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Worldwide

AI Engineer · Seattle

$207,900

median · per year, annualized USD

Median over time ▼ -6.4%

$222,000 $207,900

$177.5k 25th

$207.9k Median

$260k 75th

$158.2k

$298.3k

Box 25th–75th · whiskers 10th–90th Full range $120k – $550.5k · outliers off-axis

Disclosing: 72.5%
Live roles: 131

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Highest-paying jobs

Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Delivery

Pinterest · San Francisco, CA, US; Palo Alto, CA, US; Seattle, WA, US

$314,580 – $550,515

Staff Software Engineer, AI Reliability

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA

$325,000 – $485,000

Sr. Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Monetization Engineering

Pinterest · San Francisco, CA, US; Palo Alto, CA, US; Seattle, WA, US

$227,871 – $469,147

Senior Software Engineer - AI Interaction Evaluator (Codex / Claude Code, up to $200/hr)

G2i Inc. · Miami

$104,000 – $416,000

Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Conversion Core Modeling

Pinterest · San Francisco, CA, US; Palo Alto, CA, US; Seattle, WA, US

$222,716 – $389,753

Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Programmatic Ads

Pinterest · San Francisco, CA, US; Palo Alto, CA, US; Seattle, WA, US

$222,716 – $389,753

Expression of Interest: Machine Learning Engineer

Moloco · Menlo Park, California, United States; New York, New York, United States; Seattle, Washington, United States

$200,000 – $386,400

Software Engineer, Backend (Cooperative AI)

OpenAI · San Francisco

$230,000 – $385,000

Applied AI Engineer, Codex Core Agent

OpenAI · San Francisco

$230,000 – $385,000

Software Engineer, Cooperative AI

OpenAI · San Francisco

$230,000 – $385,000

Top companies hiring

Company	Median	Roles
Pinterest	$283,551	8
DigitalOcean	$188,100	6
OpenAI	$307,500	4
SA Scale AI	$248,400	4
Docker	$234,650	4
AX Axon	$211,575	4
HackerOne	$210,000	4
Anduril Industries	$150,000	4