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Prompt Engineer

$186,528

median · per year, annualized USD

Median over time ▼ -4.3%

$194,874 $186,528

$131.3k 25th

$186.5k Median

$232k 75th

$57.6k

$280k

Box 25th–75th · whiskers 10th–90th Full range $7.2k – $405k · outliers off-axis

Disclosing: 20.9%
Live roles: 211

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Software Engineer, Tokens and Prompt Structures

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City,…

$320,000 – $405,000

Machine Learning Engineer, Speech LLM Training - San Francisco

Plaud · San Francisco, CA

$195,000 – $365,000

Principal Machine Learning Engineer- LLM Fine-tuning and Optimization

Airbnb · United States

$292,000 – $365,000

Machine Learning Engineer, Inference & Serving (Speech LLM) - San Francisco

Plaud · San Francisco, CA

$195,000 – $365,000

Staff Machine Learning Engineer - LLM Quantization & Deployment

XPENG · Santa Clara, CA

$215,280 – $364,320

Senior/Staff System Research Engineer – LLM Inference Optimization

Snowflake · US-WA-Bellevue

$236,000 – $330,000

Senior Research Engineer, LLM Training & Post-Training

Lightning AI · New York, New York, United States +3

$165,000 – $310,000

Senior Machine Learning Engineer - LLM Quantization & Deployment

XPENG · Santa Clara, CA

$174,720 – $295,680

Intermediate/ Senior Software Engineer - Cortex LLM Training Platform

Snowflake · US-WA-Bellevue

$200,000 – $287,500

Lead ML Engineer - Advance AI (applied ML, LLM's, ML Ops)

Target · 7000 Target Pkwy N,NCD-0375 Brookl…

$132,000 – $286,000

Top companies hiring

Company	Median	Roles
CACI	$75,750	7
Plaud	$280,000	2
SN Snowflake	$263,375	2
XPENG	$262,500	2
Otter.ai	$188,750	2
Censys	$179,000	2
Accenture	$118,977	2
Anthropic	$362,500	1

Prompt Engineer salary by location

Location	Median	Roles
San Francisco	$228,700	9
New York	$203,175	6
Seattle	$195,000	3