AI salaries · updated November 3, 2026

AI Infrastructure Engineer salary

Infrastructure engineers run the compute clusters, networks and platforms that AI training and inference depend on. Across 91 open postings that publish pay, the median is $269K a year, and the middle half pay $226K to $321K.

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Median yearly pay

$269K

10th
$182K
25th
$226K
75th
$321K
90th
$386K

From 91 open postings at 16 companies that publish pay.

  • $269KMedian posted pay
  • $125K–$850KLowest to highest posted
  • 91Postings 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 37$287K
  • Senior 52$261K

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 31$298K
  • On-site or hybrid 60$257K

Top-paying companies

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

  • Anthropic 11$363K
  • OpenAI 13$356K
  • Mercor 2$315K
  • Perplexity 3$313K
  • Sierra 3$310K
  • Lambda 9$298K
  • Waymo 12$257K
  • Zoox 14$245K

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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