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Market Data & Insights

AI Engineer Salary Insights

Salary data and market insights derived from live job listings fetched directly from company career pages via Greenhouse, Ashby, and Lever.

793
Active Jobs
$228K
Avg Salary
$220K
Median Salary
$2
Min Salary
$615K
Max Salary

By Experience Level

Average salary progression by seniority

Junior (0-2 years)
$97K(12 jobs)
Senior (5-8 years)
$196K(281 jobs)
Lead (8+ years)
$239K(153 jobs)
Mid-level (2-5 years)
$251K(311 jobs)
Principal/Staff
$275K(36 jobs)

By Remote Type

Salary comparison across work arrangements

On-site
$230K(736 jobs)
Remote
$205K(37 jobs)
Hybrid
$198K(20 jobs)

Top Paying Companies

Companies offering the highest average salaries

OpenAI
$332K(200 jobs)
Pika
$295K(3 jobs)
Perplexity
$275K(24 jobs)
Sierra AI
$272K(31 jobs)
Modal
$260K(1 job)
Anthropic
$240K(1 job)
Harvey
$230K(4 jobs)
Pinecone
$230K(2 jobs)
Anyscale
$216K(3 jobs)
Deepgram
$203K(20 jobs)

Top Paying Skills

Skills with the highest average compensation

Hugging Face
$321K(2 jobs)
MLOps
$302K(4 jobs)
Agent Orchestration
$264K(120 jobs)
Fine-tuning
$251K(5 jobs)
GCP
$245K(4 jobs)
PyTorch
$237K(11 jobs)
CUDA
$236K(4 jobs)
Pinecone
$230K(2 jobs)
AWS
$228K(34 jobs)
C++
$216K(103 jobs)

By Model Expertise

Average salary for different LLM/AI model specializations

GPT-5/OpenAI
$333K(199 jobs)
Llama/Meta
$240K(1 job)
Open Source Models
$223K(13 jobs)
Claude/Anthropic
$219K(3 jobs)
Custom/Fine-tuned
$219K(14 jobs)
Gemini/Google
$150K(1 job)

Methodology

All salary data is sourced from real job listings fetched directly from company Applicant Tracking Systems (Greenhouse, Ashby, and Lever APIs). Salary ranges are averaged to provide a representative compensation figure. Not all companies disclose salary ranges, so data may be limited.

Note: Salaries shown are in USD. Only jobs with published salary ranges are included. Skills are extracted from job titles and descriptions. Minimum 2 job listings required per skill for inclusion.