AI / ML Infrastructure Recruiting & Talent — SF Bay Area
Hiring or job-hunting in ai / ml infrastructure around the SF Bay Area? This is a focused guide to the market: the roles in demand, the skills that move offers, and what the pay actually looks like — for a niche the big salary surveys barely cover. Compensation for these roles moved faster than the annual survey cycle — published bands are a year stale before they print, and AI-safety/eval titles aren't in the panels at all.
Roles in demand
- ML Infrastructure Engineer
- MLOps Engineer
- Inference Engineer
- GPU Systems Engineer
Emerging
- LLM Infrastructure Engineer
- AI Safety Engineer
- Model Evaluation Engineer
Skills that move offers
- CUDA
- distributed training
- Kubernetes
- Ray
- vLLM
- Triton
Compensation
Survey in progressWe're running a focused compensation survey for ai / ml infrastructure roles — including the emerging titles (LLM Infrastructure Engineer, AI Safety Engineer, Model Evaluation Engineer) that Radford and Mercer don't break out. Real, min-N pay bands replace this as soon as we hit the threshold.
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