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Entry-Level & New Grad in San Francisco Salary at AI Startups

Base pay from 24 open roles at 15 AI companies that list a salary range. Annual USD.

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25th percentile

$140K

Median

$150K

75th percentile

$176K

Percentiles use the midpoint of each posted range. Lowest posted $100K, highest $280K.

Pay by role

RoleCompanySalary range
[Junior / Senior / Staff] Software Engineer, Inference / Compute Infrastructure EngineeringSan FranciscoTogether AI$160K–$280K
Head of Early Career RecruitingSan Francisco, CaliforniaNotion$225K–$275K
Member of Technical Staff, AI Products (Early Career - Industry)San FranciscoPerplexity$180K–$270K
Junior Research ScientistSan FranciscoEliseAI$150K–$230K
Machine Learning Engineer Perception LLM/VLM (PhD, New Grad)Mountain View, CA USA; San Francisco, CA USA;Waymo$170K–$216K
Deployed Engineer (Early Career- SF)San Francisco, CALangChain$160K–$185K
Member of Technical Staff - New Grad (2027 Start)San FranciscoDecagon$185K–$185K
Software Engineer, New Grad (2027)San FranciscoHarvey$165K–$182K
Software Engineer, Agent (New Grad 2027)San Francisco, CASierra$150K–$180K
APX (New Grad 2027)San Francisco, CASierra$150K–$180K
Software Engineer, Early Career (SF)San Francisco, California, United StatesAffirm$130K–$180K
Software Engineer - New GradSan Francisco, CAScale AI$124K–$162K
Software Engineer, Public Sector - New GradSan Francisco, CAScale AI$124K–$162K
Software Engineer, New Grad (2027)San FranciscoTogether AI$150K–$160K
Software Engineer I, Entry-Level (Graduation Date: Fall 2026-Summer 2027) - USLos Angeles, CA; New York, NY; San Francisco, CA; Sunnyvale, CA; Seattle, WADoorDash$107K–$158K
Product Design, Entry-Level (2027 start)San Francisco, CA; New York, NYDoorDash$105K–$155K
Software Engineer, New Grad (Dec 2026)San Francisco, CaliforniaNotion$135K–$155K
Associate Product Manager, New Grad (2027 Start)Bellevue, Washington; Mountain View, California; San Francisco, CaliforniaDatabricks$133K–$150K
Software Engineer, Early Career (AI)San Francisco, CaliforniaNotion$130K–$150K
Software Engineer, Early CareerSan Francisco, CaliforniaNotion$130K–$150K
Early Career, Associate Product Manager (2027)San Francisco, CAFigma$140K–$140K
Early Career, Product Designer (2027)San Francisco, CA • New York, NYFigma$140K–$140K
Mechanical Engineer (New Grad 2027)San FranciscoEight Sleep$100K–$130K
Electrical Engineer (New Grad 2027)San FranciscoEight Sleep$100K–$130K
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