AI Agent Engineer Salary

Based on 1244 AI Agent listings with published compensation (2887 total jobs)

$232k
Average
$55k
Low Posted
1244
With Salary
$850k
High Posted
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AI Agent engineer salaries span a wide range depending on experience level, company size, and location. The published ranges on current matching listings run from $55k to $850k, with higher ranges typically tied to senior and lead roles at frontier AI labs, well-funded startups, and FAANG-tier teams shipping AI Agent features in production.

Compensation figures below are computed from 1244 AI Dev Jobs listings with published salary ranges — a subset of the 2887 total open AI Agent roles. Ranges reflect base salary in USD/year; total comp (equity, bonus, signing) is typically 1.3–2× base at top-paying companies. Remote roles increasingly match in-office rates for this skill.

By Experience Level

senior
1079 jobs
$218k avg
lead
829 jobs
$263k avg
mid
583 jobs
$165k avg
principal
230 jobs
$312k avg
junior
166 jobs
$171k avg

Top Paying Companies for AI Agent

AI Agent Jobs by City

San Francisco, CA
749 jobs
$260k avg
New York, NY
317 jobs
$229k avg
London, UK
144 jobs
$221k avg
Remote (US)
137 jobs
$215k avg
Remote
121 jobs
$206k avg
Bangalore, India
99 jobs
United States
83 jobs
$204k avg
Mountain View, CA
65 jobs
$236k avg
Toronto, Canada
58 jobs
$184k avg
Palo Alto, CA
44 jobs
$276k avg

How this data is collected

AI Dev Jobs scrapes curated job feeds (Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever) from 538 ATS sources across 489 AI companies daily. Listings are filtered for AI/ML relevance; generalist roles are excluded. Salary figures come directly from the publicly posted compensation ranges on each listing — we do not estimate or impute. If a role doesn't publish a salary, it is excluded from these statistics but still appears in the job listings.

Data is refreshed every 24 hours. Average salary uses the midpoint of each published range. Experience-level and city-level figures use the same midpoint method, grouped by the experience_level and location fields on each listing.

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