Posted salary ranges · updated 2026-09-29

AI Engineer salary at AI companies, 2026

16 open AI Engineer roles at 3 AI companies publish a base-salary range. The median posted range is $167k to $260k; the 90th percentile of posted maximums is $325k. From the companies' own postings, refreshed every 6 hours.

Every one of the 9,201 posted ranges at 215 AI companies, as a spreadsheet-ready CSV: the AI Salary Report, US$29 once. Tables by company, by role title, by function and level, by region and by currency, and the 100 highest ranges. Refreshed four times a day for 12 months from purchase. See 20 sample rows first. Your company or role missing? Reply to the receipt and it is refunded. One payment in US dollars, nothing renews; sold by 2542038 Alberta Ltd., trading as AI Hiring Index.

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By company

The companies posting this role most often first.

Company	Roles	Median low	Median high	Median midpoint	90th pct high
Traversal	2	$150k	$300k	$225k	$300k
Distyl AI	2	$150k	$250k	$200k	$250k
Databricks	2	$167k	$230k	$199k	$250k

By level

Level	Roles	Median low	Median high	Median midpoint	90th pct high
Staff+	2	$228k	$324k	$276k	$325k
Unspecified	13	$153k	$250k	$216k	$300k

By region

Region	Roles	Median low	Median high	Median midpoint	90th pct high
US	16	$167k	$260k	$225k	$325k

Highest posted AI Engineer ranges

One row per company.

Company	Role	Range	Location
Normal Computing	AI Engineer	$200k to $400k	New York City; London; Silicon Valley…
Artisan	Staff AI Engineer - Agent Architecture & Behavior	$250k to $325k	San Francisco
Zoox	Lead AI Engineer – Enterprise, Data & AI	$230k to $300k	Foster City, CA

Titles are normalised (seniority words and team suffixes removed) so postings for the same role group together. All functions and companies. Open roles: AI Engineer jobs at AI companies.