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Location
San Francisco, California, United States
Work
On-site
Employment
Full-time
Level
Not stated
Function
Data & AI
Pay
$100K – $550K a year
Posted
33 months ago

Pay and the market here

The top of this role’s range, $100K a year, is 62% below the median of $260K for data jobs in San Francisco (middle half $220K – $325K, 1,098 jobs that state pay).

1,323 data jobs open in San Francisco: 11% remote, 283 posted in the last 30 days.

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About the role

Magic’s mission is to build safe AGI that accelerates humanity’s progress on the world’s most important problems. We believe the most promising path to safe AGI lies in automating research and code generation to improve models and solve alignment more reliably than humans can alone. Our approach combines frontier-scale pretraining, domain-specific RL, ultra-long context, and inference-time compute to achieve this goal.

If you feel you have something to contribute to the mission and you're a high-energy person, we would love to explore working together in roles that might not be listed on our careers page. We make exceptions for exceptional people.

Our culture

  • Integrity. Words and actions should be aligned
  • Hands-on. At Magic, everyone is building
  • Teamwork. We move as one team, not N individuals
  • Focus. Safely deploy AGI. Everything else is noise
  • Quality. Magic should feel like magic

Magic strives to be the place where high-potential individuals can do their best work. We value quick learning and grit just as much as skill and experience.

Compensation, benefits and perks (US)

  • Annual salary range: $100K - $550K
  • Equity is a significant part of total compensation, in addition to salary
  • 401(k) plan with 6% salary matching
  • Generous health, dental and vision insurance for you and your dependents
  • Unlimited paid time off
  • Option to work in-person in SF or remotely
  • Visa sponsorship and relocation stipend to bring you to SF, if possible
  • A small, fast-paced, highly focused team

Source

Posted by Magic on their own hiring page, jobs.ashbyhq.com. OptiTalent shows it as published, read 07 Nov 2026 12:05 UTC; the original is the reference.

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