Salaries · updated Nov 10, 2026
AI software engineer salaries
From the base pay ranges companies published on 384 open software engineer, ai jobs paid in US dollars. Equity and bonuses aren't included.
Median pay
$243K
- Typical range
- $185K – $288K
- Middle half of jobs
- $213K – $286K
- Jobs with US salary
- 384
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By company
Median published pay by company
| Company | Pay on a $0 to $600K scale | Median | Jobs |
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| $403K | 7 | ||
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| Shield AI | $292K | 4 | |
| $288K | 13 | ||
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| $276K | 6 | ||
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| $241K | 1 | ||
| Cisco | $239K | 24 | |
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| $220K | 2 | ||
| $215K | 1 | ||
| $213K | 5 | ||
| $213K | 18 | ||
| Deepgram | $208K | 2 | |
| $205K | 1 | ||
| $196K | 5 | ||
| $193K | 9 | ||
| $187K | 1 | ||
| $175K | 5 | ||
| $175K | 3 | ||
| $175K | 4 | ||
| $173K | 8 | ||
| $160K | 1 | ||
| $150K | 10 | ||
| $138K | 1 |
Open roles
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Sep 8CiscoDistinguished Software Engineer, AI Software & Platform (Hybrid)Milpitas, California, US$286K – $468K
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Oct 30CiscoPrincipal AI Researcher, AISWP (Hybrid)Seattle, Washington, US$264K – $431K
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Oct 6Shield AISenior Staff Engineer, ML Ops (R4941)San Mateo, California$280K – $420K
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Oct 2CiscoSenior Director, Enterprise AI Strategy & Global Engineering Productivity LeaderRemoteSan Jose, California, US$253K – $417K
Nov 5CiscoPrincipal Software Engineer, AI Defense (Hybrid)Milpitas, California, US$241K – $417K
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Sep 18CiscoAI Observability Engineering Technical LeaderMilpitas, California, US$234K – $384K
Oct 27CiscoTechnical Leader, Software Engineering – Agentic AI Platform (Identity & Security)San Jose, California, US$234K – $384K
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Oct 30CiscoSenior Staff Software Engineer - AI/Security PlatformSan Jose, California, US$192K – $356K
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Jun 30Shield AISenior Staff Engineer, ML Ops (R4941)San Diego, California$233K – $350K
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Oct 19CiscoSolutions Engineer-Hyperscale and AI InfrastructureRemoteRichardson, Texas, US$209K – $345K
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Nov 6CiscoSenior AI ResearcherSan Francisco, California, US$198K – $323K
Oct 28CiscoAI DevSecOps Engineer Technical LeaderMilpitas, California, US$198K – $323K
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Oct 2CiscoLead Performance & AI Tools Engineer, HybridMilpitas, California, US$166K – $308K
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Sep 15Shield AIStaff, Platform Engineer AI Compute (6034)San Diego, California$200K – $300K
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Oct 26Shield AIPerception Engineer - Multimodal & Embodied AI (R6022)San Diego, California$165K – $300K
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Aug 27CiscoSenior AI Researcher , AISWP (Hybrid)San Jose, California, US$181K – $297K
Nov 2CiscoSenior AI Operations EngineerMilpitas, California, US$181K – $297K
Nov 2CiscoAI DevSecOps EngineerMilpitas, California, US$181K – $297K
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Jul 23CiscoSoftware Engineer - AI & Agentic SystemsRemoteSan Jose, California, US$149K – $282K
Nov 6CiscoEngineering Product Manager, AI CanvasMilpitas, California, US$151K – $282K
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Oct 7CiscoAI Researcher (Infrastructure) III (Full Time)- United States ENG/CPO/AISWP ETRSan Francisco, California, US$168K – $275K
Nov 4CiscoAI ResearcherRemoteAlpharetta, Georgia, US$154K – $275K
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Jun 8CiscoAI Automation Engineer (Quality) NC HybridRTP, North Carolina, US$129K – $256K
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Oct 9CiscoAI Infrastructure Technical Systems EngineerRTP, North Carolina, US$140K – $247K
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Oct 29DeepgramStaff Sales Engineer, Voice AIRemoteUSA - Remote$185K – $230K
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Oct 23CiscoFull-Stack UI Engineer (AI Platforms) NC - HybridRTP, North Carolina, US$116K – $226K
Nov 4CiscoAI Delivery ResearcherSan Jose, California, US$124K – $226K
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Jul 24DeepgramML Ops Infrastructure EngineerRemoteUSA - Remote$160K – $220K
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Nov 3CiscoSoftware Engineer Data & AI II (Full Time) – United StatesSan Jose, California, US$112K – $203K
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Oct 30CiscoSoftware Engineer Data & AI PhD (Intern) - United StatesSan Jose, California, US$44K – $185K
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