San Diego, CA
AI Engineer Jobs in San Diego
Wireless, defense and biotech engineering. AI engineers build LLM-powered features: retrieval pipelines, tool calling, evaluation harnesses and cost/latency tuning. The fastest-growing STEM title in the US market.
- Open roles
- 15
- Remote-eligible
- 0
- Sponsorship signals
- 0
- Median salary
- —
Open ai engineer roles in San Diego
- Applied LLM Systems EngineerAnduril · Costa Mesa, California, United StatesonsitemidQuick applyPosted 3 hours ago
- Senior Director of Engineering, Generative AIRoblox · San Mateo, CA, United StatesonsiteleadQuick applyPosted 9 hours ago
- Enterprise Application AI EngineerGusto · San Francisco, CA - HybridhybridmidQuick applyPosted 1 day ago
- Senior Context Fusion AI Engineer - Autonomous VehiclesNVIDIA · US, CA, Santa ClaraonsiteseniorPosted 2 days ago
- New College Grad - Memory System Architect, HBM Generative AImicron · Folsom, CAonsitestaffPosted 2 days ago
- Agentic AI Engineer, AutomationAnduril · Costa Mesa, California, United StatesonsitemidQuick applyPosted 2 days ago
- Sr. Staff Software Development Engineer-AI Security (Network, Security, LLM)Zscaler · Bellevue, Washington, USA; San Jose, California, USAhybridstaffQuick applyPosted 2 days ago
- Senior Worldwide Specialist Solutions Architect - GenAI, Data & AI GTMAmazon · Irvine, California, USAonsitestaffPosted 3 days ago
- Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning Infrastructure - Generative AIDoordash · San Francisco, CA; Sunnyvale, CA; Seattle, WAonsiteseniorQuick applyPosted 3 days ago
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Fulfillment PlanningDoordash · San Francisco, CA; Sunnyvale, CAonsitestaffQuick applyPosted 3 days ago
- Software Engineer, Machine Learning Infrastructure - Generative AIDoordash · San Francisco, CA; Sunnyvale, CA; Seattle, WAonsitemidQuick applyPosted 3 days ago
- Engineering Manager, Customer Platform (GenAI)Scale AI · San Francisco, CA; New York, NYhybridmidQuick applyPosted 3 days ago
- PhD Research Intern, Fundamental Generative AI - 2027NVIDIA · US, CA, Santa ClaraonsiteentryPosted 4 days ago
- Senior Solutions Architect, Generative AI Deployment and AIOpsNVIDIA · US, CA, Santa ClaraonsitestaffPosted 4 days ago
- Staff Applied AI EngineerFiserv · Sunnyvale, CaliforniaonsitestaffPosted 4 days ago
Hiring in San Diego right now
San Diego employers posted 15 ai engineer roles in the last five days. Few of these listings publish a salary range; national bands for this role run $140k–$240k.
Local hiring skews toward LLMs, RAG, Python, Vector Databases. If your resume doesn't name those tools in the same words the job description uses, an ATS keyword filter is the most likely reason you never hear back.
Skills to lead with
- LLMs
- RAG
- Python
- Vector Databases
- Prompt Engineering
- Evals
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