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AI Engineer Salary
AI Engineers design, develop, and deploy artificial intelligence systems. They work on machine learning models, neural networks, and AI infrastructure to solve complex business problems.
$101,745 - $365,200Based on 17 jobs
Salary Breakdown
Compensation statistics for AI Engineer roles
$101,745
Minimum
$255,500
Median
$237,617
Average
$365,200
Maximum
$101,745Median: $255,500$365,200
Shaded area represents the 25th to 75th percentile range
AI Engineer Salary Trend
$278,600$231,000$183,400
Dec 2025
$197,000
6 jobs
Jan 2026
$213,500
29 jobs
Feb 2026
$265,000
15 jobs
DecFeb
Median monthly salary trend derived from job listings in the last 6 months
Top Skills for AI Engineers
Tensorflow
$292Kmedian
$205K5 jobs$292K
RAG
$283Kmedian
$119K7 jobs$292K
generative ai
$260Kmedian
$119K10 jobs$292K
LLM
$256Kmedian
$119K13 jobs$300K
Pytorch
$244Kmedian
$205K7 jobs$292K
python
$230Kmedian
$119K6 jobs$283K
Salary by Experience
Mid Level
$210Kmedian
$119K8 jobs$300K
Senior
$283Kmedian
$283K1 jobs$283K
Staff/Principal
$265Kmedian
$244K5 jobs$267K
Executive
$292Kmedian
$292K3 jobs$292K
Top Paying Companies for AI Engineers
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Latest AI Engineer Jobs with Salaries
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Kodiak
3 hours ago
Applied AI Engineer - Multimodal Transformers
San Francisco, CA
$170K - $240K/yr
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Datadog
1 day ago
Staff AI Engineer - Notebooks
United States
$234K - $300K/yr
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Anthropic
6 days ago
Applied AI Engineer (Startups)
London, United Kingdom
£225K - £240K/yr
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Databricks
7 days ago
AI Engineer - FDE (Forward Deployed Engineer)
Canada
CA$162K - CA$223K/yr
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Salesforce
8 days ago
Sr. Director - AI Engineering
United States
$218K - $365K/yr
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Databricks
8 days ago
AI Engineer - FDE (Forward Deployed Engineer) - U.S. Federal Sector
MarylandVirginiaWashington, D.C.
$181K - $248K/yr
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