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Search and recommendations engineer jobs in San Francisco Bay Area
45 open roles for search engineers in San Francisco Bay Area as of Nov 15, 2026. OpenAI, Roblox, NewsBreak, Faire and Coupang have the most. 2 are remote and the median advertised salary is $265K.
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- Principal Data Scientist, Economy RecommendationsRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$323K - $374KLead and abovePythonSQLAirflow
- Senior Software Engineer - SearchHinge Health · 🇺🇸San Francisco-HQ$164K - $217KHybridSeniorGoPythonJava
- Senior Search & AI Discoverability Engineer (12 month contract, 40 hours/week, $85/hour)Khan Academy · 🇺🇸🇨🇦Mountain View, CA / Remote (Continental US + Hawaii + Can…—RemoteSeniorGoReactLLM
- Staff/Principal Engineer, Search & RetrievalLila Sciences · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA USA$224K - $336KLead and aboveGoPythonTerraform
- Research Scientist / Research Engineer, Safety + Alignment, SearchOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$380K - $850K
- Research Scientist / Research Engineer - Web Understanding and Structured Retrieval, SearchOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$380K - $850KMachine Learning
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer, RecommendationSekai · 🇺🇸San Francisco, USA—SeniorMachine LearningLLM
- Staff+ Software Engineer, Memory & SearchAnthropic · 🇺🇸New York City, NY; New York City, NY | Seattle, WA; Remot…$405K - $485KRemoteLead and abovePythonTypeScriptLLM
- Principal Software Engineer - Avatar PersonalizationRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$295K - $345KLead and aboveC++Lua
- Applied Data Scientist, Personalization & Machine LearningOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$347K - $445KHybridPythonSQLMachine Learning
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer, PersonalizationDoorDash USA · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA; Sunnyvale, CA$204K - $299KLead and abovePythonMachine LearningLLM
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Search & IndexWayve · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, California USA$312K - $351KHybridSeniorPythonMachine LearningAI
- Senior Applied AI/ML Scientist - Search RankingFaire · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$211K - $290KSeniorPythonJavaKotlin
- Software Engineer, Search InfrastructureOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$266K - $445KHybridA/B testingIncident responseLoad testing
- Search Engineer, AI Infrastructure (SF/Toronto)Lavendo · 🇺🇸San Francisco$235K - $260KRustGoPython
- Staff Computer Vision Engineer - Search AI Product EngineeringCoupang · 🇺🇸Mountain View, USA—Lead and abovePythonJavaC++
- Staff Software Engineer, Cortex AI Search InfrastructureSnowflake · 🇺🇸US-CA-Menlo Park$236K - $339KHybridLead and aboveGoPythonJava
- Staff Software Engineer, SearchAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY$320K - $405KLead and aboveGoPythonJava
- Senior Recommendation EngineerNewsBreak · 🇺🇸Mountain View, California, United States$150K - $300KSeniorPythonJavaScala
- Senior Staff ll, Machine Learning Engineer - Search RelevanceCoupang · 🇺🇸Mountain View, USA—Lead and aboveMachine LearningLLMAI
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Recommendation & AI PlatformNewsBreak · 🇺🇸Mountain View, California, United States$230K - $300KLead and aboveMachine LearningLLMAI
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Recommendation & AI ApplicationsNewsBreak · 🇺🇸Mountain View, California, United States$195K - $230KSeniorPythonJavaScala
- Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Post Training, PersonalizationOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$380K - $500KMachine LearningReinforcement learning
- Principal Engineer, Indexing & Retrieval InfrastructurePinterest · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA, US; Palo Alto, CA, US; Seattle, WA,US$285K - $450KLead and above
- Senior Applied ML/AI Scientist - SearchFaire · 🇺🇸New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA · +1 more location$211K - $290KSeniorPythonJavaKotlin
- Machine Learning Engineer, Local Search & MarketplaceNewsBreak · 🇺🇸Mountain View, California, United States$190K - $300KPythonJavaC++
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Ranking SystemTaskrabbit · 🇺🇸New York, New York, United States; San Francisco, Califor…$175K - $230KLead and abovePythonSQLDocker
- Member of Technical Staff (ML Engineer, Recommendations & User Modeling)Perplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$220K - $405KLLMRecommender systems
- Senior Staff Ranking Engineer, PersonalizationCoupang · 🇺🇸Mountain View, USA—Lead and abovePythonJavaGCP
- Applied AI Engineer (Matching & Search)Clera · 🇺🇸San Francisco—TypeScriptReactLLM
- Senior Staff Applied AI Engineer - Context RetrievalDatabricks · 🇺🇸Mountain View, California; San Francisco, California$229K - $343KLead and aboveSQLLLMSpark
- Sr. Machine Learning Engineer, Search RankingxAI · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$180K - $330KSeniorRustGoPython
- Software Engineer, Foundations SearchOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$266K - $455KAI agents
- Principal/Senior Machine Learning Scientist - Search and DiscoveryRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$279K - $345KLead and aboveMachine LearningLLMAI
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer, RecommendationsLyft · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA$163K - $204KSeniorGoPythonMachine Learning
- Senior Software Engineer - Avatar PersonalizationRoblox · 🇺🇸San Mateo, CA, United States$197K - $243KSeniorC++Lua
- Machine Learning Engineer (Foundation Models & Personalization)Eightsleep · 🇺🇸San Francisco—PythonSQLMachine Learning
- Software Engineer, Applied ML (Discovery, Recommendation & Search)Character.AI · 🇺🇸Redwood City, CA$200K - $300KHybridGCPAzurePyTorch
- ML Engineer - Personalization & Recommendation SystemsKrea · 🇺🇸San Francisco—PythonMachine LearningPyTorch
- Staff Software Engineer, Search QualityDatabricks · 🇺🇸Mountain View, California$165K - $220KLead and aboveRAGVector databasesRecommender systems
- Research Scientist / Research Engineer - Foundations, SearchOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$380K - $850KMachine LearningLLMVector databases
- Sr. Machine Learning Engineer, Recommendation SystemsxAI · 🇺🇸Palo Alto, CA$180K - $330KSeniorMachine LearningPyTorchKafka
- Senior Software Engineer, Search & RecommendationsOtter.ai · 🇺🇸Mountain View, CA$185K - $230KSeniorPythonC++LLM
- Machine Learning Engineer, Search QualityGlean · 🇺🇸Mountain View, CA; San Francisco, CA$140K - $265KGoPythonJava
Who is hiring for search and recommendations engineer roles in San Francisco Bay Area
Where search and recommendations engineer roles in San Francisco Bay Area are
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Questions about search and recommendations engineer jobs in San Francisco Bay Area
- How many search and recommendations engineer jobs in San Francisco Bay Area are open right now?
- There are 45 open search and recommendations engineer jobs in San Francisco Bay Area at 26 companies on Jobs Every Hour as of Nov 15, 2026. 2 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 search and recommendations engineer jobs in San Francisco Bay Area?
- Right now the most openings are at OpenAI (7), Roblox (4), NewsBreak (4), Faire (3) and Coupang (3). The ranking changes as companies open and close roles.
- Are there remote search and recommendations engineer jobs in San Francisco Bay Area?
- 2 of the 45 open search and recommendations engineer jobs in San Francisco Bay Area (4%) 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 search and recommendations engineer jobs in San Francisco Bay Area pay?
- The median advertised salary is $265K, based on 37 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range. The middle half of those roles advertise between $245K and $356K. 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 search and recommendations engineer jobs in San Francisco Bay Area?
- 0 of the 45 open search and recommendations engineer jobs in San Francisco Bay Area (0%) are for beginners: junior roles and internships. Of the 25 postings that state experience, the median asks for 5 years. 26 companies are hiring and 2 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 search and recommendations engineer jobs in San Francisco Bay Area?
- 33 of the 45 open search and recommendations engineer jobs in San Francisco Bay Area (73%) ask for AI or machine-learning skills, most often LLM, Machine Learning, AI. Employers still list 45 such roles today at 26 companies. Counted from the postings' own text on Nov 15, 2026.
- What skills do search and recommendations engineer jobs in San Francisco Bay Area ask for?
- Most often Python (56%), LLM (56%), Machine Learning (53%), AI (51%), Recommender systems (33%) of the 45 open postings, counted from their own text on Nov 15, 2026.
- Which job titles come up most in search and recommendations engineer jobs in San Francisco Bay Area?
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer (4), Senior Software Engineer (3), Research Scientist / Research Engineer (3), Staff Machine Learning Engineer (3), Software Engineer (3): the most common titles among the 45 open roles, without the level and place notes in brackets.
- Are search and recommendations engineer jobs in San Francisco Bay Area in demand in 2026?
- 45 search and recommendations engineer jobs in San Francisco Bay Area are open on Jobs Every Hour today at 26 companies, 0.0% of all 148,162 open jobs here; 2 were posted in the last seven days. The median advertised salary is $265K. 2 (4%) can be done remotely.
- How do I apply for search and recommendations engineer jobs in San Francisco Bay Area?
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