone posting
Cockroach Labs1 posted range$188k to $210kone posting
Nuro1 posted range$153k to $176kone posting
Wiz1 posted range$139k to $182kone posting

Posted median by week

Week ofRangesMedian
Sep 211,750$265k

Postings whose location names San Francisco Bay Area or a nearby city; H-1B filings whose worksite is there.

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