AI Engineer & Data Scientist for hire in San Francisco
San Francisco / Bay Area sets the bar globally for AI engineering — buyers expect production-grade tooling, eval discipline, and willingness to pair-program at the bleeding edge.
What teams in San Francisco hire us for
- AI Services — Production AI systems — RAG, agents, and LLM-backed features built into your existing product, with evaluation, observability, and a clear path to ROI.
- Data Science & Analytics — Statistical analysis, predictive modeling, and decision-grade dashboards — built by an engineer who treats your data as evidence, not vibes.
- Full-Stack Python Development — Production web apps with a Python backend (FastAPI/Flask) and a modern React/TypeScript frontend — shipped end-to-end by one engineer.
- AI Automation — Replace repetitive operational work with AI-augmented workflows in n8n, Make, Zapier, and custom Python — measurable hours-saved per month.
- Machine Learning Engineering — Custom ML models trained on your data — vision, time-series, and tabular — packaged as production APIs with monitoring and re-training pipelines.
The local market in San Francisco
San Francisco / Bay Area sets the bar globally for AI engineering — buyers expect production-grade tooling, eval discipline, and willingness to pair-program at the bleeding edge.
Timezone & availability
Pacific Time (UTC-8/-7) — 12-hour offset from PKT, async-first by default with 1–2 hour overlap windows on each end
Active industries
- SaaS
- AI/ML
- FinTech
- Healthcare
- Climate Tech
Notable employers we model our quality bar against
We've worked with or built reference systems comparable to teams at OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe, Airbnb, Salesforce, Databricks. We don't claim them as past clients, but we hold ourselves to the engineering bar these teams set in San Francisco.
Pricing in US
Engagement size: $5,000–$60,000 USD per engagement.
Hourly rate: $95–$180 USD per hour.
We can be engaged via direct contract, an Upwork enterprise plan, or as a 1099 contractor through your US LLC. We carry international wire and Wise USD receiving.
Questions San Francisco buyers ask
- Are you based in San Francisco?
- Operationally remote, with on-site availability for kickoff workshops in San Francisco when scoping warrants. Pacific Time (UTC-8/-7) — 12-hour offset from PKT, async-first by default with 1–2 hour overlap windows on each end
- What kind of San Francisco clients do you work with?
- San Francisco / Bay Area sets the bar globally for AI engineering — buyers expect production-grade tooling, eval discipline, and willingness to pair-program at the bleeding edge. Active industries we support locally: SaaS, AI/ML, FinTech, Healthcare, Climate Tech.
- How are San Francisco engagements priced?
- $5,000–$60,000 USD per engagement, structured as fixed-scope milestones. Hourly: $95–$180 USD per hour.
- Can you contract through a San Francisco entity?
- We can be engaged via direct contract, an Upwork enterprise plan, or as a 1099 contractor through your US LLC. We carry international wire and Wise USD receiving.