120 staff ai data engineer jobs at 76 companies in San Francisco, CA

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Senior Staff Physical AI Data Algorithm Engineer
Santa Clara or Mountain View
$203k-$344k/yr OnsiteFull Time
XPeng
XPengNYSE; HKEX: XPEV; 9868: Global AI mobility technology focused on smart EVs.
3+ YOEMaster’s or higher in CS/AI/Automation; 3+ years in multi-modal AI or AI data platform; experience with on-vehicle data upload, cloud processing, training and simulation integration.
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Staff AI Data Platform Engineer
San Ramon or Reno
$139k-$173k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Ridgeline
Ridgeline: Private investment management software serving asset and wealth managers through an AI-native cloud platform.
7+ YOE7+ years engineering experience; designing distributed systems, secure API integrations, cloud engineering (AWS), infrastructure-as-code, production Python, and familiarity with vector DBs and RAG pipelines.
Claude Code, Cursor, Snowflake, Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector, AWS, Terraform, Python, OAuth 2.0, SSO
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Staff Data Engineer, AI Platform
San Jose, California, United States
$175k-$215k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Archer Aviation
Archer AviationNYSE: ACHR: Aerospace developing electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.
5+ YOE5+ years of data engineering experience; BS, MS, or PhD in a related field; production pipeline expertise with Spark, Flink, Airflow, dbt, or similar; strong SQL and AWS experience.
Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Apache Airflow, dbt, Apache Iceberg, Apache Paimon, Parquet, Amazon S3, Apache Pulsar, Kafka, SQL, StarRocks, AWS Glue, Amazon EMR, Docker, Kubernetes, Prefect, Dagster, PostgreSQL, Debezium, Airbyte, MLflow
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Staff Data Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
$237k-$270k/yr HybridFull Time
Front
Front: Private customer-operations software serving B2B teams with collaborative communication and workflow tools.
5+ YOE5+ years data engineering/ETL experience, Snowflake, advanced SQL and Python, experience with big data technologies and workflow tools, BS/BA or equivalent, strong stakeholder collaboration and AI fluency.
Snowflake, Python, SQL, HDFS, EMR, Redshift, Spark, Flink, Presto, Airflow
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Staff Data Engineer - AI Platform
United States or North America or San Francisco or Los Angeles or New York City or Washington or London or Singapore
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TRM Labs
TRM Labs: Blockchain intelligence for detecting crypto-related financial crime.
Experience operating distributed OLAP or serving-layer systems, tuning queries, owning pipeline reliability, responding to incidents, using AI tools, and taking on-call responsibility. U.S. citizenship required.
StarRocks, Claude, Trino, ClickHouse, Cursor, Slack, Otter.ai, Fireflies, Fathom, Cluey
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Staff Data Engineer
Foster City, California, United States
$146k-$234k/yr HybridAll Commitments Available
Visa
VisaNYSE: V: Global leader in digital payments and transaction technology.
5+ YOE5+ years data engineering with a Bachelor's or 2+ years with an advanced degree; or 0 years with a PhD. Strong big data, Spark, Hadoop, Python, SQL; Java, REST APIs, and container tech; ML/AI model experience.
Hadoop, Spark, Python, SQL, Java, REST APIs, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Redis, Flink, TensorFlow, Triton, AWS, Unix/Shell, Airflow, Control-M, React, Redux, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript
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Staff Engineer - Data Engineering
Scottsdale or San Francisco or Chicago or New York City or Phoenix or California
$124k-$223k/yr HybridFull Time
Early Warning Services
Early Warning Services: U.S. bank-owned fintech and consumer reporting agency providing identity, fraud-risk, and real-time payment solutions to financial institutions.
8+ YOEBachelor's degree or equivalent experience, 8+ years relevant experience, and extensive data engineering expertise across scalable platforms, distributed systems, cloud, AI/ML, data warehouses, and real-time processing.
SQL Server, HDFS, Elastic Search, IBM Infosphere, Python, Spark, PySpark, R, Data Robot, Pub/Sub, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure, CI/CD, Tensorflow, Sage Maker, Scikit, PyCharm, Cloudera, S3, Oracle, Aerospike, Scality S3, AppDynamics, Kubernetes, HBase, Hive, Solr, Scala, Databricks, Snowflake
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Staff Engineer - AI Agent
Sunnyvale, California, United States
$180k-$260k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Fortinet
FortinetNASDAQ: FTNT: Cybersecurity providing integrated network security and protection solutions.
5+ YOEBackend or full-stack engineer with data-intensive, AI-enhanced applications; 5+ years with BS, or 3+ with MS; strong API, distributed systems, and collaboration.
Python, Go, REST, WebSocket, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Databases, Authentication/Authorization, Distributed Systems, Observability
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Senior Staff Data Science Engineer
Milpitas, California, United States
$173k-$286k/yr OnsiteFull Time
SanDisk
SanDiskNASDAQ: SNDK: Specialist in NAND flash memory and data storage solutions.
8+ YOEMaster’s degree required; 8+ years in AI/ML engineering or data science; expertise in Python, ML frameworks, statistical modeling, scalable systems, and production deployment. Semiconductor experience and PhD preferred.
Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, MLflow, Azure ML, Kubeflow, Spark, Databricks, LLMs, RAG, CI/CD
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Staff Applied AI Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
RemoteFull Time
Orum
Orum: AI-powered calling software that helps sales teams connect with prospects, coach representatives, and generate pipeline.
7+ YOE7+ years software engineering with strong hands-on AI/ML; proven production AI/ML; experience with ML pipelines, LLMs, prompting, RAG, embeddings, and agents; scalable AI system design; data pipelines and large-scale data systems; independent technical direction; customer-impact mindset.
Python, LLMs, ML pipelines, Data pipelines, AI and ML tooling, Prompts, RAG, Embeddings, Agents, BigQuery, ClickHouse
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Staff AI Platform Engineer
San Francisco or Alabama or Arkansas or California or Colorado or Florida or Georgia or Illinois or Kentucky or Massachusetts or Michigan or Montana or Missouri or Nevada or New Jersey or New York or North Carolina or Oregon or Pennsylvania or Texas or Washington or Utah or Virginia or Wisconsin or United States
$169k-$273k/yr HybridFull Time
Afresh
Afresh: Private AI software helping grocery retailers order, manage, and sell food with less waste.
5+ YOE5+ years building production software/data/ML systems; strong Python, systems and API design; hands-on LLM systems (retrieval/RAG, agents, evaluation); Databricks/MLflow and modern data-platform experience.
Python, PySpark, dbt, Databricks, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, MLflow, Astronomer, Airflow, Claude, pgvector, Pinecone, Weaviate, MCP, LangGraph, GitHub, Shortcut, Notion
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San Francisco, California, United States
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Arcade
Arcade: Private AI product-creation marketplace helping consumers design custom jewelry, accessories, and home decor with independent makers.
8+ YOE8+ years building and shipping production ML systems; systems thinking for pipelines, training, serving, and evaluation; strong Python, Linux, PyTorch/TensorFlow; cloud deployment and large-scale data handling.
Python, Linux, PyTorch, TensorFlow
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Senior Staff Applied AI Engineer - Context Retrieval
Mountain View or San Francisco
$229k-$343k/yr HybridFull Time
Databricks
Databricks: Data and AI software providing a unified platform.
10+ YOE10+ years software engineering; deep IR and retrieval systems experience; expertise in LLM-era retrieval and agentic systems; experience building 0→1 retrieval stacks and multi-source data retrieval.
BM25, Lucene, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, FAISS, ScaNN, HNSW, embeddings, nDCG, MRR, Recall@K, RAG, Python, Java, SQL
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Retirement AI Staff Engineer
Denver or San Francisco or New York City or Scottsdale
$164k-$247k/yr HybridFull Time
Gusto
Gusto: Gusto is a payroll, benefits, and human-resources software platform serving small and medium-sized businesses.
7+ YOE7+ years software engineering experience; hands-on experience implementing LLM-powered features; strong services/APIs/data flow skills; comfortable coding; experience with sprints/Jira and cross-functional execution; Ruby on Rails and React experience preferred.
large language models (LLMs), Ruby on Rails, React, Jira
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Staff Sales Engineer, AI Data Solutions
United States or San Francisco or New York City or Chicago
$143k-$222k/yr HybridFull Time
Komodo Health
Komodo Health: Privately held healthcare AI and real-world data analytics serving Life Sciences and healthcare organizations.
10+ YOE10+ years in sales/solutions engineering for life sciences, deep healthcare data and AI fluency, hands-on AI tooling experience, SQL and Python, demo and solution-design expertise.
Claude Code, Cursor, LangFlow, SQL, Python, AWS, Azure, Salesforce, Tableau, Looker
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Member of Data Staff (AI Builder)
San Francisco, California, United States
$175k-$330k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Perplexity AI
Perplexity AI: Private American software offering an AI-powered conversational search engine with real-time web answers and citations.
6+ YOE6+ years in data science/analytics engineering/data engineering, deep SQL and analytics judgment, production Python, hands-on LLM and RAG experience, dbt and warehouse fluency, strong product sense.
SQL, Python, dbt, Snowflake, Slack, LLMs, RAG, CLI, evals
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Staff Software Engineer, Applied AI
San Francisco or New York City or Toronto or United Kingdom
HybridFull Time
Valence
Valence: Enterprise AI coaching platform helping companies provide personalized guidance to managers and employees.
8+ YOE8+ years software engineering experience in AI/ML or data-intensive systems; strong ML/NLP knowledge, proficiency with NumPy, scikit-learn, Pandas, PySpark, SQL, cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure), Docker/Kubernetes, and strong communication and engineering skills.
NumPy, scikit-learn, Pandas, PySpark, SQL, matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly, MLflow, Weights & Biases, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure
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Staff Data Scientist
Santa Monica or Brooklyn or San Francisco or Los Angeles or New York City
$200k-$230k/yr HybridFull Time
Radix Health
Radix Health: Healthcare technology helping providers achieve fair reimbursement through integrated IDR software, data, and AI.
Strong applied data science and optimization experience; production modeling, experimentation, Python, AI-native workflows, and ability to partner with engineers to productionize decisioning systems.
Python
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Staff Software Engineer, Data Engineering
London or San Francisco
HybridFull Time
Ripple
Ripple: Enables institutions to move, manage, and tokenize value.
10+ YOE10+ years of data engineering experience; mastery of Databricks, Delta Live Tables, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, and Spark; expertise in SQL, Python, and AWS; experience with AI data engineering tooling.
Databricks, Delta Live Tables, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, Spark, SQL, Python, AWS, AI, LLMs
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Member of Technical Staff - Data Platform Engineer, Frontier AI Robotics
San Francisco, California, United States
$150k-$300k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Amazon
AmazonNASDAQ: AMZN: Multinational technology focused on e-commerce and cloud computing.
5+ YOE5+ years professional software development and full SDLC ownership; expertise in distributed systems, cloud computing, scalable data processing, and data pipeline/ETL design; full‑stack engineering experience.
Kubernetes, TypeScript, React