Salaries
4 AI and machine learning roles, from postings where the employer stated pay.
Each figure is a median for the single city and level we have the most disclosures for, so the roles below are different cohorts, not a like-for-like ranking. Every figure is counted from real postings, never modelled; the city, level and sample sit on each row.
Pay by role
4 of 4 measured AI Engineering $232,500San Francisco, senior, n=53 AI Research $240,000San Francisco, mid, n=50 Machine Learning Engineering $235,750San Francisco, senior, n=51 ML Platform & Ops $249,763San Francisco, senior, n=35
Pay by job title
29 of 29 measured AI Engineer $192,500United States · country-wide, senior, n=189 Machine Learning Engineer $220,000United States · country-wide, senior, n=192 Research Engineer $200,000United States · country-wide, mid, n=98 Applied AI Engineer $201,250United States · country-wide, mid, n=52 AI Architect $180,500United States · country-wide, mid, n=34 AI Developer $145,090United States · country-wide, senior, n=11 ML Engineer $212,000United States · country-wide, senior, n=35 AI Software Engineer $177,500United States · country-wide, senior, n=28 AI Platform Engineer $187,500United States · country-wide, senior, n=23 Lead AI Engineer $169,231United States · country-wide, senior, n=16 Agentic AI Engineer $161,438United States · country-wide, mid, n=8 Machine Learning Scientist $229,200United States · country-wide, senior, n=12 AI Researcher $190,000United States · country-wide, mid, n=13 AI Scientist $220,000United States · country-wide, senior, n=13 AI Research Engineer $172,500United States · country-wide, mid, n=7 Applied AI Architect $249,500San Francisco, mid, n=5 AI Infrastructure Engineer $170,000United States · country-wide, mid, n=9 AI Research Scientist $177,500United States · country-wide, mid, n=10 AI Data Scientist $172,425United States · country-wide, mid, n=8 Lead Machine Learning Engineer $223,750United States · country-wide, senior, n=13 AI Engineering Lead $183,350United States · country-wide, senior, n=7 AI Systems Engineer $193,750United States · country-wide, senior, n=6 Applied AI Researcher $200,000United States · country-wide, mid, n=5 Machine Learning Researcher $220,000United States · country-wide, mid, n=6 ML Ops Engineer $151,282United States · country-wide, senior, n=8 AI Engineering Manager $170,688United States · country-wide, mid, n=5 ML Scientist $283,450United States · country-wide, senior, n=5 Machine Learning Engineering Manager $252,500United States · country-wide, mid, n=5 Machine Learning Platform Engineer $246,815United States · country-wide, senior, n=8
Remote pay
13 measuredAI EngineeringMachine Learning EngineeringAI EngineerAI ResearchML Platform & OpsMachine Learning EngineerApplied AI EngineerResearch EngineerML EngineerAI ArchitectAI Platform EngineerAI Software EngineerLead Machine Learning Engineer