Posted salary ranges · updated 2026-09-29

Backend Engineer salary at AI companies, 2026

23 open Backend Engineer roles at 5 AI companies publish a base-salary range. The median posted range is $180k to $263k; the 90th percentile of posted maximums is $350k. From the companies' own postings, refreshed every 6 hours.

Every one of the 9,204 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
Giga	4	$200k	$375k	$288k	$400k
Hebbia	3	$160k	$350k	$255k	$350k
Lightning AI	2	$180k	$250k	$215k	$250k
HeyGen	2	$175k	$230k	$202k	$240k
Udio	2	$180k	$220k	$200k	$220k

1 more companies posting Backend Engineer ranges, with medians by level, in the AI Salary Report, US$29 once.

By level

Level	Roles	Median low	Median high	Median midpoint	90th pct high
Staff+	2	$245k	$400k	$322k	$400k
Senior	10	$190k	$250k	$220k	$350k
Unspecified	11	$160k	$280k	$215k	$350k

By region

Region	Roles	Median low	Median high	Median midpoint	90th pct high
US	19	$180k	$280k	$238k	$400k
Remote	4	$150k	$220k	$185k	$300k

Highest posted Backend Engineer ranges

One row per company.

Company	Role	Range	Location
Giga	Staff Backend Engineer	$290k to $400k	San Francisco
OpenAI	Backend Engineer, Consumer Devices	$293k to $325k	San Francisco
Hebbia	Backend Engineer, Growth and Data	$160k to $350k	NYC; San Francisco

Titles are normalised (seniority words and team suffixes removed) so postings for the same role group together. All functions and companies.