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Machine Learning Engineer Salary
Machine Learning Engineers build and deploy ML models at scale. They bridge the gap between data science and engineering, focusing on production ML systems.
$62,400 - $800,000Based on 233 jobs
Salary Breakdown
Compensation statistics for ML Engineer roles
$62,400
Minimum
$229,500
Median
$229,987
Average
$800,000
Maximum
$62,400Median: $229,500$800,000
Shaded area represents the 25th to 75th percentile range
ML Engineer Salary Trend
$231,120$227,375$223,630
Dec 2025
$224,700
63 jobs
Jan 2026
$230,050
170 jobs
DecJan
Median monthly salary trend derived from job listings in the last 6 months
Top Skills for ML Engineers
Based on median salary of jobs requiring these skills
1
SnowFlake
$275,481
6 jobs
2
rlhf
$274,500
7 jobs
3
mlops
$249,000
23 jobs
4
tableau
$249,000
6 jobs
5
GPT
$243,500
5 jobs
6
reinforcement learning
$231,500
44 jobs
7
robot
$231,500
57 jobs
8
Tensorflow
$230,450
106 jobs
9
Pytorch
$229,500
143 jobs
10
RAG
$229,500
24 jobs
11
LLM
$229,500
79 jobs
12
Deep Learning
$227,250
102 jobs
13
big data
$224,700
9 jobs
14
natural language processing
$224,650
26 jobs
15
python
$224,600
155 jobs
Skills extracted from job descriptions and tags
Salary by Experience
Entry Level
$124,800median
$72,80011 jobs$193,000
Mid Level
$195,250median
$62,40050 jobs$450,000
Senior
$224,300median
$152,10086 jobs$334,000
Staff/Principal
$261,550median
$138,00085 jobs$650,000
Executive
$432,548median
$432,5481 jobs$432,548
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Airbnb
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4 days ago
Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Targeting and Retrieval
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$266K - $372K/yr
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Salesforce
4 days ago
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
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$163K - $224K/yr
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Walmart
4 days ago
Staff, Machine Learning Engineer
Bentonville, AR
$130K - $260K/yr
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