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Machine Learning Engineer salary in San Francisco
Salary range, market position, recent movement, location comparisons and matching live jobs—calculated from comparable Jobiba listings rather than copied salary tables.
Typical market range
$221,636–$306,235
Median $257,934 / year
Based on 44 salary-listed job postings from the last 12 months · last updated 22 Oct 2026
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Where the market sits
$221,636
25th percentile
$257,934
Market median
$306,235
75th percentile
$198,250
Lower market
$221,636
25th percentile
$306,235
75th percentile
$364,050
Upper market
Market movement
Not enough historical evidence yet. Trend is shown only when both 90-day windows have enough comparable observations, preventing noisy “growth” claims from tiny samples.
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Machine Learning Engineer jobs in San Francisco
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Conversion Core Modeling
San Francisco, CA, United States
$222.7K – $389.8K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
Staff Machine Learning Engineer
San Francisco, California
$190K – $285K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
Senior Applied ML Engineer - ML4Sys
San Francisco, California
$166K – $210.3K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
Staff AI/ML Engineer
San Francisco, CA, United States
$246K – $340K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
Master's University Grad Machine Learning Engineer 2027 (USA)
San Francisco, CA, United States
$146K – $196K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Content Visual AI
San Francisco, CA, United States
$189.3K – $389.8K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
Staff Machine Learning Engineer
San Francisco, CA, United States
$227.9K – $469.1K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
Director, Machine Learning Engineering, Ads Measurement
San Francisco, CA, United States
$314.6K – $550.5K/yr
Listed salary · employer/source provided
How Jobiba calculates this
Evidence first, estimate second
- • Uses recent active Jobiba listings that contain employer/source salary data.
- • Requires an explicit salary currency and pay period before a listing can enter an aggregate.
- • Applies broad currency-specific plausibility floors/ceilings, then rejects extreme statistical outliers.
- • Groups title variants through Jobiba's canonical salary-role taxonomy so current estimates and historical trends use the same comparable cohort.
- • Annualizes hourly, daily, weekly and monthly pay; no foreign-exchange conversion is used.
- • Uses percentile medians and publishes a range only after the minimum comparable sample is reached.
- • Labels inferred pay on salary pages/jobs as a Jobiba estimate, never as employer-provided compensation.
Based on 44 salary-listed job postings from the last 12 months · last updated 22 Oct 2026
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Machine Learning Engineer salary in San Francisco: common questions
What is the average Machine Learning Engineer salary in San Francisco in 2026?
The median Machine Learning Engineer salary in San Francisco is $257,934 a year, based on 44 salary-listed job postings on Jobiba. The middle half of postings pay between $221,636 and $306,235 a year (25th to 75th percentile).
How much does an entry-level Machine Learning Engineer earn in San Francisco compared with experienced hires?
By experience level in the postings Jobiba could classify: Mid level: $243,750 median (8 postings); Senior level: $294,500 median (20 postings). Bands with too few postings are not shown.
Which cities pay the most for Machine Learning Engineer jobs?
Among cities with enough USD salary data on Jobiba, the highest medians are Foster City ($295,000 median, 5 postings), San Mateo ($243,290 median, 13 postings), New York ($220,000 median, 11 postings). Salaries are compared in their listed currency, without conversion.
How does Jobiba calculate Machine Learning Engineer salary in San Francisco?
From 44 salary-listed Jobiba job postings from the last 12 months that state an explicit salary, currency and pay period. Hourly, daily and monthly pay is converted to an annual figure, implausible values and outliers are removed, and currencies are never mixed or converted. Jobiba publishes the median and 25th–75th percentile range only when enough comparable postings exist.