What does a ai engineer in new york earn?

NYC base salaries track close to SF for senior builder roles, and the city has a heavier mix of fintech, healthtech, and enterprise-AI startups than the Bay. The typical band for a ai engineer runs $160k–$260k base + significant equity.

Are AI engineer jobs in new york remote-friendly?

1 of the current 33 listings (3%) allow remote work; the rest are on-site or hybrid in New York.

What companies hire AI engineer jobs in new york?

Jobs Base aggregates listings across YC-backed startups, growth-stage companies, and selected larger companies hiring with builder-role characteristics.

What's the difference between a ai engineer and a regular ai engineer?

Jobs Base only lists builder roles. Positions where one person owns the product end-to-end. We filter out ticket-driven, narrowly-scoped roles even when the title matches. About 9% of listings scraped match this definition.

AI Engineer Jobs in New York

NYC AI engineer roles cluster at fintech (Hebbia, Bridgewater-style hedge fund AI, Two Sigma-adjacent), enterprise SaaS (Casetext-style document/contract products), and healthcare (Abridge, Latent, Nabla-style clinical AI). Compensation tracks close to SF for senior roles, slightly below for mid-level. The work tends to involve more enterprise-grade reliability and audit requirements than the SF average: fewer "ship the demo" roles, more "ship the production system".

33 active 3% remote median salary $273k

1.	AI Engineer & Product Lead (Lettermark) New York, New York, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| llm, agent architecture, context management \| 3mo ago
2.	AI Engineer (Rilla) New York, New York, United States \| $200,000 – $300,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| python, typescript, fastapi \| 3mo ago
3.	AI/ML Engineer \| Python \| LLM Agents \| Agentic Workflows \| Must have startup experience (Optimal) New York, New York, United States \| $180,000 – $280,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| python, llm agents, agentic workflows \| 3mo ago
4.	AI Agent Engineer (CollectWise) New York, New York, United States \| $200,000 – $300,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| mid \| node.js, aws, sql \| 3mo ago
5.	AI Product Engineer (Epic Placements) New York, New York, United States \| $150,000 – $300,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| aws, terraform, docker \| 2mo ago
6.	AI Product Engineer (Doing Things) New York, New York, United States \| $110,000 – $130,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| entry \| rAG, agents, minimum viable product \| 3mo ago
7.	AI Software Engineer, Founding Team (Gabriel Talent Consulting) New York, New York, United States+1 \| $230,000 – $265,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| python, postgresql, redis \| 3mo ago
8.	AI Full Stack Engineer (ZENDA, LLC) New York, New York, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| ai, llm, automation \| 3mo ago
9.	Staff AI Engineer (uiAgent) New York, New York, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| ai agents, agent architectures, rag pipelines \| 3mo ago
10.	Founding AI Engineer (Edelman Legal Consulting PLLC) New York, New York, United States \| hybrid \| contract \| lead \| ai, rag, llm \| 3mo ago
11.	Founding AI Engineer (RDE Advisors, Inc.) New York, New York, United States \| $65,000 – $80,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| next.js 14, typescript, tailwind css \| 3mo ago
12.	Founding AI/ML Engineer (Prismera) New York, New York, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| llm orchestration, retrieval infrastructure, document understanding \| 2mo ago
13.	AI-Native Data Platform Engineer (Farther) New York, New York, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| mid \| python, sql, aws s3 \| 3mo ago
14.	Founding AI/ML Engineer / Startup / $500k+ / NYC (Open Talent) New York, United States \| $500,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| llms, rag, agentic systems \| 3mo ago
15.	Senior AI Product Engineer (Metaforms) New York, New York, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| python, langchain, langgraph \| 3mo ago
16.	Founding AI Product Engineer at AI Startup (Besty AI) New York, New York, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| ai, llm, product management \| 3mo ago
17.	Forward Deployed AI Engineer (Distyl) New York, New York, United States \| $150,000 – $250,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| entry \| python, llm, ai systems \| 2mo ago
18.	Senior Software Engineer, AI (Bubble) New York, New York, United States \| $183,000 – $237,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| typescript, python, llm apis \| 2mo ago
19.	Founding Engineer \| Backend Infrastructure / AI Agents \| TypeScript \| Python \| Must have startup experience (Optimal) New York, New York, United States \| $150,000 – $225,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| entry \| backend infrastructure, sre, devops \| 3mo ago
20.	Founding Engineer (Recruiting from Scratch) New York, New York, United States \| $170,000 – $185,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| python, django, typescript \| 3mo ago
21.	Full Stack Engineer (Mentor Talent Acquisition) New York, New York, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| mid \| typescript, postgresql, llm \| 3mo ago
22.	Associate, AI (Interplay) New York, New York, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| entry \| openai, anthropic, gemini \| 2mo ago
23.	Staff Full Stack Engineer (NYC) (Knit) New York, New York, United States \| $250,000 – $300,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| python, fastapi, react \| 3mo ago
24.	Founding Software Engineer (Recruiting from Scratch) New York, New York, United States \| $250,000 – $300,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| typescript, react, next.js \| 3mo ago
25.	Full Stack Engineer (Norlantic Capital) New York, New York, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| kotlin, ktor, java \| 3mo ago
26.	Founding Frontend Engineer (Talently) New York, New York, United States \| $200,000 – $240,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| typescript, react, graphql \| 3mo ago
27.	Full Stack Software Engineer (Northslope Technologies) New York, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| entry \| typescript, react, restful apis \| 3mo ago
28.	Founding ML Engineer / Series A / NYC / $250k + Founding Equity (Open Talent) New York, New York, United States \| $250,000 – $500,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| python, pytorch, llms \| 3mo ago
29.	Staff Fullstack Engineer (uiAgent) New York, New York, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| react, node.js, kubernetes \| 3mo ago
30.	Founding UX / Fullstack Engineer (Subconscious AI) New York, New York, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| ai engineering, agentic engineering, react \| 3mo ago
31.	Systems Engineer \| Distributed Systems \| Python \| TypeScript \| Kubernetes \| Must have Startup Experience (Optimal) New York, New York, United States \| $240,000 – $350,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| distributed systems, python, typescript \| 3mo ago
32.	Senior Full Stack Engineer - Pay Tech (Lawrence Harvey) New York, New York, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| typescript, node.js, rust \| 3mo ago
33.	Software Engineer, Machine Learning (Systems) (Sweep360) New York, New York, United States \| Up to $240,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| mid \| python, go, typescript \| 3mo ago

Frequently asked questions

What does a ai engineer in new york earn?: NYC base salaries track close to SF for senior builder roles, and the city has a heavier mix of fintech, healthtech, and enterprise-AI startups than the Bay. The typical band for a ai engineer runs $160k–$260k base + significant equity.
Are AI engineer jobs in new york remote-friendly?: 1 of the current 33 listings (3%) allow remote work; the rest are on-site or hybrid in New York.
What companies hire AI engineer jobs in new york?: Jobs Base aggregates listings across YC-backed startups, growth-stage companies, and selected larger companies hiring with builder-role characteristics.
What's the difference between a ai engineer and a regular ai engineer?: Jobs Base only lists builder roles. Positions where one person owns the product end-to-end. We filter out ticket-driven, narrowly-scoped roles even when the title matches. About 9% of listings scraped match this definition.