AI Engineer salary
What an ai engineer actually earns, from 895 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 2026-09-06.
Switch the market above to see ai engineer pay in the 6 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 141,460 dollars, with the typical middle running from 116,439 dollars to 176,050 dollars. By seniority, posted pay runs from roughly 100,267 dollars to 136,436 dollars. Demand is rated high, and 7% of postings are fully remote. The nearest adjacent move on our skill graph is prompt engineer, at 62 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.
AI Engineer (GenAI & LLM) – Practice IA MARGO at MARGOParisTodayApply- Full Stack AI Engineer (India-based) at Frazier & DeeterIndia · RemoteTodayApply
Forward Deployed AI Engineer -Neo4j / Knowledge Graph at Tiger AnalyticsUnited States · Remote1d agoApply
Senior AI Engineer (Remote) at FinomBerlin2d agoApply
Principal AI Engineer at AnaplanLondon2d agoApply
Lead AI Engineer at Integrated Home Care ServicesUnited States · Remote2d agoApply
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$116,439$141,460$176,050
- Canada$74,555$97,932$120,433
- United Kingdom$80,312$95,506$124,444
- France$58,399$68,678$89,788
- Spain$87,599$91,979$118,922
- India$14,093$18,791$25,576
Switzerland · official wage bands
median CHF 9'949/month
Swiss postings do not state pay, so these are not posted salaries: they are the federal wage survey (Lohnstrukturerhebung 2024) for the ISCO group 25 Spezialisten in der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie: standardized gross monthly, full-time, 13th salary included pro rata. The band covers the whole occupation group, which is coarser than this occupation alone.
Annual ≈ CHF 119'388 at the median. Source: Bundesamt für Statistik, LSE 2024.
Roles that pay more, that these skills already reach
Median pay from each destination’s own postings, with the readiness an ai engineer profile already covers.
- 294 open machine learning engineer roles$172,210 median · +$30,750 · 43% readiness
- 53 open developer advocate roles$168,381 median · +$26,921 · 45% readiness
- 600 open solutions architect roles$162,988 median · +$21,528 · 52% readiness
Every measured move out of this role, ranked by readiness: alternative careers for an ai engineer.
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Related salaries
- Prompt Engineer salary$109,200 median
- Developer Advocate salary$168,381 median
- Solutions Architect salary$162,988 median
Quick answers
How much does an ai engineer make?
The blended US median is about 141,460 dollars, with a typical range from 116,439 dollars to 176,050 dollars.
Is ai engineer a good career in 2026?
Demand for the role is rated high in our July 2026 corpus, with 7% 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 62 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 895 observations, 2026-09-06. Definitions in the glossary.