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AI Research salary in San Jose

Employer-stated pay · updated Oct 5, 2026

AI Research pay in San Jose is measured from 17 postings where the employer stated pay. The best-evidenced figure is senior, where 10 postings put the middle half between $190,000 and $283,281, with a median of $246,763.

Against the 8 other measured markets for AI research at senior, this sits below 2 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 San Jose right now, 10 listing pay.

LevelMarket rangeMedianSample
Mid $178,575 – $270,250 $235,250 7hint
Senior $190,000 – $283,281 $246,763 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 San Jose · 10 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, $145,000–$400,000scale $80,000–$560,000

Data scientist - Agentic AI Hewlett Packard Enterprise · San Jose $155,500–$315,000 3w ago Sr. Research Engineer – AI/ML Image Processing & Computational Photography Sony · San Jose $150,000–$165,000 5w ago ASIC Gen-AI Data Scientist Micron · San Jose $145,000–$336,000 7w ago Senior Engineer, Architecture & Performance Research Engineer for Data Center and Agentic AI CPU Samsung Semiconductor · San Jose $138,000–$206,000 8w ago Staff Engineer, Architecture & Performance Research Engineer for Data Center and Agentic AI CPU Samsung Semiconductor · San Jose $163,000–$253,000 8w ago Senior Director, Engineering & Applied Science - VenturaOS The Trade Desk · San Jose $243,400–$446,200 4mo ago Senior Data Scientist, AI Foundations Capital One · New York $148,000–$168,900 5mo ago Helix AI Engineer, Video Pretraining Figure · San Jose $200,000–$400,000 6mo ago Member of Technical Staff, Pretraining Hark · San Jose $180,000–$450,000 7mo ago Perception Engineer – ML/CV and Algorithms WeRide.ai · San Jose $130,000–$182,000 6y ago Senior Machine Learning Scientist - Agentic Experience Expedia · San Jose $190,000–$283,281e 6d ago Applied Researcher 4 (AI Foundations) Capital One · San Jose In listing 8d ago Research Engineer-Model Efficiency Bitdeer Technologies Group · Singapore Pay not stated 9d ago Senior Machine Learning Scientist - Personalization Expedia · San Jose $190,000–$283,281e 9d ago Applied Science Intern - PhD - 2027 - Austin, San Jose, Seattle Expedia · Austin Domain 11 - HomeAway Pay not stated 10d ago Applied Science Intern - Masters - 2027 - Austin, San Jose, Seattle Expedia · Austin Domain 11 - HomeAway Pay not stated 10d ago Applied Researcher 4 (AI Foundations: Multimodal Guardrails and VLM's) Capital One · Cambridge In listing 2w ago Senior Data Scientist, ML— Fraud Prevention Adobe · San Jose In listing 2w ago Applied Researcher 4 (AI Foundations, LLM Customization and Finetuning) Capital One · San Jose In listing 2w ago Applied Researcher 5 (AI Foundations - LLM, Optimization and Finetuning) Capital One · New York In listing 4w ago Principal Data Scientist - AI for Data and Assessment Capital One · McLean In listing 4w ago Applied Researcher 4 (AI Foundations, Graph and Behavioral Models) Capital One · San Jose In listing 4w ago Applied Researcher 4 (AI Foundations - LLM, Optimization and Finetuning) Capital One · New York In listing 4w ago Applied Researcher 5 (AI Foundations, LLM Core and Agentic AI) Capital One · San Jose In listing 4w ago Applied Researcher 4 (AI Foundations, LLM Core and Agentic AI) Capital One · San Jose In listing 4w ago Applied Researcher 5 (AI Foundations, LLM Core and Agentic AI) Capital One · New York In listing 4w ago Principal Associate, Data Scientist - Emerging ML Capital One · McLean In listing 2mo ago Principal Data Scientist - AI Foundations, Specialist Models Capital One · McLean In listing 3mo ago Principal Data Scientist, AI Foundations Capital One · New York In listing 1y ago