Artificial intelligence · SF Bay Area · updated daily
AI companies and startups in San Francisco and the Bay Area hiring now
The AI companies and startups with the most open roles in San Francisco and the Bay Area right now are Applied Intuition, Verkada and Crusoe. 32% of their open roles in San Francisco and the Bay Area are in software engineering. Most roles sit in San Francisco, San Mateo and Sunnyvale. 10% of these roles are remote. Every role comes from the company’s own careers page and is re-checked daily.
5,553
open roles in SF Bay Area
32%
of roles in software engineering
11%
of roles in hardware & robotics
10%
of roles are remote
Where the roles are:San Francisco 77%San Mateo 8%Sunnyvale 8%Mountain View 7%
Companies
Who is hiring in SF Bay Area
Applied Intuition
Sunnyvale, US · Series F
Applied Intuition delivers the toolchain, Vehicle OS, and autonomy stacks to help customers build intelligent vehicles and shorten time to market. Applied Intuition services the automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining and agriculture industries in three core areas: tools and infrastructure, operating systems, and autonomy.
191 open roles1% remote
Verkada
San Mateo, US · Series E
Verkada builds AI-powered physical security solutions that integrate behind a single, cloud-based software platform. Its platform spans video security, access control, alarms, intercoms, air quality sensors, and visitor management.
151 open roles37% remote
Crusoe
Denver, US · Series E
Crusoe is a vertically integrated AI infrastructure company that owns and operates each layer of the stack from electrons to tokens. It provides Crusoe Cloud, an Infrastructure as a Service platform equipped with specialized GPUs for resource-intensive AI workloads. The company also builds AI-optimized data centers and harnesses large-scale energy resources to power its infrastructure.
129 open roles1% remote
Clera
San Francisco, US · Pre Seed
Clera is an AI talent agent that matches candidates with startup roles based on their goals, skills, and preferences. It provides personalized introductions, curated job opportunities, and guidance throughout the application and interview process.
126 open roles21% remote
Fluidstack
New York City, US · Series A
Fluidstack builds civilization-scale infrastructure for AI. It acquires power, designs and builds data centers, and operates them. The company delivers dedicated, single-tenant GPU clusters with NVIDIA H100, H200, B200, and GB200 GPUs for AI training and inference workloads.
88 open roles14% remote
Perplexity
San Francisco, US · Late Stage Venture
Perplexity AI is a conversational search engine that uses large language models (LLMs) to provide direct answers to search queries, complete with source citations.
85 open roles16% remote
Cerebras Systems
Sunnyvale, US · Series G
Cerebras Systems builds the world's largest AI chip, 56 times larger than GPUs. Its products include the Wafer Scale Engine 3 (WSE-3) semiconductors, CS-3 supercomputers, and AI inference and training cloud APIs. The company delivers sub-second inference speeds and breakthrough training performance for enterprises, research labs, and government agencies.
72 open roles12% remote
Baseten
San Francisco, US · Series D
Baseten provides a platform for training, deploying, and serving artificial intelligence models in production environments. Baseten also offers preconfigured model APIs and deployment options that can run either on its managed cloud service or within a customer's own environment.
71 open roles17% remote
Figure
San Jose, US · Series C
Figure is an AI robotics company that develops autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots.
66 open roles0% remote
E-Space
Arlington, US
The company's primary offering is the E-Space LEO platform, a system that uses Artificial Intelligence (AIoT) to optimize data sent from these devices, delivering actionable insights and automation that surpasses traditional Internet of Things (IoT) sensing and tracking capabilities. E-Space.com is a startup that operates in the space technology sector, specifically focusing on the deployment of small, easy-to-install devices that can be tracked and connected from anywhere on Earth.
66 open roles0% remote
Tenstorrent
Toronto, CA · Series D
Tenstorrent designs and manufactures AI hardware and software for data processing and machine learning tasks. Tenstorrent develops AI hardware and software solutions for data processing and machine learning application.
63 open roles31% remote
Lambda
San Jose, US · Series E
Lambda provides GPU-powered hardware, cloud, and software solutions tailored for AI model development, training, fine-tuning, inference, and deployment. Its offerings include on-demand GPU cloud instances and multi-node clusters, desktop and server workstations equipped with NVIDIA GPUs, and a curated software stack for seamless integration of ML tools.
59 open roles8% remote
Lightmatter
Mountain View, US · Series D
Lightmatter builds photonic interconnects and AI accelerators that use light instead of electrical signals to process and transmit data. Its Passage product is a silicon photonics interconnect system that transmits data between computing components using light.
58 open roles2% remote
Glean
Palo Alto, US · Series F
Glean is an enterprise AI platform that connects company knowledge, powers search, answers, and AI agents.
56 open roles28% remote
Waabi
Toronto, CA · Series B
Waabi develops a Physical AI Platform for autonomous transportation, powering commercial autonomous trucks and robotaxis. The company's Waabi Driver system is an end-to-end AI model designed to generalize across driving environments.
55 open roles57% remote
Together AI
San Francisco, US · Series B
Together AI provides a cloud platform for developing, training, fine-tuning, and deploying generative AI models. Its services include serverless and dedicated model inference, GPU compute infrastructure, managed storage, code sandboxes, and model customization tools.
55 open roles24% remote
Altruist
Culver City, US · Series F
Altruist is the AI-forward custodian and wealth platform for independent advisors. It offers integrated tools for account opening, trading, reporting, and billing.
53 open roles12% remote
Nscale
London, GB · Series B
Nscale’s platform integrates compute hardware, data center operations, orchestration software, and data services to manage AI workloads across owned and collocated facilities. The infrastructure is used by enterprises, research organizations, and technology companies that require large-scale processing capacity for generative AI and other data-intensive applications.
53 open roles30% remote
Shield AI
San Diego, US · Series G
Shield AI is a defense technology company that develops AI pilots for aircraft, drones, ships, and satellites. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation technologies.
49 open roles5% remote
Sigma Computing
San Francisco, US · Series D
Sigma is an AI apps and analytics platform connected to the cloud data warehouse. Using Sigma, business and technical teams can build intelligent, production-ready AI apps that accelerate and automate operational workflows.
46 open roles40% remote
Thinking Machines Lab
San Francisco, US · Seed
Thinking Machines Lab is an artificial intelligence research and product company.
43 open roles0% remote
Commure
Mountain View, US
Commure builds an AI operating system for healthcare that spans the full care journey. Its platform includes Ambient AI and Dictation to eliminate documentation burden at the point of care. Intelligent Agents automate patient and revenue workflows. Autonomous RCM processes billions in claims on a single AI-native platform integrated with 60+ EHRs.
42 open roles27% remote
Lila Sciences
Cambridge, US · Series A
Lila Sciences develops a scientific superintelligence platform and autonomous laboratories for life, chemical, and materials sciences. Its AI-driven system generates hypotheses, designs and runs experiments, and learns from outcomes in real time.
42 open roles0% remote
Factory
San Francisco, US · Series C
The platform is used by enterprise engineering organizations including MongoDB, EY, Bayer, Zapier, and Clari.
39 open roles20% remote
Hive
San Francisco, US · Series D
Hive’s technology is used for content moderation, brand protection, sponsorship measurement, and context-based ad targeting.
38 open roles0% remote
Fireworks AI
Redwood City, US · Series C
Fireworks AI provides a cloud-based platform that enables developers and enterprises to run, fine-tune and deploy open-source large language, vision and multimodal models through a low-latency inference engine. The company offers serverless infrastructure that handles model lifecycle management from development to production, and gives users access to a library of pre-optimised models alongside the ability to customise models for their own data and use cases.
38 open roles10% remote
Rhoda ai
Palo Alto, US · Series A
Rhoda AI builds a new class of robot foundation model designed to bring general intelligence into the physical world. The company develops generalist intelligent robots that own the full robotics stack from hardware to foundation world models.
38 open roles0% remote
Socure
Incline Village, US · Debt Financing
Socure provides AI-driven digital identity verification and fraud prevention solutions. Its RiskOS platform offers identity fraud detection, payment risk management, transaction monitoring, and know-your-business solutions.
38 open roles59% remote
Air Apps
San Francisco, US
Air Apps builds a portfolio of over 30 mobile apps across Fitness, Productivity, Creative, and Learning categories. The company is developing an AI-powered Personal & Entrepreneurial Resource Planner (PRP).
35 open roles2% remote
Ivo Inc.
San Francisco, US · Series B
Ivo is an AI-powered contract intelligence platform for in-house legal teams. It operates as a Microsoft Word add-in that applies a company's playbooks clause-by-clause to incoming third-party paper and produces precise redlines.
34 open roles0% remote
Open roles
Newest roles in SF Bay Area
Glean
Mountain View, CA
CISO
Mountain View, CA
$424k–$489k
1d ago
Clera
San Francisco
Performance Marketer, Paid Growth (Consumer Apps)
San Francisco
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1d ago
Together AI
San Francisco
(Staff / Senior Staff) AI Infra Engineer, Inference Infrastructure
San Francisco
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1d ago
Verkada
San Mateo, CA United States
Lead Field Content Marketer
San Mateo, CA United States
$155k–$175k
1d ago
Crusoe
San Francisco, CA - US
Executive Assistant, CTO
San Francisco, CA - US
$110k–$135k
1d ago
Verkada
San Mateo, CA United States
Staff Frontend Engineer - Mapping & Spatial Platform
San Mateo, CA United States
$160k–$230k
1d ago
Verkada
San Mateo, CA United States
Senior Frontend Engineer - Web Platform
San Mateo, CA United States
$130k–$280k
1d ago
Snowflake
US-CA-Menlo Park
Principal Software Enginner - Parameters & Experimentation
US-CA-Menlo Park
$264k–$380k
1d ago
AI hiring in San Francisco and the Bay Area
This page covers San Francisco, the Peninsula, San Jose and the East Bay. Applied Intuition: Applied Intuition delivers the toolchain, Vehicle OS, and autonomy stacks to help customers build intelligent vehicles and shorten time to market. Applied Intuition services the automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining and agriculture industries in three core areas: tools and infrastructure, operating systems, and autonomy. Verkada: Verkada builds AI-powered physical security solutions that integrate behind a single, cloud-based software platform. Its platform spans video security, access control, alarms, intercoms, air quality sensors, and visitor management. Crusoe: Crusoe is a vertically integrated AI infrastructure company that owns and operates each layer of the stack from electrons to tokens. It provides Crusoe Cloud, an Infrastructure as a Service platform equipped with specialized GPUs for resource-intensive AI workloads. The company also builds AI-optimized data centers and harnesses large-scale energy resources to power its infrastructure.
The roles they hire for
Across the open roles in San Francisco and the Bay Area today, the mix is software engineering (32%), hardware & robotics (11%), sales & business development (10%), ai & machine learning (9%) and marketing & growth (7%).
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Frequently asked
Which AI companies and startups in San Francisco and the Bay Area are hiring the most?
Right now: Applied Intuition, Verkada, Crusoe, Snowflake and Clera. The list above shows startups first, then larger companies, each ranked by its open roles in San Francisco and the Bay Area today.
Where in San Francisco and the Bay Area are they hiring?
Most roles are in San Francisco, San Mateo, Sunnyvale and Mountain View. The page covers San Francisco, the Peninsula, San Jose and the East Bay.
Do AI companies and startups in San Francisco and the Bay Area hire remotely?
10% of the roles here are listed as remote. Each company page shows its own remote share.
What roles do AI companies and startups in San Francisco and the Bay Area hire for?
The most common are software engineering, hardware & robotics and sales & business development.
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