AI Engineer salary
What a ai engineer actually earns, from 892 live job postings blended with the official US OEWS (Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics) wage anchor. Pick a market for its median and range, then read the seniority split, the trend, and the country comparison below. Updated 2026-07-23.
Switch the market above to see ai engineer pay in the 3 countries our sources cover, each with its own cost of living. The trend, seniority, and state detail below are United States data, where the official record runs deepest.
What the number means
An ai engineer earns a blended US median near 141,561 dollars, with the typical middle running from 115,825 dollars to 168,917 dollars. By seniority, posted pay runs from roughly 111,142 dollars to 154,957 dollars. Demand is rated high, and 4% of postings are fully remote. The nearest adjacent move on our skill graph is prompt engineer, at 67 percent coverage; the instrument maps the rest.
Open ai engineer roles
Live openings tagged to this occupation, from company career pages and remote boards. Apply at the source.
- Senior AI EngineerBunq · Amsterdam, NetherlandsJul 23
- AI Engineer (m/w/d) für Chat-to-CAD / LLM, Agents und multimodale EingabenCadaico GmbH · StuttgartJul 22
- [CMI] Senior AI EngineerSoftware Mind · PolandRemoteJul 22
- (Senior) AI Engineer & Technical Project Lead (Köln) (w/d/m)WEBUILDAI GmbH · CologneJul 21
- AI Engineer (Latam, Remote)Kubikware · LATAMRemoteJul 21
- AI EngineerN26 · BarcelonaJul 21
By seniority
Posted-median pay by seniority signal in the title, from our corpus. Noisy at the edges where sample sizes are small.
By country
- United States$115,825 – $168,917 · median $141,561
- Canada$74,935 – $123,037 · median $92,723
- United Kingdom$50,413 – $100,826 · median $73,901
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- Prompt Engineer salary$112,500 median
- Developer Advocate salary$173,006 median
- Data Analyst salary$97,370 median
Quick answers
How much does an ai engineer make?
The blended US median is about 141,561 dollars, with a typical range from 115,825 dollars to 168,917 dollars.
Is ai engineer a good career in 2026?
Demand for the role is rated high in our July 2026 corpus, with 4% of postings fully remote. The pay is shown above by seniority and by country.
What can an ai engineer move into?
The nearest adjacent role on our skill graph is prompt engineer, at 67 percent skill coverage. Run the instrument for the full set of reachable moves.
Method: bands are the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles of live US postings with stated pay, shrunk toward the official OEWS anchor by sample size (the “blended” figure). Trend is the OEWS annual median for SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code null. Unemployment is the 2025 BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) CPS (Current Population Survey) annual-average rate for “Software developers.” Live corpus 892 observations, 2026-07-23. Definitions in the glossary.