Top AI & Machine Learning Jobs in San Francisco, CA

Design, prototype, deploy, and iterate AI-driven agentic service workflows that balance automation, human-in-the-loop controls, and compliance. Partner with engineering, CX, Legal, and Data to define orchestration, evaluation, and ROI, strengthen governance and quality, and scale production systems that improve customer outcomes and operational efficiency.

As a Senior Data Scientist, the role involves leveraging data analysis, experimentation, and statistical methods to influence business decisions and enhance Gusto's product performance, while mentoring team members.

Own Gusto’s agentic coding platform, including autonomous coding workflows, AI code review, orchestration, security posture, sandboxing, permissions, infrastructure contracts, and AI spending controls. Lead and grow a senior engineering team, recruit and calibrate talent, set the product and technical roadmap, manage ambiguity across multiple domains, and advise executive leadership on AI-native software development strategy.

Build and scale Gusto's ML/AI platform: design MLOps solutions, automated pipelines, model development frameworks, deployment, monitoring, CI/CD, and observability; collaborate with ML engineers and apply AI tools and best practices to production ML systems.

Architect and scale an internal AI platform and APIs to integrate LLMs into developer workflows. Build autonomous agents, RAG systems, and production-grade tooling to boost developer productivity, ensure reliability, security, and cost-efficiency, and collaborate across product, infrastructure, and security teams.

Design and implement AI agents and Model Context Protocols to integrate enterprise systems (NetSuite, Zuora, Jira) with LLMs. Build secure, SOX-compliant automation and orchestration workflows, measure KPIs, and partner with Finance, IT, and Security to operationalize AI across enterprise applications.

Lead and grow a data science and analytics team supporting Growth product initiatives. Partner cross-functionally to shape strategy, design measurement frameworks, run experiments (A/B tests), and build AI/ML-powered product features. Balance hands-on analysis, rigorous evaluation, and executive-facing communication to drive product impact and scale.

Lead Gusto's AI/ML strategy, managing teams in Machine Learning Engineering, AI, and Risk Data Science. Ensure systems are reliable and impactful while fostering a culture of technical excellence.

Build and own Otto, Gusto's LLM agent platform end-to-end: runtime, tool/action layer, Rails/GraphQL backend, advocate-facing frontend, and eval/observability systems. Expand safe autonomous actions, work with LLMs and retrieval, partner with Product/Data/Design/CX, and mentor engineers to ship reliable agentic features.

Lead and transform the Sales Analytics team by rebuilding a scalable sales data foundation, delivering advanced forecasting and causal analyses, enabling AI-driven self-serve analytics, and partnering with revenue, data engineering, and operations to drive strategic, revenue-focused insights. Recruit, mentor, and raise team analytical rigor while executing remediation of technical debt.