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San Francisco is the world's AI engineering capital - OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Mistral SF, plus thousands of AI-native startups. GitHunt ranks SF AI engineers by their real GitHub contributions.
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AI/ML Consultant, 2nd-time Founder, Former Sr SDE @ Amazon
Founding Prod Breaker @browser-use
20. passionate dev who ships (a lot). 2x acquired founder. I just wanna make products that people love 💖. Working on @supermemoryai
Building @usestrix - Applied Data Scientist @ Microsoft
Software Engineer building Tech Communities
Rustlang and Rustlang accessories
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About AI Engineers
Senior SF AI engineers ship production LLM features: RAG systems, agents, fine-tuned models, and the evaluation and observability infrastructure around them. The strongest SF AI engineers blend research-adjacent experience (frontier-lab alumni, paper authorship) with production shipping discipline.
SF AI engineers move fluidly between the LLM-application layer and the LLM-infrastructure layer. GitHunt's role-aware scoring distinguishes these via commit fingerprints on LLM-app code vs. inference-infra repos.
Market Insights: AI Engineers in San Francisco
The 2026 SF AI engineering market is the tightest in the world: senior AI engineers with shipped production LLM features command $280k-$420k base plus heavy equity. Demand from AI-native startups and Big Tech AI groups vastly outpaces supply.
LinkedIn misses much of the strongest SF AI engineering talent - many are quiet contributors to LangChain, LlamaIndex, DSPy, Instructor, BAML and similar LLM-app frameworks. GitHunt indexes them via real commits.
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