AI Research salary in Mountain View
Employer-stated pay · updated Oct 5, 2026
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AI Research pay in Mountain View is measured from 19 postings where the employer stated pay. The best-evidenced figure is senior, where 10 postings put the middle half between $238,000 and $268,583, with a median of $248,750.
Against the 8 other measured markets for AI research at senior, this sits below 1 of them; San Francisco leads at $250,750.
1 of these ranges rests on fewer than 10 postings, so read it as a strong hint rather than a benchmark; the sample column shows exactly what backs each number.
29 AI research roles are open in Mountain View right now, 24 listing pay.
| Level | Market range | Median | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mid | $195,000 – $232,500 | $227,500 | 9hint |
| Senior | $238,000 – $268,583 | $248,750 | 10 |
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 research roles in Mountain View · 24 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, $175,000–$310,000scale $100,000–$440,000
Senior/Staff Applied Scientist Glean · Mountain View $180,000–$330,000 2w ago 
Research Scientist, World Model Post-Training Waymo · Mountain View $213,000–$263,000 4w ago 
Lead AI Researcher OpusClip · Mountain View $280,000–$380,000 7w ago Staff Tech Lead, Perception, Pre-training & Distillation Waymo · Mountain View $251,000–$310,000 7w ago Research Scientist, RL for Autonomous Planning & World Modeling Waymo · Mountain View $204,000–$259,000 7w ago Senior Applied Scientist, Speech otterai · Mountain View $230,000–$265,000 2mo ago 
Senior Applied Scientist LinkedIn · Mountain View $144,000–$236,000 2mo ago 
Applied AI Researcher, Agent Systems & Evaluation nuro · Mountain View $193,930–$352,290 2mo ago Staff Research Scientist, Foundation Models Recipes Waymo · Mountain View $251,000–$310,000 2mo ago Principal Machine Learning Scientist - Trajectory Generation Generalmotors · Mountain View $269,400–$412,600 4mo ago Senior Research Scientist, Perception Waymo · Mountain View $213,000–$263,000 4mo ago 
Machine Learning Engineer, LLM Post-Training NewsBreak · Mountain View $150,000–$230,000 4mo ago Staff Research Scientist, Perception Waymo · Mountain View $251,000–$310,000 4mo ago 
Principal AI Research Scientist, Research Director - AI Scaling Databricks · Mountain View $270,000–$340,000 5mo ago 
Robot Perception Engineer Rhoda AI · Mountain View $175,000–$280,000 5mo ago 
World Model Research Scientist- Physical AI Kodiak · Mountain View $190,000–$250,000 6mo ago ML Research Scientist, Prediction & Smart Agents nuro · Mountain View $193,930–$291,150 8mo ago Machine Learning Engineer / Applied Scientist, Prediction & Planning Waymo · Mountain View $175,000–$215,000 1y ago 
Applied Scientist (ML) Samaya AI · Mountain View $190,000–$275,000 1y ago Senior/Staff ML Engineer, 3D/4D World Modeling, Simulation Waymo · Mountain View $213,000–$263,000 1y ago Senior/Staff Machine Learning Research Scientist: Generative Modeling for Planning nuro · Mountain View $193,930–$352,290 2y ago Machine Learning Research Scientist, Behavior Planning and Prediction nuro · Mountain View $160,360–$240,540 2y ago Machine Learning Research Scientist: Generative Modeling for Planning nuro · Mountain View $160,360–$240,540 3y ago 2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Research, World Modeling Evaluation Waymo · Mountain View Pay not stated 2w ago 2027 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, ML Systems & Behavior Discovery Waymo · Mountain View Pay not stated 2w ago 2027 Summer Intern, PhD, Machine Learning, Computer Vision Waymo · Mountain View Pay not stated 5w ago Staff Researcher, Vision science and Human Factors Generalmotors · Warren $160,550–$249,500e 3mo ago Research Member of Technical Staff- Post-training & Robot Learning Rhoda AI · Mountain View $238,000–$268,583e 5mo ago