🇺🇸Generative AI jobs in California
471 open roles mentioning Generative AI in California as of Nov 15, 2026. Scale AI, PagerDuty, Waymo, Anthropic and Pinterest have the most. 42 are remote and the median advertised salary is $225K.
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Skills asked for in Generative AI roles in California
Job titles in Generative AI roles in California
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- Machine Learning Engineer - ModerationBlack Forest Labs · 🇺🇸San Francisco (United States)$220K - $280KMachine LearningAIRAG
- Lead, Agentic Commerce (Product & GTM)Sardine · 🇺🇸Berkeley, California$220K - $270KHybridLead and abovePythonSQLGenerative AI
- Enterprise Sales Manager, Healthcare & Life SciencesOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$500KHybridGenerative AIPipeline managementSolution selling
- Program Manager, Customer EducationHarvey · 🇺🇸San Francisco$121K - $166KHybridFigmaGenerative AIVisual design
- Product ManagerFigure Lending · 🇺🇸Remote; San Francisco, CA$114K - $160KRemoteMachine LearningRailsGenerative AI
- Partner Sales ManagerInterface Ai · 🇺🇸San Francisco$190K - $220KGenerative AIPrompt engineeringRisk management
- Director of Business DevelopmentPromise Studios · 🇺🇸Los Angeles$175K - $200KLead and aboveGenerative AIPipeline managementContract negotiation
- Senior SAP CPI DeveloperPure Storage · 🇺🇸Santa Clara, California$173K - $211KSeniorPythonJavaMachine Learning
- Director, Quality Assurance SaMDHippocratic AI · 🇺🇸Menlo Park, CA—Lead and aboveLLMCI/CDJira
- Privacy Analyst - TempAEG Worldwide · 🇺🇸Los Angeles, CA$95K - $105KCIPPGenerative AIMicrosoft 365
- Startup Acquisition Marketing LeadMongoDB · 🇺🇸Austin; Boston; New York City; San Francisco$73K - $143KLead and aboveGCPAzureAWS
- Applied Data ResearcherFigma · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States$235K - $376KPythonSQLMachine Learning
- Staff Technical Program ManagerPinterest · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA, US; Remote, US$146K - $300KRemoteLead and aboveGenerative AIRegulatory complianceRisk management
- Data Center Operations TechnicianSambaNova · 🇺🇸Santa Clara, California, United States$50K - $60KLinuxGenerative AIData centers
- Partner Applied AI Engineer, Oracle and Cloud ISVOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$197K - $278KPythonLLMSnowflake
- Partner Applied AI Engineer, Google CloudOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$197K - $278KHybridPythonGCPLLM
- Forward Deployed AI EngineerTuring · 🇺🇸Los Angeles, California, United States$200K - $250KPythonLLMAgile
- Staff Applied AI Engineer - Pre-SalesSnorkel AI · 🇺🇸New York City, NY (Hybrid); San Francisco, CA (Hybrid); U…$190K - $330KRemoteLead and abovePythonMachine LearningLLM
- Principal Product Manager, DataFigure Lending · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA; Pittsburgh, PA$154K - $231KLead and aboveGoSQLGenerative AI
- Director, Sales EngineeringNightfall Ai · 🇺🇸Palo Alto$270K - $300KHybridLead and abovePythonGCPAzure
- Sr. 3D Generalist, UXLucid Motors · 🇺🇸Newark, CA$142K - $195KSeniorPythonUnreal EngineGenerative AI
- Engineering Manager, Kubernetes Bare Metal InfrastructureTogether AI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$300K - $350KTerraformLinuxKubernetes
- Forward Deployed Engineer, Applied AIPika · 🇺🇸Palo Alto HQ—AIGenerative AILLM evaluation
- Applied AI Engineer, Creative ExperiencesPika · 🇺🇸Palo Alto HQ—AIGenerative AIFine-tuning
- Member of Product StaffNectar Social · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$200K - $275KHybridLead and aboveMachine LearningLLMGenerative AI
- Solutions Architect, Metronome (AI Native)Stripe · 🇺🇸San Francisco, Seattle, US-Remote—RemoteLLMMongoDBAI
- Delivery Partner Manager, FDEDatabricks · 🇺🇸Northeast - United States; San Francisco, California; Sea…$102K - $175KMachine LearningGenerative AIPipeline management
- Manager, Applied AI Engineering (Codex)OpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$302K - $335KHybridPythonJavaScriptAI
- Director, Machine Learning Engineering - AI FoundationsRiot Games · 🇺🇸Los Angeles, USA—Lead and aboveMachine LearningLLMAI
- Accounting Manager, General Ledger & Accounting OperationsSnorkel AI · 🇺🇸New York City, NY (Hybrid); San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)$150K - $185KHybridSQLExcelNetSuite
- Principal Solutions Specialist, InferenceCoreWeave · 🇺🇸Bellevue, WA / Dallas, TX / Livingston, NJ / Manhattan, N…$177K - $237KLead and aboveMachine LearningLLMKubernetes
- Computer Vision EngineerApplied · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale$150K - $225KPythonMachine LearningPyTorch
- Senior Member of Technical Staff, Product EngineeringPallet · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$175K - $265KSeniorTypeScriptReactNode.js
- AI Workflows Intern [Summer 2027]Zoox · 🇺🇸Foster City, CA—InternPythonSQLLLM
- Enterprise Data & AI Evangelist, Data ManagementPure Storage · 🇺🇸Santa Clara, California$192K - $307KMachine LearningAIAI agents
- Advisory Solutions Architect (Pre-Sales)MongoDB · 🇺🇸San Francisco$118K - $231KPythonNode.jsJava
- Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Life Sciences - SFOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$185K - $300KGenerative AIPRDsAudit
- AI ArchitectBraze · 🇺🇸San Francisco$114K - $163KSQLLLMAI
- Senior Account Executive - Figma WeaveFigma · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States$125K - $135KSeniorGenerative AIVideo editingPipeline management
- Senior Staff Software Engineer, AI Model LifecycleCrusoe · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA - US$250K - $300KLead and aboveGoPythonMachine Learning
- Backend Engineer InternMatch Group · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, California$47 an hourInternPythonTypeScriptNode.js
- Staff Software Engineer, AI Developer ToolingScale AI · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA; New York, NY$252K - $315KLead and aboveNode.jsDockerTerraform
- Technical Program ManagerPromise Studios · 🇺🇸Los Angeles$165K - $190KGenerative AIPRDs
- Head of Growth Data ScienceAirwallex · 🇺🇸US - San Francisco$300K - $320KHybridLead and abovePythonSQLMachine Learning
- Manager, Solutions ArchitectBaseten · 🇺🇸San Francisco$165K - $330KHybridDockerMachine LearningLLM
- Quality Operations Lead, Gen AIScale AI · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA; New York, NY$134K - $168KLead and aboveSQLGenerative AILLM evaluation
- Director, IT Service DeskNetskope · 🇺🇸Santa Clara, California, United States$140K - $185KLead and aboveAgileITILGenerative AI
- Sales recruiter (Contract)Writer · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$89 - $105 an hourHybridGenerative AILinkedIn Recruiter
- Director, Model Risk — AI & FraudOKX · 🇺🇸San Jose, California, United States$200K - $300KLead and abovePythonSQLMachine Learning
- AI deployment engineer (West)Writer · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$146K - $204KHybridPythonLLMAI
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Who is hiring for Generative AI roles in California
What Generative AI roles in California pay, by level
| Level in the title | Median advertised salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| No level in the title | $208K | 160 |
| Senior | $209K | 75 |
| Lead and above | $252K | 124 |
Medians of the midpoints of advertised yearly US-dollar ranges; a level needs at least 15 such roles. Advertised, not verified pay.
Questions about Generative AI jobs in California
- How many Generative AI jobs in California are open right now?
- There are 471 open Generative AI jobs in California at 154 companies on Jobs Every Hour as of Nov 15, 2026. 32 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 Generative AI jobs in California?
- Right now the most openings are at Scale AI (28), PagerDuty (18), Waymo (18), Anthropic (16) and Pinterest (14). The ranking changes as companies open and close roles.
- Are there remote Generative AI jobs in California?
- 42 of the 471 open Generative AI jobs in California (9%) 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 Generative AI jobs in California pay?
- The median advertised salary is $225K, based on 361 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range. The middle half of those roles advertise between $186K and $269K. These are advertised ranges, not verified pay. Most employers here are technology companies, so the figures run above the wider market for the same work.
- Is it hard to get one of the Generative AI jobs in California?
- 15 of the 471 open Generative AI jobs in California (3%) are for beginners: junior roles and internships. Of the 304 postings that state experience, the median asks for 5 years. 154 companies are hiring and 32 roles were posted in the last seven days. Matching your resume to the skills each posting names helps most; the free resume builder shows the match.
- How is AI changing Generative AI jobs in California?
- 301 of the 471 open Generative AI jobs in California (64%) ask for AI or machine-learning skills, most often LLM, Machine Learning, AI. Employers still list 471 such roles today at 154 companies. Counted from the postings' own text on Nov 15, 2026.
- What skills do Generative AI jobs in California ask for?
- Most often Generative AI (100%), LLM (45%), Python (39%), Machine Learning (30%), AI (29%) of the 471 open postings, counted from their own text on Nov 15, 2026.
- Which job titles come up most in Generative AI jobs in California?
- Software Engineer (26), Staff Software Engineer (13), Director (12), Senior Software Engineer (12), Senior Manager (9): the most common titles among the 471 open roles, without the level and place notes in brackets.
- Are Generative AI jobs in California in demand in 2026?
- 471 Generative AI jobs in California are open on Jobs Every Hour today at 154 companies, 0.3% of all 148,162 open jobs here; 32 were posted in the last seven days. The median advertised salary is $225K. 42 (9%) can be done remotely.
- How do I apply for Generative AI jobs in California?
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