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Lead AI Engineer salary

1 market range · employer-stated pay · updated Oct 21, 2026

Live lead AI engineer jobs

The one range measured here is for lead AI engineer roles at senior level across the United States: 16 postings where the employer stated pay put the middle half between $152,163 and $211,750, with a median of $169,231.

The range here is counted from real postings, never modelled. It rests on at least 10 postings.

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AI Engineering 79ML Platform & Ops 2

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Every measured range

1 by market and level
MarketLevelMarket rangeMedianSample
United States · country-wide Senior $152,163 – $211,750 $169,231 16

Entry is junior titles. Mid is mid-level and manager titles. Senior is senior titles. Lead is director, VP and above.

Ranges span the 25th to 75th percentile of employer-stated base pay for the market and level. Median is the 50th percentile. Sample is the number of postings measured.

Open lead AI engineer roles · 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, $129,300–$286,000scale $70,000–$410,000

Lead AI Engineer - Advance AI (applied ML, Gen AI, ML Ops) Target · Remote · US New $132,000–$286,000 1d ago Lead AI Engineer Transamerica · Cedar Rapids New $131,000–$165,000 1d ago Lead AI Engineer Gka · Wakefield New $100,890–$150,000 3d ago Lead AI Engineer (d/f/m) Baker Hughes · IT-FI-FLORENCE-VIA FELICE MATTEUCCI 2 €43,600–€70,000 13d ago Lead AI Engineer - NBA Humana · Remote · US $129,300–$177,800 2w ago Lead AI Engineer Altusgroup · Toronto CA$200,000–CA$230,000 2w ago Lead AI Engineer (Hybrid) Blattner Company · Remote · US $133,847–$194,078 2w ago Lead AI Engineer Guardian Life · Holmdel $118,980–$195,465 3w ago Lead AI Engineer -- Advanced AI (applied ML, LLMs, agentic AI, ML Ops) Target · 7000 Target Pkwy N,NCD-0375 Brooklyn Park,MN 55445 $132,000–$286,000 3w ago Lead AI Engineer Wf · Charlotte $159,000–$305,000 3w ago Lead AI Engineer Humana · New York $170,800–$234,800 4w ago Lead AI Engineer Prologis · Denver $147,000–$202,000 4w ago Lead AI Engineer – Enterprise, Data & AI Zoox · Foster City $230,000–$300,000 4w ago Lead AI Engineer Regeneron · Tarrytown $109,900–$179,300 8w ago Lead AI Engineer – Cloud Infrastructure & Automation Fa Ewjt Saasfaprod1 · United States $150,000–$170,000 3mo ago Lead AI Engineer Sphere, Inc. · San Francisco $250,000–$280,000 1y ago Lead AI Engineer - Enterprise AI Products Citi · London United Kingdom New Pay not stated today Lead AI Engineer SimCorp (SimCorp Jobs) · Noida New Pay not stated 1d ago Lead AI Engineer Origin · Bengaluru New Pay not stated 3d ago Lead AI Engineer Barclays · Bengaluru Pay not stated 6d ago Lead AI Engineer Barclays · Pune Pay not stated 6d ago Lead AI Engineer FCA · London In listing 7d ago Senior Lead AI Engineer IFS · Colombo Pay not stated 7d ago Lead AI Engineer Cambio · Stockholm Pay not stated 8d ago Interim Lead AI Engineer Ki · London Pay not stated 8d ago Lead AI Engineer Enjins · Amsterdam Pay not stated 9d ago Lead AI Engineer Ibqbjb · Atlanta $150,803–$191,075e 9d ago Lead AI Engineer Blend360 · Remote · Argentina Pay not stated 13d ago Lead AI Engineer Dentsuaegis · Bengaluru Pay not stated 2w ago Lead AI Engineer (Camgian Labs) Camgian Corporation · Fort Collins $161,745–$225,300e 2w ago Lead AI Engineer Netcompany · Athens Pay not stated 2w ago Lead AI Engineer (LLM & Agents) Trust Wallet · Remote · Worldwide Pay not stated 2w ago Lead AI Engineer - AI Services Westpac Group · Sydney Pay not stated 3w ago Lead AI Engineer Blend360 · Guadalajara Pay not stated 3w ago Lead AI Engineer - Intelligence & Protection Westpac Group · Sydney Pay not stated 3w ago [EAF] Lead AI Engineer (with Joining Bonus) Bosch Group · Ho Chi Minh City Pay not stated 4w ago Tech Lead AI Engineer GFT Technologies · Kraków Pay not stated 4w ago Lead AI Engineer PwC · Bucharest Pay not stated 4w ago Lead AI Engineer BALLY’S INTRALOT SA · Manchester Pay not stated 4w ago Lead AI Engineer - VP Citi · Belfast United Kingdom Pay not stated 4w ago Lead AI Engineer || Immediate Joiner Enable Data Incorporated · Remote · India Pay not stated 5w ago Lead AI Engineer Fa Ewmy Saasfaprod1 · Hyderabad Pay not stated 5w ago Lead AI Engineer Atos · Timisoara Pay not stated 5w ago Lead AI Engineer Hewlett Packard Enterprise · Singapore, Central Singapore, Singapore Pay not stated 5w ago Lead AI Engineer IFS · Remote · Spain Pay not stated 6w ago Lead AI Engineer Athenahealth · Bangalore Pay not stated 6w ago Lead AI Engineer (m/w/x) Zeiss Group · Oberkochen Pay not stated 6w ago Lead AI Engineer Corning · Obispado Pay not stated 6w ago Lead AI Engineer Corning · Reynosa Pay not stated 6w ago Lead AI Engineer Corning · Obispado Pay not stated 6w ago Lead AI Engineer - AI Adoption & SDD Coach Talan · Paris €63,641–€92,517e 6w ago Lead AI Engineer Baker Hughes · IN-KA-BANGALORE-NEON BUILDING WEST TOWER Pay not stated 7w ago Lead AI Engineer Jade Global · Pune Pay not stated 7w ago Lead AI Engineer Airwallex · SG - Singapore Pay not stated 8w ago Lead AI Engineer Digital Green · Bangalore Pay not stated 8w ago Lead AI Engineer Inetum · Warsaw Pay not stated 8w ago Lead AI Engineer (Agentic AI) GFT Technologies · Alcobendas Pay not stated 8w ago Lead AI Engineer Egon Zehnder · Gurugram Pay not stated 2mo ago Lead AI Engineer (Agentic Systems) S&P Global · Gurugram Pay not stated 2mo ago Lead AI Engineer Devoteam · Koerich Pay not stated 2mo ago

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