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Agent Engineer salary

52 posted ranges at 20 companies · median $285k · H-1B median $227k (7 filings)

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By level

Median of posted rangesMiddle halfH-1B median

LevelPostedH-1B
Entry1 posted$150k to $180kone postingNone
Senior13 posted$242k$193k to $270k$227k3 filings
Staff13 posted$286k$231k to $340kNone
Principal1 posted$264k to $380kone postingNone
Not stated24 posted$285k$180k to $390k$235k4 filings

By company

CompanyPosted
Sierra12 posted ranges$285k$180k to $390k
Harvey6 posted ranges$264k$212k to $315k
Decagon5 posted ranges$300k$200k to $400k
Scale AI4 posted ranges$243k$216k to $270k
Databricks4 posted ranges$234k$199k to $269k
Mercor3 posted ranges$330k$160k to $500k
Okta3 posted ranges$199k$159k to $239k
OpenAI2 posted ranges$243k to $395k2 postings
Replit2 posted ranges$270k to $363k2 postings
Snowflake1 posted range$264k to $380kone posting
Perplexity1 posted range$220k to $405kone posting
Vercel1 posted range$232k to $348kone posting
Render1 posted range$170k to $290kone posting
Benchling1 posted range$194k to $265kone posting
MongoDB1 posted range$151k to $297kone posting
Starburst1 posted range$180k to $225kone posting
Coinbase1 posted range$186k to $219kone posting
Writer1 posted range$132k to $240kone posting
Nebius1 posted range$147k to $224kone posting
Elastic1 posted range$94k to $149kone posting

Posted ranges

52 postings

PostingRange
Software Engineer, Agents (the posting, opens in a new tab)MercorNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$160kto $500k
Fullstack Software Engineer, Agent Platform (the posting, opens in a new tab)MercorNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$160kto $500k
Software Engineer, Agents (the posting, opens in a new tab)MercorNot statedNew York City$160kto $500k
Full Stack Software Engineer, Agent Enablement (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAINot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$255kto $405k
Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Agents) (the posting, opens in a new tab)PerplexityNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $405k
Senior Software Engineer, Agent Product (the posting, opens in a new tab)DecagonSeniorSan Francisco Bay Area$200kto $400k
Staff Software Engineer, Agent Platform (the posting, opens in a new tab)DecagonStaffSan Francisco Bay Area$200kto $400k
Senior Software Engineer, Agent Platform (the posting, opens in a new tab)DecagonSeniorSan Francisco Bay Area$200kto $400k
Senior Software Engineer, Agent Product (the posting, opens in a new tab)DecagonSeniorNew York City$200kto $400k
Staff Software Engineer, Agent Product (the posting, opens in a new tab)DecagonStaffSan Francisco Bay Area$200kto $400k
Staff Security Software Engineer, Agentic Security Engineering (the posting, opens in a new tab)DatabricksStaffRemote (US)$289kto $398k
Software Engineer, Agent (the posting, opens in a new tab)SierraNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $390k
Software Engineer, Agent Runtime (the posting, opens in a new tab)SierraNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$230kto $390k
Software Engineer, Agent - Healthcare (the posting, opens in a new tab)SierraNot statedNew York City$180kto $390k
Software Engineer, Agent Builder (the posting, opens in a new tab)SierraNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$230kto $390k
Software Engineer, Agent (Brazilian Portuguese speaking) (the posting, opens in a new tab)SierraNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $390k
Software Engineer, Agent (Spanish speaking) (the posting, opens in a new tab)SierraNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $390k
Software Engineer, Agent - Financial Services (the posting, opens in a new tab)SierraNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $390k
Software Engineer, Agent - Public Sector (the posting, opens in a new tab)SierraNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $390k
Software Engineer, Agent - Travel & Hospitality (the posting, opens in a new tab)SierraNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $390k
Software Engineer, Agent - Insurance (the posting, opens in a new tab)SierraNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $390k
Software Engineer, Agent - Tech, Media & Telecom (the posting, opens in a new tab)SierraNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $390k
Software Engineer, Agent Infrastructure (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAINot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$230kto $385k
Principal Software Engineer - Agentic Pipelines (the posting, opens in a new tab)SnowflakePrincipalSeattle area$264kto $380k
Staff Software Engineer, Agent Platform (the posting, opens in a new tab)ReplitStaffSan Francisco Bay Area$250kto $365k
Senior Staff Frontier Agents Engineer (the posting, opens in a new tab)Scale AIStaffSan Francisco Bay Area$288kto $360k
Staff Software Engineer, Agentic Commerce & Payments (the posting, opens in a new tab)ReplitStaffSan Francisco Bay Area$290kto $360k
Software Engineer, Agent (the posting, opens in a new tab)VercelNot statedNew York City$232kto $348k
Staff Software Engineer, Agents (the posting, opens in a new tab)HarveyStaffSan Francisco Bay Area$231kto $340k
Staff Software Engineer, Agents (the posting, opens in a new tab)HarveyStaffNew York City$231kto $340k
Staff Software Engineer, Agents (the posting, opens in a new tab)HarveyStaffNew York City$231kto $340k
Staff Software Engineer, Agentic AI (the posting, opens in a new tab)MongoDBStaffNew York City$151kto $297k
Senior Software Engineer, Agents (the posting, opens in a new tab)HarveySeniorSan Francisco Bay Area$193kto $290k
Senior Software Engineer, Agents (the posting, opens in a new tab)HarveySeniorNew York City$193kto $290k
Senior Software Engineer, Agents (the posting, opens in a new tab)HarveySeniorNew York City$193kto $290k
Software Engineer, Agent Auth Experience (the posting, opens in a new tab)RenderNot statedRemote (US)$170kto $290k
Staff Software Engineer, Agentic Applications (the posting, opens in a new tab)DatabricksStaffSan Francisco Bay Area$198kto $273k
Senior Frontier Agents Engineer (Applied AI) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Scale AISeniorSan Francisco Bay Area$216kto $270k
Senior Software Engineer - Agentic Tooling & Productivity (the posting, opens in a new tab)Scale AISeniorSan Francisco Bay Area$216kto $270k
Staff Software Engineer, Agent Gateway (the posting, opens in a new tab)OktaStaffSan Francisco Bay Area$194kto $267k
Software Engineer, Agents (the posting, opens in a new tab)BenchlingNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$194kto $265k
Staff Software Engineer, Agent Quality (the posting, opens in a new tab)DatabricksStaffNew York City$200kto $265k
Sr Software Engineer, Agentic Applications (the posting, opens in a new tab)DatabricksSeniorSan Francisco Bay Area$192kto $260k
Software engineer, agents (the posting, opens in a new tab)WriterNot statedNew York City$132kto $240k
Senior Software Engineer, AI Agentic Experience (Auth0) (the posting, opens in a new tab)OktaSeniorSan Francisco Bay Area$159kto $239k
Frontier Agents Engineer (Applied AI) (the posting, opens in a new tab)Scale AINot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $225k
AI Agent Engineer (the posting, opens in a new tab)StarburstNot statedElsewhere in the US$180kto $225k
Senior Software Engineer (Agentic Search) - Billing (the posting, opens in a new tab)NebiusSeniorNew York City$147kto $224k
Senior Software Engineer, Agent Verification (the posting, opens in a new tab)CoinbaseSeniorRemote (US)$186kto $219k
Senior Software Engineer, AI Agentic Experience (Auth0) (the posting, opens in a new tab)OktaSeniorNew York City$147kto $202k
Software Engineer, Agent (New Grad 2027) (the posting, opens in a new tab)SierraEntrySan Francisco Bay Area$150kto $180k
Agentic AI Engineer (the posting, opens in a new tab)ElasticNot statedElsewhere in the US$94kto $149k
About

Builds LLM agents that plan and call tools, and the harnesses that keep them reliable.

By city

CityPosted
San Francisco Bay Area33 posted ranges$285k$194k to $390k
New York City13 posted ranges$242k$193k to $297k
Remote (US)3 posted ranges$230k$186k to $290k
Elsewhere in the US2 posted ranges$137k to $187k2 postings
Seattle area1 posted range$264k to $380kone posting

H-1B by prevailing-wage level

The level the employer chose on the filing: I is entry, IV is fully competent. FY2025 Q4 to FY2026 Q3.

Level II: $225k (3) · Level III: $350k (2) · Level IV: $227k (2)

H-1B median by quarter

Fiscal quarterFilingsMedian
FY2025 Q21$220k
FY2026 Q21$400k
FY2026 Q36$227k

Posted median by week

Week ofRangesMedian
Sep 2152$285k

Recent changes

DatePosting
Sep 24Software Engineer, AgentsBenchlingAgent EngineerPosted at $194k to $265k
Sep 24AI Agent EngineerStarburstAgent EngineerPosted at $180k to $225k
Sep 24Senior Software Engineer (Agentic Search) - BillingNebiusAgent EngineerPosted at $147k to $224k

Related titles: Forward Deployed Engineer, Context Engineer, Evals Engineer, LLM Engineer, Applied AI Engineer, AI Engineer

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