Salaries · updated Nov 10, 2026
AI engineer salaries
From the base pay ranges companies published on 279 open ai engineer jobs paid in US dollars. Equity and bonuses aren't included.
Median pay
$250K
- Typical range
- $202K – $286K
- Middle half of jobs
- $216K – $278K
- Jobs with US salary
- 279
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By company
Median published pay by company
| Company | Pay on a $0 to $600K scale | Median | Jobs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cisco | $402K | 2 | |
| $363K | 1 | ||
| $345K | 3 | ||
| $313K | 3 | ||
| $300K | 30 | ||
| $296K | 1 | ||
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| $281K | 1 | ||
| $278K | 2 | ||
| $270K | 1 | ||
| $265K | 2 | ||
| $265K | 35 | ||
| $261K | 20 | ||
| $258K | 100 | ||
| $250K | 1 | ||
| Deepgram | $247K | 3 | |
| $243K | 8 | ||
| $240K | 2 | ||
| $240K | 3 | ||
| $239K | 6 | ||
| $229K | 2 | ||
| $225K | 1 | ||
| $216K | 6 | ||
| $215K | 4 | ||
| $212K | 1 | ||
| $211K | 6 | ||
| $211K | 5 | ||
| Shield AI | $205K | 2 | |
| $203K | 3 | ||
| $197K | 2 | ||
| $196K | 4 | ||
| $193K | 7 | ||
| $188K | 1 | ||
| $165K | 10 |
Open roles
536 open ai engineer jobs
Aug 18CiscoDistinguished AI Engineer (Hybrid)San Jose, California, US$305K – $498K
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Sep 23DeepgramSenior Software Engineer - Applied AISan Francisco, CA$197K – $307K
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Nov 2CiscoSenior Platform Software Engineer – AI/ML & GPU InfrastructureSan Jose, California, US$149K – $282K
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Aug 18DeepgramEmbedded AI Engineer, On-Device ModelsRemoteUSA - Remote$219K – $274K
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May 13Shield AISenior Generative AI Application Engineer, Learning & Development (R5856)San Diego, California$160K – $250K
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Jun 5Shield AIStaff Engineer, GenAI Tooling & DevEx (R5469)Washington, D.C.$150K – $220K
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Nov 9DeepgramSoftware Engineer - Applied AISan Francisco, CA$174K – $212K
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