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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.
$58,240 - $750,000Based on 110 jobs
Salary Breakdown
Compensation statistics for ML Engineer roles
$58,240
Minimum
$213,125
Median
$229,555
Average
$750,000
Maximum
$58,240Median: $213,125$750,000
Shaded area represents the 25th to 75th percentile range
ML Engineer Salary Trend
$232,358$221,479$210,600
Dec 2025
$224,700
63 jobs
Jan 2026
$229,250
220 jobs
Feb 2026
$213,708
72 jobs
DecFeb
Median monthly salary trend derived from job listings in the last 6 months
Top Skills for ML Engineers
SnowFlake
$236Kmedian
$156K7 jobs$346K
tableau
$236Kmedian
$165K6 jobs$346K
reinforcement learning
$228Kmedian
$159K20 jobs$379K
llama
$216Kmedian
$137K8 jobs$241K
generative ai
$213Kmedian
$94K15 jobs$409K
computer vision
$209Kmedian
$88K25 jobs$419K
natural language processing
$209Kmedian
$131K15 jobs$281K
LLM
$208Kmedian
$94K40 jobs$319K
Pytorch
$208Kmedian
$65K70 jobs$419K
Tensorflow
$207Kmedian
$65K51 jobs$419K
Deep Learning
$206Kmedian
$65K58 jobs$419K
mlops
$205Kmedian
$156K11 jobs$286K
RAG
$202Kmedian
$94K11 jobs$275K
Langchain
$201Kmedian
$186K7 jobs$241K
python
$197Kmedian
$65K78 jobs$547K
Salary by Experience
Entry Level
$137Kmedian
$65K9 jobs$368K
Mid Level
$193Kmedian
$146K28 jobs$608K
Senior
$208Kmedian
$131K46 jobs$286K
Staff/Principal
$275Kmedian
$213K23 jobs$409K
Executive
$328Kmedian
$169K4 jobs$379K
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1 day ago
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DoorDash
1 day ago
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Money (Founding ML Lead)
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$137K - $202K/yr
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Salesforce
1 day ago
Lead Member of Technical Staff (LMTS) — Security Data Science & ML Engineering
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$173K - $260K/yr
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Airbnb
1 day ago
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Guest & Host
Remote
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