Salary guide
| Measure | Annual pay (USD) |
|---|---|
| 25th percentile | $230,000 |
| Median | $257,000 |
| 75th percentile | $284,000 |
| Lowest listing | $133,000 |
| Highest listing | $452,000 |
| Listings counted | 41 |
| Company | Open listings | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| Capital One | 7 | $281,000 |
| SoFi | 3 | $209,000 |
| Suno | 2 | $296,000 |
| Snorkel AI | 2 | $278,000 |
| Duolingo | 2 | $276,000 |
| Snowflake | 2 | $261,000 |
| Riot Games | 2 | $231,000 |
| Zscaler | 2 | $203,000 |
| Country | Currency | Listings | Median pay | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | USD | 39 | $257,000 | $231,000 to $284,000 |
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.
We're hiring Senior / Staff Full-Stack / AI Engineers to build the backend, data and evals behind it, working alongside ML engineers, PMs and the product teams who build on top of it.
As a Senior AI Platform Engineer, you'll build the APIs, SDKs and shared tooling, including eval infrastructure, tracing and model routing, that let engineers across Suno ship agent features faster.
As an Applied AI Engineer, you’ll research and utilize state-of-the-art Gen AI and machine learning (ML) techniques to successfully deliver solutions to our customers.
Build the full retrieval stack from scratch. Own the end-to-end system: query understanding, content understanding and indexing, hybrid retrieval, ranking, and evaluation. Make the architectural calls that will define how Databricks agents access context for years to come.
You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact.
We are looking for an experienced AI Research Engineer to join our Speech team.
We are looking for an experienced AI Research Engineer to join our Duolingo Monetization team.
Develop and own agentic systems end to end — from scoping the problem with finance partners through the eval harness, retrieval quality, and cost that keep them reliable in production.
Together AI · 22d ago
We're looking for a software engineer, reliability-minded but still a builder, to own what happens in production to the Kubernetes-native control plane that provisions and runs our GPU inference fleet.
As the world adjusts to this new reality, leading platform companies are scrambling to build LLMs at billion scale, while large enterprises figure out how to add it to their products.
Partner with a cross-functional team of engineers, research scientists, technical program managers, and product managers to deliver AI-powered products that change how our associates work and how our customers interact with Capital One.
Capital OneNew · 1d ago
Partner with a cross-functional team of engineers, research scientists, technical program managers, and product managers to deliver AI-powered products that change how our associates work and how our customers interact with Capital One.
Partner with a cross-functional team of engineers, research scientists, technical program managers, and product managers to deliver AI-powered products that change how our associates work and how our customers interact with Capital One.
We are seeking a highly skilled Staff AI Engineer - Multi-Agent Frameworks to join our AI Platform team.
Concurrence · 9d ago
Applied AI is where Concurrence meets the real world. Our core engineering team builds the platform. We take it into health systems and build what each customer actually needs on top of it, as durable software that runs in production.
Our AI Developer Experience (AI DevEx) team owns SoFi's interactive coding strategy and the underlying infrastructure: AI economics, coding harnesses and harness vending, our evaluation platform, the AI Gateway, and intelligent model routing.
Partner with a cross-functional team of engineers, research scientists, technical program managers, and product managers to deliver AI-powered products that change how our associates work and how our customers interact with Capital One.
Develop automation solutions for layout generation, floor planning, AMS, and PDN. Create scalable CAD methodologies improving design quality and productivity. Build software frameworks integrating EDA tools and design workflows.
The Behavior team builds the software that enables NEO to be an intelligent, autonomous character living alongside people.
The AI Platforms team builds the shared foundation that lets Life360 use AI quickly and safely: model access and routing, MCP gateway and connectors, the agent runtime and orchestration platform, memory and knowledge infrastructure, evals and observability, and cost controls.
Lead Customer Programs : Own the full lifecycle of complex, multi-engineer AI engagements – from scoping and architecture through deployment, monitoring, and handoff. Be accountable for delivery quality and customer outcomes for the projects you lead.
As a Staff AI & Data Engineer, HR Systems , you will bring deep AI and modern data engineering expertise to HR Systems, accelerating our evolution into an AI-augmented and data-enabled engineering organization.
Partner with stakeholders across Finance, HR, Legal, IT, and Operations to understand business workflows, clarify requirements, and translate them into technical designs, with an immediate focus on process automation, conversational agents, and data integrations for key…
Capital OneNew · 1d ago
Partner with a cross-functional team of engineers, research scientists, technical program managers, and product managers to deliver AI-powered products that change how our associates work and how our customers interact with Capital One.
Partner with a cross-functional team of engineers, research scientists, technical program managers, and product managers to deliver AI-powered products that change how our associates work and how our customers interact with Capital One.
Partner with a cross-functional team of engineers, research scientists, technical program managers, and product managers to deliver AI-powered products that change how our associates work and how our customers interact with Capital One.
At ŌURA, software engineering velocity directly dictates how quickly we can ship impactful health features, algorithms, and updates to millions of members.
Our AI Developer Experience (AI DevEx) team owns SoFi's interactive coding strategy and underlying infrastructure: AI economics, coding harnesses and harness vending, our evaluation platform, the enterprise AI Gateway, and intelligent model routing.
As a company, we constantly challenge what’s possible, never simply accepting what has always been done. We reframe old problems, seek new solutions and operate comfortably in areas that are unknown.
Our partner is looking for a Staff Software Engineer, AI Developer Productivity based in the United States . In this role, you will help transform software engineering practices by designing and deploying advanced AI-powered tools and agentic workflows.
Own the architecture and delivery of agentic AI workflows for continuous code improvement, including automated refactoring, test generation, and proactive bug detection tailored to Institutional systems.
As a Staff AI Infrastructure Engineer, you will design, build, and operate the platforms that enable large-scale training, serving, evaluation, and deployment of foundation models and autonomous AI agents.
We're looking for a Staff AI Engineer to lead some of Moxie's highest-impact AI projects in Q4 2026 and H1 2027, including Maia, the Context Engine, and AI drafts.
We are looking for a Senior Staff AI Engineer to join our Information Technology Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Engineering team, reporting directly to the Senior Manager, AI Engineering, based out of our Santa Clara, CA office on a 3-day hybrid schedule.
We are looking for a Sr Staff Applied AI Engineer to join our team. This is an On-site in Santa Clara, California or Remote (US role) role, reporting to the Sr. Manager, Applied AI Engineering in the IT/Data Strategy department.
Crusoe is hiring an AI Engineer for our Developer Relations Engineering team: an engineer who builds agentic AI systems and enjoys showing other developers how they work.
Software Development Engineers are expert problem-solvers and builders who design, implement, and improve software applications and systems.
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 median Staff AI Engineer salary in our $100k+ listings is $257,000 a year, based on 41 live USD listings. The middle half of listings pays $230,000 to $284,000. These figures cover only listings that publish a salary of $100k+ or more, so they sit above pay for Staff AI Engineer roles overall.
Individual $100k+ Staff AI Engineer listings range from $133,000 to $452,000 a year. The 25th percentile of listing midpoints is $230,000 and the 75th percentile is $284,000.
The companies with the most open $100k+ Staff AI Engineer listings are Capital One (7 listings, median $281,000), SoFi (3 listings, median $209,000), Suno (2 listings, median $296,000), Snorkel AI (2 listings, median $278,000) and Duolingo (2 listings, median $276,000).
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 12, 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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