AI salaries · updated November 3, 2026

AI Engineer salary

AI engineers build products on top of AI models: prompts, retrieval, agents, evaluation and the code around them. Across 44 open postings that publish pay, the median is $277K a year, and the middle half pay $243K to $300K.

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Median yearly pay

$277K

10th
$220K
25th
$243K
75th
$300K
90th
$321K

From 44 open postings at 14 companies that publish pay.

  • $277KMedian posted pay
  • $126K–$405KLowest to highest posted
  • 44Postings with pay
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Pay breakdown

By experience level

Median of each posting's pay range, grouped by the level in the job title.

  • Mid level 25$257K
  • Senior 19$295K

Remote or in the office

Remote roles often pay by the location you live in; on-site roles here are mostly in high-cost cities.

  • Remote 20$272K
  • On-site or hybrid 24$278K

Top-paying companies

Companies with at least two open AI Engineer postings that show pay, by median.

  • Perplexity 2$320K
  • Anthropic 7$300K
  • Ramp 2$278K
  • OpenAI 17$265K
  • Snowflake 4$261K
  • Databricks 3$216K
  • Applied Intuition 2$203K

How we calculate this

We read the pay ranges employers publish on their own job postings (US pay-transparency laws require most of them), count each posting once at the middle of its range, and use only yearly US-dollar pay. Equity and bonuses are not included; for sales roles some employers publish on-target earnings (base plus commission) instead of base pay. The data refreshes twice a day from 3,633 AI job postings with pay.

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