What does a ai engineer in the united states earn?

US base salaries skew highest globally for builder roles, with most listings concentrated in SF, NYC, Austin, Seattle, and remote-US. The typical band for a ai engineer runs $160k–$260k base + significant equity.

Are AI engineer jobs in the united states remote-friendly?

19 of the current 552 listings (3%) allow remote work; the rest are on-site or hybrid in United States.

What companies hire AI engineer jobs in the united states?

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 the United States

US AI engineer hiring is the most competitive segment of the entire market right now. Compensation has decoupled from traditional software engineering bands. Total comp at well-funded AI companies routinely clears $400k for senior IC roles, and pre-seed companies that can't match cash compete with 1–4% equity grants. The work centers on shipping LLM-powered features into a real product: RAG pipelines, agent orchestration, evals, prompt iteration, latency tuning, and cost engineering. SF concentration is extreme. Most postings are SF or SF-with-remote-OK.

552 active 3% remote median salary $250k

1.	AI Engineer (FLINT) Sacramento, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| mid \| coding agents, claude code, codex cli \| 3w ago
2.	AI Engineer (Distyl) San Francisco, California, United States+1 \| $150,000 – $250,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| python, llms, ai systems \| 1mo ago
3.	AI Engineer, Executive Communication Agents (FieldAI) Irvine, California, United States \| onsite \| contract \| executive \| ai, machine learning, natural language processing \| 1mo ago
4.	AI Engineer (Plurai) United States \| remote \| full-time \| entry \| python, node.js, go \| 1mo ago
5.	AI Engineer (Dataro) United States \| remote \| full-time \| mid \| claude code, cursor, cowork \| 1mo ago
6.	AI Engineer (Ready Health) California, United States \| remote \| full-time \| mid \| llm, prompt engineering, vision models \| 1mo ago
7.	AI Engineer (Intern) (Juniper Square) United States+1 \| $50 – $57/hr \| remote \| full-time \| internship \| python, tensorflow, pytorch \| 1mo ago
8.	AI Engineer (Airwallex) San Francisco, California, United States \| $120,000 – $200,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| entry \| python, pytorch, jax \| 1mo ago
9.	AI Engineer - Paige (Pave) New York, New York, United States \| $166,600 – $264,500/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| mid \| llms, agentic architectures, retrieval systems \| 1mo ago
10.	AI Engineer, Quality (Evals) (Fieldguide) San Francisco, California, United States+1 \| $170,000 – $220,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| mid \| typescript, react, python \| 1mo ago
11.	AI Engineer(Frontend) - Internship (Pivotor AI) Fremont, California, United States \| on-site \| internship \| internship \| javascript, typescript, react \| 1mo ago
12.	AI Engineer- Gen AI/SWE- Weights & Biases (Weights & Biases) San Francisco, California, United States \| $188,000 – $275,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| python, typescript, system design \| 1mo ago
13.	AI Engineer (Vote) United States+2 \| remote \| internship \| internship \| python, machine learning, multimodal machine learning \| 1mo ago
14.	AI Engineer (EQL Tech (sales & engineering talent)) San Francisco, California, United States+1 \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| llm apis, vector databases, fine-tuning \| 1mo ago
15.	AI Engineer, New Business Unit (Nirvana Insurance) San Francisco, California, United States \| $144,000 – $240,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| llms, vlms, asr \| 1mo ago
16.	AI Engineer & Product Lead (Lettermark) New York, New York, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| llm, agent architecture, context management \| 1mo ago
17.	AI Engineer (Underdog.io -Apply to top tech jobs in 60 seconds. A place where companies apply to you) New York City, New York, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| mid \| python, fastapi, celery \| 1mo ago
18.	AI Engineer (Light) United Kingdom+1 \| remote \| full-time \| mid \| kotlin, react, aws \| 1mo ago
19.	AI Engineer - Data Migrations & Exchanges (Finvi) United States \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| python, scala, java \| 1mo ago
20.	AI Engineer (Benefits All In) Cincinnati, Ohio, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| mid \| workflow automation, data extraction, unstructured data \| 1mo ago
21.	AI Engineer (Agentic Systems / Computer Vision / Industrial AI) (Epic Placements) Austin, Texas, United States \| $200,000 – $240,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| mid \| python, typescript, fastapi \| 1mo ago
22.	AI Engineer (Varick Agents) San Francisco, California, United States \| $175,000 – $225,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| llms, agent architectures, evaluation systems \| 1mo ago
23.	AI Engineer (Rilla) New York, New York, United States \| $200,000 – $300,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| python, typescript, fastapi \| 1mo ago
24.	AI Engineer (Aspen One) Denver, Colorado, United States \| $103,000 – $140,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| mid \| python, azure openai, anthropic claude \| 1mo ago
25.	AI/ML Engineer (Hilo Aviation, Inc.) United States \| remote \| contract \| mid \| python, pytorch, tensorflow \| 1mo ago
26.	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 \| 1mo ago
27.	AI GTM Engineer Intern (Surface Labs) United States+1 \| $10,000 – $20,000/mo \| remote \| internship \| internship \| python, typescript, playwright \| 1mo ago
28.	AI / ML Engineer (CyOne) Aberdeen, Maryland, United States+1 \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| rag pipelines, vector databases, embeddings \| 4w ago
29.	AI / ML Engineer CTO Co-Founder (CoPatible) United States \| remote \| full-time \| executive \| machine learning, pattern recognition, neural networks \| 1mo ago
30.	Ai Data Engineer - Remote (ProfitSolv) United States \| remote \| full-time \| entry \| aws, s3, glue \| 1mo ago
31.	AI Staff Engineer (Encompass) Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| ai, typescript, node.js \| 4w ago
32.	AI Agent Engineer (LaunchPad Lab) United States \| $125,000 – $175,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| mid \| langchain, langgraph, crewai \| 1mo ago
33.	AI Agent Engineer (CollectWise) New York, New York, United States \| $200,000 – $300,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| mid \| node.js, aws, sql \| 1mo ago
34.	AI Agent Engineer (Tessera Labs) San Jose, California, United States \| $150,000 – $230,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| ai agents, llms, tool-calling \| 1mo ago
35.	AI Product Engineer (Alexander Chapman) California, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| mid \| python, react, next.js \| 3w ago
36.	AI Product Engineer (Epic Placements) New York, New York, United States \| $150,000 – $300,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| aws, terraform, docker \| 1mo ago
37.	AI Product Engineer (Rhythms) United States \| remote \| full-time \| mid \| python, react, next.js \| 1mo ago
38.	AI Product Engineer (Sekai) United States \| remote \| full-time \| mid \| python, next.js, ai \| 1mo ago
39.	Sr. AI Engineer (Greylock Partners) San Francisco, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| agentic applications, llm, rag pipelines \| 1mo ago
40.	AI Product Engineer (Verc) Palo Alto, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| python, llm, generative ai \| 1mo ago
41.	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 \| 1mo ago
42.	AI Product Engineer - Private Equity Platform (The D. E. Shaw Group) New York, New York, United States \| $185,000 – $250,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| mid \| llms, agentic frameworks, apis \| 1mo ago
43.	AI Product Engineer (Speak) San Francisco, California, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| mid \| react, node, typescript \| 1mo ago
44.	AI Founding Engineer (Supply Veins (Techstars '24)) California, United States+1 \| hybrid \| full-time \| entry \| neural networks, pattern recognition, natural language processing \| 4w ago
45.	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 \| 1mo ago
46.	AI Software Engineer (VerifAIX, Inc.) Cupertino, California, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| mid \| python, large language models, llm \| 1mo ago
47.	AI Software Engineer (Projectz AI) Austin, Texas, United States \| $200,000 – $300,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| python, typescript, llms \| 1mo ago
48.	AI Research Engineer, Search and Context ($225k - $285k + equity) at Hex (Standout) United States \| $225,000 – $285,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| python, javascript, typescript \| 1mo ago
49.	AI Fullstack Engineer – Build Real-World Systems (Revin Inc.) New York, New York, United States \| $150,000 – $250,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| python, react, typescript \| 1mo ago
50.	AI Solutions Engineer (Baseten Labs) United States \| $165,000 – $330,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| entry \| python, ai/ml, ml model development \| 1mo ago

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Frequently asked questions

What does a ai engineer in the united states earn?: US base salaries skew highest globally for builder roles, with most listings concentrated in SF, NYC, Austin, Seattle, and remote-US. The typical band for a ai engineer runs $160k–$260k base + significant equity.
Are AI engineer jobs in the united states remote-friendly?: 19 of the current 552 listings (3%) allow remote work; the rest are on-site or hybrid in United States.
What companies hire AI engineer jobs in the united states?: 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.