What does a ai engineer remote earn?

Remote builder roles often pay 5–15% below the equivalent SF on-site band but offer wider geographic flexibility. The typical band for a ai engineer runs $160k–$260k base + significant equity.

Are AI engineer jobs remote remote-friendly?

Every listing on this page is fully remote. That's the filter.

What companies hire AI engineer jobs remote?

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.

Remote AI Engineer Jobs

Remote AI engineer roles are real but rarer than the SF on-site version. The highest-paying companies are still pulling people back to the office, and most hire remote only when the candidate refuses to relocate. The roles that exist tend to come from companies with strong async culture and a product that benefits from worldwide eval traffic. Realistic remote-US AI engineer comp ranges $180k–$280k base; lower at smaller companies, equity grants generally larger.

89 active 56% remote median salary $229k

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 (Vote) United States+2 \| remote \| internship \| internship \| python, machine learning, multimodal machine learning \| 3mo ago
5.	AI Engineer - Data Migrations & Exchanges (Finvi) United States \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| python, scala, java \| 3mo ago
6.	AI/ML Engineer (Hilo Aviation, Inc.) United States \| remote \| contract \| mid \| python, pytorch, tensorflow \| 2mo ago
7.	AI / ML Engineer CTO Co-Founder (CoPatible) United States \| remote \| full-time \| executive \| machine learning, pattern recognition, neural networks \| 3mo ago
8.	Ai Data Engineer - Remote (ProfitSolv) United States \| remote \| full-time \| entry \| aws, s3, glue \| 3mo ago
9.	AI Agent Engineer (LaunchPad Lab) United States \| $125,000 – $175,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| mid \| langchain, langgraph, crewai \| 2mo ago
10.	AI Product Engineer (Sekai) United States \| remote \| full-time \| mid \| python, next.js, ai \| 2mo ago
11.	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
12.	AI Automation Engineer (QuSecure) United States \| $80,000 – $130,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| software engineering, api integration, prompt engineering \| 2mo ago
13.	AI Automation Engineer (AI Workflows & Business Systems) (Brainlancer) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| n8n, make, clay \| 3mo ago
14.	Staff AI Engineer (Conveyor) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| llms, prompt engineering, rag flows \| 3mo ago
15.	Staff AI Engineer (MLabs) New York, United States \| $175,000 – $250,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| python, go, typescript \| 3mo ago
16.	AI Go-to-Market Engineer (Belgium) (Flosum) Belgium \| remote \| full-time \| mid \| python, javascript, api \| 3mo ago
17.	AI Native Junior Engineer (enter.health) United States \| $80,000 – $100,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| entry \| javascript, typescript, python \| 2mo ago
18.	Senior AI Engineer (DepoDirect) United States \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| python, typescript, ruby \| 2mo ago
19.	Python AI Engineer (DeweyLearn, Inc.) United States+11 \| remote \| full-time \| entry \| python, ai, llm \| 3mo ago
20.	Senior Ai Engineer (Hansei Solutions) United States \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| python, sql, machine learning \| 3mo ago
21.	AI/ML/NLP Software Engineer (Troupe) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States+1 \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| python, typescript, react \| 2mo ago
22.	Applied AI Engineer (Institutes of Health) United States \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| llm apis, claude, gpt-4 \| 2mo ago
23.	Applied AI Engineer - National Security (TS/SCI) (TRM Labs) District of Columbia, United States \| $200,000 – $265,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| entry \| python, api integration, sql \| 3mo ago
24.	Applied AI Engineer - Life Sciences & Healthcare (Vi) Austin, Texas, United States \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| typescript, python, databases \| 3mo ago
25.	Founding AI Engineer (Part Time) - Prompt Engineering & LLM Applications (Y22 AI) United States \| remote \| full-time \| entry \| prompt engineering, llm applications, python \| 2mo ago
26.	Founding AI Engineer (LinkMD AI) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| python, llm, ai \| 2mo ago
27.	Founding AI Engineer (Kaelux) United States \| From $160,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| ai engineering, langgraph, n8n \| 2mo ago
28.	Founding AI Engineer (Healthcare) (ReClym Health) United States+1 \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| fastapi, react, next.js \| 3mo ago
29.	Principal AI Engineer (Beverage Distribution Consultants, Inc) United States+1 \| $140,000 – $175,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| python, asyncio, pydantic \| 2mo ago
30.	Founding AI GTM Engineer (Grasply™) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| python, api integration, rest api \| 3mo ago
31.	Senior AI Fullstack Engineer (etera) United States \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| react native, expo, typescript \| 3mo ago
32.	Founding Engineer (AI startup-Remote) (CyberCoders) Seattle, Washington, United States \| $170,000 – $200,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| python, machine learning, aws \| 3mo ago
33.	Founding Engineer - AI-Native (NeoRecruit) India \| remote \| full-time \| entry \| flutter, dart, react.js \| 3mo ago
34.	GTM Engineer (AICRO) United States \| remote \| contract \| mid \| claude code, agentic workflows, demand generation \| 3mo ago
35.	Staff Engineer - Data & AI (CyberCoders) Texas, United States \| $180,000 – $220,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| data pipelines, ai infrastructure, llm \| 3mo ago
36.	Founding AI Platform Engineer – Autonomous AI Systems (LLMs, RL, Reasoning) (Hudson Modeling) New York, United States \| $350,000 – $450,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| llm, reinforcement learning, rl \| 3mo ago
37.	Senior Python AI Engineer (DeweyLearn, Inc.) United States+11 \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| python, api development, llms \| 3mo ago
38.	Founding Senior AI Engineer (Equity-Only / Part-Time) — RAG, Conversational AI & Agentic Systems (Really Global) United States \| remote \| part-time \| senior \| python, retrieval systems, semantic search \| 2mo ago
39.	Forward Deployed AI Engineer (Malleable AI) United States \| $200,000 – $250,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| python, fastapi, react \| 2mo ago
40.	Full-Stack Applied AI Engineer (Bitovi) United States \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| ai, gen-ai, rag \| 3mo ago
41.	Senior Software Engineer, AI (Bubble) New York, New York, United States \| $183,000 – $237,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| typescript, python, llm apis \| 2mo ago
42.	Senior Software Engineer (AI) (Limelight) United States \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| llms, prompt engineering, rag \| 3mo ago
43.	Senior Software Engineer – AI Systems & Architecture (Item Alignment Inc) New Jersey, United States \| $125,000 – $210,000/yr \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| java, python, llm \| 3mo ago
44.	Full-Stack Software/AI Engineer (Aiola CPA, PLLC) United States \| remote \| full-time \| lead \| python, node.js, react \| 3mo ago
45.	Founding Head of Engineering (AI) (Deploy IQ) United Kingdom \| remote \| full-time \| executive \| ai/ml, llms, agent systems \| 3mo ago
46.	Full-Stack Product Engineer (AI & Prompt Systems) (Intelligenic) United States \| remote \| full-time \| entry \| python, javascript, react.js \| 3mo ago
47.	Sr/Staff Application & AI Engineer (AI Center of Excellence) (Raintree Systems) Alabama, United States+16 \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| typescript, node.js, react.js \| 2mo ago
48.	Head of AI (MultiBase GmbH) Germany \| remote \| full-time \| executive \| python, llms, ai agents \| 3mo ago
49.	Full-stack Founding Engineer (AI/Healthcare) (ReClym Health) New York, United States \| remote \| full-time \| senior \| python, llm prompt engineering, conversational ai \| 3mo ago
50.	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 \| 2mo ago

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Frequently asked questions

What does a ai engineer remote earn?: Remote builder roles often pay 5–15% below the equivalent SF on-site band but offer wider geographic flexibility. The typical band for a ai engineer runs $160k–$260k base + significant equity.
Are AI engineer jobs remote remote-friendly?: Every listing on this page is fully remote. That's the filter.
What companies hire AI engineer jobs remote?: 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.