Salary guide
| Measure | Annual pay (USD) |
|---|---|
| 25th percentile | $276,000 |
| Median | $281,000 |
| 75th percentile | $306,000 |
| Lowest listing | $176,000 |
| Highest listing | $469,000 |
| Listings counted | 61 |
| Country | Currency | Listings | Median pay | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | USD | 57 | $281,000 | $276,000 to $306,000 |
Contribute to cutting-edge AI/ML research that can be applied to Pinterest challenges across Ads, Discovery, Growth, and Search. Identify, scope, architect, build, and deliver full, novel ML solutions from 0 to 1 at scale. Identify timelines and obtain resources needed.
Own the technical strategy for the end-to-end Ads ML engineer lifecycle, starting with feature development, training data, offline experimentation, and model iteration workflows.
As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will help define and lead the vision for Reddit’s large-scale GenAI Platform, shaping the strategy, architecture, and operating model that enable teams across the company to build, deploy, and scale generative AI products with confidence.
As a Staff or Senior Staff engineer, you will be the technical lead for CAS algorithms, with a focus on CAS perception.
Design target ROAS and automatic bidding & pacing algorithms for ads. Explore bid landscapes to maximize revenue and advertiser value. Work with product and sales teams to design and implement bidding strategies for new ad products.
Own end-to-end technical delivery for cross-team initiatives—from problem framing and technical strategy through architecture, implementation, rollout, monitoring, and iteration.
Own and advance a major technical area in automated recommendation research within Reflex, collaborating with other technical leads and partner teams.
Our Perception team is responsible for using our sensor data to understand the complex and dynamic environments where we drive. In this role, you will have access to the best sensor data in the world and an incredible infrastructure for testing and validating your algorithms.
We’re looking for early members of our machine learning recommendations team. You’ll work closely with the founding team and have ownership of a wide variety of technical decisions on how we build and deploy our state of the art recommendation models.
Design User Understanding Strategy: Define a unified user understanding framework and strategy: how users are represented (embeddings, tags, attributes, LLM-based user profile), how they are computed, stored, and exposed.
We function as the "Oracle"—by reprocessing onboard logs offline using state-of-the-art ML Foundation Models, we generate semantic signals that significantly outperform real-time onboard software.
Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes.
Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes.
Plaid · 22d ago
Owning the end-to-end technical strategy for a foundation model built on one of the world's richest financial datasets, from pretraining architecture to production serving.
This role in the Offline Driving Intelligence team is responsible for developing/learning behavior models for road users such as cars, bicycles, and pedestrians.
Waymo · 11mo ago
Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes.
We are looking for a Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer to be a technical leader on Nuro’s Behavior & Planning team.
The Prediction & Behavior ML team is responsible for developing machine learning (ML) algorithms that learn and predict behaviors from data, applying them both on-vehicle to influence driving behavior and off-vehicle to provide ML capabilities to simulation and validation.
We are looking for a machine learning professional with experience applying ML to sensor data, such as LiDAR, radar, and cameras. This role lies at the intersection of machine learning and 3D simulation at Zoox, ranging from learned sensor models to neural 3D reconstruction.
We're hiring a Staff AI/ML Engineer on our Lending and Cashflow team to lead the modeling behind cash flow underwriting and surface member insight: using members' transaction and deposit data to make fair, accurate credit decisions for people that traditional credit scores…
Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes.
On the Public Sector team, you’ll work at the intersection of agentic ML, systems engineering, and applied research, building foundational infrastructure that enables AI systems to reason, plan, and act reliably at national scale.
RedditNew · 4h ago
Providing technical leadership and mentorship to MLEs in the team: driving designs & their review, establishing best practices in analysis, modeling and engineering, keeping the bar high.
Build the machine learning capabilities that help advertisers understand what they could achieve on Reddit and make better investment decisions.
We are looking for a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to provide technical leadership for the Retrieval and Targeting ML team.
We are searching for a Staff engineer with in-depth GenAI expertise that can help us build the future of generative products for ad creative at Reddit - best-in-class image, video and copy generators that leverage Reddit’s best practices, performance-guided generations that…
The ML Efficiency team builds the infrastructure, tooling, and optimization systems that enable machine learning engineers and researchers to train, evaluate, deploy, and operate models efficiently at scale.
We are looking for a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to provide technical leadership for the Retrieval ML team. You will lead the design and evolution of retrieval models and modeling practices that improve relevance, advertiser outcomes, and user experience at Reddit scale.
It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about.
We are looking for a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to help drive the next generation of Reddit’s ML ecosystem across recommendations, search, messaging, and foundational AI systems.
As a Staff ML Infrastructure Engineer, you will lead development of a platform for large scale ML models at Reddit.
You will have access to the best sensor data in the world and an incredible infrastructure for testing and validation to bring new algorithms into our robotics stack.
Riot Games · 1mo ago
Design, train, and deploy real-time machine learning models to detect gameplay anomalies, automated bots, and memory-tampering exploits. Build scalable inference pipelines capable of evaluating millions of high-throughput game actions per second with minimal latency impact.
Riot Games · 1mo ago
Work closely with developers, designers, and data scientists to identify and define improvement opportunities. Refine modeling and feature strategy for using techniques such as reinforcement learning.
Riot Games · 4mo ago
Own end-to-end ML solutions for player-facing problems across personalization, game systems, and matchmaking, from problem framing through production launch and ongoing iteration.
Riot Games · 5mo ago
Design and operate AI & ML inference infrastructure, including deployment pipelines and CPU/GPU-aware orchestration. Develop CI/CD workflows that enable rapid iteration and safe promotion from development to production.
The Samsara AI team builds end-to-end AI solutions for our customers as well as core ML infrastructure for Samsara.
Deliver ML models and software components that solve challenging business problems in the financial services industry, working in collaboration with the Product, Architecture, Engineering, and Data Science teams.
Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes.
Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes.
Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes.
Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes.
Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes.
Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes.
Waymo · 7mo ago
Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes.
Design, train, and deploy machine learning models to automate the creation of Waymo's HD maps, unlocking scale for the Waymo Driver. Own the complete model development lifecycle, from data mining and processing to model training, evaluation, validation, and productionization.
Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes.
The median Staff Machine Learning Engineer salary in our $300k+ listings is $281,000 a year, based on 61 live USD listings. The middle half of listings pays $276,000 to $306,000. These figures cover only listings that publish a salary of $300k+ or more, so they sit above pay for Staff Machine Learning Engineer roles overall.
Individual $300k+ Staff Machine Learning Engineer listings range from $176,000 to $469,000 a year. The 25th percentile of listing midpoints is $276,000 and the 75th percentile is $306,000.
The companies with the most open $300k+ Staff Machine Learning Engineer listings are Waymo (18 listings, median $281,000), Reddit (12 listings, median $276,000), Zoox (6 listings, median $303,000), Pinterest (5 listings, median $306,000) and Riot Games (4 listings, median $274,000).
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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