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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.

663
Active Jobs
$218K
Avg Salary
$210K
Median Salary
$24
Min Salary
$550K
Max Salary

By Experience Level

Average salary progression by seniority

Junior (0-2 years)
$28K(8 jobs)
Senior (5-8 years)
$186K(229 jobs)
Lead (8+ years)
$229K(138 jobs)
Mid-level (2-5 years)
$239K(248 jobs)
Principal/Staff
$273K(40 jobs)

By Remote Type

Salary comparison across work arrangements

Hybrid
$228K(47 jobs)
On-site
$219K(567 jobs)
Remote
$201K(49 jobs)

Top Paying Companies

Companies offering the highest average salaries

Salesforce AI
$550K(1 job)
Stripe
$475K(1 job)
Citadel
$375K(1 job)
Perplexity
$314K(17 jobs)
OpenAI
$302K(190 jobs)
Anthropic
$300K(4 jobs)
Google DeepMind
$300K(2 jobs)
Jane Street
$300K(1 job)
Magic
$300K(1 job)
Cognition
$295K(1 job)

Top Paying Skills

Skills with the highest average compensation

Distributed Training
$326K(14 jobs)
MLOps
$321K(7 jobs)
JAX
$300K(2 jobs)
RLHF
$289K(5 jobs)
PyTorch
$265K(40 jobs)
CUDA
$257K(23 jobs)
Transformers
$253K(16 jobs)
Agent Orchestration
$243K(50 jobs)
TensorFlow
$241K(9 jobs)
Kubernetes
$224K(18 jobs)

By Model Expertise

Average salary for different LLM/AI model specializations

GPT-5/OpenAI
$302K(187 jobs)
Gemini/Google
$287K(4 jobs)
Claude/Anthropic
$278K(17 jobs)
Custom/Fine-tuned
$262K(44 jobs)
Llama/Meta
$206K(11 jobs)
Mistral/Mixtral
$191K(4 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.