AI jobs (US)
Senior, Staff and Lead AI Jobs in the US
Short answer
2,349 senior, staff and lead US AI and machine learning roles are open on Real Analyst Jobs as of 15 November 2026, at 600 companies. 1,945 (83%) are at employers with a USCIS H-1B 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 Amazon (147), ServiceNow (76) and TikTok (57). By location: California (959), New York (222) and Washington (192), and 251 fully remote. 1,174 of the 2,349 roles list yearly pay in US dollars; the median midpoint of the listed ranges is $223K, and the middle half runs from $191K to $260K. 199 postings say they will not sponsor a visa; they stay on the list, last.
In the postings' own words
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Companies hiring
| Company | Open roles | New H-1B workers (USCIS) |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon | 147 | 17,603 |
| ServiceNow | 76 | 853 |
| TikTok | 57 | 1,559 |
| Waymo | 39 | 376 |
| AMD | 37 | 1,041 |
| OpenAI | 36 | 597 |
| Databricks | 35 | 808 |
| Anduril Industries | 32 | 0 |
| Capgemini | 28 | 4,081 |
| Anthropic | 24 | 276 |
| 23 | 182 | |
| SpaceX | 22 | 56 |
| Zoox | 21 | 547 |
| Scale AI | 20 | 147 |
| Roblox | 19 | 382 |
| Rivian | 18 | 902 |
| CoreWeave | 16 | 106 |
| DoorDash | 16 | 891 |
| Snowflake | 16 | 775 |
| General Motors | 15 | 814 |
| Klaviyo | 15 | 86 |
| Nuro | 15 | 90 |
| Perplexity | 15 | 29 |
| UnitedHealth Group | 13 | 417 |
| JPMorgan Chase | 12 | 3,326 |
| 12 | 556 | |
| Airwallex | 11 | 26 |
| Coinbase | 11 | 223 |
| Crusoe | 11 | 205 |
| Intuit | 11 | 1,374 |
| Microsoft | 11 | 7,210 |
| Nvidia | 11 | 3,591 |
| Airbnb | 10 | 303 |
| Axon | 10 | 252 |
| LinkedIn3 | 10 | No match |
| Natera | 10 | 123 |
| Nscale | 10 | 12 |
| Oracle | 10 | 3,153 |
| C3 AI | 9 | 175 |
| Clera | 9 | No match |
| Coupang | 9 | No match |
| Extreme Networks | 9 | 47 |
| Fireworks AI | 9 | 13 |
| Nebius | 9 | 7 |
| Okta | 9 | 123 |
| Paramount | 9 | No match |
| Riot Games | 9 | 139 |
| Stripe | 9 | 451 |
| TRM Labs | 9 | 14 |
| Cisco | 8 | 1,814 |
New H-1B workers are USCIS initial approvals for every role at the company. History, not a promise for any role. Showing the 50 with the most roles of 600 companies.
The roles
Postings that say they will not sponsor a visa stay on the list, last.
1,174 of the 2,349 roles list yearly pay in US dollars; the median midpoint of the listed ranges is $223K, and the middle half runs from $191K to $260K.
| Role | Company | Location | Employer H-1B record | Posting says | First seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Staff/Sr. Staff/Principal AI research scientist | Writer | San Francisco California, USA (On-site) | 13 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Engineer, AI Labs | Via | New York New York, USA (On-site) | No match | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Lead Product Manager, AI Technology | Zynga | Austin Texas, USA (On-site) | 29 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Engineer, AI Platform Enablement and Emerging Applications | Samsung Semiconductor | San Jose California, USA (On-site) | 225 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Research Scientist) - DFAI | Plaid | San Francisco California, USA (On-site) | 58 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer | Databricks | San Francisco California, USA (On-site) | 808 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Applied AI Scientist | Demandbase | San Francisco California, USA (On-site) | 10 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Forward Deployed Engineer – AI & Trading | BP | US: Chicago, USA (On-site) | No match | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Applied AI Research | SMBC | Charlotte North Carolina, USA (On-site) | 399 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Applied AI ML Lead, Chief Data & Analytics Office | JPMorgan Chase | Jersey City New Jersey, USA (On-site) | 3,326 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Central Technology, Anti-Cheat | Riot Games | Los Angeles California, USA (On-site) | 139 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Edge AI | Samsara | Remote | 127 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Ranking System | Taskrabbit | New York New York, USA (On-site) | 12 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Retention | Taskrabbit | New York New York, USA (On-site) | 12 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Risk | Gusto | San Francisco California, USA (On-site) | 114 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Search | FanDuel | City New York, USA (On-site) | 1 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Search | FanDuel | Atlanta Georgia, USA (On-site) | 1 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Unpublished R&D Product | Riot Games | Los Angeles California, USA (On-site) | 139 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Vision AI | Toast | Remote | 57 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Vision-Language Foundation Models | Waymo | Mountain View California, USA (On-site) | 376 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer I, Search Retrieval | Etsy | Brooklyn New York, USA (On-site) | 63 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer | Coupang | Mountain View California, USA (On-site) | No match | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer – AI/ML Compiler | Qualcomm | Santa Clara California, USA (On-site) | 1,758 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer – Automotive Cybersecurity | Qualcomm | San Diego California, USA (On-site) | 1,758 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Compiler Engineer | Rivian | Palo Alto California, USA (On-site) | 902 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 |
| Applied AI ML Executive Director, Chief Data & Analytics Office | JPMorgan Chase | Jersey City New Jersey, USA (On-site) | 3,326 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Applied AI Lead Engineer for Banking Technology | Citi | Jersey City New Jersey United States, USA (On-site) | 2,384 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer(Platform - Identity) | Coinbase | Remote | 223 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| sr. technical product manager- Collaboration Engineering & Enterprise Ai | Starbucks | Nashville Tennessee, USA (On-site) | No match | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| senior engineer, AI (Nashville, TN) | Starbucks | Nashville Tennessee, USA (On-site) | No match | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer(TLM), Driver Understanding and Evaluation | Waymo | Mountain View California, USA (On-site) | 376 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Applied AI Engineer, Sign in with ChatGPT | OpenAI | San Francisco California, USA (On-site) | 597 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, AI Infrastructure | Waymo | Mountain View California, USA (On-site) | 376 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, AI Insights | CoreWeave | New York New York, USA (On-site) | 106 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, AI Platform & Agentic Apps | Robinhood | Menlo Park California, USA (On-site) | No match | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, AI Security | Remote | 182 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 | |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Bidding & Pacing | San Francisco California, USA (On-site) | 556 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 | |
| Forward Deployed Engineer | Americas | Planhat | Los Angeles California, USA (On-site) | No match | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Worldwide Specialist Solutions Architect - GenAI, Data & AI GTM | Amazon | Austin New York, USA (On-site) | 17,603 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Worldwide Specialist Solutions Architect - Bedrock, Data & AI GTM | Amazon | Seattle Washington, USA (On-site) | 17,603 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Creative Effectiveness | Remote | 182 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 | |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Forecasting & Scenarios | Remote | 182 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 | |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Foundational Representations | New York New York, USA (On-site) | 182 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 | |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads ML Efficiency | Remote | 182 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 | |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Agent Eval Platform | ServiceNow | Mountain View California, USA (On-site) | 853 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 |
| Vice President - Applied AI | Morgan Stanley | Dallas Texas, USA (On-site) | 1,000 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 Engineer, Agentic Intelligence - San Francisco | HomeVision | San Francisco California, USA (On-site) | No match | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Assistance Engineering | Airbnb | San Francisco California, USA (On-site) | 303 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Causal Inference | DoorDash | San Francisco California, USA (On-site) | 891 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Compliance Automation (Platform) | Coinbase | Remote | 223 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Consumer | Remote | 182 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 | |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Content Visual AI | Remote | 556 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 | |
| VP, Head of Forward Deployed Engineering | Snorkel Ai | New York New York, USA (On-site) | 47 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, CustomerLake (ML/LLM) | Databricks | New York New York, USA (On-site) | 808 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Data Flywheel | Waymo | Mountain View California, USA (On-site) | 376 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Driver Refinement & Validation | Waymo | Mountain View California, USA (On-site) | 376 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Financial Connections | Stripe | New York New York, USA (On-site) | 451 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Financial Products | Adyen | San Francisco California, USA (On-site) | No match | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Fulfillment Planning | DoorDash | San Francisco California, USA (On-site) | 891 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, GAI Search Relevance - Moveworks | ServiceNow | Mountain View California, USA (On-site) | 853 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Home Surfaces | Spotify | New York New York, USA (On-site) | 180 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Homefeed | Remote | 556 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 | |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Infrastructure | Waymo | Mountain View California, USA (On-site) | 376 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, ML Infrastructure | Simplisafe | Boston Massachusetts, USA (On-site) | 18 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, ML Platform | Braze | Chicago Illinois, USA (On-site) | 25 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, ML Platform | Braze | Austin Texas, USA (On-site) | 25 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, ML Platform | Braze | City New York, USA (On-site) | 25 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Braid Senior AI Engineer | Brown Brothers Harriman | Boston Massachusetts, USA (On-site) | 32 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, ML Platform | Braze | San Francisco California, USA (On-site) | 25 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Mapping | Waymo | Mountain View California, USA (On-site) | 376 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| TikTok Shop - Product Manager, AI Service Experience | TikTok | Seattle Washington, USA (On-site) | 1,559 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Offsite Ads | Coupang | Mountain View California, USA (On-site) | No match | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Personalization | DoorDash | San Francisco California, USA (On-site) | 891 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Retrieval | Remote | 182 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 | |
| Staff MLOps Engineer | AiDASH | Palo Alto California, USA (On-site) | 7 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Retrieval & Targeting | Remote | 182 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 | |
| Enterprise Application AI Engineer | Gusto | San Francisco California, USA (On-site) | 114 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Enterprise Architect: AI | ZS Associates | Thousand Oaks California, USA (On-site) | 329 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Shopping Ads | San Francisco California, USA (On-site) | 556 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 | |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Simulation | Waymo | Mountain View California, USA (On-site) | 376 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Simulation Realism | Waymo | Mountain View California, USA (On-site) | 376 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, TLM , Labeling Automation | Waymo | Mountain View California, USA (On-site) | 376 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Traffic Intelligence | Airbnb | USA (On-site) | 303 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer- Large Driving Model (LDM), Motion Planning, Autonomy | Rivian | Palo Alto California, USA (On-site) | 902 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer_Voice AI | ServiceNow | San Diego California, USA (On-site) | 853 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer_Voice AI Engineer | ServiceNow | Kirkland, USA (On-site) | 853 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Technical Support Engineer, Sec-AI, Portuguese Speaking | Veeam Software | San Jose California, USA (On-site) | 6 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer_Voice AI Engineer | ServiceNow | Santa Clara California, USA (On-site) | 853 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Healthcare - Seattle | OpenAI | Seattle Washington, USA (On-site) | 597 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer | ATOMS | San Francisco California, USA (On-site) | No match | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Scientist | Netskope | Santa Clara California, USA (On-site) | 32 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Scientist | Dave | USA (On-site) | No match | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Scientist, Applied Causal Inference | DoorDash | San Francisco California, USA (On-site) | 891 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Machine Learning Systems Engineer | Remote | 182 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 | |
| Staff Operational Readiness Technical Program Manager, AI Infrastructure Deployment | Nscale | Houston Texas, USA (On-site) | 12 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Outbound Product Manager - AI Agentic Platform-Moveworks | ServiceNow | Mountain View California, USA (On-site) | 853 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 2026-11-15 |
| Staff Platform Engineer, AI Enablement | Zocdoc | New York New York, USA (On-site) | 13 new H-1B workers | Not stated | 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. Showing 100 of 2,349; every role is on the AI tab of the job board. Live roles as of 15 November 2026. Open the AI tab.
Where the roles are
Counted from the location each posting gives; 160 roles name no state.
| State | Roles | Share |
|---|---|---|
| California | 959 | 41% |
| New York | 222 | 9% |
| Washington | 192 | 8% |
| Texas | 137 | 6% |
| Massachusetts | 108 | 5% |
| Illinois | 45 | 2% |
| Georgia | 41 | 2% |
| Virginia | 32 | 1% |
| Other states (23) | 202 | 9% |
| Remote (US) | 251 | 11% |
Senior, Staff and Lead AI Jobs in the US open on 15 November 2026, by the state in the posting.
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 are hiring for senior AI jobs in the US?
2,349 senior, staff and lead US AI and machine learning roles are open on Real Analyst Jobs as of 15 November 2026, at 600 companies. 1,945 (83%) are at employers with a USCIS H-1B 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 Amazon (147), ServiceNow (76) and TikTok (57). By location: California (959), New York (222) and Washington (192), and 251 fully remote. 1,174 of the 2,349 roles list yearly pay in US dollars; the median midpoint of the listed ranges is $223K, and the middle half runs from $191K to $260K. 199 postings say they will not sponsor a visa; they stay on the list, last.
Which companies with an H-1B record have senior, staff and lead US AI and machine learning roles open?
Today: Amazon, ServiceNow, TikTok, Waymo, AMD and OpenAI. 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?
1,183 of the 2,349 roles (50%) state pay in the posting, in the employer's own words and currency.
How much do senior, staff and lead US AI and machine learning roles pay?
By the postings themselves: 1,174 of the 2,349 roles list yearly pay in US dollars. The median midpoint of the listed ranges is $223K, and the middle half runs from $191K to $260K. 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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