Generative AI Engineer Salary

Based on 706 Generative AI listings with published compensation (1816 total jobs)

$242k
Average
$70k
Low Posted
706
With Salary
$600k
High Posted
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Generative AI engineer salaries span a wide range depending on experience level, company size, and location. The published ranges on current matching listings run from $70k to $600k, with higher ranges typically tied to senior and lead roles at frontier AI labs, well-funded startups, and FAANG-tier teams shipping Generative AI features in production.

Compensation figures below are computed from 706 AI Dev Jobs listings with published salary ranges — a subset of the 1816 total open Generative AI 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
609 jobs
$220k avg
lead
544 jobs
$265k avg
mid
366 jobs
$165k avg
principal
189 jobs
$322k avg
junior
108 jobs
$177k avg

Top Paying Companies for Generative AI

Generative AI Jobs by City

San Francisco, CA
325 jobs
$249k avg
New York, NY
141 jobs
$236k avg
London, UK
119 jobs
$353k avg
Remote (US)
86 jobs
$228k avg
Mountain View, CA
71 jobs
$292k avg
United States
71 jobs
$222k avg
Sunnyvale, CA
67 jobs
$265k avg
Remote
66 jobs
$201k avg
Redwood City, CA
63 jobs
$208k avg
Bangalore, India
55 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. 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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