🇺🇸RAG jobs in California
268 open roles mentioning RAG in California as of Nov 14, 2026. Sierra, Databricks, Scale AI, Ivo Inc and Zilliz have the most. 9 are remote and the median advertised salary is $230K.
- Senior Software Engineer – Backend Platforms and Agentic & ML SystemsSocure · 🇺🇸Hub - San Francisco$230K - $270KSeniorGoPythonTypeScript
- Staff Software EngineerSocure · 🇺🇸Hub - San Francisco$225K - $280KLeadGoPythonTypeScript
- Senior Backend Engineer, Agent InfrastructureAirbyte · 🇺🇸San Francisco$196K - $235KSeniorPostgreSQLLLMKafka
- Account Executive, NavyScale AI · 🇺🇸San Diego, CA; Washington, DC$203K - $254KRAGComputer Vision
- Systems & Safety Engineering Intern [Summer 2027]Zoox · 🇺🇸Foster City, CA—InternPythonSQLLLM
- Senior AI ResearcherIvo Inc · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$200K - $325KSeniorLLMPyTorchTensorFlow
- Staff Backend Engineer, Agent InfrastructureAirbyte · 🇺🇸San Francisco$250K - $280KLeadPostgreSQLLLMKafka
- Partner Applied AI Engineer, Google CloudOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$197K - $278KPythonGCPLLM
- 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 - $330KRemoteLeadPythonMachine LearningLLM
- Software Engineer II, FintechTwitch · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$165K - $224KPythonTypeScriptJavaScript
- Member of Data Staff (Data Acceleration)Perplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$175K - $330KLeadSQLLLMdbt
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Applied Intelligence)Anduril Industries · 🇺🇸Santa Ana, California, United States$220K - $292KSeniorPythonDockerMachine Learning
- Founding Research EngineerFlowgen Labs · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $375KRAGSAP
- Staff Software EngineerFlowgen Labs · 🇺🇸San Francisco$225K - $450KLeadNode.jsPostgreSQLTerraform
- Engineering Manager II, Metadata PlatformBox · 🇺🇸Redwood City, CA, United States$217K - $272KDockerGCPAzure
- Mid-Level AI EngineerClera · 🇺🇸San Francisco$150K - $180KPythonTypeScriptReact
- Senior Member of Technical StaffClera · 🇺🇸San Francisco$150K - $215KSeniorPythonReactMachine Learning
- Applied AI Engineer InternParspec · 🇺🇸Hybrid - San Mateo, California—InternMachine LearningAIRAG
- Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform - PrismSoFi · 🇺🇸CA - San Francisco; WA - Seattle—SeniorGoPythonJava
- Advisory Solutions Architect (Pre-Sales)MongoDB · 🇺🇸San Francisco$118K - $231KPythonNode.jsJava
- Senior Software EngineerWorkato · 🇺🇸San Francisco, California—SeniorPythonPostgreSQLLLM
- Growth Marketing ManagerZilliz · 🇺🇸Redwood City, CA—JavaScriptSQLHubSpot
- Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Agentic ApplicationsDatabricks · 🇺🇸Mountain View, California$234K - $322KLeadGoPythonTypeScript
- Senior ML Engineer, Developer Relations EngineeringCrusoe · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA - US$180K - $220KSeniorPythonGCPAzure
- Principal Product Manager, Enterprise AIOkta · 🇺🇸Bellevue, Washington; Chicago, Illinois; San Francisco, C…$188K - $289KLeadMachine LearningLLMAI
- Software Engineering Manager, AI Platform EngineeringSoFi · 🇺🇸CA - San Francisco; WA - Seattle—LLMAIRAG
- Deployed AI Product StrategistJFrog · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale—LLMAIRAG
- Lead Product Manager, Agent PlatformPylon · 🇺🇸NYC or Palo Alto (in office)—LeadSQLLLMRails
- Principal Software Engineer, GenAI PlatformRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$329K - $362KLeadRustGoPython
- Sr. Engineering Manager, AI PlatformIllumio · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, California - HQ$233K - $280KSeniorGoPythonJava
- Sr. Engineering Manager, Core ProductsIllumio · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, California - HQ$233K - $280KSeniorGoPythonJava
- Senior Product Manager, Applied AIMetropolis · 🇺🇸Los Angeles, California, United States$180K - $205KSeniorSQLLLMSnowflake
- AI Engineer, Internal ToolsFigma · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States$153K - $296KLLMAWSAI
- Strategist Lead, Agent DevelopmentSierra · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$200K - $350KLeadLLMRAG
- Events & Operations SpecialistZilliz · 🇺🇸Redwood City, CA—RAG
- Data ScientistCenterfield · 🇺🇸Los Angeles, California$95K - $115KPythonSQLGCP
- Senior Field Engagement ManagerFirecrawl · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$181K - $215KSeniorGoJavaScriptSQL
- Software Engineer, Cloud InfrastructureBenchling · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$195K - $265KGoPythonTypeScript
- AI Engineer - Data and EvalsGlean · 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area$200K - $280KPythonTypeScriptSQL
- Senior Applied AI Engineer 2Drata · 🇺🇸Hybrid - San Francisco$157K - $252KSeniorPythonLLMAI
- Software Engineer, Applied AIShepherd · 🇺🇸San Francisco$170K - $400KTypeScriptReactNode.js
- Staff Developer AdvocatePinecone · 🇺🇸San Francisco$140K - $240KRemoteLeadMachine LearningLLMRAG
- Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET), QA - AI SystemsNexxa · 🇺🇸SF Bay area—SeniorPythonDockerLLM
- Data EngineerMonaco · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $400KPythonSQLPostgreSQL
- Senior Enterprise Automation EngineerCrusoe · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, CA - US$145K - $170KSeniorPythonGCPAzure
- Operations Specialist - FF AcademyAlxCrypto Holdings Inc. · 🇺🇸Los Angeles$72K - $75KPythonSQLLLM
- Senior Software Engineer, AI GatewayDocker · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA or Seattle, WA$161K - $261KRemoteSeniorRustGoLLM
- Staff Software Engineer, AI GatewayDocker · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA or Seattle, WA$170K - $276KRemoteLeadRustGoLLM
- Head of Engineering, AI PlatformAiDASH, Inc. · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, California, United States$300K - $350KLeadKubernetesAWSRAG
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Questions about RAG jobs in California
- How many RAG jobs in California are open right now?
- There are 268 open RAG jobs in California at 130 companies on Hiring Right Now as of Nov 14, 2026. 18 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 RAG jobs in California?
- Right now the most openings are at Sierra (22), Scale AI (10), Ivo Inc (10), Databricks (10) and Zilliz (8). The ranking changes as companies open and close roles.
- Are there remote RAG jobs in California?
- 9 of the 268 open RAG jobs in California (3%) 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 RAG jobs in California pay?
- The median advertised salary is $230K, based on 204 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range. The middle half of those roles advertise between $204K and $265K. These are advertised ranges, not verified pay.
- How do I apply for RAG 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.
























