Generative Ai Engineer Salary

Based on 623 Generative Ai listings with published compensation (1821 total jobs)

$239k
Average
$195k
25th %ile
$233k
Median
$274k
75th %ile

Generative Ai 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 Generative Ai features in production. Entry-level and mid-level Generative Ai roles cluster around the 25th percentile ($195k).

Compensation figures below are computed from 623 AI Dev Jobs listings with published salary ranges — a subset of the 1821 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
605 jobs
$222k avg
lead
542 jobs
$263k avg
mid
402 jobs
$161k avg
principal
165 jobs
$322k avg
junior
107 jobs
$184k avg

Top Paying Companies for Generative Ai

Generative Ai Jobs by City

San Francisco, CA
325 jobs
$250k avg
London, UK
132 jobs
$336k avg
New York, NY
113 jobs
$229k avg
Remote (US)
91 jobs
$214k avg
Mountain View, CA
84 jobs
$283k avg
United States
72 jobs
$222k avg
Sunnyvale, CA
68 jobs
$239k avg
Munich, Germany
60 jobs
Toronto, Canada
54 jobs
$214k avg
Palo Alto, CA
53 jobs
$264k 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. 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 Generative Ai.

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