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Staff Machine Learning Engineer in San Francisco, CA

Job title · San Francisco, California

Job title as filed
Staff Machine Learning Engineer
City
San Francisco, California
Applications FY2022–FY2026
48
Median offered wage
$226,600
Most common occupation
Software Developers
Median wage$226,600certified LCAs
Year by year
Data as at 30 Jun 2026
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Applications year by year

Labor condition applications with the job title "Staff Machine Learning Engineer" and a worksite in San Francisco.

Applications by fiscal year

816FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026*
816FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026*
Data table
FY202216
FY20237
FY20244
FY202513
FY2026*8
Certified (decided applications)
100.0%
Employers filing
28
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026

Employers

Employers filing for this title in this city.

Applications by employer
  1. Cruise LLC6
  2. The RealReal, Inc.4
  3. Pinterest, Inc.3
  4. Jasper AI, Inc.3
  5. WarnerMedia Services, LLC2
  6. Iterable, Inc.2
  7. Together Computer, Inc.2
  8. Shipt, Inc.2
  9. Spotify USA, Inc.2
  10. Quizlet, Inc.2
  11. Attentive Mobile, Inc.2
  12. Personalized Beauty Discovery, Inc.2
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026

Pay

Offered annual wage on certified applications, FY2022–FY2026.

Offered annual wage, 10th to 90th percentile (certified LCAs)

Median $226,600; middle half $196,518 to $260,000 · median prevailing wage $183,310 (marker) · 45 applications.

$180k$210k$240k$270k$300k
$180k$210k$240k$270k$300k
Prevailing wage level
  1. Level II4
  2. Level III11
  3. Level IV31
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026

Across the United States

Nationwide, the job title "Staff Machine Learning Engineer" appears on 379 labor condition applications since FY2022, filed by 130 employers for worksites in 68 cities; the median offered wage is $207,000, so the median in San Francisco is 9.5% above it.

Applications nationwide, FY2022–FY2026
379
Employers nationwide
130
Cities with filings
68
National median offered wage
$207,000
Share of national filings in San Francisco
12.7%
Cities with the most applications for Staff Machine Learning Engineer
  1. San Francisco, CA48
  2. San Diego, CA45
  3. Mountain View, CA36
  4. Santa Clara, CA34
  5. Palo Alto, CA31
  6. Seattle, WA24
  7. San Jose, CA18
  8. New York City, NY16
  9. Bellevue, WA10
  10. Austin, TX10
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026

The San Francisco job market

San Francisco has 62,593 H-1B and E-3 labor condition applications since FY2022 across 16,467 job titles and 6,403 employers; "Staff Machine Learning Engineer" ranks #123 by applications, with 0.1% of them.

Applications in San Francisco, all job titles
62,593
Job titles filed
16,467
Rank of Staff Machine Learning Engineer in San Francisco
123
Median offered wage in San Francisco, all job titles
$167,000
National median wage, Software Developers (all job titles)
$127,754
Other job titles in San Francisco
  1. Software Engineer5,831
  2. Senior Software Engineer2,179
  3. Associate727
  4. Staff Software Engineer723
  5. Software Engineering Smts719
  6. Data Scientist702
  7. Product Manager678
  8. Postdoctoral Scholar642
  9. Engineering Manager520
  10. Member of Technical Staff517
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026

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