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NLP Engineer Salary
NLP Engineers build systems that understand and generate human language. They work on chatbots, translation, sentiment analysis, and LLM applications.
$88,000 - $302,000Based on 4 jobs
Salary Breakdown
Compensation statistics for NLP Engineer roles
$88,000
Minimum
$209,125
Median
$206,063
Average
$302,000
Maximum
$88,000Median: $209,125$302,000
Shaded area represents the 25th to 75th percentile range
NLP Engineer Salary Trend
$242,166$193,898$145,629
Dec 2025
$159,420
2 jobs
Jan 2026
$213,050
16 jobs
Feb 2026
$228,375
2 jobs
DecFeb
Median monthly salary trend derived from job listings in the last 6 months
Salary by Experience
Mid Level
$136Kmedian
$136K1 jobs$136K
Senior
$232Kmedian
$232K1 jobs$232K
Staff/Principal
$228Kmedian
$187K2 jobs$270K
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Latest NLP Engineer Jobs with Salaries
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Datadog
22 hours ago
Product Solutions Architect 3 - LLM Observability
BostonNew YorkSan Francisco
$152K - $222K/yr
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Waymo
13 days ago
Staff Machine Learning Engineer – VLM/LLM Evaluation
Mountain View, CANew York, NYSeattle, WA
$238K - $302K/yr
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Waymo
22 days ago
Senior Research Scientist, Foundation Model (LLM/VLM)
Mountain View, CASan Francisco, CANew York City, NY
$204K - $259K/yr
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Yahoo
24 days ago
LLM Ops Engineer
United States
$88K - $184K/yr
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