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
- 2
- Remote-eligible
- 0
- Sponsorship signals
- 0
- Median salary
- —
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Hiring in San Diego right now
San Diego employers posted 2 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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