MLOps Engineer salary
What a mlops engineer actually earns, from 130 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.
What the number means
A mlops engineer earns a blended US median near 113,526 dollars, with the typical middle running from 91,777 dollars to 147,425 dollars. Demand is rated high, and 5% of postings are fully remote. The nearest adjacent move on our skill graph is ai engineer, at 48 percent coverage; the instrument maps the rest.
Open mlops engineer roles
Live openings tagged to this occupation, from company career pages and remote boards. Apply at the source.
ML Infrastructure Engineer at WhitecircleParisTodayApply
MLOps Engineer at Alta AresParisTodayApply
MLOps Engineer at Bright Vision TechnologiesUnited States · Remote$100k–$150k1d agoApply
AI/ML Engineer & MLOps 80-100% at SunriseSwitzerland2d agoApply
PyTorch MLOps Engineer - AI Specialist at MercorUnited States · Remote5d agoApply
Senior MLOps Engineer - Remote - Latin America (Chile) at FullstackChile · Remote5d agoApply
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 a mlops engineer profile already covers.
- 294 open machine learning engineer roles$172,210 median · +$58,684 · 45% readiness
- 600 open solutions architect roles$162,988 median · +$49,462 · 53% readiness
- 488 open data scientist roles$152,167 median · +$38,641 · 48% readiness
- 393 open ai engineer roles$141,460 median · +$27,934 · 48% readiness
Every measured move out of this role, ranked by readiness: alternative careers for a mlops engineer.
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Related salaries
- AI Engineer salary$141,460 median
- Solutions Architect salary$162,988 median
- Machine Learning Engineer salary$172,210 median
Quick answers
How much does a mlops engineer make?
The blended US median is about 113,526 dollars, with a typical range from 91,777 dollars to 147,425 dollars.
Is mlops engineer a good career in 2026?
Demand for the role is rated high in our July 2026 corpus, with 5% of postings fully remote. The pay is shown above by seniority and by country.
What can a mlops engineer move into?
The nearest adjacent role on our skill graph is ai engineer, at 48 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. Live corpus 130 observations, 2026-09-06. Definitions in the glossary.