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LLM and Generative AI Engineer Jobs in California with Visa Sponsorship
Short answer
87 LLM and generative AI engineer roles in California at employers with an H-1B record or postings that say they sponsor are open on Real Analyst Jobs as of 15 November 2026, at 33 companies. 87 (100%) are at employers with approved H-1B workers on record (USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub, FY2023 to FY2026, data as of 2026-09-30). An H-1B record is the employer's history, not a promise for this role. The most are at ServiceNow (18), TikTok (15) and Databricks (5). By location: Mountain View (29), San Francisco (18) and San Jose (17). 41 of the 87 roles list yearly pay in US dollars; the median midpoint of the listed ranges is $212K, and the middle half runs from $178K to $246K. 5 postings say they will not sponsor a visa; they stay on the list, last. 1 posting says in its own text that it sponsors.
In the postings' own words
Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas!
… This position is not eligible for Qualcomm immigration sponsorship.*** We are seeking an experienced Machine Learning Engineer specializing in Agentic AI to join our Core …
Companies hiring
| Company | Open roles | New H-1B workers (USCIS) |
|---|---|---|
| ServiceNow | 18 | 853 |
| TikTok | 15 | 1,559 |
| Databricks | 5 | 808 |
| Airwallex | 4 | 26 |
| Esri | 4 | 213 |
| Waymo | 4 | 376 |
| Scale AI | 3 | 147 |
| Accenture | 2 | 2,005 |
| AMD | 2 | 1,041 |
| C3 AI | 2 | 175 |
| DoorDash | 2 | 891 |
| EchoStar | 2 | 14 |
| Plaud | 2 | 16 |
| Roblox | 2 | 382 |
| Vercel | 2 | 15 |
| Anduril Industries | 1 | 0 |
| Anthropic | 1 | 276 |
| Applied Materials | 1 | 887 |
| Atomic Machines | 1 | 14 |
| DocuSign | 1 | 279 |
| Fractal Analytics | 1 | 112 |
| Glean | 1 | 58 |
| Ingram Micro | 1 | 124 |
| KLA | 1 | 431 |
| Nebius | 1 | 7 |
| Nvidia | 1 | 3,591 |
| Qualcomm | 1 | 1,758 |
| Rubrik | 1 | 168 |
| Skylo Technologies | 1 | 19 |
| Socure | 1 | 19 |
| Sony Interactive Entertainment | 1 | 167 |
| Trulioo | 1 | 4 |
| Writer | 1 | 13 |
New H-1B workers are USCIS initial approvals for every role at the company. History, not a promise for any role.
The roles
Roles at employers with an H-1B record, and postings that say they sponsor. Postings that say they sponsor come first, then the employers with the most new H-1B workers; postings that say they will not sponsor stay on the list, last.
41 of the 87 roles list yearly pay in US dollars; the median midpoint of the listed ranges is $212K, and the middle half runs from $178K to $246K.
| Role | Company | Location | Employer H-1B record | Posting says | First seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer, Tokens and Prompt Structures | Anthropic | San Francisco New York, USA (On-site) | 276 new H-1B workers | Says it sponsors | 2026-11-15 |
| Senior Agentic Insights Engineer | Nvidia | Santa Clara California, USA (On-site) | 3,591 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Full Stack Agentic AI Senior Engineer - AIaaS | Accenture | Mountain View California, USA (On-site) | 2,005 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Full Stack Agentic AI Engineer Manager/Senior Manager | Accenture | Mountain View California, USA (On-site) | 2,005 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Research Engineer Graduate (Agentic Arch) - 2027 Start (PhD) | TikTok | San Jose California, USA (On-site) | 1,559 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Research Engineer, LLM - TikTok Ads Core ML, Ranking | TikTok | San Jose California, USA (On-site) | 1,559 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Tech Lead Machine Learning Engineer - Multimodal/LLM, Trust and Safety | TikTok | San Jose California, USA (On-site) | 1,559 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Machine Learning Software Engineer (LLM & Agentic AI - TikTok - Content Ecology Local Services) | TikTok | San Jose California, USA (On-site) | 1,559 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Machine Learning Engineer Graduate (E-Commerce Supply Chain & Logistics - LLM/Agent) - 2027 Start (PhD) | TikTok | San Jose California, USA (On-site) | 1,559 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Machine Learning Engineer (CV/NLP/Multimodal/LLM) -E-commerce Governance | TikTok | San Jose California, USA (On-site) | 1,559 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| AI Systems Engineer Graduate (AI Code Infrastructure-Agentic Ops US) - 2027 Start | TikTok | San Jose California, USA (On-site) | 1,559 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| LLM Post-Training Engineer Graduate (Research & Product) - 2027 Start | TikTok | San Jose California, USA (On-site) | 1,559 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Software Engineer - Recommendation Infrastructure, Agentic Engineering | TikTok | San Jose California, USA (On-site) | 1,559 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Software Engineer - LLM Applications and AI Agents | TikTok | San Jose California, USA (On-site) | 1,559 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Senior/Staff LLM Application Engineer - Data Application | TikTok | San Jose California, USA (On-site) | 1,559 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Senior Research Scientist/AI Software Engineer, LLM/Agent Platform (TikTok-Content Ecology AI Innovation & Platform) - TikTok Content Ecology | TikTok | San Jose California, USA (On-site) | 1,559 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer, LLM & Agentic AI - TikTok - Content Ecology Local Services - TikTok Content Ecology | TikTok | San Jose California, USA (On-site) | 1,559 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Research Scientist / AI Software Engineer, LLM/Agent Platform - TikTok - Content Ecology AI Innovation & Platform - TikTok Content Ecology | TikTok | San Jose California, USA (On-site) | 1,559 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Research Engineer, Agentic Video Editing - TikTok | TikTok | San Jose California, USA (On-site) | 1,559 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Principal Engineer, Efficient GenAI | AMD | San Jose California, USA (On-site) | 1,041 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Software Engineer, Machine Learning Platform - Gen AI | DoorDash | San Francisco California, USA (On-site) | 891 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer, New Verticals Agentic Foundations | DoorDash | San Francisco California, USA (On-site) | 891 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| New College Grad - Computational Physics & Agentic AI Engineer, Doctorate Degree (Spring 2027) | Applied Materials | Santa Clara California, USA (On-site) | 887 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Agentic App Platform | ServiceNow | Mountain View California, USA (On-site) | 853 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Agentic AI Harness & Quality - Moveworks | ServiceNow | Mountain View California, USA (On-site) | 853 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Agentic App Platform - Moveworks | ServiceNow | Mountain View California, USA (On-site) | 853 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Agentic Systems - Moveworks | ServiceNow | Mountain View California, USA (On-site) | 853 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Agentic AI Harness Architect - Moveworks | ServiceNow | Mountain View California, USA (On-site) | 853 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Agentic Search Infrastructure Engineer - Moveworks | ServiceNow | Mountain View California, USA (On-site) | 853 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Associate Agentic Search Infrastructure Engineer - Moveworks | ServiceNow | Mountain View California, USA (On-site) | 853 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff AI Engineer, Agentic AI Harness & Quality - Moveworks | ServiceNow | Mountain View California, USA (On-site) | 853 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Senior Staff Software Engineer, Agentic Systems - Moveworks | ServiceNow | Mountain View California, USA (On-site) | 853 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Senior Staff Software Engineer, Agentic AI Harness & Quality - Moveworks | ServiceNow | Mountain View California, USA (On-site) | 853 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Senior Staff Software Engineer - Agentic AI | ServiceNow | Santa Clara California, USA (On-site) | 853 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Agentic Systems - Moveworks | ServiceNow | Mountain View California, USA (On-site) | 853 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Agentic Application | ServiceNow | Mountain View California, USA (On-site) | 853 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Senior Staff Agentic Search Infrastructure Engineer - Moveworks | ServiceNow | Mountain View California, USA (On-site) | 853 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Agentic Systems - Moveworks | ServiceNow | Mountain View California, USA (On-site) | 853 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Agentic Platform - Moveworks | ServiceNow | Mountain View California, USA (On-site) | 853 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Agentic App Platform - Moveworks | ServiceNow | Mountain View California, USA (On-site) | 853 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Agentic AI Harness & Quality - Moveworks | ServiceNow | Mountain View California, USA (On-site) | 853 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Software Engineer - GenAI inference | Databricks | San Francisco California, USA (On-site) | 808 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Fullstack Engineer, Agentic Applications | Databricks | Mountain View California, USA (On-site) | 808 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Agentic Applications | Databricks | Mountain View California, USA (On-site) | 808 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Sr. Staff Fullstack Engineer, Agentic Applications | Databricks | Mountain View California, USA (On-site) | 808 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Sr Software Engineer, Agentic Applications | Databricks | Mountain View California, USA (On-site) | 808 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Agentic AI Software Engineer - Equipment Data Analytics | KLA | Milpitas California, USA (On-site) | 431 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Principal Software Engineer, GenAI Platform | Roblox | San Mateo California, USA (On-site) | 382 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer – VLM/LLM | Waymo | Mountain View California, USA (On-site) | 376 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, LLM/VLM Model Architecture & Optimization | Waymo | Mountain View California, USA (On-site) | 376 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Senior Staff Engineer, Agentic AI Engineering | Waymo | Mountain View California, USA (On-site) | 376 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Agentic Test Systems | Waymo | Mountain View California, USA (On-site) | 376 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Lead SDET, Agentic AI Architect | DocuSign | San Francisco California, USA (On-site) | 279 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Sr. Software Engineer – Generative AI & Assistants, ArcGIS Pro | Esri | Redlands California, USA (On-site) | 213 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Sr. Software Development Engineer - Gen AI | Esri | Redlands California, USA (On-site) | 213 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Sr. Generative AI Software Developer | Esri | Redlands California, USA (On-site) | 213 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Product Engineer II - Generative AI, ArcGIS Enterprise | Esri | Redlands California, USA (On-site) | 213 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Lead Software Engineer - Generative AI | C3 AI | Redwood City California, USA (On-site) | 175 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Generative AI | C3 AI | Redwood City California, USA (On-site) | 175 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Senior AI Engineer, Agentic Systems | Rubrik | Palo Alto California, USA (On-site) | 168 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Senior Software Engineer - AI & Agentic Architecture | Sony Interactive Entertainment | Aliso Viejo California, USA (On-site) | 167 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise GenAI | Scale AI | San Francisco California, USA (On-site) | 147 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Infrastructure Software Engineer, Enterprise GenAI | Scale AI | San Francisco California, USA (On-site) | 147 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Senior/Staff Machine Learning Research Engineer, General Agents, Enterprise GenAI | Scale AI | San Francisco California, USA (On-site) | 147 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Senior Agentic AI Engineer | Ingram Micro | Irvine California, USA (On-site) | 124 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Software Engineer, Agentic Runtime | Glean | Mountain View California, USA (On-site) | 58 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Engineer, Agentic AI | Airwallex | San Francisco California, USA (On-site) | 26 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Backend Engineer, Agentic AI | Airwallex | San Francisco California, USA (On-site) | 26 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Software Engineer, Agentic AI | Airwallex | San Francisco California, USA (On-site) | 26 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Senior Backend Engineer, Agentic AI | Airwallex | San Francisco California, USA (On-site) | 26 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Applied AI Engineer, Agentic Systems & Identity | Skylo Technologies | Mountain View California, USA (On-site) | 19 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Senior Software Engineer – Backend Platforms and Agentic & ML Systems | Socure | San Francisco California, USA (On-site) | 19 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Machine Learning Engineer, Speech LLM Training - San Francisco | Plaud | San Francisco California, USA (On-site) | 16 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Machine Learning Engineer, Inference & Serving (Speech LLM) - San Francisco | Plaud | San Francisco California, USA (On-site) | 16 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| DevRel Engineer, Agentic Infrastructure | Vercel | San Francisco New York, USA (On-site) | 15 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Software Engineer, Agentic Infrastructure | Vercel | San Francisco New York, USA (On-site) | 15 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Lead Agentic AI Engineer | EchoStar | San Mateo California, USA (On-site) | 14 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Generative AI CAD Engineer | Atomic Machines | Emeryville California, USA (On-site) | 14 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Software engineer, generative AI | Writer | San Francisco California, USA (On-site) | 13 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer, LLM Inference Optimization | Nebius | Palo Alto California, USA (On-site) | 7 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Intermediate Software Engineer (Agentic AI Verification) | Trulioo | San Diego California, USA (On-site) | 4 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Applied LLM Systems Engineer | Anduril Industries | Costa Mesa California, USA (On-site) | 0 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| #Machine Learning Engineer – Agentic AI | Qualcomm | San Diego California, USA (On-site) | 1,758 new H-1B workers | Says it will not sponsor | 2026-11-15 |
| Principal GenAI Inference Optimization Engineer | AMD | San Jose California, USA (On-site) | 1,041 new H-1B workers | Says it will not sponsor | 2026-11-15 |
| Software Engineer, GenAI Platform | Roblox | San Mateo California, USA (On-site) | 382 new H-1B workers | Says it will not sponsor | 2026-11-15 |
| Lead GenAI Engineer | Fractal Analytics | California, USA (On-site) | 112 new H-1B workers | Says it will not sponsor | 2026-11-15 |
| Senior Agentic AI Engineer | EchoStar | San Mateo California, USA (On-site) | 14 new H-1B workers | Says it will not sponsor | 2026-11-15 |
An H-1B record here means the employer has approved H-1B workers on file with USCIS (FY2023 to FY2026). An H-1B record is the employer's history, not a promise for this role. No match means we could not tie the company to a USCIS record by name, not that it never sponsors. Live roles as of 15 November 2026. Open the AI tab.
Where the numbers come from
Roles are read from the employers' own career pages and re-checked daily; a role that comes down at the source leaves this list at the next sync. A role counts as AI when its title names AI or machine learning work (ML engineer, AI engineer, LLM and generative AI engineer, MLOps, applied and research scientist in AI, forward deployed engineer, AI product manager, AI infrastructure and AI data engineer). What a posting says about sponsorship is read from its own text. Reposting sites and exact duplicate postings are left out. Nothing is estimated.
Frequently asked
Which companies hire LLM engineers in California with visa sponsorship?
87 LLM and generative AI engineer roles in California at employers with an H-1B record or postings that say they sponsor are open on Real Analyst Jobs as of 15 November 2026, at 33 companies. 87 (100%) are at employers with approved H-1B workers on record (USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub, FY2023 to FY2026, data as of 2026-09-30). An H-1B record is the employer's history, not a promise for this role. The most are at ServiceNow (18), TikTok (15) and Databricks (5). By location: Mountain View (29), San Francisco (18) and San Jose (17). 41 of the 87 roles list yearly pay in US dollars; the median midpoint of the listed ranges is $212K, and the middle half runs from $178K to $246K. 5 postings say they will not sponsor a visa; they stay on the list, last. 1 posting says in its own text that it sponsors.
Which companies with an H-1B record have LLM and generative AI engineer roles in California open?
Today: ServiceNow, TikTok, Databricks, Airwallex, Esri and Waymo. An H-1B record here means the employer has approved H-1B workers on file with USCIS (FY2023 to FY2026). An H-1B record is the employer's history, not a promise for this role.
Does an H-1B record mean this role will sponsor a visa?
No. An H-1B record here means the employer has approved H-1B workers on file with USCIS (FY2023 to FY2026). An H-1B record is the employer's history, not a promise for this role. Where a posting says it will not sponsor, believe the posting.
How many of these roles list pay?
41 of the 87 roles (47%) state pay in the posting, in the employer's own words and currency.
How much do LLM and generative AI engineer roles in California pay?
By the postings themselves: 41 of the 87 roles list yearly pay in US dollars. The median midpoint of the listed ranges is $212K, and the middle half runs from $178K to $246K. This is pay the employers list, not an offer: what one hire is paid depends on level, location and the employer.
Which roles count as AI jobs here?
Roles whose title names AI or machine learning work: ML engineer, AI engineer, LLM and generative AI engineer, MLOps and AI platform, applied and research scientist in AI, forward deployed engineer, AI product manager, AI infrastructure and AI data engineer. Front-end, mobile, design and sales roles are left out even when the team works on AI. Analyst roles with AI in the title stay on the analyst board.
Where does the data come from?
Roles are read daily from the employers' own career pages and the page updates every hour. H-1B approvals come from the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub (data as of 2026-09-30), matched by company name. What a posting says about sponsorship is read from its own text. Reposting sites are left out. Nothing is estimated.
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