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?

24 of the current 116 listings (21%) 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.

116 active 21% remote median salary $175k

1.	AI Engineer (Plurai) United States \| remote \| full-time \| entry \| python, node.js, go \| 5mo ago
2.	AI Engineer (Dataro) United States \| remote \| full-time \| mid \| claude code, cursor, cowork \| 5mo ago
3.	AI Engineer (Ready Health) California, United States \| remote \| full-time \| mid \| llm, prompt engineering, vision models \| 5mo ago
4.	AI Engineer(Frontend) - Internship (Pivotor AI) Fremont, California, United States \| on-site \| internship \| internship \| javascript, typescript, react \| 5mo ago
5.	AI Engineer (Vote) United States+2 \| remote \| internship \| internship \| python, machine learning, multimodal machine learning \| 5mo 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 \| 5mo ago
7.	AI/ML Engineer (Hilo Aviation, Inc.) United States \| remote \| contract \| mid \| python, pytorch, tensorflow \| 5mo ago
8.	AI / ML Engineer CTO Co-Founder (CoPatible) United States \| remote \| full-time \| executive \| machine learning, pattern recognition, neural networks \| 5mo ago
9.	AI Agent Engineer (LaunchPad Lab) United States \| $125,000 – $175,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| mid \| langchain, langgraph, crewai \| 5mo ago
10.	AI Product Engineer (Sekai) United States \| remote \| full-time \| mid \| python, next.js, ai \| 5mo ago
11.	AI Founding Engineer (Supply Veins (Techstars '24)) California, United States+1 \| hybrid \| full-time \| entry \| neural networks, pattern recognition, natural language processing \| 5mo ago
12.	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 \| 5mo ago
13.	Lead AI Engineer - Conversational Intelligence & Memory Architecture (Capsule) Miami, Florida, United States \| From $75/hr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| rag, retrieval, embeddings \| 5mo ago
14.	AI Automation Engineer (QuSecure) United States \| $80,000 – $130,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| software engineering, api integration, prompt engineering \| 5mo ago
15.	AI Full Stack Engineer (ZENDA, LLC) New York, New York, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| ai, llm, automation \| 5mo ago
16.	AI Native Junior Engineer (enter.health) United States \| $80,000 – $100,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| entry \| javascript, typescript, python \| 5mo ago
17.	Senior AI Engineer (Theo Ai) California, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| typescript, llm, rag \| 5mo ago
18.	Senior AI Engineer (DepoDirect) United States \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| python, typescript, ruby \| 5mo ago
19.	Python AI Engineer (DeweyLearn, Inc.) United States+11 \| remote \| full-time \| entry \| python, ai, llm \| 5mo ago
20.	Senior Ai Engineer (Hansei Solutions) United States \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| python, sql, machine learning \| 5mo ago
21.	Sr. AI Agent Engineer (Greylock Partners) San Francisco, California, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| python, llm, vector search \| 6mo ago
22.	AI Infrastructure Engineer (Stealth Post-LLM Startup) Los Altos, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| python, kubernetes, aws \| 5mo ago
23.	AI/ML/NLP Software Engineer (Troupe) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States+1 \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| python, typescript, react \| 5mo ago
24.	Applied AI Engineer (Institutes of Health) United States \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| llm apis, claude, gpt-4 \| 5mo ago
25.	Applied AI Engineer (flows.cv) California, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| llm, agent systems, rag pipelines \| 5mo ago
26.	Applied AI Engineer (Artisan) San Francisco, United States+2 \| on-site \| full-time \| mid \| ai, llm, prompt engineering \| 5mo ago
27.	Applied AI Engineer - Life Sciences & Healthcare (Vi) Austin, Texas, United States \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| typescript, python, databases \| 6mo ago
28.	Lead Engineer, AI & Embedded Systems (Edge / Tactical Systems) (Downtrace AI) Palo Alto, California, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| python, c++, go \| 5mo ago
29.	Founding AI Engineer (Part Time) - Prompt Engineering & LLM Applications (Y22 AI) United States \| remote \| full-time \| entry \| prompt engineering, llm applications, python \| 5mo ago
30.	Founding AI Engineer (LinkMD AI) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| python, llm, ai \| 5mo ago
31.	Founding AI Engineer (Kaelux) United States \| From $160,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| ai engineering, langgraph, n8n \| 5mo ago
32.	Founding AI Engineer (Raya Health) San Francisco, California, United States \| $100,000 – $120,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| openai models, anthropic models, fine-tuning \| 5mo ago
33.	Founding AI Engineer (Farsyt) Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| python, apis, databases \| 5mo ago
34.	Founding AI Engineer (Edelman Legal Consulting PLLC) New York, New York, United States \| hybrid \| contract \| lead \| ai, rag, llm \| 5mo ago
35.	Founding AI Engineer (Healthcare) (ReClym Health) United States+1 \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| fastapi, react, next.js \| 5mo ago
36.	Principal AI Engineer (Beverage Distribution Consultants, Inc) United States+1 \| $140,000 – $175,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| python, asyncio, pydantic \| 5mo ago
37.	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
38.	Founding AI/ML Engineer (Prismera) New York, New York, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| llm orchestration, retrieval infrastructure, document understanding \| 5mo ago
39.	AI-Native Data Platform Engineer (Farther) New York, New York, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| mid \| python, sql, aws s3 \| 5mo ago
40.	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
41.	Senior AI Product Engineer (Metaforms) New York, New York, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| python, langchain, langgraph \| 5mo ago
42.	Founding AI GTM Engineer (Grasply™) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| python, api integration, rest api \| 5mo ago
43.	Full Stack AI Engineer (MedVia) United States \| $120,000 – $160,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| mid \| node.js, react, llm \| 6mo ago
44.	Senior AI Fullstack Engineer (etera) United States \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| react native, expo, typescript \| 5mo ago
45.	Software Engineer, AI (Ruli) San Francisco, California, United States \| $110,000 – $200,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| entry \| python, typescript, serverless \| 5mo ago
46.	Software Engineer, AI x Healthcare (Asha Health (YC F24)) Manhattan, New York, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| backend engineering, ai agents, product management \| 5mo ago
47.	Software Engineer, AI/ML Platforms (Early Career) (Cornerstone First Mortgage, LLC) San Diego, California, United States \| $30 – $35/hr \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| typescript, javascript, python \| 5mo ago
48.	AI Automation & Integration Engineer (New Wave Loans) Miami-Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| python, javascript, llm apis \| 5mo ago
49.	Founding Engineer (AI startup-Remote) (CyberCoders) Seattle, Washington, United States \| $170,000 – $200,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| python, machine learning, aws \| 6mo ago
50.	Software Engineer - AI (NovusMinds AI) San Francisco, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| python, typescript, go \| 5mo 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?: 24 of the current 116 listings (21%) 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.