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 27, 2026

884 jobs

Kodiak AI Senior Autonomy Software Engineer, Calibration

Mountain View, CA

$190k–$220k / year

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

Perplexity Member of Technical Staff (Answer Quality & Evals)

San Francisco, CA · Palo Alto, CA

$200k–$350k / year

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

Wayve Staff Robotics Engineer

United Kingdom · Sunnyvale, CA

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

Figure Helix AI Engineer, Video Pretraining

San Jose, CA

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

Anthropic Research Engineer, Life Sciences

San Francisco, CA

$350k–$500k / year

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

Cohere Senior Member of Technical Staff, Multimodal AI

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

$180k–$385k / year

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

Together AI Associate, Infrastructure Strategy & Operations

Remote · San Francisco, CA

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

Waymo 2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Learning-Based Behavior for Special Vehicles

Mountain View, CA

$177k / year

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

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Zipline Autonomy Droid Perception SWE - Onboard Systems

South San Francisco, CA

$200k–$240k / year

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

Decagon Staff Software Engineer, Agent Platform

San Francisco, CA

$200k–$400k / year

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

Waabi Research Scientist, Simulation Agents

United States · Canada · Dallas, TX · Phoenix, AZ · Pittsburgh, PA · San Francisco, CA

$158k–$269k / year

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

Applied Intuition Research Scientist - 3D Vision and Generation, Self-Driving

Sunnyvale, CA

$126k–$423k / year

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

OpenAI Agent Post-Training, Frontier Evals and Environments Research

San Francisco, CA

$380k–$500k / year

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

SpaceXAI Member of Technical Staff - Imagine Model

Palo Alto, CA

$180k–$440k / year

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

Scale AI Frontier Agents Engineer (Forward Deployed Engineering)

San Francisco, CA · New York, NY

$180k–$225k / year

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

Nvidia Senior Research Manager, World Model Evaluation

Santa Clara, CA

$272k–$431k / year

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

Rivian Sr. Autonomy Data Collection and Prototyping Engineer

Palo Alto, CA

$163k–$204k / year

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

Archer Principal AI Research Engineer

San Jose, CA

$270k–$340k / year

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

Meta Research Scientist, Systems ML - HW/SW Co-Design

Menlo Park, CA

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

Nuro Technical Lead Manager, Autonomy Evaluation and Intelligence

Mountain View, CA

$235k–$352k / year

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

Kodiak AI Staff Software Engineer, Learned & Hybrid Behavior Planning

Mountain View, CA

$240k–$265k / year

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

Perplexity Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Applied AI)

San Francisco, CA · Palo Alto, CA · New York, NY

$220k–$405k / year

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

Wayve Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Vision Models

Sunnyvale, CA

$312k–$370k / year

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

Figure Reinforcement Learning Engineer – Whole Body Control

San Jose, CA

$150k–$350k / year

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

Anthropic Research Engineer, Computer Use

San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · Seattle, WA

$500k–$850k / year

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

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