🇺🇸AI jobs in California
997 open roles mentioning AI in California as of Nov 14, 2026. Waymo, Anthropic, Pinterest, Zoox and DoorDash USA have the most. 54 are remote and the median advertised salary is $234K.
- Sr. Software Engineer, Machine Learning & Data InfrastructureOKX · 🇺🇸San Jose, California, United States$179K - $268KSeniorGoPythonJava
- Principal Sofware Engineer, Applied AIPure Storage · 🇺🇸Santa Clara, California$203K - $275KLeadKubernetesAI
- Director, Machine Learning EngineeringChime · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA, USA$269K - $373KLeadMachine LearningAI
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Behavioral DetectionRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$295K - $345KSeniorPythonMachine LearningPyTorch
- AI Enablement ManagerPatreon · 🇺🇸San Francisco$175K - $262KPythonJavaScriptSQL
- Talent AI OperatorClera · 🇺🇸San Francisco—PythonTypeScriptJavaScript
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer, PlatformBlock · 🇺🇸Bay Area, CA, United States of America$194K - $343KSeniorGoPythonTypeScript
- Senior Security Engineer, AI & HealthcareQualified Health Pbc · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$200K - $225KSeniorPythonGCPAzure
- Machine Learning EngineerVoyager Technologies, Inc. · 🇺🇸El Segundo, CA$120K - $280KPythonC++Machine Learning
- Senior Software Engineer, AI/ML PlatformAgility Robotics · 🇺🇸Hybrid- Any Office (Fremont, CA, Salem, OR, or Pittsburgh…$197K - $307KSeniorTerraformGCPAzure
- Senior Digital & AI Marketing ExpertLightmatter · 🇺🇸Mountain View, CA · +1 more location$156K - $183KSeniorHubSpotSEOAI
- AI EngineerInMobi · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA$178K - $222KPythonMachine LearningLLM
- Senior/Staff Technical Product Manager, Agentic AI TransformationZoox · 🇺🇸Foster City, CA$212K - $267KLeadLLMAI
- Staff Product Designer, AIAsana · 🇺🇸San Francisco$223K - $253KLeadLLMAI
- Software Engineer, AIAnduril Industries · 🇺🇸Costa Mesa, California, United States$167K - $222KAIComputer Vision
- Product Manager, Scientific AI ModelsBenchling · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$194K - $265KAI
- Sr. Staff High-Speed Communication Architect – AI SystemsTenstorrent · 🇺🇸🇨🇦Austin, Texas, United States; Santa Clara, California, Un…—LeadAI
- Sr. Staff Engineer, AI Datacenter Thermal Management & Control PlaneTenstorrent · 🇺🇸🇨🇦Austin, Texas, United States; Santa Clara, California, Un…—LeadAI
- Principal Power Systems Architect- AI Accelerator SystemsTenstorrent · 🇺🇸🇨🇦Austin, Texas, United States; Santa Clara, California, Un…—LeadAI
- Sr. Staff AI EngineerQualified Health Pbc · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$250K - $310KLeadPythonMachine LearningLLM
- Staff AI EngineerQualified Health Pbc · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$230K - $280KLeadPythonMachine LearningLLM
- Director, Product Management, AI InnovationNetskope · 🇺🇸Santa Clara, California, United States$154K - $312KLeadMachine LearningLLMAI
- Senior AI ResearcherIvo Inc · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$200K - $325KSeniorLLMPyTorchTensorFlow
- Staff/Sr. Staff/Principal AI research scientistWriter · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$234K - $384KLeadPythonMachine LearningLLM
- AI research scientistWriter · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$168K - $233KPythonMachine LearningLLM
- Staff Machine Learning ScientistNetskope · 🇺🇸Santa Clara, California, United States$134K - $235KLeadPythonGCPAzure
- Product Manager, GTM AI SystemsZip · 🇺🇸San Francisco$150K - $185KLLMSnowflakeAI
- Principal Architect - DEX & AIDdn · 🇺🇸Santa Clara Office$180K - $230KLeadPythonTypeScriptJavaScript
- Machine Learning Engineering Intern (Masters/PhD) - Summer 2027Riot Games · 🇺🇸Los Angeles, USA—InternPythonSQLMachine Learning
- Founding Engineer (AI/ML)Clera · 🇺🇸San Francisco$130K - $170KPythonTypeScriptReact
- Forward Deployed AI EngineerTuring · 🇺🇸Los Angeles, California, United States$200K - $250KPythonLLMAgile
- Machine Learning Engineer — Risk & AIOKX · 🇺🇸San Jose, California, United States$215K - $322KPythonMachine LearningLLM
- AI ResearcherRadixark · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KAI
- Software Engineer, ROS Open Platform & AI EnablementRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$153K - $197KPythonTypeScriptAI
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Applied Intelligence)Anduril Industries · 🇺🇸Santa Ana, California, United States$220K - $292KSeniorPythonDockerMachine Learning
- AI Research Engineer IIIAgility Robotics · 🇺🇸Hybrid- Any Office (Fremont, CA, Salem, OR, or Pittsburgh…$166K - $260KPythonC++PyTorch
- Senior AI Application Engineer, Creator ToolsRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$243K - $295KSeniorPythonJavaC++
- Principal Research Scientist – Multimodal Reasoning & Embodied AIWayve · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, California USA$407K - $460KLeadPythonMachine LearningLLM
- Product Management Intern, Agentic AIParspec · 🇺🇸Hybrid - San Mateo, California—InternLLMAI
- Tech Lead, Applied AI - EvalsMercor · 🇺🇸San Francisco$260K - $500KLeadGoPythonTypeScript
- Forward Deployed Engineer, Applied AIPika · 🇺🇸Palo Alto HQ—AI
- Applied AI Engineer, Creative ExperiencesPika · 🇺🇸Palo Alto HQ—AI
- Machine Learning EngineerCoframe · 🇺🇸SF Bay Area$180K - $300KMachine LearningLLMAI
- Compensation Operations Partner, AI & AutomationBlock · 🇺🇸Bay Area, CA, United States of America$108K - $203KAI
- AI StrategistFlowgen Labs · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $375KPythonSQLAI
- Strategic AI Partnerships LeadFlowgen Labs · 🇺🇸San Francisco$300K - $450KLeadAISAP
- Solutions Architect, Metronome (AI Native)Stripe · 🇺🇸San Francisco, Seattle, US-Remote—RemoteLLMMongoDBAI
- Senior Machine Learning EngineerCheckr · 🇺🇸San Francisco, California, United States$207K - $244KSeniorPythonRubyMachine Learning
- Software Engineer, Applied AI- EvalsMercor · 🇺🇸San Francisco$220K - $250KGoPythonTypeScript
- Director, Machine Learning Engineering - AI FoundationsRiot Games · 🇺🇸Los Angeles, USA—LeadMachine LearningLLMAI
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Questions about AI jobs in California
- How many AI jobs in California are open right now?
- There are 997 open AI jobs in California at 281 companies on Hiring Right Now as of Nov 14, 2026. 64 of them were posted in the last seven days. The list is rebuilt every hour from the employers' own careers pages.
- Which companies have the most AI jobs in California?
- Right now the most openings are at Waymo (54), Anthropic (49), Pinterest (24), Zoox (21) and DoorDash USA (21). The ranking changes as companies open and close roles.
- Are there remote AI jobs in California?
- 54 of the 997 open AI jobs in California (5%) are listed as remote. Remote roles are often limited to certain countries or time zones, so check the location line of each job.
- What do AI jobs in California pay?
- The median advertised salary is $234K, based on 773 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range. The middle half of those roles advertise between $200K and $280K. These are advertised ranges, not verified pay.
- How do I apply for AI jobs in California?
- Open a job and press “Apply on company site”. You go straight to the employer's own careers page and apply there. Hiring Right Now needs no account and charges nothing for applying.




















