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?

21 of the current 234 listings (9%) 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.

234 active 9% remote median salary $240k

1.	AI Engineer (Plurai) United States \| remote \| full-time \| entry \| python, node.js, go \| 2mo ago
2.	AI Engineer (Dataro) United States \| remote \| full-time \| mid \| claude code, cursor, cowork \| 2mo ago
3.	AI Engineer (Ready Health) California, United States \| remote \| full-time \| mid \| llm, prompt engineering, vision models \| 2mo ago
4.	AI Engineer(Frontend) - Internship (Pivotor AI) Fremont, California, United States \| on-site \| internship \| internship \| javascript, typescript, react \| 3mo ago
5.	AI Engineer (Vote) United States+2 \| remote \| internship \| internship \| python, machine learning, multimodal machine learning \| 3mo ago
6.	AI Engineer (EQL Tech (sales & engineering talent)) San Francisco, California, United States+1 \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| llm apis, vector databases, fine-tuning \| 3mo ago
7.	AI Engineer & Product Lead (Lettermark) New York, New York, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| llm, agent architecture, context management \| 3mo ago
8.	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 \| 3mo ago
9.	AI Engineer - Data Migrations & Exchanges (Finvi) United States \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| python, scala, java \| 3mo ago
10.	AI Engineer (Benefits All In) Cincinnati, Ohio, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| mid \| workflow automation, data extraction, unstructured data \| 3mo ago
11.	AI Engineer (Varick Agents) San Francisco, California, United States \| $175,000 – $225,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| llms, agent architectures, evaluation systems \| 3mo ago
12.	AI Engineer (Rilla) New York, New York, United States \| $200,000 – $300,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| python, typescript, fastapi \| 3mo ago
13.	AI Engineer (Aspen One) Denver, Colorado, United States \| $103,000 – $140,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| mid \| python, azure openai, anthropic claude \| 3mo ago
14.	AI/ML Engineer (Hilo Aviation, Inc.) United States \| remote \| contract \| mid \| python, pytorch, tensorflow \| 2mo ago
15.	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
16.	AI / ML Engineer CTO Co-Founder (CoPatible) United States \| remote \| full-time \| executive \| machine learning, pattern recognition, neural networks \| 3mo ago
17.	Ai Data Engineer - Remote (ProfitSolv) United States \| remote \| full-time \| entry \| aws, s3, glue \| 3mo ago
18.	AI Agent Engineer (LaunchPad Lab) United States \| $125,000 – $175,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| mid \| langchain, langgraph, crewai \| 2mo ago
19.	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
20.	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
21.	AI Product Engineer (Sekai) United States \| remote \| full-time \| mid \| python, next.js, ai \| 2mo ago
22.	AI Product Engineer (Verc) Palo Alto, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| python, llm, generative ai \| 3mo ago
23.	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
24.	AI Product Engineer (Speak) San Francisco, California, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| mid \| react, node, typescript \| 3mo ago
25.	AI Founding Engineer (Supply Veins (Techstars '24)) California, United States+1 \| hybrid \| full-time \| entry \| neural networks, pattern recognition, natural language processing \| 2mo ago
26.	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
27.	AI Software Engineer (VerifAIX, Inc.) Cupertino, California, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| mid \| python, large language models, llm \| 3mo ago
28.	AI Software Engineer (Projectz AI) Austin, Texas, United States \| $200,000 – $300,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| python, typescript, llms \| 3mo ago
29.	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 \| 3mo ago
30.	Lead AI Engineer — Semiconductor AI Innovation (Onto Innovation) Wilmington, Massachusetts, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| large language models, rag, llm \| 2mo ago
31.	Lead AI Engineer - Conversational Intelligence & Memory Architecture (Capsule) Miami, Florida, United States \| From $75/hr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| rag, retrieval, embeddings \| 3mo ago
32.	AI Automation Engineer (QuSecure) United States \| $80,000 – $130,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| software engineering, api integration, prompt engineering \| 2mo ago
33.	AI Full Stack Engineer (ZENDA, LLC) New York, New York, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| ai, llm, automation \| 2mo ago
34.	AI Automation Engineer (AI Workflows & Business Systems) (Brainlancer) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| n8n, make, clay \| 3mo ago
35.	Staff AI Engineer (Assured) United States \| $210,000 – $230,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| typescript, langchain.js, llm \| 3mo ago
36.	Staff AI Engineer (Conveyor) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| llms, prompt engineering, rag flows \| 3mo ago
37.	Staff AI Engineer (MLabs) New York, United States \| $175,000 – $250,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| python, go, typescript \| 3mo ago
38.	Staff AI Engineer (uiAgent) New York, New York, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| ai agents, agent architectures, rag pipelines \| 3mo ago
39.	AI Native Junior Engineer (enter.health) United States \| $80,000 – $100,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| entry \| javascript, typescript, python \| 2mo ago
40.	Senior AI Engineer (Theo Ai) California, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| typescript, llm, rag \| 2mo ago
41.	Senior AI Engineer (DepoDirect) United States \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| python, typescript, ruby \| 2mo ago
42.	Python AI Engineer (DeweyLearn, Inc.) United States+11 \| remote \| full-time \| entry \| python, ai, llm \| 3mo ago
43.	Senior Ai Engineer (Hansei Solutions) United States \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| python, sql, machine learning \| 3mo ago
44.	Sr. AI Agent Engineer (Greylock Partners) San Francisco, California, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| python, llm, vector search \| 3mo ago
45.	AI Infrastructure Engineer (Stealth Post-LLM Startup) Los Altos, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| python, kubernetes, aws \| 2mo ago
46.	AI/ML/NLP Software Engineer (Troupe) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States+1 \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| python, typescript, react \| 2mo ago
47.	Applied AI Engineer (Institutes of Health) United States \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| llm apis, claude, gpt-4 \| 2mo ago
48.	Applied AI Engineer (flows.cv) California, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| llm, agent systems, rag pipelines \| 3mo ago
49.	Applied AI Engineer (Artisan) San Francisco, United States+2 \| on-site \| full-time \| mid \| ai, llm, prompt engineering \| 3mo ago
50.	Applied AI Engineer (Recruiting from Scratch) New York City, New York, United States \| $210,000 – $230,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| mid \| llms, python, postgres \| 3mo 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?: 21 of the current 234 listings (9%) 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.