Jobs/AI & Autonomy/SF Bay Area

AI & Autonomy Jobs in SF Bay Area

AI & Autonomy roles at companies building the future — in SF Bay Area.

884 open roles · Updated Sep 26, 2026

884 jobs

Luma AI Simulation Researcher/Engineer

Redwood City, CA

Job type: AI & Autonomy
Seniority: Mid-Level
Sector: AI Research

Skild AI Machine Learning Engineer, Reinforcement Learning

Pittsburgh, PA · San Mateo, CA

$100k–$300k / year

Job type: AI & Autonomy
Seniority: Mid-Level
Sector: Robotics

Kodiak AI Technical Lead, Multimodal Transformers

Mountain View, CA

Job type: AI & Autonomy
Seniority: Staff / Principal
Sector: Transportation

Bedrock Robotics Machine Learning Engineer: Imitation and Reinforcement Learning for Robotics

San Francisco, CA

Job type: AI & Autonomy
Seniority: Mid-Level
Sector: Construction & Housing

Saildrone Staff Software Engineer, Perception

Alameda, CA

$215k–$270k / year

Job type: AI & Autonomy
Seniority: Staff / Principal
Sector: Defense

Perplexity Member of Technical Staff (ML Engineer, Recommendations & User Modeling)

San Francisco, CA · Palo Alto, CA

$220k–$405k / year

Job type: AI & Autonomy
Seniority: Senior
Sector: AI App

Wayve Controls Engineeer

Sunnyvale, CA

$210k–$267k / year

Job type: AI & Autonomy
Seniority: Senior
Sector: Transportation

Figure Helix AI Engineer, Pretraining

San Jose, CA

$200k–$400k / year

Job type: AI & Autonomy
Seniority: Senior
Sector: Robotics

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Anthropic Research Scientist, Life Sciences (Computational)

San Francisco, CA

$300k–$320k / year

Job type: AI & Autonomy
Seniority: Senior
Sector: AI Research

Shield AI Staff Engineer, Autonomy Software Integration (R4483)

San Diego, CA · San Mateo, CA

$152k–$229k / year

Job type: AI & Autonomy
Seniority: Senior
Sector: Defense

Cohere Member of Technical Staff, Pre-Training Data

Remote · Canada · San Francisco, CA · United Kingdom · New York, NY · France

$180k–$385k / year

Job type: AI & Autonomy
Seniority: Mid-Level
Sector: AI Research

Together AI Systems Research Engineer Intern - GPU Programming (Summer 2027)

San Francisco, CA

$121k–$146k / year

Job type: AI & Autonomy
Seniority: Intern
Sector: AI App

Waymo 2027 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, Software/ML Engineer, Simulation

Mountain View, CA

$146k / year

Job type: AI & Autonomy
Seniority: Intern
Sector: Transportation

Zipline Controls Engineer Intern (Summer 2027)

South San Francisco, CA

Job type: AI & Autonomy
Seniority: Intern
Sector: Aerospace

Decagon Engineering Manager, Agent Orchestration

San Francisco, CA

$280k–$430k / year

Job type: AI & Autonomy
Seniority: Manager
Sector: AI App

Waabi Research Scientist, World Models

Canada · San Francisco, CA · Pittsburgh, PA

$155k–$269k / year

Job type: AI & Autonomy
Seniority: Senior
Sector: Transportation

Applied Intuition Lead Software Engineer - Multi-Agent Mission Systems

Ann Arbor, MI · Sunnyvale, CA

$175k–$275k / year

Job type: AI & Autonomy
Seniority: Manager
Sector: AI Research

OpenAI Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Personalization

San Francisco, CA

$380k–$500k / year

Job type: AI & Autonomy
Seniority: Senior
Sector: AI Research

SpaceXAI Member of Technical Staff - Model Training

Palo Alto, CA · Austin, TX · New York, NY · Seattle, WA

$180k–$600k / year

Job type: AI & Autonomy
Seniority: Mid-Level
Sector: AI Research

Scale AI Research Scientist, Safety Post Training

San Francisco, CA · New York, NY

$216k–$270k / year

Job type: AI & Autonomy
Seniority: Senior
Sector: AI App

Nvidia Senior Solutions Architect, AI Performance Engineering

Santa Clara, CA

$184k–$288k / year

Job type: AI & Autonomy
Seniority: Senior
Sector: Compute & Semiconductors

Rivian Sr. Controls, Modeling, and Simulation Engineer

Palo Alto, CA

$179k–$224k / year

Job type: AI & Autonomy
Seniority: Senior
Sector: Transportation

Archer AI Autonomy Engineer

San Jose, CA

Job type: AI & Autonomy
Seniority: Senior
Sector: Aerospace

Anysphere (Cursor)Software Engineer, ML Research

San Francisco, CA · New York, NY

Job type: AI & Autonomy
Seniority: Mid-Level
Sector: AI App

Skydio Engineering Manager - Autonomy

San Mateo, CA

$170k–$276k / year

Job type: AI & Autonomy
Seniority: Manager
Sector: Defense

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