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?

22 of the current 212 listings (10%) 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.

212 active 10% remote median salary $240k

1.	AI Engineer (Plurai) United States \| remote \| full-time \| entry \| python, node.js, go \| 4mo ago
2.	AI Engineer (Dataro) United States \| remote \| full-time \| mid \| claude code, cursor, cowork \| 4mo ago
3.	AI Engineer (Ready Health) California, United States \| remote \| full-time \| mid \| llm, prompt engineering, vision models \| 4mo ago
4.	AI Engineer(Frontend) - Internship (Pivotor AI) Fremont, California, United States \| on-site \| internship \| internship \| javascript, typescript, react \| 4mo ago
5.	AI Engineer (Vote) United States+2 \| remote \| internship \| internship \| python, machine learning, multimodal machine learning \| 4mo 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 \| 4mo ago
7.	AI Engineer & Product Lead (Lettermark) New York, New York, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| llm, agent architecture, context management \| 4mo 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 \| 4mo ago
9.	AI Engineer - Data Migrations & Exchanges (Finvi) United States \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| python, scala, java \| 4mo ago
10.	AI Engineer (Benefits All In) Cincinnati, Ohio, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| mid \| workflow automation, data extraction, unstructured data \| 4mo 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 \| 4mo ago
12.	AI Engineer (Aspen One) Denver, Colorado, United States \| $103,000 – $140,000/yr \| hybrid \| full-time \| mid \| python, azure openai, anthropic claude \| 5mo ago
13.	AI/ML Engineer (Hilo Aviation, Inc.) United States \| remote \| contract \| mid \| python, pytorch, tensorflow \| 4mo ago
14.	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 \| 4mo ago
15.	AI / ML Engineer CTO Co-Founder (CoPatible) United States \| remote \| full-time \| executive \| machine learning, pattern recognition, neural networks \| 4mo ago
16.	Ai Data Engineer - Remote (ProfitSolv) United States \| remote \| full-time \| entry \| aws, s3, glue \| 4mo ago
17.	AI Agent Engineer (LaunchPad Lab) United States \| $125,000 – $175,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| mid \| langchain, langgraph, crewai \| 4mo ago
18.	AI Agent Engineer (CollectWise) New York, New York, United States \| $200,000 – $300,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| mid \| node.js, aws, sql \| 4mo ago
19.	AI Product Engineer (Epic Placements) New York, New York, United States \| $150,000 – $300,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| aws, terraform, docker \| 4mo ago
20.	AI Product Engineer (Sekai) United States \| remote \| full-time \| mid \| python, next.js, ai \| 4mo ago
21.	AI Product Engineer (Verc) Palo Alto, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| python, llm, generative ai \| 4mo ago
22.	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 \| 4mo ago
23.	AI Product Engineer (Speak) San Francisco, California, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| mid \| react, node, typescript \| 4mo ago
24.	AI Founding Engineer (Supply Veins (Techstars '24)) California, United States+1 \| hybrid \| full-time \| entry \| neural networks, pattern recognition, natural language processing \| 3mo ago
25.	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 \| 4mo ago
26.	AI Software Engineer (VerifAIX, Inc.) Cupertino, California, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| mid \| python, large language models, llm \| 4mo ago
27.	AI Software Engineer (Projectz AI) Austin, Texas, United States \| $200,000 – $300,000/yr \| on-site \| full-time \| senior \| python, typescript, llms \| 4mo ago
28.	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 \| 4mo ago
29.	Lead AI Engineer - Conversational Intelligence & Memory Architecture (Capsule) Miami, Florida, United States \| From $75/hr \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| rag, retrieval, embeddings \| 4mo ago
30.	AI Automation Engineer (QuSecure) United States \| $80,000 – $130,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| software engineering, api integration, prompt engineering \| 4mo ago
31.	AI Full Stack Engineer (ZENDA, LLC) New York, New York, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| ai, llm, automation \| 4mo ago
32.	AI Automation Engineer (AI Workflows & Business Systems) (Brainlancer) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| n8n, make, clay \| 4mo ago
33.	Staff AI Engineer (MLabs) New York, United States \| $175,000 – $250,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| python, go, typescript \| 4mo ago
34.	Staff AI Engineer (uiAgent) New York, New York, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| lead \| ai agents, agent architectures, rag pipelines \| 4mo ago
35.	AI Native Junior Engineer (enter.health) United States \| $80,000 – $100,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| entry \| javascript, typescript, python \| 3mo ago
36.	Senior AI Engineer (Theo Ai) California, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| typescript, llm, rag \| 4mo ago
37.	Senior AI Engineer (DepoDirect) United States \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| python, typescript, ruby \| 4mo ago
38.	Python AI Engineer (DeweyLearn, Inc.) United States+11 \| remote \| full-time \| entry \| python, ai, llm \| 4mo ago
39.	Senior Ai Engineer (Hansei Solutions) United States \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| python, sql, machine learning \| 4mo ago
40.	Sr. AI Agent Engineer (Greylock Partners) San Francisco, California, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| python, llm, vector search \| 4mo ago
41.	AI Infrastructure Engineer (Stealth Post-LLM Startup) Los Altos, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| entry \| python, kubernetes, aws \| 4mo ago
42.	AI/ML/NLP Software Engineer (Troupe) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States+1 \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| python, typescript, react \| 4mo ago
43.	Applied AI Engineer (Institutes of Health) United States \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| llm apis, claude, gpt-4 \| 4mo ago
44.	Applied AI Engineer (flows.cv) California, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| senior \| llm, agent systems, rag pipelines \| 4mo ago
45.	Applied AI Engineer (Artisan) San Francisco, United States+2 \| on-site \| full-time \| mid \| ai, llm, prompt engineering \| 4mo ago
46.	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 \| 4mo ago
47.	Applied AI Engineer - Life Sciences & Healthcare (Vi) Austin, Texas, United States \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| typescript, python, databases \| 4mo ago
48.	Applied AI Engineer (New Resilience) Sunnyvale, California, United States \| on-site \| full-time \| mid \| python, gcp, cloud run \| 5mo ago
49.	Lead Engineer, AI & Embedded Systems (Edge / Tactical Systems) (Downtrace AI) Palo Alto, California, United States \| hybrid \| full-time \| lead \| python, c++, go \| 4mo ago
50.	Founding AI Engineer (Part Time) - Prompt Engineering & LLM Applications (Y22 AI) United States \| remote \| full-time \| entry \| prompt engineering, llm applications, python \| 4mo 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?: 22 of the current 212 listings (10%) 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.