AI Engineering salary in Sunnyvale
Employer-stated pay · updated Oct 13, 2026
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AI Engineering pay in Sunnyvale is measured from 15 postings where the employer stated pay. The best-evidenced figure is senior, where 8 postings put the middle half between $200,000 and $203,000, with a median of $200,750.
Against the 13 other measured markets for AI engineering at senior, this sits below 8 of them; Mountain View leads at $237,500.
Every range here rests on fewer than 10 postings, so read them as a strong hint rather than a benchmark; the sample column shows exactly what backs each number.
19 AI engineering roles are open in Sunnyvale right now, 16 listing pay.
| Level | Market range | Median | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mid | $157,500 – $203,000 | $186,000 | 7hint |
| Senior | $200,000 – $203,000 | $200,750 | 8hint |
Entry is junior titles. Mid is mid-level and manager titles. Senior is senior titles. Lead is director, VP and above. Rows marked hint rest on fewer than 10 postings: read them as a hint, not a benchmark.
Ranges span the 25th to 75th percentile of employer-stated base pay for the level. Median is the 50th percentile. Sample is the number of postings measured.
Open AI engineering roles in Sunnyvale · 16 with stated pay
Pay marked e is our estimate. Everything else is the employer's own figure.
this job's payour estimatewhere most pay sits here, $129,000–$253,000scale $70,000–$360,000
AI Architect - SaaS GTM Tech & Analytics | IC4 LinkedIn · Sunnyvale New $141,000–$231,000 1d ago 
Software and AI Engineer CoreWeave · Sunnyvale $120,000–$160,000 10d ago 
Lead AI Systems Engineer- Autonomous Driving Bosch Group · Sunnyvale $185,000–$215,000 13d ago Senior AI/ML Performance Engineer Generalmotors · Remote · US $144,700–$261,300 2w ago ML / AI Software Engineer - C++ Metrics Frameworks Generalmotors · San Francisco $129,000–$198,400 3w ago Staff AI Systems Engineer- Autonomous Driving Bosch Group · Sunnyvale $185,000–$215,000 3w ago 
Sr. Engineering Manager, Analytics and Applied AI Illumio · Sunnyvale $238,000–$285,000 7w ago AI Engineer CoreWeave · Livingston $210,000 7w ago Senior AI/ML Capacity Engineer Generalmotors · Remote · US $144,700–$261,300 2mo ago 
Senior Manager, Applied AI Engineering - Remote Ceribell, Inc · Sunnyvale $177,000–$226,000 3mo ago Senior ML/AI Engineer - Observability Generalmotors · Sunnyvale $178,420–$230,500 3mo ago 
Embedded AI Engineer – Android Automotive (On-Device Intelligence) Applied Intuition · Sunnyvale $183,000–$253,000 6mo ago Software Engineer - AI Engineering Applied Intuition · Sunnyvale $126,000–$250,000 7mo ago Software Engineer, Inference AI/ML CoreWeave · Sunnyvale $92,000–$135,000 12mo ago 
AI Research Internship - LLM Institute of Foundation Models · Sunnyvale $100,000–$140,000 1y ago Senior AI Engineer II - Forward Deployment - Enterprise AI Platforms Egug · Sunnyvale New $200,000–$203,000e 3d ago Staff AI Engineering - Enterprise AI Platforms Egug · Sunnyvale $200,000–$203,000e 8d ago Senior AI Engineer II - Forward Deployment Engineer - Enterprise AI Platforms Egug · Sunnyvale $200,000–$203,000e 9d ago