Salary guide
| Measure | Annual pay (USD) |
|---|---|
| 25th percentile | $184,000 |
| Median | $206,000 |
| 75th percentile | $240,000 |
| Lowest listing | $100,000 |
| Highest listing | $452,000 |
| Listings counted | 338 |
| Level | Listings | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| Senior | 90 | $197,000 |
| Lead | 7 | $209,000 |
| Company | Open listings | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| Capital One | 55 | $240,000 |
| NVIDIA | 30 | $198,000 |
| OpenAI | 22 | $251,000 |
| SpaceX | 9 | $285,000 |
| Samsara | 8 | $184,000 |
| Anthropic | 7 | $300,000 |
| True Talent Solutions Partners | 6 | $210,000 |
| Cisco | 6 | $210,000 |
| Country | Currency | Listings | Median pay | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | USD | 313 | $207,000 | $185,000 to $240,000 |
Architect and scale intelligent failure triaging and automated Root Cause Analysis (RCA) frameworks capable of processing petabyte-scale simulation and real-world vehicle logs.
Design, develop, deploy, and optimize high-performance, scalable Generative AI frameworks for on-premise and cloud environments. Architect secure workflows for end-to-end document processing, including ingestion, classification, retrieval, and automated fine-tuning pipelines.
Software Development Engineers are expert problem-solvers and builders who design, implement, and improve software applications and systems.
Félix is becoming an AI-native company. As our AI Technical Program Manager, you’ll take the AI initiatives leadership prioritizes and drive them from idea to solutions that are deployed, adopted, and owned.
We view our team as an ensemble: we look for individuals with strong, unique specializations to improve the overall strength of the team.
Lead the design and build of Utilidata's AI inference platform — establishing architecture patterns, deployment standards, and operational practices that will scale with the company.
Agentic Application Architecture: Design, build, and optimize scalable systems and orchestration pipelines capable of multi-step reasoning, dynamic memory allocation, long-context evaluation, and high-fidelity tool utilization.
As a Forward Deployed AI Engineer at Sardine, you will act as the crucial bridge between our state-of-the-art AI capabilities and our clients' most complex fraud, compliance, and complex workflow challenges.
As an AI Enablement Engineer in Everpure’s Digital Transformation Group (DTG), you will spearhead the journey from generative AI experimentation to enterprise-scale business impact.
Design, implement and maintain large scale HPC/AI clusters with monitoring, logging and alerting. Manage Linux job/workload schedules and orchestration tools. Develop and maintain continuous integration and delivery pipelines.
We are seeking a highly skilled AI Security Research & Red team engineer to join our Red Team within the Security Threat Detection, Response and Emulation organization.
Proficiency in Python, including working with JSON, REST APIs, and data manipulation. Understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including version control (Git), testing, and debugging.
Work at the forefront of context engineering - shaping how AI systems retrieve, structure, and leverage context to deliver accurate, high-quality results at scale.
You’ll be a key engineer helping us ship real, user-facing AI at Gusto Retirement. This role is all about bias to action: owning problems end-to-end, getting working software in front of customers, and iterating quickly.
The Strategy and Transformation team builds intelligent systems and first-party applications that improve how CoreWeave’s internal teams work.
As a deployment engineer at WRITER, you'll be at the forefront of expanding human capacity through superintelligence. This isn't just a technical role; it's a deeply influential one where you'll partner directly with our leading enterprise customers.
As a deployment engineer at WRITER, you'll be at the forefront of expanding human capacity through superintelligence. This isn't just a technical role; it's a deeply influential one where you'll partner directly with our leading enterprise customers.
Esri’s Professional Services division is seeking an experienced Sr. Software Development Engineer to help advance the next generation of geospatial data quality capabilities across the ArcGIS platform.
We are looking for a Senior AI System Architect to shape the end-to-end architecture for agentic AI software on HP PCs.
Defense Unicorns is seeking an Applied AI Engineer to embed with a government team and its technology partners building an emerging AI-powered engineering ecosystem.
Defense Unicorns is seeking a senior AI Agentic Engineer to embed with a government team and its technology partners building an emerging AI-powered engineering ecosystem.
Defense Unicorns is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Ark team, building an AI-native software development product that helps Mission Heroes create, package, and deliver secure applications into mission environments.
Censys is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our SOC/TH team focused on AI and LLMs .
This is a hands-on role with three parts: building automations and AI workflows, running our company AI tools, and advising on where AI goes next at Rex Moore.
This is a hands-on role with three parts: building automations and AI workflows, running our company AI tools, and advising on where AI goes next at Rex Moore.
Use and develop AI-powered tools to make software testing smarter, faster, and more effective! Improve test case generation, defect detection, flaky test analysis, regression testing, and test coverage optimization.
You will work directly with our CTO on the core of the product: the agents that do the work and the intelligence behind them.
Are you a builder who has already shipped AI that changed how a business runs? We're hiring full-time Applied AI Engineers to join a small, senior team that sits at the center of how Fanatics transforms itself with AI.
The Terrestrial Software team is building the foundation for an automated rocket factory and integrated launch platform.
Primary responsibilities will include deploying, managing, and validating AI Compute/HPC infrastructure in Linux-based environments for new and existing customers. Be the domain expert with customers during planning calls through implementation.
Our partner is looking for a Data AI ServiceNow Engineer based in the United States.
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The Senior AI Engineer will architect, build, and operationalize advanced AI and multi-agent solutions leveraging RAG , GraphRAG , Agentic AI frameworks , and enterprise‑grade cloud engineering.
As it scales, the systems and workflows that keep supply and demand balanced across our GPU fleet need to get more sophisticated, and this role exists to make sure they do.
Automated Regression & E2E Testing: Architect, build, and maintain comprehensive automated regression and end-to-end test suites for the entire Circuit platform using Playwright (TypeScript/JavaScript), Python/Pytest , and Selenium, replacing manual QA with scalable automation.
Design, build, deploy, and run internal tooling for large-scale AI training and inferencing platform built on top of cloud infrastructure. Conduct in-depth performance characterization and analysis on large multi-GPU and multi-node clusters.
Design and scale observability platforms handling high-volume metrics, logs, and traces across distributed environments. Build high-performance backend services for telemetry ingestion, processing, and routing.
Designing and developing groundbreaking techniques to accelerate high-performance workloads at the intersection of AI, math, and financial systems.
Architecting an AI-native framework: Help design and build a codebase and architecture that scales beyond human capacity, supporting large numbers of AI agents working in parallel to generate, test, and validate production-grade software.
As a core contributor to the CUTLASS project, you will use your expertise in systems programming and API design to create a world-class developer experience for GPU programming and kernel delivery.
Develop and deploy scalable GenAI applications that integrate with existing workflows and enhance overall productivity. Use state-of-the-art AI tools and techniques to accelerate GPU/ SOC Architecture modeling.
Drive the architecture and implementation of math libraries APIs and documentation structures designed to be LLM-first: introspectable, explainable, and easily synthesized by AI agents. Work with internal and external stakeholders to deliver timely LLM-enhanced library releases.
Primary responsibilities will include deploying, managing, and validating AI Compute/HPC infrastructure in Linux-based environments for new and existing customers. Be the domain expert with customers during planning calls through implementation.
As a deployment engineer at WRITER, you'll be at the forefront of expanding human capacity through superintelligence. This isn't just a technical role; it's a deeply influential one where you'll partner directly with our leading enterprise customers.
Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible.
We are looking for a Senior AI Engineer, Generative AI & ML Engineering for the Operational Intelligence Program within B&MI.
We’re looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact. We’re a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do. Expectations are high, and so are the rewards.
The median AI Engineer salary in our $100k+ listings is $206,000 a year, based on 338 live USD listings. The middle half of listings pays $184,000 to $240,000. These figures cover only listings that publish a salary of $100k+ or more, so they sit above pay for AI Engineer roles overall.
Individual $100k+ AI Engineer listings range from $100,000 to $452,000 a year. The 25th percentile of listing midpoints is $184,000 and the 75th percentile is $240,000.
Median pay by level in our $100k+ listings: senior $197,000 (90 listings), lead $209,000 (7 listings). Levels with fewer than 5 listings are left out.
The companies with the most open $100k+ AI Engineer listings are Capital One (55 listings, median $240,000), NVIDIA (30 listings, median $198,000), OpenAI (22 listings, median $251,000), SpaceX (9 listings, median $285,000) and Samsara (8 listings, median $184,000).
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 14, 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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