Evaluation Engineer Salary

Based on 45 Evaluation listings with published compensation (88 total jobs)

$237k
Average
$193k
25th %ile
$225k
Median
$274k
75th %ile

Evaluation engineer salaries span a wide range depending on experience level, company size, and location. Roles at the 75th percentile ($274k) typically go to senior and lead engineers at frontier AI labs, well-funded startups, and FAANG-tier teams shipping Evaluation features in production. Entry-level and mid-level Evaluation roles cluster around the 25th percentile ($193k).

Compensation figures below are computed from 45 AI Dev Jobs listings with published salary ranges — a subset of the 88 total open Evaluation 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
29 jobs
$229k avg
mid
26 jobs
$165k avg
lead
25 jobs
$288k avg
junior
5 jobs
$207k avg
principal
3 jobs
$326k avg

Top Paying Companies for Evaluation

Evaluation Jobs by City

San Francisco, CA
28 jobs
$251k avg
Mountain View, CA
9 jobs
$246k avg
London, UK
6 jobs
Remote (US)
5 jobs
$236k avg
Toronto, Canada
5 jobs
$192k avg
Any
3 jobs
United States
3 jobs
$274k avg
Paris, France
2 jobs
Australia
2 jobs
Remote (Europe)
2 jobs

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. The percentile breakdowns above (p25, p50 median, p75) are computed over the midpoint of each published range. Experience level percentiles use the same midpoint method, grouped by the experience_level field on the listing. City-level figures require at least 3 open roles in that city for Evaluation.

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