Salary guide
| Country | Currency | Listings | Median pay | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | USD | 8 | $343,000 | $324,000 to $356,000 |
You'll design, implement, and own the inference systems that serve Zoom's AI models at production scale -- across real-time communication, vision, and language workloads.
The Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI) team works across research, engineering, product, and infrastructure to build AI systems that accelerate and ultimately conduct high-quality research at OpenAI.
We are looking for a Distinguished Engineer with outstanding technical leadership in the AI/ML area to drive our high-priority AI initiatives with a clear technology roadmap to deliver innovations across our product portfolio.
Lead end-to-end performance analysis and optimization of innovative LLM pre-training and post-training workloads on the latest NVIDIA hardware and software platforms.
Mastercard · 17d ago
The AI Center of Excellence is seeking a Senior Principal AI Engineer – AI Infrastructure to serve as a technical expert and thought leader for Mastercard’s enterprise AI infrastructure.
As an AI Engineer on the GTM Claudification team, you will build the agents and AI systems that run Anthropic's own go-to-market work. Our sellers already work alongside agents every day.
GTM Growth Engineering builds AI-native products that help OpenAI's go-to-market and B2B marketing organizations scale with greater speed, intelligence, and operational effectiveness.
As an Applied AI Research Engineer, you will discover what Anthropic's models and products can do, prove it with real customers, and equip the rest of Applied AI to sell and deliver it.
All of Mercor’s AI work, from training and serving models to building agents, runs on GPUs. Your job is to make that compute fast, fault-tolerant and fully utilized. You’ll own the accelerator platform end to end.
We do not publish a AI Engineer median yet: it needs at least 20 live USD listings and we currently have 9. This page covers only listings paying $400k+ or more.
The companies with the most open $400k+ AI Engineer listings are Anthropic (2 listings, median $356,000) and OpenAI (2 listings, median $353,000).
The figures come from the salary ranges employers publish in their own job listings, collected from company career pages and applicant-tracking systems. Each listing counts once, at the midpoint of its range. Only USD listings go into the headline figures, and listings that are closed or stale are removed. The data was last refreshed on November 13, 2026.
Yes. Each listing is tagged remote, hybrid or on-site, and remote roles carry a region (US only, EMEA, APAC or global), so you can filter the live job list to the arrangement you want.
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