Data Scientist / ML Engineer Jobs in Palo Alto, CA

16 openings · 5 companies · Updated November 12, 2026

Machine learning, deep learning, LLM and AI engineering roles.

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Software Engineer, ML Platform
Cursor
- 5+ Yrs
- $140K–$225K a year
- Palo Alto, CA
Design, build, and operate core platform systems used daily by ML researchers and product engineers
Engineering · Node · Spark · Machine Learning · Analytics
2 days agoNew
Sr. Software Engineer, ML Platform
Cursor
- 5+ Yrs
- $180K–$330K a year
- Palo Alto, CA
Design, build, and operate core platform systems used daily by ML researchers and product engineers
Engineering · Node · Spark · Machine Learning · Analytics
2 days agoNew
Partnerships Lead, Frontier AI
Turing
- 7+ Yrs
- Pay not listed
- Palo Alto, CA; San Francisco, CA
About Turing Turing’s mission is to accelerate superintelligence to drive real economic progress. Headquartered in San Francisco, Turing works with frontier AI labs to generate…
Product · Sales · Support · Finance · Operations
1 week ago
Senior AI Engineer, Agentic Systems
Rubrik
- 5+ Yrs
- Pay not listed
- Palo Alto, CA
We want senior engineers who have already shipped agents that real people rely on, and who are ready to do it again at higher stakes. You will drop into the real work, redesign it around…
LLM · Automation · Product · HR
1 month ago
Principal AI Architect
Rubrik
- 10+ Yrs
- Pay not listed
- Palo Alto, CA
Lead applied AI solution design and architecture, breaking down ambiguous business problems into concrete, actionable AI solution designs. Contribute to the detailed design of…
Data Science · Security · Automation · Product · Support
1 month ago
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Research Scientist, STEM
Turing
- Experience not stated
- $150K–$300K a year
- Palo Alto, CA; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA
Frontier benchmarks and evaluation Identify high-impact gaps in existing benchmark and evaluation literature. Design novel benchmarks in and across STEM fields and on general model…
Frontier AI · Automotive · Healthcare
1 month ago
Senior Research Engineer, Frontier Data
Turing
- 5+ Yrs
- $250K–$350K a year
- Palo Alto, CA; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA
About Turing Turing’s mission is to accelerate superintelligence to drive real economic progress. Headquartered in San Francisco, Turing works with frontier AI labs to generate…
Frontier AI · Machine Learning · Product · Sales · Finance
1 month ago
Senior Research Scientist, STEM
Turing
- 5+ Yrs
- $250K–$350K a year
- Palo Alto, CA; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA
Frontier benchmarks and evaluation Identify high-impact gaps in existing benchmark and evaluation literature. Design novel benchmarks in and across STEM fields and on general model…
Frontier AI · Automotive · Healthcare
1 month ago
Staff Research Engineer, Frontier Data
Turing
- 10+ Yrs
- $250K–$400K a year
- Palo Alto, CA; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA
About Turing Turing’s mission is to accelerate superintelligence to drive real economic progress. Headquartered in San Francisco, Turing works with frontier AI labs to generate…
Frontier AI · Machine Learning · Product · Sales · Finance
1 month ago
Staff Research Scientist
Turing
- 10+ Yrs
- $250K–$400K a year
- Palo Alto, CA; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA
Frontier benchmarks and evaluation Identify high-impact gaps in existing benchmark and evaluation literature. Design novel benchmarks in and across STEM fields and on general model…
Frontier AI · Automotive · Healthcare
1 month ago
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Staff Product Manager, AI Builder Experience
MongoDB
- 8+ Yrs
- Pay not listed
- Palo Alto, CA
AI Builder Experience (ABX) is MongoDB’s front door for the agentic era. We help human developers and coding agents discover, evaluate, and choose MongoDB, and we make MongoDB work…
AI Builder Experience · Analytics · Security · Automation · Product
2 months ago
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Rubrik
- 2+ Yrs
- Pay not listed
- Palo Alto, CA
& Role: We're building SAGE , Rubrik's Semantic AI Governance Engine, which is the first system designed to monitor, govern, and remediate autonomous AI agents in real time. SAGE powers…
Engineering · Machine Learning · LLM
5 months ago
Staff Research Scientist
MongoDB
- 10+ Yrs
- Pay not listed
- Palo Alto, CA; New York City, NY
Conduct cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence, from frontier LLMs to embedding models and rerankers Innovate in next-generation information retrieval and LLM agent paradigm…
Voyage AI Research · Machine Learning · Deep Learning · LLM
5 months ago
Distributed LLM Inference Engineer
Anyscale
- Experience not stated
- $170K–$245K a year
- San Francisco, CA; Palo Alto, CA
As a Distributed LLM Inference Engineer, you will help systems and optimizations that push the boundaries of performance for inference at large scale. This is an incredibly critical role…
Engineering · Machine Learning · Deep Learning · LLM · Product
5 months agoRemote
Senior Research Scientist
MongoDB
- 5+ Yrs
- Pay not listed
- Palo Alto, CA
Conduct cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence, from frontier LLMs to embedding models and rerankers Innovate in next-generation information retrieval and LLM agent paradigm…
Voyage AI Research · AWS · Azure · Machine Learning · Deep Learning
6 months ago
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Staff Product Manager - Internal AI
MongoDB
- 10+ Yrs
- Pay not listed
- Palo Alto, CA
AI Product Strategy & Roadmap Define and execute the internal AI product strategy aligned with enterprise IT and business goals Own multiple product lines in the internal AI product…
Internal AI · AWS · Azure · Analytics · Salesforce
7 months ago

About Data Scientist / ML Engineer Jobs in Palo Alto, CA

There are 16 open Data Scientist / ML Engineer jobs in Palo Alto, CA right now, posted by 5 employers, including Turing, MongoDB, Rubrik and Cursor. 2 of them were posted in the last seven days, and the newest on November 9, 2026.

Most openings ask for 3–5 years of experience; 1 suits entry-level candidates (0–2 years); where employers publish pay, ranges run from $140K to $400K a year (median starting pay $250K); the skills asked for most are Machine Learning, Product, Frontier AI, Engineering and Analytics.

Every listing comes from the employer's own careers page and is refreshed twice a day (last update November 12, 2026). Apply opens the employer's own application page; there is no sign-up and no fee.

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How many Data Scientist / ML Engineer jobs are open in Palo Alto, CA?

16 Data Scientist / ML Engineer jobs are open in Palo Alto, CA as of November 12, 2026, from 5 employers. The list is refreshed twice a day from the employers' own career pages, and closed openings are removed.

Which companies are hiring for Data Scientist / ML Engineer jobs in Palo Alto, CA?

Turing (6), MongoDB (4), Rubrik (3), Cursor (2) and Anyscale (1). Use the Company filter to see one employer's openings.

How much do Data Scientist / ML Engineer jobs in Palo Alto, CA pay?

Among openings that publish pay (many US states require a pay range in the posting), yearly pay runs from $140K to $400K, with a median starting figure of $250K. Hourly rates are counted at 2,080 hours a year. These are the employers' published ranges, not guaranteed pay.

Are there entry-level Data Scientist / ML Engineer jobs in Palo Alto, CA?

Yes: 1 of these openings ask for 0–2 years of experience. Choose "0–2 years" under Experience to see them.

Do I need to be authorized to work in the US?

Most US employers ask that you are authorized to work in the United States; postings often say whether visa sponsorship is offered. Each job page shows who may apply when the posting says so; check the full posting before you apply.

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