AI Agent Engineer Salary

Based on 1350 AI Agent listings with published compensation (3094 total jobs)

$234k
Average
$55k
Low Posted
1350
With Salary
$850k
High Posted

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 1350 AI Dev Jobs listings with published salary ranges — a subset of the 3094 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
1151 jobs
$219k avg
lead
873 jobs
$269k avg
mid
657 jobs
$164k avg
principal
240 jobs
$319k avg
junior
173 jobs
$172k avg

Top Paying Companies for AI Agent

AI Agent Jobs by City

San Francisco, CA
859 jobs
$265k avg
New York, NY
364 jobs
$227k avg
London, UK
158 jobs
$243k avg
Remote (US)
137 jobs
$218k avg
United States
101 jobs
$199k avg
Remote
98 jobs
$188k avg
Bangalore, India
96 jobs
Mountain View, CA
60 jobs
$233k avg
Toronto, Canada
57 jobs
$213k avg
Boston, MA
46 jobs
$229k 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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