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AI Engineer salary

67 posted ranges at 29 companies · median $257k · H-1B median $232k (41 filings)

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By level

Median of posted rangesMiddle halfH-1B median

LevelPostedH-1B
Entry1 posted$153k to $176kone postingNone
Senior15 posted$238k$185k to $263k$226k13 filings
Staff20 posted$261k$218k to $281k$214k11 filings
Principal3 posted$322k$264k to $380kFew1 filing
Not stated28 posted$286k$200k to $393k$235k16 filings

By company

CompanyPosted
Figure12 posted ranges$300k$200k to $400k
Databricks9 posted ranges$228k$190k to $265k
Snowflake5 posted ranges$288k$236k to $339k
Harvey4 posted ranges$270k$212k to $333k
OpenAI3 posted ranges$356k$266k to $445k
Plaid3 posted ranges$257k$208k to $307k
Baseten3 posted ranges$240k$175k to $260k
Sentry2 posted ranges$155k to $400k2 postings
Figma2 posted ranges$153k to $376k2 postings
Together AI2 posted ranges$240k to $285k2 postings
Asana2 posted ranges$225k to $291k2 postings
Vercel2 posted ranges$196k to $294k2 postings
CoreWeave2 posted ranges$182k to $242k2 postings
Anthropic1 posted range$325k to $485kone posting
Decagon1 posted range$200k to $400kone posting
Suno1 posted range$229k to $364kone posting
Labelbox1 posted range$250k to $280kone posting
Zoox1 posted range$230k to $300kone posting
Fivetran1 posted range$226k to $282kone posting
Vanta1 posted range$215k to $260kone posting
Okta1 posted range$194k to $267kone posting
Writer1 posted range$198k to $259kone posting
Temporal1 posted range$170k to $278kone posting
Robinhood1 posted range$196k to $230kone posting
Brex1 posted range$171k to $240kone posting
Scale AI1 posted range$180k to $225kone posting
Samsara1 posted range$146k to $221kone posting
Nuro1 posted range$153k to $176kone posting
GitLab1 posted range$108k to $130kone posting

Posted ranges

67 postings

PostingRange
Staff Software Engineer, AI Reliability (the posting, opens in a new tab)AnthropicStaffSan Francisco Bay Area$325kto $485k
Software Engineer, AI for Chip Design (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAINot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$266kto $468k
Software Engineer, AI accelerator Runtime (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAINot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$266kto $445k
Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform (the posting, opens in a new tab)DecagonSeniorSan Francisco Bay Area$200kto $400k
Senior Software Engineer, AI (the posting, opens in a new tab)SentrySeniorSan Francisco Bay Area$155kto $400k
Senior Software Engineer, AI Evals (the posting, opens in a new tab)SentrySeniorSan Francisco Bay Area$155kto $400k
Helix AI Engineer, Android (the posting, opens in a new tab)FigureNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$200kto $400k
Helix AI Engineer, Backend (the posting, opens in a new tab)FigureNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$200kto $400k
Helix AI Engineer, Data Infrastructure (the posting, opens in a new tab)FigureNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$150kto $400k
Helix AI Engineer, Generative AI (the posting, opens in a new tab)FigureNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$200kto $400k
Helix AI Engineer, Localization and Mapping (the posting, opens in a new tab)FigureNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$200kto $400k
Helix AI Engineer, Modeling (the posting, opens in a new tab)FigureNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$200kto $400k
Helix AI Engineer, Perception (the posting, opens in a new tab)FigureNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$200kto $400k
Helix AI Engineer, Pretraining (the posting, opens in a new tab)FigureNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$200kto $400k
Helix AI Engineer, Reinforcement Learning (the posting, opens in a new tab)FigureNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$200kto $400k
Helix AI Engineer, Robot Learning (the posting, opens in a new tab)FigureNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$200kto $400k
Helix AI Engineer, Training Performance (the posting, opens in a new tab)FigureNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$200kto $400k
Helix AI Engineer, Video Pretraining (the posting, opens in a new tab)FigureNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$200kto $400k
Software Engineer, AI Safety (the posting, opens in a new tab)OpenAINot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$207kto $385k
Principal Frontend AI Engineer - Cortex Code (the posting, opens in a new tab)SnowflakePrincipalSan Francisco Bay Area$264kto $380k
Staff/Principal AI Software Engineer - Snowflake CoWork (the posting, opens in a new tab)SnowflakePrincipalSan Francisco Bay Area$264kto $380k
Software Engineer - AI Platforms (the posting, opens in a new tab)FigmaNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$153kto $376k
Software Engineer - AI Product (the posting, opens in a new tab)FigmaNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$153kto $376k
Staff Software Engineer - AI Applications (the posting, opens in a new tab)PlaidStaffSan Francisco Bay Area$265kto $370k
Senior / Staff Software Engineer, AI Engineering (the posting, opens in a new tab)SunoStaffBoston area$229kto $364k
Staff Software Engineer, AI Platform (the posting, opens in a new tab)HarveyStaffSan Francisco Bay Area$231kto $340k
Staff Software Engineer, AI Platform (the posting, opens in a new tab)HarveyStaffNew York City$231kto $340k
Staff Software Engineer - AI Products (the posting, opens in a new tab)SnowflakeStaffSan Francisco Bay Area$236kto $339k
Staff Frontend Software Engineer, AI Product: Observe by Snowflake (the posting, opens in a new tab)SnowflakeStaffSan Francisco Bay Area$236kto $339k
Software Engineer - AI Developer Productivity (the posting, opens in a new tab)BasetenNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$165kto $330k
Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform (the posting, opens in a new tab)HarveySeniorSan Francisco Bay Area$185kto $325k
Staff Software Engineer - AI & Intelligent Tooling (the posting, opens in a new tab)PlaidStaffSan Francisco Bay Area$208kto $307k
Staff Software Engineer - AI Compute, Together Cloud (the posting, opens in a new tab)Together AIStaffSan Francisco Bay Area$260kto $300k
Lead AI Engineer - Enterprise, Data & AI (the posting, opens in a new tab)ZooxSeniorSan Francisco Bay Area$230kto $300k
Software Engineer, AI Teammates Experience (the posting, opens in a new tab)AsanaNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$202kto $299k
Software Engineer, AI Gateway (the posting, opens in a new tab)VercelNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$196kto $294k
Software Engineer, AI SDK (the posting, opens in a new tab)VercelNot statedNew York City$196kto $294k
Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform (the posting, opens in a new tab)HarveySeniorNew York City$193kto $290k
Principal Software Engineer, AI Tooling & Adoption (the posting, opens in a new tab)FivetranPrincipalSan Francisco Bay Area$226kto $282k
Staff Software Engineer, AI Developer Experience (the posting, opens in a new tab)AsanaStaffNew York City$248kto $282k
Staff Software Engineer, AI Data Platform (the posting, opens in a new tab)LabelboxStaffSan Francisco Bay Area$250kto $280k
Staff Software Engineer, AI Foundations (AI Agent Optimization) (the posting, opens in a new tab)TemporalStaffRemote (US)$170kto $278k
Staff Software Engineer, AI Native Web Platform (the posting, opens in a new tab)DatabricksStaffSan Francisco Bay Area$198kto $273k
Staff Software Engineer, AI Native Web Platform (the posting, opens in a new tab)DatabricksStaffSan Francisco Bay Area$198kto $273k
Staff Software Engineer - AI Research Infrastructure (the posting, opens in a new tab)DatabricksStaffSan Francisco Bay Area$190kto $270k
Staff Software Engineer - AI Research Infrastructure (the posting, opens in a new tab)DatabricksStaffSan Francisco Bay Area$199kto $270k
Senior Software Engineer - AI Compute, Together Cloud (the posting, opens in a new tab)Together AISeniorSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $270k
Staff Software Engineer, AI-Core (Federal) (the posting, opens in a new tab)OktaStaffSan Francisco Bay Area$194kto $267k
Staff Software Engineer, AI Runtime (the posting, opens in a new tab)DatabricksStaffSan Francisco Bay Area$190kto $265k
Senior Software Engineer - AI Tooling (the posting, opens in a new tab)PlaidSeniorSan Francisco Bay Area$191kto $263k
AI Engineer (the posting, opens in a new tab)BasetenNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$220kto $260k
Senior Software Engineer, AI Product (the posting, opens in a new tab)VantaSeniorRemote (US)$215kto $260k
AI engineer (the posting, opens in a new tab)WriterNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$198kto $259k
Staff Software Engineer - AI Platform (NYC) (the posting, opens in a new tab)DatabricksStaffNew York City$191kto $254k
Senior Software and AI Engineer (the posting, opens in a new tab)CoreWeaveSeniorSan Francisco Bay Area$182kto $242k
Senior Software Engineer - AI Infrastructure Performance Insights & Observability (the posting, opens in a new tab)CoreWeaveSeniorSan Francisco Bay Area$182kto $242k
AI Engineer, Product (the posting, opens in a new tab)BrexNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$171kto $240k
Software Engineer (AI-Native), Database Engineering (the posting, opens in a new tab)SnowflakeNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$160kto $230k
Senior Software Engineer, AI Security (the posting, opens in a new tab)RobinhoodSeniorSan Francisco Bay Area$196kto $230k
Software Engineer - AI Enablement (the posting, opens in a new tab)Scale AINot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$180kto $225k
Senior Software Engineer, AI Runtime (the posting, opens in a new tab)DatabricksSeniorSan Francisco Bay Area$160kto $225k
Staff Software Engineer, AI Search (the posting, opens in a new tab)DatabricksStaffSan Francisco Bay Area$166kto $225k
People Analytics AI Engineer (the posting, opens in a new tab)SamsaraNot statedSeattle area$146kto $221k
Senior Software Engineer, AI Native Web Platform (the posting, opens in a new tab)DatabricksSeniorSan Francisco Bay Area$160kto $220k
AI Engineer (the posting, opens in a new tab)BasetenNot statedSan Francisco Bay Area$175kto $190k
Software Engineer, AI Platform - New Grad (the posting, opens in a new tab)NuroEntrySan Francisco Bay Area$153kto $176k
Senior AI Engineer (the posting, opens in a new tab)GitLabSeniorRemote (US)$108kto $130k
About

A software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.

By city

CityPosted
San Francisco Bay Area57 posted ranges$265k$200k to $325k
New York City5 posted ranges$245k$196k to $290k
Remote (US)3 posted ranges$224k$170k to $260k
Boston area1 posted range$229k to $364kone posting
Seattle area1 posted range$146k to $221kone 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: $212k (10) · Level III: $224k (4) · Level IV: $283k (19)

H-1B median by quarter

Fiscal quarterFilingsMedian
FY2025 Q13$188k
FY2025 Q25$235k
FY2025 Q38$198k
FY2025 Q45$248k
FY2026 Q14$214k
FY2026 Q213$211k
FY2026 Q319$240k

Posted median by week

Week ofRangesMedian
Sep 2167$257k

Recent changes

DatePosting
Sep 24Senior / Staff Software Engineer, AI EngineeringSunoAI EngineerPosted at $229k to $364k
Sep 24Helix AI Engineer, XRFigureAI EngineerPosted with no range
Sep 24Helix AI Engineer, Video PretrainingFigureAI EngineerPosted at $200k to $400k
Sep 24Helix AI Engineer, Training PerformanceFigureAI EngineerPosted at $200k to $400k
Sep 24Helix AI Engineer, Robot LearningFigureAI EngineerPosted at $200k to $400k
Sep 24Helix AI Engineer, Reinforcement LearningFigureAI EngineerPosted at $200k to $400k
Sep 24Helix AI Engineer, PretrainingFigureAI EngineerPosted at $200k to $400k
Sep 24Helix AI Engineer, PerceptionFigureAI EngineerPosted at $200k to $400k
Sep 24Helix AI Engineer, ModelingFigureAI EngineerPosted at $200k to $400k
Sep 24Helix AI Engineer, Localization and MappingFigureAI EngineerPosted at $200k to $400k
Sep 24Helix AI Engineer, Generative AIFigureAI EngineerPosted at $200k to $400k
Sep 24Helix AI Engineer, Data InfrastructureFigureAI EngineerPosted at $150k to $400k
Sep 24Helix AI Engineer, BackendFigureAI EngineerPosted at $200k to $400k
Sep 24Helix AI Engineer, AndroidFigureAI EngineerPosted at $200k to $400k
Sep 24Senior Software Engineer - AI Infrastructure Performance Insights & ObservabilityCoreWeaveAI EngineerPosted at $182k to $242k
Sep 24Senior Software and AI EngineerCoreWeaveAI EngineerPosted at $182k to $242k
Sep 24AI EngineerCoreWeaveAI EngineerPosted with no range
Sep 24AI Engineer - Public SectorUnstructuredAI EngineerPosted with no range

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

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