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?

12 of the current 43 listings (28%) 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.

43 active 28% remote median salary $265k

1.	AI Engineer (Plurai) United States \| remote \| full-time \| entry \| python, node.js, go \| 5mo ago
2.	AI/ML Engineer (Hilo Aviation, Inc.) United States \| remote \| contract \| mid \| python, pytorch, tensorflow \| 5mo ago
3.	AI Founding Engineer (Supply Veins (Techstars '24)) California, United States+1 \| hybrid \| full-time \| entry \| neural networks, pattern recognition, natural language processing \| 5mo ago
4.	AI Native Junior Engineer (enter.health) United States \| $80,000 – $100,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| entry \| javascript, typescript, python \| 5mo ago
5.	Senior AI Engineer (Theo Ai) California, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| typescript, llm, rag \| 5mo ago
6.	Sr. AI Agent Engineer (Greylock Partners) San Francisco, California, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| python, llm, vector search \| 6mo ago
7.	Applied AI Engineer - Life Sciences & Healthcare (Vi) Austin, Texas, United States \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| typescript, python, databases \| 6mo ago
8.	Founding AI Engineer (Part Time) - Prompt Engineering & LLM Applications (Y22 AI) United States \| remote \| full-time \| entry \| prompt engineering, llm applications, python \| 5mo ago
9.	Principal AI Engineer (Beverage Distribution Consultants, Inc) United States+1 \| $140,000 – $175,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| python, asyncio, pydantic \| 5mo ago
10.	Principal AI Engineer (TekVizor) Alexandria, VA, United States+2 \| $200,000 – $330,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| agent orchestration, llm, multi-agent orchestration \| 6mo ago
11.	Founding AI/ML Engineer / Startup / $500k+ / NYC (Open Talent) New York, United States \| $500,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| llms, rag, agentic systems \| 6mo ago
12.	Software Engineer, AI (Ruli) San Francisco, California, United States \| $110,000 – $200,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| entry \| python, typescript, serverless \| 5mo ago
13.	Software Engineer - AI (NovusMinds AI) San Francisco, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| python, typescript, go \| 5mo ago
14.	Software Engineer - AI (WealthyMinds AI) San Francisco, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| python, fastapi, langchain \| 6mo ago
15.	DevSecOps Engineer - AI (NovusMinds AI) San Francisco, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| devsecops, ai security, llm security \| 5mo ago
16.	Full Stack Engineer (AI Systems & Quality) at Segmental AI (Segmental AI) San Francisco, California, United States+2 \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| full stack, backend development, frontend development \| 5mo ago
17.	Forward Deployed AI Engineer (Malleable AI) United States \| $200,000 – $250,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| python, fastapi, react \| 5mo ago
18.	Product Engineer - Multimodal AI & Robotics (Robot Health) St Louis, Missouri, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| mid \| python, real-time voice & vision pipeline, voice & physical interaction behaviors \| 5mo ago
19.	Principal Engineer, Generative & Agentic AI (Zip Co) United States+1 \| $215,000 – $270,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| generative ai, agentic ai, large language models \| 6mo ago
20.	Software Engineer (Underdog.io -Apply to top tech jobs in 60 seconds. A place where companies apply to you) Brooklyn, New York, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| python, node.js, rust \| 6mo ago
21.	Founding Engineer & CTO (NovusMinds AI) San Francisco, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| executive \| python, typescript, go \| 5mo ago
22.	Founding Engineer (Recruiting from Scratch) New York, New York, United States \| $170,000 – $185,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| python, django, typescript \| 6mo ago
23.	Founding Engineer (Lance (YC W26)) San Francisco, California, United States \| $160,000 – $300,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| python, javascript, software development \| 5mo ago
24.	Artificial Intelligence Engineer (TeleMEDix AI) California, United States \| remote \| contract \| senior \| azure cosmos db, gremlin api, knowledge graph \| 5mo ago
25.	Lead Ultrasound Imaging Engineer (AI & Systems) (iSono Health) Sunnyvale, California, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| ultrasound imaging, beamforming, signal processing \| 5mo ago
26.	Full Stack Engineer (Mentor Talent Acquisition) New York, New York, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| mid \| typescript, postgresql, llm \| 6mo ago
27.	AI Builder Intern - Agentic AI (Tabhi) Austin, Texas, United States \| on-site \| internship \| internship \| agentic ai, llms, agent frameworks \| 5mo ago
28.	Founding Machine Learning Engineer (Medical AI) (DeepRec.ai) California, United States \| $170,000 – $250,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| machine learning, representation learning, llm interpretability \| 6mo ago
29.	Associate, AI (Interplay) New York, New York, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| entry \| openai, anthropic, gemini \| 5mo ago
30.	Staff Full Stack Engineer (NYC) (Knit) New York, New York, United States \| $250,000 – $300,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| python, fastapi, react \| 6mo ago
31.	Founding Backend Engineer (Wingback Security) San Francisco Bay Area, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| python, go, typescript \| 5mo ago
32.	Founding Engineer ($170K - $250K + 0.5% - 1.5% Equity) at Healthcare AI startup backed by Scale AI Angels (CoffeeSpace) San Francisco, California, United States \| $170,000 – $250,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| python, typescript, cloud platforms \| 5mo ago
33.	Founding ML Engineer (TrueMile.AI) San Francisco, California, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| machine learning, supervised learning, reinforcement learning \| 6mo ago
34.	Technical Co-Founder (Dealiyo) United States \| remote \| full-time \| executive \| full-stack engineering, ai, llms \| 5mo ago
35.	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 \| 6mo ago
36.	Senior GTM Engineer (Circuit) Austin, Texas, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| python, typescript, sql \| 5mo ago
37.	Fullstack Engineer - Education (Spanish Bilingual) (xAI) Palo Alto, California, United States+1 \| $180,000 – $440,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| typescript, react, next.js \| 6mo ago
38.	Machine Learning Engineer (Shields Group Search) San Francisco, California, United States \| $180,000 – $260,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| mid \| transformer architectures, pytorch, deep learning \| 6mo ago
39.	Principal Machine Learning Engineer (Lila Sciences) San Francisco, California, United States \| $252,000 – $374,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| pytorch, jax, tensorflow \| 5mo ago
40.	AI Systems Weirdo (UniteGPS) South Portland, ME, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| mid \| ai systems design, route optimization, gps tracking \| 5mo ago
41.	Machine Learning Engineer, Robot Learning, Loco-Manipulation (Path Robotics) Columbus, Ohio, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| python, pytorch, mlops \| 5mo ago
42.	Entrepreneur in Residence - Technical Co-founder (CTO) (FutureSight) United States \| remote \| full-time \| executive \| applied ai, b2b, ai \| 5mo ago
43.	Head of Product - AIVM (Agentic AI & Blockchain Platform) - Asia (ChainGPT) India+417 \| remote \| full-time \| executive \| product management, ai/ml infrastructure, blockchain \| 5mo ago

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?: 12 of the current 43 listings (28%) 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.