Inference Engineer Salary

Based on 32 Inference listings with published compensation (89 total jobs)

$267k
Average
$92k
Low Posted
32
With Salary
$850k
High Posted
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Inference engineer salaries span a wide range depending on experience level, company size, and location. The published ranges on current matching listings run from $92k to $850k, with higher ranges typically tied to senior and lead roles at frontier AI labs, well-funded startups, and FAANG-tier teams shipping Inference features in production.

Compensation figures below are computed from 32 AI Dev Jobs listings with published salary ranges — a subset of the 89 total open Inference 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

lead
27 jobs
$329k avg
mid
26 jobs
$152k avg
senior
22 jobs
$192k avg
junior
8 jobs
$285k avg
principal
6 jobs
$411k avg

Top Paying Companies for Inference

Inference Jobs by City

San Francisco, CA
40 jobs
$346k avg
Sunnyvale, CA
8 jobs
$173k avg
London, UK
6 jobs
New York, NY
5 jobs
$166k avg
Palo Alto, CA
5 jobs
$240k avg
San Jose, CA
5 jobs
$224k avg
Remote
4 jobs
$196k avg
United States
2 jobs
Toronto, Canada
2 jobs
Dublin, Ireland
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. 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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