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.

725
Active Jobs
$258K
Avg Salary
$250K
Median Salary
$110K
Min Salary
$550K
Max Salary

By Experience Level

Average salary progression by seniority

Junior (0-2 years)
$126K(82 jobs)
Mid-level (2-5 years)
$201K(209 jobs)
Senior (5-8 years)
$275K(303 jobs)
Lead (8+ years)
$295K(2 jobs)
Principal/Staff
$395K(129 jobs)

By Remote Type

Salary comparison across work arrangements

On-site
$262K(154 jobs)
Hybrid
$260K(316 jobs)
Remote
$254K(255 jobs)

Top Paying Companies

Companies offering the highest average salaries

Reka
$310K(3 jobs)
Weaviate
$310K(3 jobs)
Forethought
$302K(3 jobs)
Copy.ai
$298K(3 jobs)
Alpaca
$297K(3 jobs)
Cognition
$296K(5 jobs)
1X Technologies
$295K(3 jobs)
Magic
$295K(4 jobs)
Together AI
$293K(5 jobs)
Salesforce AI
$291K(11 jobs)

Top Paying Skills

Skills with the highest average compensation

JAX
$391K(121 jobs)
RLHF
$333K(245 jobs)
C++
$281K(23 jobs)
Fine-tuning
$270K(90 jobs)
CUDA
$267K(37 jobs)
Spark
$263K(6 jobs)
Kubernetes
$263K(51 jobs)
Python
$259K(723 jobs)
ROS
$258K(2 jobs)
Transformers
$253K(16 jobs)

By Model Expertise

Average salary for different LLM/AI model specializations

Gemini/Google
$266K(61 jobs)
Custom/Fine-tuned
$266K(256 jobs)
Llama/Meta
$258K(248 jobs)
GPT-4/OpenAI
$255K(217 jobs)
Mistral
$255K(124 jobs)
Claude/Anthropic
$254K(213 jobs)

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.